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Matt Oakes

@mattoakes.bsky.social
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Game Developer. Graphics Programmer. Motorcycle Enthusiast. Luddite. Opinions are my own

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The Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 08/09/2026
the ordeal is complete, thank you to everyone who came to see us at PAX! And thank you @timoflegend.bsky.social for letting us steal ur furniture, it will be put to good use 🐀👍
a member of the rat zone carrying a stool that was stolen from the Double Fine booth
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/09/2026
Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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Sami @samitron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU
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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New newsletter: Generative AI is becoming the new crypto and multi-level marketing scam, promising non-techies that they can vibe-code their way to prosperity, without being candid about the costs and risks. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...
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Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment
How predatory vibe coding startups are selling false hope to young people
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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
that's great Unreal. Who the fuck is going to use that engine? There aren't any more AAA studios. They're all fucking gone. It's just terry in his fucking basement and he's got Godot open.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. " LOOOL
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Absolute bars here:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/06/2026
Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
Soundtrack: In Flames - Colony To further support my independent journalism, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $7 a month or $70 a year. If you’re subscribed to the free newsletter and ...
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Ben 🦇🥌 @ben.batst.one · 15/06/2026
Employee owned cooperative game studios is the only sustainable path forward. Everything else will continue to be deformed by capital as it seeks to optimize extracting value with minimal cost.
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犬釘 @ainukugi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
「階層都市断片集」が2026年6月26日から連載開始です 少女終末旅行 と シメジシミュレーション に続く つくみず さんの新作です 少女終末旅行の前日譚ですね
「階層都市断片集」が2026年6月26日から連載開始
少女終末旅行とシメジシミュレーションに続くつくみずの新作
少女終末旅行の前日譚
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is what every game developer sounds like right now.
A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/05/2026
In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
OK, I'll just say it. Most science fiction and all cyberpunk is radically dystopian. Hopeful, optimistic visions of the future are sorely needed. The Solarpunk movement is onanistic rubbish, highjacked by 100 peripheral ideologies. We need a positive vision for the future or we'll never get there.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
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The Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 11/05/2026
OUR GAME (creature kitchen) HAS BEEN LOCALIZED! 🇪🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 + some bugfixes and whatnot! check out the details for the update here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/309...
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Creature Kitchen - Version 1.1.0 Update - Steam News
Localization is here!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
this is very funny
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Life hack: wake up early to make bread. then you're up early. and you have bread.
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𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙗 @absolutegoob.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I will give you this shoe, you will be able to use it
low poly model of a red converse shoe
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I'm so tired of winning.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
when i am elected President, i promise to start screaming, one-sided fights with the Pope much more often, but for very different reasons
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
happiness is cruising on a motorbike, singing baka mitai as loud as you can.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/03/2026
The friction of actually trying to understand something is annoying and takes practice to push through, and a degree of introspection to say “ah man I do get it.” Learning is a skill! It takes practice and also is frustrating as hell.
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's so funny to me watching the ai cultists try and gaslight themselves into thinking DLSS 5 doesn't just look like complete dogshit. "Hey gamers, you know that hardware you can't afford anymore? It can make your games look like absolute ass too!"
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𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙗 @absolutegoob.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
it seems the ship has long since sailed on making games playable at reasonable framerates on affordable hardware, so might as well do this i guess
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/02/2026
getting multiple emails a day inviting me to GDC events showcasing new generative AI tools and I have to stop myself from replying "I'd rather shoot myself in the face" every single time
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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
kill all fake lovers
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softmode aka europa yuu aka doomfest on twitter @softmode.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
your local chain goblin is here to remind you to clean your chain #motorcycle #diy
clean chain on motorcycle
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The Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 21/02/2026
we are honored to be featured by JANK.COOL!!
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
THIS
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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Kaizen Game Works @kaizengameworks.com · 10/04/2025
LISTEN UP DREAMERS! PROMISE MASCOT AGENCY IS OUT NOW 📢📢📢📢 🎉You heard us right! Promise Mascot Agency is AVAILABLE NOW on Steam, Epic, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch! 🎉
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The Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 08/02/2025
be wary of frog
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papaya @ CALL PAYPROS @papaira.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
github.com/tycrek/degoo...
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GitHub - tycrek/degoogle: A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links. - tycrek/degoogle
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Agree 💯
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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
i believe this is an important image in our postmodern age
a small kei truck beside a cybertruck
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Matt Oakes @mattoakes.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Hi internet.
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