Reposted by Etienne de Martelpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123872643
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes 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 202715412
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234071270
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind 393089658
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This 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. 221251
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 09/09/2026Nintendo saw the Metroid Bread memes and decided to embrace the food theme. 000
Reposted by Etienne de Marteltef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026yes, 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 1575
Reposted by Etienne de Martelinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026again 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 3356161769
Reposted by Etienne de Martelmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/09/2026hey homie how’s it going. me and the guys were just debating whether or not you had a theory of mind 1264992
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry 2967001539
Reposted by Etienne de MartelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating 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 analysisUSAID 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... 5435191809
Reposted by Etienne de Martelkat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026Before 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. 19487119
Reposted by Etienne de MartelMelissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026In 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.🧵 7371120
Reposted by Etienne de MartelBryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 06/08/2026Holy shit this blog is amazing.productionalchemist.comI Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too SlowAI is optimising the cheapest part of production 327585
Reposted by Etienne de Martelwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry 232801408
Reposted by Etienne de MartelShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them 61107142297
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJohn Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’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 234159983
Reposted by Etienne de MartelFrank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As 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. 53100453968
Reposted by Etienne de MartelGame Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will endgamedeveloper.comOpinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will endAs mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment. 10449138
Reposted by Etienne de MartelRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026Our 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. 1544101246
Reposted by Etienne de Marteltaylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Wacom 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. 58134985781
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026New: 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...404media.coIt 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." 5029761170
Reposted by Etienne de MartelThe Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026we 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 31590480
Reposted by Etienne de MartelShayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 15/06/2026The 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. 71161269
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026OH 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/ 419381
Reposted by Etienne de Martelʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 07/06/2026my 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 3854378
Reposted by Etienne de Martelda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN 027741089
Reposted by Etienne de MartelUnited 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.orggameworkersconference.orgGame Workers ConferenceThe 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... 27448
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 12/05/2026We 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. 000
Reposted by Etienne de MartelAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 06/05/2026The 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 91098177
Reposted by Etienne de MartelAmanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 29/04/2026Attention, please. The Leader has an important announcement for you... 📣 Phonopolis launches MAY 20! 📣 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/... 12390125
Reposted by Etienne de MartelHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 31/03/2026I’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 181035280
Reposted by Etienne de Martelcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/04/2026no i'm not bc i don't use that shit. skill issue 132456508
Reposted by Etienne de MartelDisco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Moralists 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. 0434117
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 06/04/2026Wait, 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. 000
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 03/04/2026When AGI is achieved in the future, it'll invent time travel so it can send all the technical debt back into the past. 000
Reposted by Etienne de MartelDamion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 26/03/2026A 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. 511018
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This 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.no01.substack.comMarch, 19-21: God is a comedianA stiff drink is recommended 8631821410
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I 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. 1131121
Reposted by Etienne de MartelSam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026It 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 71331294
Reposted by Etienne de MartelMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 06/03/2026what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med... 974415882
Reposted by Etienne de MartelEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/03/2026Free 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/wheresyoured.atThe AI Bubble Is An Information WarEditor'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, ... 17921214
Reposted by Etienne de MartelVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026BREAKING: 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:gamehistory.orgWe've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History FoundationWe've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them. 8163783173
Reposted by Etienne de MartelKelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it. 603868892
Reposted by Etienne de MartelEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/02/2026I 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. 381002133
Reposted by Etienne de MartelAmanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 11/02/2026Phonopolis Demo is OUT NOW on Steam!! 📣 store.steampowered.com/app/4109130/... Take a look at how we built the cardboard city by hand. 10552192
Reposted by Etienne de Martelgabby @fullmoon.id · 07/02/2026Here 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… 🧵 2231369