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Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-…

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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine

Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How much is a Good and Normal amount of finding blood on your towel and not knowing where you're bleeding from

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"People need to learn to be uncomfortable learning things they don't want to hear" applies to Jacob Geller *and* to 'backlash to Harry Potter as an IP is, sadly, predominantly in the online anglosphere'. Ana phrased that as gently as possible and still got torn to bits for it

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

all-time heavyweight champion

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel this is quite important. People who are (understandably?) iffy on the idea of being upfront with this assume there should be a way of phrasing it that 'works every time'. This isn't that kind of scenario. The 'best' course of action still rightly entails opening the door to "No thank you."

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 20/05/2026

make mind sunless place make mind sunless place how sunless place mind tutorial reddit why mind still sunny

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was on Tipp FM this morning to talk about the work my friends and I in Clonmel Together are doing to support inclusion and integration in our town, and also to have a go at the Minister for Justice and the government for undermining it m.soundcloud.com/tippfmradio/...

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Tipp Today- Dean Buckley-240926

Stream Tipp Today- Dean Buckley-240926 by Tipp FM Radio on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How do we narrativize dystopia when utopian futures have faded? How does the Horus Heresy help us understand Hegel's ideas about tragedy, religion, and Empire? Join @laboringleon.bsky.social , @thelitcritguy.bsky.social , and myself as we get Grimdark! open.spotify.com/episode/6J1P...

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🦇🎃 Boo-ana 🎃🦇 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICYMI: New Edge Mag interviewed me about sword & sorcery, what drew me to the genre, why the classics are worth revisiting (and what I take from them) and who's doing good work right now!

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Zeynep & Kawtar with Luana Saitta

YouTube video by New Edge Sword and Sorcery

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

she's not leaving the left because she was never on it: and people who conflated curtain-twitching puritan morality (not sensible precautions and vaccinations, you know the difference) in re: covid and inability to Log Off made her into something she never ever was

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Brandon Sanderson televised execution

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look lads. the newswire burst that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma spends "hours" responding to CS tickets - whether true or not - is low hanging corporate propaganda. throw that shit in the trash. it's an insult to your intelligence.

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

World of Warcraft: Forever is an exciting new addition to the WoW Classic formula, full of new discoveries and wonder and also here are the exact level ranges for each new zone and raid

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trans catgirl who describes herself as Classically Trained

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jared Leto Joker Forehead Tattoo 'Estrogenized'

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

here's a definitive refutation of this Telegraph piece, written by a much better writer than Page who you might have heard of, 50 years ago libcom.org/article/star...

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Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock

An essay by Michael Moorcock on the saturation of Fascistic and authoritarian themes and messages in Science Fiction literature.

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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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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'Woolie play Heavensward' '500 bucks' 'Yes Woolie' '5,000' '...Maybe Woolie'

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't you have another panicslop article to write where you ask ChatGPT for a list of government departments which it gets wrong and you publish without even fact-checking

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altamahaha.bsky.social @altamahaha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Whole lotta hit dogs hollering at this joke lmao

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You can make your own ugly cover with your own two hands instead of getting the slop machine to make an ugly cover.

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 04/09/2026

My first piece for @kotaku.com sees me document the rather surreal experience of demoing a game funded by a government that would have me executed for being trans. kotaku.com/the-1001-thr...

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The 1001 Threads Of Mizan Director Avoids Answering A Simple Question At Gamescom - Kotaku

'This is a really decentralized company. We completely decentralized'

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

On the one hand the use of 3D models in Coyote Vs Acme forces people who grew up with strict 2D iterations to confront the fact that while it creates new lived embodiments of its characters it imparts a real sense of one's own decay. On the other hand the Roadrunner has never looked more fuckable.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP COMRADE SEE YOU IN THE STARS

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The modern equivalent of Jerry Shaped Like A Piece Of Cheese is Linus TechTip walking around with the clear outline of the Steam Frame imprinted on his face

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Fat4all (Agatha) 🏳️‍⚧️ @fat4all.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this guttural reaction tho

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is 2008. Rock Band & Guitar Hero, 2 western rhythm games controlled with plastic imitation instruments are releasing within months of each other. It is 2026, Stage Tour & Sound System, 2 western rhythm games controlled with plastic imitation instruments are releasing within months of each other.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Taylor Lorenz uses Grok for research on her Substack" all these words actually ARE in the bible but uttered by a daemon most foul

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I used Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 as an excuse to reevaluate Metal Gear Solid 4, a game that increasingly feels like it’s from another world. It’s hard to imagine a big budget game that is this direct about real world issues ever existing again. www.polygon.com/metal-gear-s...

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There Will Never Be Another Game Like Metal Gear Solid 4

Video games have changed

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter (2020)

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Guy artist creating Albert: gotta give the ladies a little something-something, am I right fellas? Ladies: Zork could fuck me in half and I'm not even joking.(9,467 likes)

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The wild thing about this is that, at root, this is every opinion in the UK. Me, my friends and family are real people and we should be treated with kindness and respect. Everyone else is a grifting fake taking money out of my pocket and using up resources that should be mine.

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally some clarity over this week's big question: Compulsion's split from MS is complete, and the 'Microsoft Game Studios' listings that remain on PSN, XBox Store and the Nintendo Eshop are on the platform holders' end. Compulsion's titles, including South of Midnight, no longer fall under BDS.

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

doing shibari with gorilla mounting tape and never getting that twink off the ceiling

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026

i have done what many said is impossible. i have made an order guide for playing the entire kingdom hearts series, for normal people. i hope this can be a helpful resource to at least one person out there:

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Kingdom Hearts: Normal Person Order

Normal Person Order A complete guide for the entire Kingdom Hearts series, in release order, as simply as possible, without missing anything. by headfallsoff Introduction It may feel intimidating to...

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 19/08/2026

the reason the question over whether south of midnight falls under the remit of the BDS boycott or not has become so fraught is because journalists didn't do their jobs right when they saw a Bluesky post and automatically assumed it was all-encompassing and automatically correct. hope this helps!

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