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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 28/09/2026

$400 for $100 of trash and it doesn’t even include the game. Barf

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State - Vice City Collection $399.99

Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 25/09/2026

Showing up to my next job interview with a boot full of beer. When they ask what the hell I'm doing, I'll politely but sternly explain that it is not an iced coffee.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 22/09/2026

This really feels like a Netflix deal that was penned to hype up Night Shift before it got moved to 2027

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Zaparoo @zaparoo.com · 16/09/2026

Zaparoo App v1.14.1 is on the App Store and Google Play worldwide. Launchables in the Library tab, less battery use, and more reliable connections. zaparoo.org/blog/app-v1.... #Zaparoo

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Zaparoo App v1.14.1 Released | Zaparoo

Zaparoo App v1.14.1 is on the App Store and Google Play worldwide. It adds launchables to the Library tab, uses less battery, and no longer gets stuck on a failed encrypted handshake when Core restart...

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/09/2026

What do AI organizations gain from their members having certain beliefs? Watch the full video on Youtube: youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 15/09/2026

This is the least intimidating body guard ever who seemingly can’t manage to button his jacket.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 14/09/2026

The hypocrisy of "small businesses" constantly asking for support but not willing to support anyone else is starting to wear very thin.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 13/09/2026

I dont believe for a second that shit heads like Musk saying “we should slow down” is anything but for show. But this shows how even worse Trump can be when he won’t even play it up. They don’t care if the planet is gone or our lives are in ruin. They will be dead soon.

Trump dismisses Al leaders' calls to slow down, citing Chinese competition
Democrats are increasingly attacking the administration's hands-off approach to artificial-intelligence regulation as midterms approach.
September 13 at 11:31 AM 2026

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 13/09/2026

Just watched Supergirl. Why does everyone seem to hate this?

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/09/2026

He got what he wanted. More attention over his AI vibe coded Fallout mod. Boo hoo 😢 woe is me the famous person.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/09/2026

What a stupid fucking thing to even say.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/09/2026

It’s honestly a really good game. Play it and appreciate it.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/09/2026

People don’t feel good about the economy despite all these great numbers because all those stats are fluffed up. Besides that, day to day living is more expensive. Fake jobs being added to some stat sheet doesn’t make up for higher grocery bills, higher utilities, and higher gas prices.

Last month, the country added an impressive 162,000 jobs. The unemployment rate is low. The stock market and artificial intelligence are making many people rich and boosting retirement savings.
Yet surveys tell us Americans are still in a funk. Their sour mood doesn't match up with what major indicators say about how the U.S. economy is performing.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 08/09/2026

Leave Substack already and switch to an open source alternative. Self host! Be free.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 04/09/2026

This country, this administration is such a fucking joke. Your tax dollars went to slop generated, propaganda fueled, worse than 2000s era Newgrounds..."games". Advertised with a rip off off the Gamecube intro. Please sue them Nintendo.

An actual post from the White House advertising a "game" website called Arcade.gov using the Gamecube intro.

White House website now has "games" to get your kids sucked into the cult.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 29/08/2026

I got to play some Ska with friends last night.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 19/08/2026

AI Slop lovers: “There is nothing wrong with AI!” The moment they can’t lie about when they use it:

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude's Invisible
Watermarks
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in Al-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 19/08/2026

I ate at hole in the wall joints so much as a kid and LOVED it and never once thought "Gee I wish they had terrible pictures next to this that makes the food look disgusting".

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The Rat Zone 👺💣 WISHLIST GRAVITY GOBLINS @therat.zone · 01/08/2026

NEW RATZONE GAME #4: GRAVITY GOBLINS 👺💣👁️🛼 a new gravity-bending "roguelite" with THE FoLLOWING: -strange tower that you climb!! -fancy schmovement with JUMP + KICK + ??? -strange trinkets.... -waste youre riches on ARCADE MACHINE wishlist on steam!!: store.steampowered.com/app/4102030/...

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Matt Garbutt @artmonkeymg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

More Batman doodles! #batman

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 14/08/2026

Just finished a vintage character illustration for an ad in the Gay Business Directory in Palm Springs. So thats pretty damn cool.

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Airdorf (Official) - top 1% on GaryLovesYou.com @airdorfofficial.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did we use AI to make our upcoming horror game???

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 13/08/2026

I love this movie. The animation is simply sublime.

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the kind of thing I see that directly demonstrates WHY so many are against AI. The people pushing this cannot help but start with "THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR JOBS" while talking about tech built on theft that's also making everything unaffordable. Gee, how exciting.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 13/08/2026

Missouri GOP uses AI to write guidelines on negotiating for an AI data center in your town.

Missouri lawmakers released a 14-page guide this week to help your town negotiate with Al companies.
The document format looked eerily familiar. So l asked them, did Al write your guide? The chairman said no large language model was used. One of his colleagues said my Al detection tools were "quite a stretch." Which is fair, because Al-generated text detectors guess. So we stopped guessing and opened the file the House posted on its own website.
Right-click.
Properties.
Author: OpenAl.
The company behind ChatGPT.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 12/08/2026

Anyone else get blocked for telling him using generative AI is dumb? I love his work, and he couldn’t handle one moment of criticism. Boomers and their generative AI just can’t be separated and won’t hear anything negative about it. What a shame.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 12/08/2026

They are absolutely going to shock every person they touch "on accident"

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 11/08/2026

Where is the Cars sequel about the uprising of the forklifts when they realize their car overlords can’t do anything without them and their weirdly semi opposable appendages?

