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IGN @ign.com · 28/09/2026

The directors of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish deliver another terrific animated film with Forgotten Island. Our review: t.co/W36Wxmia0M

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 6h

I'd never really played Pang/Buster Bros before. I tried it on old arcade machines when I was a kid, but I never like actually sat down and thought about it before now This is one of the greatest arcade games ever made

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🦎Galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 7h

another csp tip: dont cross lines of reference layer. which is ver gud. assign line art as reference layer, switch to another layer, enable dont cross lines of ref layer, bam. if it isn't showing as a tool option, tap/click the wrench in tool settings window and go to anti-overflow, its in there.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 9h

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 13h

regardless I do think steam is currently suffering an elsagate from the sheer volume of fake AI games it's getting spammed with every day, the store is borderline unusable, and I think it's gone underdiscussed by the wider games press

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 14h

"the explosion of social media and tech titans and streaming services and video games was fuelled by low interest rates and is not a natural result of the market, which is going to correct now that this free cash flow is ending" is a theory i'm seeing discussed more and more and it's scary

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 15h

Even a terrible translation needs that human touch to be memorable.

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 15h

saw Backrooms it was all right! underbaked script, but the performances are fantastic and carry the whole film. some pretty clever direction and a few fantastic detail choices it was nigh impossible to shake the feeling i was watching a high budget youtube video for most of it tho

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

fantastic work here, a service to history

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Clifford Batteau @cliffordbatteau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Animation fans when they have to support original animated movies in theaters instead of complaining about sequels on the internet all day:

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Spongebob: I Want To Live Scene

ALT: Spongebob: I Want To Live Scene

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 28/09/2026

that first page that's why i love comics you can't do that kinda stuff in animation. make the reader turn the page as the character turns the page it's so good

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 28/09/2026

i'd completely forgotten about Red Ash. that game's entirely dead, isn't it? haven't seen anything about cancellation as far as i remember but haven't heard anything in like what, a decade?

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Elias Daler @eliasdaler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seeing many cases of this occurring on YouTube lately...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 28/09/2026

there's an interesting parallel here with books, I discovered this when studying bookbinding old paper/parchment/vellum is nigh indestructible without external damage. modern industrial paper is cheap and comes apart fast, comparatively this mean the older a book is, the more it's going to last

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borb 🐌 play EMUUROM already @borbware.itch.io · 28/09/2026

somehow completely missed a sequel to my GOTY of last year :O

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 28/09/2026

just released an 8-page zine for #FallingBlockJam! 📖 🍝 past-a-pile 🍝 a print-and-play falling block zine where you pile as many pieces of pasta as you can on a plate! print it out & pile up the pasta! 🎲🍽️ 🎮 npckc.itch.io/past-a-pile

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

remember when they put master chief's digital clone of his abusive, adopted mother that helps him kill with greater efficiency and he is impossibly in love with inside everyone's windows start bar

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

halo is a grand epic vision of post 9/11 us militarism that was the biggest thing in the world for a hot minute. true american soft power asserting itself as the 360 stole games console dominance away from japan. all pissed away to nothing because microsoft cannot see its value it can only Extract

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

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Break The Night - WISHLIST NOW! @breakthenight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're not just a Hack n' Slash, we've got schmoovement too 😼 #indiedev

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Ed @edtertainer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please go see this movie in theaters if you can! The vibrant, inventive animation is such a treat on big screens and the loving representation of Filipino culture, food, family, and music is something we could use more of! Also Jo and Raissa have such an amazing friendship!!!

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 27/09/2026

Seriously. Go watch Star Trek, you'll see plenty of shots where it looks like Kirk & Spock are cuddling or are about to kiss, because that's the only way to fit them both in frame.

Kirk and Spock, standing very, very close to each other, because of the 4:3 aspect ratio

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 27/09/2026

No one wants to admit it but the first step to fixing TV is going to have to be making it 4:3 again

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/09/2026

There’s so many layers to unpack here. These people have turned doing kink wrong into a career networking event.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One more share for the weekend crew The video is about Kotick's legal threats, but it's also about the challenges inherent to publishing a story about those threats. Also: there's a thread about a federal indictment that adds a twist to the Activision lawsuit story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Bobby Kotick vs. The Games Media

YouTube video by People Make Games

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not super excited about blurry 50 fps gaming where it takes your $3000 gpu several frames to converge light into a discernible picture. I love how great games got to look but the tradeoffs we took aren't very good imo We need nice baked GI again that runs on a laptop you found behind a dumpster

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 27/09/2026

so i've never heard of this song before and i got curious and i gotta say, i don't particularly care about this whole discussion but what got me interested is the music video having embedded subtitles it feels like we're at a turning point where subtitles are starting to be put in everything

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 27/09/2026

okay Youtube, what's the point of that "new" tag if this is a) a video i've already watched five times b) a video that came out days ago

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ompuco @ompu.co · 27/09/2026

Well dang, it would appear my stuff was stolen from my vehicle while I have been 1500 miles away and unable to afford repairs. That laptop included a number of prototypes I had never backed up anywhere, including tons of VFX prototypes from when I worked on Manifold Golden.

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黒田もこ⚡お仕事募集中 @mocom3310.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

⚡WORK⚡ 歌うボーダーコリー🐶Vtuber 日向鈴空様の「パンダヒーロー」歌ってみたイラストを制作させていただきました！よろしくお願いいたします🐼⚾️

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DrTanuki!!! @drtanuki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The concert of a lifetime

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Ducktor Nald @ducktornald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I genuinely believe Kubo is a monster of the week short comic writer with nice comedic timing who was cursed to write a long-running meathead battle shonen A victim of his own success

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Tayo na!" (The Forgotten Island is great, thank you for making a whole movie specifically for me)

Raissa and Jo from the movie The Forgotten Island

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 26/09/2026

the amount of money being spent to push Harry Potter in everyone's faces right now is absurd. i can't remember the last time i saw a marketing blitz of this magnitude

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NONBINAIRY!! @dynamom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

⚠️ WARNING: You have used 2 bytes of data

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 26/09/2026

massive pulsating headache. i should go to bed

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