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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now with the power of generative AI, finally the people who don't care about the craft of video games can be the ones creating video games
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Liz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty.
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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what kind of music am I into?" (oh no, quick, think of something cool)
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
idk if it would alleviate my long term fears BUT i will say, if there's a pricing squeeze coming as the top AI companies scramble for profit, it's gonna be *very* funny to observe from the sidelines as my life is strictly improved and my work is completely unaffected
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026
this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...
404media.co
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An impressively exhaustive report on one of many morally bankrupt companies buying up old websites and turning them into zombie AI farms. In the games space this has happened to Videogamer, Game Reactor and more. Utterly bleak futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦 @gretchenleigh.zone · 14/09/2026
I know I harp on this a lot, but what *have* we been doing for the past 15 years with computers that hasn't just been a build up to this moment of momentous stupidity, when we've decided that creating infinite shitty throwaway software is the most valuable industry in human history?
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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it's really sad that knowledge has become so devalued by AI god help us all if this starts devaluing understanding too, because then we're truly at the mercy of the robots I don't think humanity is ready for this. it's so depressing. fuck all this, genuinely
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if you can't be bothered to make your own game i can't really be bothered to play it
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel like they mixed up the titles, so I fixed it
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That new Kirby game
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm sorry for being so socially awkward last night, unless of course you think I was very cool and normal in which case, yes I'm like this all the time
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Justin @roboplato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Got an email saying my lease had been countersigned and my first thought was that my landlord parried my signature
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Christian Bale's 'NICE' Pout
ALT: Christian Bale's 'NICE' Pout
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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore
a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
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Kano @kano01.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
it is impossible to be excited over decomp projects now that literally all of them are vibe coded mess and/or stolen from other people's work. they've sadly become too mainstream for their own good
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One of the greatest line reads of all time. Tim Curry for Command And Conquer, clearly it was a one and done and he could barely stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the line. Perfection
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you worry alot about AI, China's Robot Olympics is here to reassure you that things are going to be OK.
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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
bad news oomf. they just announced a new remake of you at the latest game conference. yeah you got that unreal engine 5 sheen and everything. they changed your entire voice direction and its flat and quirky now. they updated your mechanics. theyre gonna kill you if it doesnt sell one billion copies
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What do these maniacs think people even do at work???
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
someone needs to go to jail
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 19/08/2026
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
it feels odd that what's holding technology back from benefiting humanity at this moment, isn't really a technological problem, but a bureaucratic issue of incentive structures there's so much money being wasted on things that are either neutral or a net negative within tech now, it's weird
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 17/08/2026
Fumbling around searching desperately for my glasses so I can figure out which of the people in my dining room is my wife
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
everybody loves our Plagiarism Factory except for our Plagiarism Factory logo
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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
panel 1: "hey capitalism hows it goin?"
panel 2: news story of AI companies buying books to train their AI and then burn the books
panel 3: blank stare
panel 4: "jesus christ"
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jacob mills ✉️🦝🚲 @jacobwmills.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
honestly i saw the emergency alert i assumed that the nukes were launched and we were done for, but
Edit of the HEY BART DO YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW HOCKEY MASK AND CHAINSAW scene from the simpsons, but it's Andy Burnham bursting in on the UK (ie, the Union Flag pasted over Bart's head), saying HEY UK DON'T USE BARBEQUES OR FIREWORKS
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HexagonNico 🔜 GodotFest @hexagonnico.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
These can make for some really cool animated backgrounds! #gamedev #godot #godotengine
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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
metal-gear-solid-ass pokemon
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2026
Outkast’s Ms Jackson just came on at the gym and I will never in my life be able to hear that song without thinking about this comic
I’m sorry Ms Jackson parody comic where instead of “I am for real” it is “I am four eels”
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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
new least favourite rhythm paradise minigame
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Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com · 01/08/2026
Google's weather model has been absurdly terrible for me lately, frequently saying "It's currently 65" when its 80+ outside. Location is correct. It's apparently because they use an AI model instead of reports now. I DONT WANT AN AI TO GUESS THE CURRENT WEATHER. I WANT A READING FROM A THERMOMETER
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oh no @drewfitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Doctor: The AI is giving you psychosis, perhaps you should ground yourself by learning some facts from YouTube Science Man YouTube Science Man: but doctor,
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so
D-CELL Games
Games: Unbeatable

Steam page

“Even if I’m just looking at this in the cold mercenary MBA freak way—the ‘I want to generate income as much as possible’ way—you can’t make a thing people want to buy if the thing you want to buy is the same thing everyone else has. And that’s what you fucking get with AI models. It’s definitionally part of how they work. 

So all using [AI] will do is make you compete worse. You have to do laps on a hamster wheel to arrive at the opposite conclusion. Because the only way to actually make money on this shit besides a pump-and-dump is to be the guy selling the shovels. And even the shovels are starting to rust.

Even the stuff that sounds good or looks good for a given value of ‘good’ (i.e. it convincingly looks at a glance like it wasn’t generated with a machine, it’s ‘professional’) is only capable of spitting out inputs that existed before. You can feel it in the ‘choices’ it makes, because it doesn’t make choices; it chooses a value with a weight given by a model patched from every work at once on fast forward. The nutritional value of AI work is approximately identical to watching a 2000s horror movie trailer compilation at 4X speed while second-screening Maury transcriptions. It might be fun to look at, but it will kill you on the inside."
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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We shared some of our reasoning for keeping generative AI out of our creative process with @aftermath.site. Respecting our players' time and attention is at the core of everything we do. If something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to engage with it.
“We don't use generative AI for art, audio, code, or anything else. We've been pretty outspoken about our stance, like with the 200 pins we gave away at GDC this year or our studio Christmas cards where we paid artists to draw what they thought AI-generated cards from us would have looked like.

We have spent time evaluating/experimenting with tools so we feel informed and understand what they can do, but that just gives us more confidence about not using them in any part of our production or preproduction processes for any of our projects. Among our reasons:

We care a ton about respecting our players' time and attention, so if something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to look at.

It's pretty important to have friction with iteration in creative processes. When ideas are cheap to try, they're challenged and vetted less before the implementation. That's going to lead to a lot of games fully realizing some half-baked ideas. We don't want to be the studio that tries to figure out that process.

Even the cases where gen AI quality might be good enough, it is not worth the toxic association. Our players are very clear that they don't want it.

We worked in VR for a decade. We've seen what happens when people make plans and change all their processes based on potential instead of focusing on the present. It usually doesn't work out.”
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening
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Joe Shanahan @joeshanahan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#gmtkgamejam
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