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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can relate to that. I have enough personal pride in my professional output to shun AI instinctively. But it's not JUST about pride either. As experts, we can plainly see that AI is neither proficient nor reliable enough to fully replace us. If human expertise decays, art is just... lost.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So you're saying I can get scammers banned from their AI accounts if I verbally abuse automated scam calls?

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Evil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I always tell narrative folks you can get smarter by going under the hood and knowing how to hook things up. You learn how all the pieces fit, and it inspires you see what you can squeeze out of the engine. Letting the machine to do it blunts your language, creativity, and your curiosity.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You don't even need to be old!

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The fungus causing the chestnut blight is still out there, so chestnuts can be technically replanted but they die before maturity. European chestnuts and American chestnut trees are different species.

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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah i'm a game writer, you might know me from hits like: INVENTORY FULL AMMO HERE CHECK THIS OUT I'M UNDER ATTACK!

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if youre wondering how i spent my evening it was sculpting 20 new creatures so they could sing over the garden wall

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Theres a 'type of guy'(TM) in the games industry who really just wants to make a movie, and OMG please do everyone a favour including yourself, just go make a movie.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Je suis francophone, merci.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Games can't take pottery from me. I will play with mud until I die.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 26/09/2026

i've had so many of these working on imsims. my first was the guards in my stealth game who could hear each other's footsteps and if they didn't already know roughly where the other guy was they would investigate each other and be surprised to see each other. in first person this looks like nothing

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only a man would wonder why you'd want both overhead and handheld at the same time.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a bit ironic considering Obsidian has its own support studios for franchises.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The timeline delivered on that one.

A screenshot of a bsky timeline with Alex's post below and a picture of a Fisher Price plastic knife above.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And for the love of god, document the decision. "Because we said" gets you nowhere if nobody remembers what was said or why.

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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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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They were called "zones of interest" for six months and then "locales" until a director review where they were changed to "grounds" then "worlds" and finally "locations" after a playtest, which made the tutorial text weird but made way more sense to players.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Hannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hi there! I'm Hannah MacLeod, a senior narrative designer/game writer coming up on 10 years in the game industry. I'm currently looking for work (remote or in CA)! I also have a cat named Booey who loves zoom calls, if that helps. www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/

Cover of the video game Marvel's Avengers featuring (left to right) The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel, and Black Widow.

Cover of the video game Minecraft: Story Mode season two (The Telltale Series)

Promotional image for the video game Perfect Dark featuring the logos for The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics.

Promotional image for the video game Tomb Raider: Catalyst.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I think about how lucky I am that all my teeth are still in my mouth.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you are currently not sick, please take a moment and appreciate how you are not currently sick

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD GAME and this is another excuse to grab it

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a fun bonus I recognized some names in the credits at the end and pointed at my screen with glee like I KNOW THESE PEOPLE THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE WOW GREAT WORK GUYS

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Stef @selestrielle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finished a full run of Big Walk with my buddies yesterday. What an incredible experience. The final portion was transcendent. I can't praise it enough. I am now bonded with my friends for life.

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Chride Lassheikki ✨ @classheikki.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our self-indulgently adorable dress-up visual novel Goldie's Boutique is out now! 💖 And it's completely free! 💸 👚 100+ clothing options! 🐾 Cute animal customers! 🎨 Creative mode to play around in! #indiegame #visualnovel #vn #dressup #browsergame youtu.be/TRtr1pXAQg4?...

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Goldie's Boutique – Vintage Dress-up Visual Novel With A Heart of Gold!

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Brilliant thread on the damage potential of LLM interactions. Shit is toxic all the way down.

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Alan B @gallonofalan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This reminded me of Batman's Aff His Nut by Rab Florence

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.
Posted in r/Poetry reddit

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026

I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

working on a theory that there is an inverse relationship between the quality of a fantasy game's writing and how heavily it features generic "bandits" whose only motivation is yum yum love evil and robbing

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 25/08/2026

the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

You do not need AI to protoype anything in video games. You do not need AI for placeholders in video games. This is a flat lie.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

producer: the engineering team's all busy, so we slated your feature request for work in 17 years. or you could ask Gorg designer: who? producer: he's that guy who has no job description. lives in a pond. eats entrails. he will implement your feature immediately. you didn't hear it from me, though

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Emily "Eeek!" Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I'm not good at eating fruit regularly even though it's delicious and good for me, so I'm starting up this new thing where I'll cut up some fruit to eat while I play games. I call this my "gamer fruit." you too can enjoy some "gamer fruit," it's nice and I would recommend it

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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