Gil Maclean @gilmaclean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026hold my appointments m.youtube.com/watch?v=35SK...m.youtube.comUltima Online Retrospective | The Last HurrahYouTube video by Majuular 022
Reposted by Gil MacleanAshley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Heard an interview today where someone said the dumbest thing ever. "When an AI agent hacks a website, there's no law that can arrest the AI." No mf, you arrest the person who pressed "deploy." wtf are we doing here? Did COVID turn everyone's brains into applesauce? 30892230
Gil Maclean @gilmaclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ffs. sue them into oblivion, except we wont, cos its better realpolitik to do some handwavy shit and enable digital colonisation for the vibes 010
Reposted by Gil Macleanasciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026heads up if you're out there and you played my game grist please consider leaving a review on steam it would really help us out! 083
Reposted by Gil MacleanAdam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: The Max Rebo Band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran 319432
Reposted by Gil MacleanIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses 227131723351
Reposted by Gil MacleanKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj 29346159
Reposted by Gil MacleanNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great. 12782111569
Reposted by Gil Macleanvideogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026illustration, your commodore, magazine (1990) archive.org/details/64-y... 3476135
Reposted by Gil Maclean🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out 7452911306
Reposted by Gil MacleanWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...youtube.comNeuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TV 24759661516
Reposted by Gil MacleanEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...404media.coAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.” 42886538
Reposted by Gil Macleanjulie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 16/07/2026the child labor factory has been rebranded as the automated child labor factory, please update your rolodexes accordingly 1307
Reposted by Gil MacleanMS-DOS Games, Programs, Trivia, Pixels, Grog @scumm-bar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Denis Loubet 13510
Reposted by Gil MacleanWes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 10/07/2026What Microsoft did to id Software this week was a tragedy -- a failure to safeguard the lives of its workers. But it was also a telling failure of vision to have *that* legacy in your hands and to discard it like so much nothingpcgamer.comHow do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?If Xbox can't find the value in owning the beating heart of the first-person shooter, perhaps it shouldn't be in the videogame business at all. 12729244
Reposted by Gil MacleanAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre 9752289
Reposted by Gil MacleanPC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 08/07/2026"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."pcgamer.comBernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffsThe senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too. 3528184
Reposted by Gil MacleanFabio Santana @fabiosantana79.bsky.social · 08/07/2026- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels 4427992613
Reposted by Gil MacleanHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”wired.comMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt OutAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. 21469432
Reposted by Gil MacleanLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 01/07/2026thinking about this today!aftermath.siteThere Is No Piracy Without Ownership - AftermathIs it stealing if we can't pay for the thing in the first place? 1548158
Reposted by Gil MacleanIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2026"Marathon is too complicated" "extraction shooters aren't fun" "what about the player count" I give you: Marathon Steve www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/c...reddit.comFrom the Marathon community on RedditExplore this post and more from the Marathon community 30581104
Reposted by Gil MacleanChris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 22/06/2026When a game's a hit, publishers often mistake the IP as the success rather than the team. So they invest in a franchise instead of people. "You're probably gonna lose all that core team and nucleus that it took [...] five years of them working together to finally complete each other's sentences"postgame.substack.comHow the Games Industry Got to This PointRob Pardo explains 30 years of games industry changes ahead of the release of Arkheron 8416129
Reposted by Gil MacleanJessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say this but ahahah. I am very angry. So I went to Xbox's Fan Fest event to attend a preview event. And it was the most flagrant display of wealth imaginable. Five stories filled with caterers and hundreds of smiling faces there to assure me of the brand's strength. 302035480
Reposted by Gil MacleanCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video. 116123473970
Reposted by Gil MacleanPC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 07/06/2026A Thief remaster is on the way from Nightdive. 👀pcgamer.comOh hell yes, Nightdive's next remaster is Thief4K moss arrows just like I always dreamed. 520056
Reposted by Gil MacleanAnthony Salter @viridiangames.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that the 0.2.0 version of Ultima VII Revisited, the Trinsic Demo, is now available for download! Check the new features and download from the official website! www.u7revisited.comu7revisited.comWhat is Ultima VII: Revisited? - Ultima VII: RevisitedHUGE update! The Ultima VII Revisited version 0.2.0, the Trinsic Demo, has been released! Visit the Downloads page to get it!New features: The full intro is now complete. Then entire plotline in Trins... 4198
Reposted by Gil MacleanFryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 21/04/2026"really amused me is that at the beginning of the process, @manmademoon.bsky.social had written this great adaptation and script. And to start our process off, he recorded absolutely every character, every line of dialogue, and put the whole thing down as a two-hour radio play." No AI. 👏👏👏deadline.com‘Rogue Trooper’ First Look At Teaser Trailer For Duncan Jones’ Hand-Crafted Take On ‘2000 AD’ Comic Book’s Dystopian War Machine; Q&A With Filmmakers‘Rogue Trooper’ first look: Duncan Jones unveils his hand-crafted take on 2000 AD’s dystopian war machine 4756
Reposted by Gil MacleanAftermath @aftermath.site · 09/04/2026Gunzilla CEO posts deranged rant on Twitter, disputing his workers' pay claims and attacking his 'haters': aftermath.site/gunzilla-off-t... 1826042
Reposted by Gil MacleanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Go fash lose cash bb 20487861094
Reposted by Gil Maclean🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it. 1942811116
Gil Maclean @gilmaclean.bsky.social · 17/03/2026slams the epic of gilgamesh down on the table, spluttering as 2000bc yr old sumerian dust forms into a pissed off looking bull of ishtar 110
Gil Maclean @gilmaclean.bsky.social · 17/03/2026media.tenor.coma man in a plaid shirt and a woman in a black skirt are standing in front of a storeALT: a man in a plaid shirt and a woman in a black skirt are standing in front of a store 000
Reposted by Gil MacleanLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16/03/2026i have never seen a story run by a games media outlet torn to pieces like this, on this website. like the extent to which the failed to read the room is mind boggling. 629218
Reposted by Gil MacleanRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/03/2026Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.courts.delaware.gov 593559929
Reposted by Gil MacleanZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 14/03/2026hi speaking as a narrative lead on a GOTY and long time builder of VO pipelines, this has literally been a solved problem for ages with text to speech and other tools so we haven’t ever needed evil shit like genAI for this solved ass problem. This is basic shit. 221804424
Reposted by Gil MacleanTiffany Turrill @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin 52027432
Reposted by Gil Macleanvideogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2025computer gaming world, magazine, cover (1983) archive.org/details/Comp... 7427115
Reposted by Gil MacleanSerrels @serrels.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...kickstarter.comCONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames MagazineBringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community 47527232
Reposted by Gil MacleanCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online. Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio. An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02... 2674332779
Reposted by Gil MacleanRobert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 04/03/2026i would sooner staple my dick to a moving car than use this trash tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...tech4gamers.comWindows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OSReports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS. 981464422
Reposted by Gil MacleanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life. 25480422368
Reposted by Gil MacleanSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys 161114197
Reposted by Gil MacleanCartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos... 4751249
![@KyleTrainEmoji
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage
we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just
prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to
raise shields, and I didn't](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w4mumltio4x5yohskj2mo64c/bafkreiebbdgef7nsycl44muv2c2eqmeh4elzzqy2ocltchfebfnddikgki)
