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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my friend is getting back on her feet after a pretty rough time and could use your help sorting out bills and stuff so please help if you can 🙏

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi friends, Please share if you can't donate or donate if you can 🙏 Everything is getting set up smoothly, but my bills are still hovering over my head with no chill

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy bi visibility month Stop erasing bisexuality kthksbye

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

god i fucking love the trails games so much

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

jurassic world rebirth is so funny because trevorrow spent a whole trilogy being like how do we move this franchise beyond "we have to go back to the island" and within 5 minutes of him leaving the franchise is like "we have to go back to the island"

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

so does rare being given to activision mean they're going to be fed to the cod mines?

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am fucking tired of age verification. It's just data collection. No one could give a fuck about protecting kids seeing as who's in global power

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the xbox stuff sucks and is awful, no question, but there's also something so darkly humorous about halo studios being relegated to being a support studio while someone else makes halo

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

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No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol at ed sheeran turning out to be such a soggy little bitch

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there's something so cool and smart about the trails games having protagonists whose literal job is doing sidequests

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

just realised i haven't opened bluesky for like 3 days cos i hyperfixated on trails in the sky 2nd chapter, did i miss anything?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Okay in all seriousness, I don't get puritan culture and being anti-kink. Porn helped me discover kinks and get over my extreme sex repulsion Sex isn't the enemy. The enemy is fascism and capitalism

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may @maysuser.name · 17/09/2026

caring about metacritic scores is a moral failing

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i've been struggling recently, so i did what anyone would do and wrote something incredibly difficult and personal strong TW for mentions of violence, suicide, sex, assault both sexual and physical, and BDSM thank you for reading if you do. this took a lot 💜

ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev

on blood and bruises

[TW: violence, sex, assault both sexual and physical, BDSM themes] hit me. just fucking hit me. give me your rage, your bitterness, your suffering. let it o...

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to my MA yesterday. I am halfway to my monthly goal which should help me get ahead and be less reliant on it Between my home situation, my health and the never ending stress of capitalism, I am very fatigued ko-fi.com/numetalweeb/...

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sorry mr video game executive man but i already bought this video game and have no interest in giving you an extra $20 every 3 months just so that i can grind for the ugliest hat imaginable

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mass Effect 3 was one of the most ridiculous releases in gaming history. Some parts of it are 10/10 perfect and some parts of it are "alien face reveal we've been setting up for half a decade is the first result for 'beautiful woman' on Getty Images"

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brie “Stupid Twink” monger @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

everyone in your scene is a dork. im a dork. were all just nerds and thats beautiful

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it's become especially clear that there are a lot of people whose belief in and support for things only lasts as long as it's comfortable and convenient for them (yes this post was motivated by trans rights, but it's also true of palestine and a host of other things)

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

hey @numetalweeb.bsky.social i found a weeb in my walls but it's just a regular plain one? can you please tell me how to nu metal my weeb?

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

how do we explain to the kids that one of the biggest songs in the world in 1991 was a chill new-age track with gregorian chanting and woman whispering in french without sounding crazy?

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/09/2026

i know after having his loyalty betrayed big boss took money from war criminals to fund his dream but this is a bit on the nose

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Basil @basilmuse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Someone just told me “bruh you’re playing Balatro now? You’re like 2 years late where have you been”. Dude fuck the FOMO shit. Games are timeless. Leave the algorithm and just play the games you feel like when you want.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

video games are so fucking back dude

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

mom the devs are getting AI psychosis can you pick me up from the website

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the audhd inner conflict of working on something and the autism still sees all the minor flaws that most people would overlook while the adhd is rolling around on the floor whining "but we're out of dopamiiiiiiine"

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

genuinely curious what percentage of their potential pc audience publishers like ea and ubisoft lose because of the proprietary launchers and online services in single player games they've been forcing for like 18-ish years

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026

The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

what i really need is for my brain to stop thinking "cool and shiny" means "entirely necessary for my continued wellbeing". i'm supposed to be a human being so why do i have the brain of a goddamn magpie?

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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The 38 menaces of Bluesky: 1. nu metal weeb

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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026

I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"why is romantic fiction (almost) always thought of as being for women?" i dunno dude, maybe it has something to do with the history of male-led literature circles dismissing romantic fiction as trash for swooning housewives

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