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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 16h

Ik lees alles van Rob Jetten idd. als ongemeend en artificieel, want dat is het ook. Als je eenmaal die brug over bent, is het vertrouwen zoek.

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Cook and Becker @cookandbecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hunter's Dream, BLOODBORNE. Rereleased in a special Cook and Becker Anniversary edition on metallic Hahnemühle PhotoRag paper. Edition size of 55. Now available in the store.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" My response to people making reaction videos.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Despite being a subscriber for well over 10 years, Netflix's recommendation algorithm is still completely clueless 🙂. And getting ever more desperate the less I log in.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A) Art is not in competition. B) Not having @MarathonTheGame as a nominee in Best Visual Design is certainly a choice... www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...

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Golden Joystick Awards 2026: Vote NOW for your games of the year!

Did your favorite games make the shortlist? Find out below

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Who doesn't like a good list? What should have 100% been on this understandably very American list: The English Les Revenants Rectify And it could have done with being a little more specific about the good seasons vs very bad seasons www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (Gift Article)

More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.

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Cook and Becker @cookandbecker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New legacy art print rerelease coming this Tuesday...

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will take weeks and you will have to remind me five times before I print, sign, scan and send anything back. What is this, 1997?

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GTA VI is now the one thing keeping us from a global recession, and I am not even joking. A bright spark entertainment phenomenon without equal.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In Europe we uncuff people that are shot in the back... WTF.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're doing a promo poster or splash screen, and you're citing 5-star reviews from what I'm sure are highly respected, critical sources such as "Nerds United", "Animeismyreligion.com" and "TikTok Dave", that will make me more weary than anything else.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've heard that the best way to get allies for your cause is to relentlessly harass them if they are at any one point imperfect in your eyes.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jason Schreier is one of the few game industry journalists doing actual, solid reporting.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Merz doing a Biden. Hanging on for too long out of pride, handing government to fascists as a result.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel that getting my hand-written letter published in Mean Machines as a 14-year old Dutch kid in the pre-internet days still counts as my most meaningful video game career achievement.

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lieve volgers! Wacht niet te lang want dit loopt vol. Sprekers zijn subliem. Sytske de Boer weet meer van de oorlog dan wie verder ook. Cartmann is een geniale marinier die ooit in Utrecht studeerde. Lisa Weeda is super-expert. Antonii een megatalent. Zelf loop ik door het beeld.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What business is Meta in? I can tell with Apple or Google, but Meta? By now it's just a virus, looking to survive, morphing and adapting to whatever it needs to be to not get killed.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe some of these supersmart tech companies could have deemed to explain Passkeys and Authenticators to people before implementing them everywhere?

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2008 with a vengeance. Just watch the orange buffoon and co. soon float the idea of stopping the export of gas and oil because of $6 Diesel in the US amidst an already jittery economy with exploding debt and interest rates. Trump will wreck the world, not only the US.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ik denk niet dat Stientje rekening houdt met het stoppen van exporteren van olie en gas door bijv. de VS. Wat een 2008 Prinsjedag weer... Wereldwijd explorende schulden en rentes, en een lam minderheidskabinet is bezig met procentje hier procentje daar.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think publisher underestimate the long-term erosion of trust created by 'rücksichtslos' cancelling games like Concord and how that hurts adoption of new games. Why would I (and my friends) invest in this new game, if it can be taken away at any moment?

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"We need a soundtrack for our racing game. Nothing too fancy" "Say no more!" #fzero youtube.com/watch?v=EUSx...

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What business is Meta in? I can tell with Apple or Google, but Meta? By now it's just a virus, looking to survive, morphing and adapting to whatever it needs to be to not get killed.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every multimillion-dollar game is extensively focus-tested. The criticism that a game treats its players as stupid is therefore likely rooted in the fact that testing shows many gamers are, indeed, not smart? I mean, have you seen "gamer discourse" lately? 🙃 youtu.be/YhUiptupV7A?...

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I do not recommend: Marvel's Wolverine (Review)

YouTube video by Skill Up

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Metroid Ravenous box art composition is the 'floating heads in diamond shape' of games. From Frazetta's Conan to DOOM to countless others. It's the only other alternative apparently to seeing a guy from the back carrying a gun looking out at something (which is a Romanticism trope).

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm beginning to think that an outraged post isn't going to fix things.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every "fans are" article that is an aggregate of some rando internet bullshit is an insult to humanity.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sales of Ocarina of Time should be stellar in The Netherlands, as aesthetically it seems modelled after our national, fairytale themed amusement park The Efteling.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two things about AI are equally true. It is really powerful technology and it is unreliable, except for one thing: Powerful man-made technology of this kind will always kill or help to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I played Civ IV and V to death, couldn't get on with VI and finally tried VII this week. My God that UI is aggressively unappealing. Dark grey? Really. No charm to it at all.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There are two types of people in this world. People that think the Zelda OoT Remake looks cool and interesting, and stupid people.🙃

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ocarina of Time remake has a very high Droomvlucht Efteling vibe to it. I like it.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Russia sabotages German infrastructure and threatens German airports, and then Germans vote for a party that is best pals with Putin. I guess German rationality has eroded at the same pace as their national railway.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

50%(!) of Germany's Saksen-Anhalt voted for a party of traitors that wants to betray the Ukrainians. As a European, I am absolutely ashamed.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If the European center parties don't fix the issues on migration, they're delivering us to the traitorous and ruinous politicians like those of the AfD. Extremely worrying.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The biggest Millennial identifier is giving a shit about anything Harry Potter. There is a very hard cap going into Gen Z or X territory.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Games industry, yes. Games, never better. If you have no stake in the business and just enjoy games, this is an age of abundance, quality and riches. An interesting juxtaposition with film and TV where it is the reverse.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One person was killed and five injured in a Russian attack on Odesa Oblast. In Odesa, three floors of a nine-story building were destroyed, with nearby buildings and 28 cars damaged. A two-story house and non-residential building were also destroyed. 📷Ukraine’s State Emergency Service

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You know what I love @photoshop.adobe.com ? The program locking up and pop-ups interrupting my workflow so you can sell me cloud and AI shit.

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 02/09/2026

In this video, children at a Kyiv kindergarten run to a shelter every 30 minutes. They have breaks, not for lunch or play, but for making it to the bomb shelter before the next Shahed arrives. Help protect Ukrainian children. Join Sky Defense. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So the US just made Venezuela their vassal state to rob them from all their oil, and we just shrug basically.

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Shouldn't Ubisoft be raking it in with Rainbow Six permanently in that Top 10?

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The Economist @economist.com · 31/08/2026

NATO countries are becoming increasingly concerned about the direction that the Russian president might take his war next. Register to discover what escalation could mean for Europe

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Cornered, Vladimir Putin plans to escalate his war

His refusal to back down is rooted in Russia’s gangster politics

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Cook Maarten @maartenbrands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The biggest threat to the EU in the coming months is the escalating war in Ukraine—Russia could mobilize hundreds of thousands more troops—and I feel like this isn’t getting nearly enough attention.

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