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they/them Philly, PA gamedev + music + art (and whatever else) avoiding ai like the plague pretty good show-tune improvisor mattenaps.neocities.org

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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If this is legal, it needs to be made illegal. There is clearly something broken when clear monopolies are allowed to flourish. The fact that this is inherently a right-wing operation is beside the point, NO company should have this much power over media. This is going to be a bloodbath for workers
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brain @littlebluecouch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
as #1 snake farm superfan it's my job to boost this
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We didn’t uninvent filling buildings with asbestos or putting lead in all the gasoline and paint. You’re allowed to stop doing harmful things and it’s possible to do so.
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FORGED Not Born @forgednotborn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no ethical use of consumer AI, full stop. Every use is either for fraudulent purpose, or built upon fraud already perpetrated against someone. Everything it touches becomes shady AF. I'm bewildered when I see ostensibly decent, informed people use AI to make cute memes.
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Mulm 🤝 Lhannan @mulm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As much as I like lumen its hard to disagree with this
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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026
Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A modern philosophical text that you can buy on Steam.
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is the one-year anniversary of the release of Unfair Flips!!! The game is not on sale today because I forgot. But also it's $1.99 anyways so a sale is mostly in the mind store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...
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Unfair Flips on Steam
A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?
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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/09/2026
TLDR * "AI will kill us all" messaging in the press will last *exactly* as long as it benefits the tech companies, then stop * You will *not* be killed by a skynet super-AI * You are somewhat likely to be killed by AI-related global warming * You are very, very likely to be killed by an AI taxi
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DID YOU KNOW: 500 Finger Fillet demo is available for you to play and enjoy and understand
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Sean Dick @seandick.net · 23/09/2026
oh yeah, don't forget to share and wishlist puppy truck.
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Puppy Truck on Steam
Puppy Truck is a puzzle-packed 3D platforming adventure about a tiny truck with the heart of a puppy! Explore Grandma’s eclectic house, filled with contraptions, challenges, and surprises as you race ...
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BabyJack @babyjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wish I could talk about the beta because this team I think captured some amazing whimsical game design. I have shown my autistic son this game while testing and this was the first game he actually took the controller from my hands and learned button to game interactions. He loved it. You will too
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Go off king 🙌 insider-gaming.com/tim-schafer-...
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Double Fine's Tim Schafer on Games Industry Job Losses: "Someone is Being Greedy Somewhere"
Double Fine's Tim Schafer recently gave an interview about the state of the games industry, inclidng why there's so many job losses.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
sayonara lara spoilers I do think it's important to remember that the aspect of queerness (broadly) Lara is specifically about IS comphet. (NOT talking about the prominent transgender allegories present too rn) it's about turning your back on what society/your family expects of you
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Veli' (Tower Of Insolence dev) @velithetunes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey ho, Blue sky. My name is Veli and I love working with this specific aesthetic and character animations. Right now I am fully focused on developing my project: Tower of Insolence (which looks completely different hehe). #gamedev #pixelart #ドット絵
4 black and white mock up drawings.
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026
Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 28/10/2024
Cleric Beast Animal
The Muppet Animal styled as the Cleric Beast from Bloodborne
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0mni @0mnibus.net · 20/09/2026
ROT FOR TROUT OUT NOW!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ff... YEP THATS RIGHT #music #KasaneTeto #重音テト
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ROT FOR TROUT (feat. Kasane Teto SV)
YouTube video by 0mni
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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Real talk, why half of the remaining games media is in Japan this week but no one can ever find a Japanese dev, consultant, journo or researcher to talk about Japan? Especially when we then get these experts who ignore the well-know fact that Japan has laws which make firing people extremely hard.
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Visuwyg @visuwyg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ICYMI: you can play #DERELIKT TODAY! Sign up to the playtest and give me some feedback! 🪐 Feels surreal to actually have it out there after all this time... store.steampowered.com/app/3810510/...
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Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
bring Library Freedom Project to your library to host these classes, or use our free resources at libraryfreedom.org/resources
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
describing Bennett Foddy games as ‘the dark souls of using limbs’
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Tibo @heytibo.com · 16/09/2026
I'm approaching a v0.1 version of MM+. I'm currently using the tool inside Wild Cosmos, and it feels quite stable. If you're looking for a MultiMesh editing tool, could you test MM+ and share feedback? github.com/gtibo/multim... #godotengine #gamedev
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Davin Pavlas @davin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
💭"largest theft of labor in human history"
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 18/09/2026
hmmmm wip
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 18/09/2026
[Iron Chef talking about a chef who speaks and writes and " even dreams " in French] me: i wonder what you call a weeaboo but for France lena, without missing a beat: a oui-aboo
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Sean H. @sjhdoesgames.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Y'all who have been here for a minute know what type of time I'm on but for the record, if you indulge in the type of behavior Aura's describing below, then yes, you are part of the problem. And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, just listen to the thing I'm saying. >>
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Walaber @walaber.com · 14/09/2026
The new game we’re making at @toyful.games is an online co-op puzzle adventure called “Reason and Rhyme”
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/
PANEL 1: A tubby, bald man wearing a white collared shirt, with a blue and orange striped tie, holds a AR-type riffle with one hand, shooting into the air. The bright yellow light casts harsh shadows on him.
MAN: Please! Someone stop this weapon that I’m clearly shooting!

PANEL 2: The man bends over to reload the weapon with a “KLAK” sound.
MAN: The weapon keeps reloading itself, with SERO INVOLVEMENT FROM ME!

PANEL 3: The man continues to shoot in to the air.
MAN: I have no agency here! Nothing that I could do —SAY WITH MY OWN FINGERS — could end this!

PANEL 4: The man, still shooting the gun, turns his back, still yelling over his shoulder.
MAN: WHY IS NOBODY STOPPING THIS THING I KEEP DOING???
On the back of his shirt reads: LITERALLY EVERY A.I. COMPANY.

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Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).
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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trans Rights
Or Else
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran cancelled Macklemore by kicking him off the tour over his support of Palestine. Within 48 hours, all of Sheeran’s support acts had cancelled him. This is how it’s done.
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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'm pro-crunch.... crunchin' on a big bowl of ORION Turtle Chips!
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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...
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The Mermaid Mask on Steam
An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humo...
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 15/09/2026
oh those are COOL and again THE MIRROR THING and REFLECTIONS from water like god I've used that in stuff!!
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root @freshroots.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
trying to do some level design. I think at least one speed focused stage would be good for the demo.
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*waits for Unity Editor to load project* "ah finally now I can get to work -" *Clicks on something in the project* *Importing Assets* damn it
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 11/09/2026
It took me 20 years to feel this way, but I do wish – at art school – there was a seminar, not necessarily required, called something like "Every Artist is A Small Business Until They're Not". Even some small % of the student body attending would be sufficient to create massive impact, I think.
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Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"What I do know is that AI can’t bruise or ache and that it has no mother. It can’t send an anxious 'hey?' text to a man it suspects has ghosted him and it can’t break down in tears in a CVS while listening to 'Landslide'..."
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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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Iszac! @iszacstartown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New Metroid game looks sick
Drawing of Samus absorbing her enemy's power. The title says Metroid Girl Dinner instead of Metroid Ravenous
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naps is still thinking about deltarune @mattenaps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SpaceJam 3
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