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Etienne de Martel

@piment.gay
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🖤🩶🤍💜 | piment.gay | (he/they) Principal programmer at Eidos Montreal, specializing in making others fitter, happier and more productive. I think you should care about other people. Trans rights are human rights.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This fantasy that “AI is out of control” provides cover for powerful people and corporations to simply program systems to carry out actions and then shrug. And if that is brought into the larger scheme of operations, the powerful will shrug and blame the tool they control.
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Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 09/09/2026
Nintendo saw the Metroid Bread memes and decided to embrace the food theme.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
yes, i am a bit "my 'velocity makes the structural problems worse' tshirt has been raising questions already answered by my tshirt" still, i am capable of having a nuanced conversation about modern programming tools, albeit only with people who don't call me ignorant or threaten me with the rapture
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans
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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/09/2026
hey homie how’s it going. me and the guys were just debating whether or not you had a theory of mind
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026
back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026
Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026
In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 06/08/2026
Holy shit this blog is amazing.
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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
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Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
As mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026
Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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The Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
we at xbox are coming to terms with the AI-fueled hardware crunch, which we helped create, failing to meet profit margins, that we made up, declining software sales, because we're self-cannibalizing our games specifically, and also everyone hates us which, believe it or not, also our fault
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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 15/06/2026
The value proposition of working at an AAA studio was that you were trading independence and agency for stability, and that if the game did well, you would keep your job, and if the game did badly, you might lose it. Obviously it wasn’t that cut and dry, but you get it. Now? You just lose your job.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
OH MY GOD I GET TO TALK ABOUT MY THESIS I specifically studied the instance of election fraud within a 1/2 point margin of victory. I'm calling them whisker thin elections. Fraudulent elections are proportionately less likely to be whisker-thin than other close margins of victory. 1/
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
my one big takeaway from this years pile of Showcases is that Unreal Engine 5 has co-opted or sort of, I dare say, polluted the visual language of games, where nothing stands out theres a kind of mediocrity that comes with being "photorealistic I guess". PBR substance everywhere, but not distinct
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKETETEN HOLDIN "DRAW 50 BOATS SHIPS TRUCKS AND TRAINS BY LEE J. AMES " A GREAT BOOK AND IT SAYS "THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE FUCKEN LIBRARIES" - MODERN SOCIETY WORKS TO ELIMINATE FREE RESOURCES BECAUSE THEN YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE AS MUCH IN THE MONEY GRINDER - A LACK OF RESOURCES OR A LOSS IN RESOURCES IS USED AS PUNISHMENT TO KEEP YOU WORKING FOR LESS THAN YOUR WORTH - HOMELESSNESS AND HUNGER IS USED AS A DETERRENT FROM THOSE SEEKING TO ESCAPE THE CHAINS OF CAPITAL - AND THERE TIGHTNING THOSE SCREWS EVERY DAY - I WILL NEVER JUMP FOR A RICH MANS DOLLAR I WILL NEVER STOP HATING MONEY AND THOSE WHO SERVE IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣 GAMEDEVS 📣 Did you know the @gameworkerscon.bsky.social is officially ONE WEEK FROM TODAY? ...And that it's FREE and ENTIRELY REMOTE? 👇👇👇 gameworkersconference.org
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Game Workers Conference
The Game Workers Conference is an entirely new game industry event made by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed. The first iteratio...
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Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 12/05/2026
We should rightfully scorn DHH for being a fascist but I think he doesn't get enough flack for the irreparable damage he's done to our industry by making Ruby appear production-ready.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 06/05/2026
The funny thing about chrome shoving a 4gb LLM on all devices is that when I interviewed for Google back in 2019 one of the interview sessions was all about how you'd deploy updates to 4 billion android devices, consider how many users are on slow internet connections or with unreliable connectivity
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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 29/04/2026
Attention, please. The Leader has an important announcement for you... 📣 Phonopolis launches MAY 20! 📣 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/...
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
no i'm not bc i don't use that shit. skill issue
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
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Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 06/04/2026
Wait, it's Ace Day today. I have to admit, I didn't actually pay attention this time, what with, you know, the state of the world. I wish I had something witty to say, but jokes about "invading Denmark" don't hit the same way since the whole Greenland situation.
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Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 03/04/2026
When AGI is achieved in the future, it'll invent time travel so it can send all the technical debt back into the past.
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 26/03/2026
A lot of people want to talk about what's wrong with the AAA game dev scene but very few people want to admit that the problem is that the whole thing is just structured really dumb.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I can't know the mind or requirements of every dev but "passable" assets in the build are just a bad idea, IMO. I've worked on games that reuse assets that are intended to be redone, which can cause its own problems, but I don't think devs should generate temp assets that could maybe pass for final.
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 06/03/2026
what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med...
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate.
In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate.
A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership.
"Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/03/2026
Free newsletter: The AI bubble's info war demands that we believe in things that aren’t true, like the economic fundamentals of the AI industry are perfectly sound, or that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are anything other than warmongers. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/
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The AI Bubble Is An Information War
Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, ...
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.
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bridget @bridget.party · 17/02/2026
Wow Signal
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/02/2026
I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.
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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 11/02/2026
Phonopolis Demo is OUT NOW on Steam!! 📣 store.steampowered.com/app/4109130/... Take a look at how we built the cardboard city by hand.
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 07/02/2026
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
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