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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 5h

I'll be packing envelopes tonight - if you're waiting on emails, I'll be trying to get to them tomorrow. Past few days have been... a lot. Kind of dove into a game to cope with some stuff. Apologies.

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Tsun. All Tsun. @alltsunnodere.bsky.social · 9h

The folks behind KamiKatsu strike again

an anime girl eating a piece of toast, held with only the fingertips of her ENORMOUS hands

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cortana.SQL @cortanav.bsky.social · 7h

The full team was like 1000 people. People outside of the “core team” did some major heavy lifting. This is outsourcing. What you are doing is outsourcing and then downgrading their contributions. There is nothing innovative about this.

Three-tier model
What Fuse calls distributed development is split into three tiers, separated in terms of their distance from the core team. Furthest away is traditional outsourcing - involving the creation of art assets, and so on - which typically involves teams in "lower cost locations," Webster says.

Slightly closer to the core team is what Fuse calls external development, which involves giving an outside group a self-contained piece of work.
Webster gives the example of Galactic Racer's photo mode, which was handed lock, stock, and barrel to an outside studio.
"It's clear to brief, clear to point to a set of features, and you need a cross-discipline team to bring it together, so you need production, art, UI, and code to create that thing. But because we're in Unreal, it can be self-contained. So someone can go off and build that, and we can slot it in."

The closest tier to Fuse's core team is co-development. "Those are people that are in our stand-ups, they're in our Slack channels, they're in our code base, they're in all of our team stuff. They are, to all intents and purposes, an extension of our team. They just happen to work for another company."

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 7h

You mean the horse shouldn't be beaten after it's dead? :0

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 7h

"the creator thinks it's funny lol" Like, okay, I find amusement in trash, too. Doesn't make it a master stroke

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 7h

How long until people start insisting this is intentional and not the studio falling flat on its ass again?

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 18h

Stfu @bsky.app

A article titled "bluesky suspended various trans authors over anti JK rowling Posts"

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 12h

Seriously. This whole damn series of events has been just depressing. I've been saying it for a while but we really don't hate Sony enough

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

There's something genuinely fun about just setting out and getting lost, only to find some vista, or some new challenge statue to figure out... then vibing under the stars with a campfire as the open, starry skies stretch out overhead.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

A few days out, and I can honestly say that Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea is very me-coded. It's not perfect (I didn't expect that going in), but I enjoy the mix of farming and exploration it offers, and the stories work well. The general mechanics are interesting, and there's just so much to find

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

I'd honestly rather just build a set-top PC box next generation if they're chasing $1K - it'll be pricey, but I can at least update individual components going forward with it.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

It's been out for six years now, and I have... like... four games I actually said "I need this" for. Ys X, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Final Fantasy XIV, and Silent Hill f. It's currently just the thing I turn on to do daily quests in Final Fantasy XIV when I don't want to load up the PC.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

Shadow Labyrinth was interesting, at least, given it's a revival of the Xevious timeline.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

Seriously. I love video games, still - but god damn, does this make me despise everything it's become.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

I can't help but feel we're on the cusp of a major snapback, because people are SICK of this shit.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 13h

Gee, maybe that should be an indicator that this is the wrong direction, and that focusing on raw power when the slop machines THEY CHAMPIONED are consuming every last scrap of available computing resources to feed data centers that pollute the air and water.

engadget.com

Sony and Bandai get into bed with generative AI - Engadget

The company also outlined AI’s role in the future of PlayStation.

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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast @collokation.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/10/2026

yes and this also happened with the dems and rhetoric about "the border crisis" even more recently. at this point, if you think accepting republican framing is a good strategy I can only assume you either actively enjoy the evil or are a mark down to the marrow

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

This type of thing makes me look sideways at the dudes screaming that “no kings” is useless. Yeah man, it’s so useless that it’s got these oligarchs sweating

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Also: I make my own Simpsons image macros now, because fuck Frinkiac's creators for ruining something that worked and turning it into slop.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Oh god yeah... I honestly am kind of sad that it was one of the first titles I reviewed, because there's so much in there and I didn't have the skills or vocabulary to really talk about any of it with the levels of detail or nuance I would today.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

This is a genuinely outstanding read - huge props to Lettuce, and to @ellyberries.bsky.social who was a fantastic editor on the piece. Definitely give it a read.

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nobody™️ @granddad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

"Oh BuT yOu CaN't HaLt PrOgReSs, LuDdItE!" Fuck you. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. This shit is harming real people, and I don't care about how fast you can fucking vibe code some stupid shit that already exists or steal artwork to cobble together an image. Fuck off with that.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

If you wanna know why the article is late today, there was a 50/50 chance ANime Herald was dead again thanks to fucking slop scrapers. They're like motherfucking locusts and I wish every fucking company behind them a very "go bankrupt yesterday and leave us alone, motherfuckers"

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

I literally just had to fucking hard-reboot the server because we were running solely on the reverse proxies. The admin panel was inaccessible because slop bots kept fucking hammering us.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you use and/or evangelize ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or any of the other slop generators - KNOWING that it harms artists and creators and fucks up everything we're trying to do, you are a bad person who deserves every bit of the disdain you receive.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Let's be honest - the Dems higher-up wouldn't dare do that because it would require a spine.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

A shame. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out on their next tour.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Seriously. Shit's been on a steady downhill trend and I don't know how Paramount can ruin it further than they already have. Just... let them keep going at this pace and they'll burn their own shit down by 2030

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Update coming in a bit - just got off the phone with family... been dealing with stuff on and off all day

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Seriously... Ted Turner was a rare billionaire - probably the only one - that tried to make the world better where he could, and I respect that part of him.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

... ... ... Isn't CNN doing a great job wrecking itself already, though? Like... they went all-in on the "Fox News Lite" a good five or six years ago.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Time and time again, we've been shown that X (Twitter is fucking dead at this point - they murdered that shit the first itme they reinstated a dude sharing CSAM) is basically Kiwifarms bundled with a CSAM and slop generator. Yeah, so glad I, and my company's brand, are not tied to that freakshow.

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Hallenbeck77 @hallenbeck77.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Raul Julia was a saint--he took a trash script, and gave it his all with a performance that was way more fun than we deserved with that kind of movie. And the man way literally dying from cancer when he gave it.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Sorry, but I'm not going to hand it to the fascist white supremacist because he did something that looks cool. I'm going to deny that shit until the day I die.

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Worcanna - Audio Attack Spider w/Halloween mask on. @worcanna.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

You can see the worse part. GenAI vibe-code games do a demo. Seriously. That's how they make it look like it's more official than you. A demo. That's the fucking worst trick, but i've been tracking GenAI games doing it more and more, and stealing other games names to block them out of searches.

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seasonally appropriate ghost of kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

i really think cis people should sit and ask ourselves for a minute: how are people supposed to live like this? what would we do if informed that we just have to figure out how to coexist with coworkers who “don’t believe in” a basic part of our existence?

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Also, again - the voice of Pi is clearly having the best time ever in both of these games. She's that mix of "straight-playing snarker" and "utterly unhinged" and it's hilarious.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

I also appreciated that the part that pissed off conservatives was a throwback sequence that forced Larry to reckon with his own shittiness toward women. Doesn't last long, but like... the second game starts with him TRYING to be better.

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