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 11/08/2026

Not me digging through font websites looking for pre 1980s Oldstyle serif typesets because still no one seemingly knows what was used to make the Ghostbusters logo.

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Wunehtsehfonsiks @1876band.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

++PUNK IS RED++

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wizzo @wizzo.dev · 09/08/2026

Also working on some major QoL changes for #Zaparoo on SteamOS. NFC reader on a Steam Deck is still awkward (RIP Steam Machine) but I wanted to show off this level of control we have now between Steam games and third party emulators in gaming mode. I also threw together a handy little Decky plugin

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Flying Raccoon Suit @flyingraccoonsuit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last four shows of the year, leading to @thefestfl.bsky.social with @sadsnack.bsky.social and @jokersrepublic.bsky.social! Hope to see you there!! We haven't been back to Texas in a long time. 🎨 by @rocketfuelart.com!

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 06/08/2026

Speedball is trending and I clicked hoping to see some cool nibs and ink.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 06/08/2026

When there is something strange in your neighborhood… #ghostbusters #cosplay

Nerd alert. Some dork in a Ghostbusters 2 style flight suit wearing a prop proton pack.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 06/08/2026

It’s going to be Chris Pratt doing another “accent” he is “really proud of”

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 05/08/2026

Gen Xers and Boomers coming into the retail store I worked at right out of college and feeling like it was okay to yell at me because “the customer is always right” pushed me over the edge.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 05/08/2026

Does anyone actually still give a shit about Ted Lasso? I thought that was a mid show we all got really into because we were mentally exhausted and emotionally drained and its shiny happy gloss made us feel better. Who the hell wanted a season 4 after the awful season 3?

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/08/2026

It's hard work.

The "My body is a machine" meme:

My Body is a Machine that turns "AI YouTube Thumbnails" into "We won't recommend videos from this channel to you again."

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026

There's already so many ways to play N64 games without supporting a fashy little freak's pet project. Do not buy the war crime n64. aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-...

Palmer Luckey sitting behind his little M64 by ModRetro.

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Mylie (Softail System) @stagefatality.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'll never stop singing the praises for Arzette. 🫡

An excerpt from the linked article, with a passage from Seedy Eye Software (presuming it's from Seth Fulkerson)

A screenshot with Klive, an early boss, is partially visible.

Seedy Eye Software

Games: Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

Steam page

“Generative AI operates on theft, both creatively and of our planet's resources, in order to churn out uninspired garbage.

Arzette as a project, and by extension, Seedy Eye Software is by its nature extremely artist and human-creative driven. One of the main guiding ethos during Arzette’s development was to empower the artists, animators, designers, and writers to bring all of their creativity to the table. In many ways it is the polar, direct-opposite to generative AI content. It will never be touched by a ten-foot pole for any part of anything we ever make. Doing so would directly go against the entire purpose of the reason I develop video games.”

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 30/07/2026

My luck is on fire! Went to Autozone to grab a few bulbs and my car died in the parking lot. One new battery and a tow later and it still doesn’t run. I love throwing away $350. I better play the lottery things are going so well!

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 16/07/2026

They want to put a giant mirror in space?! You have got to be kidding me. You can not convince this would not be extremely dangerous and damaging to the environment.

U.S. approval of giant ‘space mirror’ satellite alarms astronomers
A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from skyrocketing numbers of satellites

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 16/07/2026

It seems like I’m in the minority but making Daylight Savings Time permanent is dumb as hell. Use standard time, follow the sun, it’s better for our health.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 16/07/2026

I’m on my Ghostbusters nonsense again and it’s a new project! Check out ghostsmashers.net for my new blog about my Ghostbusters obsession and follow along as I go through modding my new pack and writing my opinions about various parts of the franchise. #ghostbusters #retro #art #design

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 13/07/2026

I think this might be one of the most disappointing emails I have received. It just ends up being Ken Williams telling you learn AI because it "isn't going away" and "It amplifies people. But it amplifies some people more than others" BARF.

Greetings everyone!

This edition is a long one, but I think you'll forgive me.

In it: I run an experiment that changed my mind about the future of game development, a friend of mine does something wonderful with cardboard, and Roberta and I dodge bears in Alaska.

Let's start with the experiment.

GAME DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGE OF AI

Is AI killing the game business? Is it coming for game dev careers?

I don’t know that I have the final answer, but I do have a fresh perspective.

When Roberta and I developed our most recent game, Colossal Cave 3D, we started the project with just a friend of mine, Marcus Mera, and me. Within a few weeks we actually had the game running.

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Ghostbusters.net @ghostbusters.net · 13/07/2026

Has it really been 10 years? Join the Ghostbusters: Answer the Call watch party THIS WEDNESDAY @ 8PM ET and share your favorite moments while the film plays.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 10/07/2026

I’ve now watched Ghostbusters: Afterlife every day this week. AMA

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/07/2026

After what Microsoft and Sony have done to gaming this last week, if anyone complains to me about Nintendo I’m going to slap their face.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/07/2026

My nostalgia has been running wild thanks to having a toddler also running wild loving many similar things. Take me back to days of plastic proton packs and Ecto-cooler. #art #ghostbusters #illustration #retro

A retro style illustration of a kid running happily with with a toy PKE meter.

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Kevin Willingham @rocketfuelart.com · 09/07/2026

It’s ridiculous that it took that much for people to stop backing Platner and then for him to drop out.

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