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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 14h

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 13h

Unity cannot resist being embarrassing

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe this is the time to finally learn Godot?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 13h

As a Unity user (for now), I have a wishlist a mile long of things I wish they would actually finish and implement in the engine instead of just making it a preview package and then abandoning it. But instead of implementing tools for people who actually use the engine, they do this instead:

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If not n*zi, then why n*zi shaped?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actual lol at my workplace today when they told us all they’re updating the company policy on AI payment / receipt reports because too many people were letting the AI fill it out wrong

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to say it cannot be said enough how important it is for other men to say things about this shit. In the moment, or ASAP My first ever game dev event I was sexually harassed (assaulted?) by a Sony exec while all of my coworkers saw and said nothing Please say something, for people that can't

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King & Queen Sculptures @kqsculptures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My hatred for Gen AI knows no bounds. If your game has gen AI I will not play it, if your store has AI flyers I will not shop there, if your con does not have a strong stance against AI I will not attend. If everyone who was truly against gen AI was the same, it would be gone by now.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DLSS5 looks terrible so gamers will love it

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where are the great cultural artifacts produced by AI? All I see it used for are terrible YouTube thumbnails and restaurant menus that look horrifying

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking about that tweet about how being rich must be like getting kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just draw. Be curious, be open to drawing new things, be self-forgiving when you make mistakes, draw everything that excites you. Getting good doesn't have to be that hard or serious. You just gotta keep drawing.

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like I need to read a book about why evangelical art has historically been so bad, and how that dovetails into how much they love AI these days

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Modern BMWs all look like they hail from the Republic of Gamers

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earend | making 🐻🛡️⚠️ @earend.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok this sounds bad but we can't forget about how fast this thing can make a website that sucks

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s tons of vibe coded normal map generators out there now (they all have that vibe coded “look” to their UI) but why use any of those when this exists

Normal Map Online, a tried and true online utility with a very dated looking UI. You can tell it’s meant for genuine sickos

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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 08/09/2026

Everything ends here. Experience GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, the first-ever Japanese production #FilmedForIMAX, in theatres November 6. godzillaminuszero.com

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you’re an AI booster, arguing it’s conscious (it’s not) doesn’t really help your case, it just makes you sound like an evil wizard who’s forcing a captive spirit to write all your emails

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You can definitely tell this app is vibe coded

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My workplace has Gemini, so I decided to give it a fair shake and asked it to do some reformatting on a spreadsheet based on one of the suggestions. It took forever to think about it, then switched to Spanish (?) and kept spewing text about what it was allegedly doing. It never completed the task.

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like I’m seeing a big increase in people who are like “sure there are tons of bad things about AI but it’s ok when I specifically use it because I’m cool”

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/09/2026

Dune 2000 was released 28 years ago. In 1998. Because 2000 was the future in 1998.

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Dune 2000 Intro

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Don’t text and drive” but also your whole car is a giant phone

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every day I curse Adobe for buying Allegorithmic

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just because we may know it doesn’t mean we like it

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Protomartyr has done it again

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Logging into my Adobe account for this first time in years and it's truly bleak. I really need someone to come up with a good alternative to Lightroom ASAP

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wait, so Adobe makes you pay more per month for the ability to cancel anytime?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Photoshop just can’t stop adding AI slop everywhere huh

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Time to watch muppet treasure island again

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✨priya isn't at nycc, but at least you won't catch this cold @priyahuq.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

15 days until september's rent is due and we're at $15/2100. i'm open for work and can do quick turnarounds. linking some of my previous work below

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The Meggles Art @megglesart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

❤️Hey friends ❤️ I'm in need of some help. I have to raise 3000 USD in 5 days. ✨️ Shares would be super appreciated! ✨️ I have tons of things available in my shop, NOW 15% OFF, and freebies go out with every order! ❤️I know times are tough for everyone, so all I can ask for is shares!❤️ Links below

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How hard would it have been to just find a picture of an NY street instead of generating one that looks like it’s been melted?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Didn’t musk say we would reach mars by like 2019 or something

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If Ellipsus ever adds basic tables / spreadsheets I would be overjoyed

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bioshock infinite. I did not enjoy pretty much any aspect of that game aside from the art style.

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Above all else this just strikes me as such a bizarre way to interact with literature. Like do people really go through life constantly needing something or someone else to form thoughts for them?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tim dies all the time. It’s just a crank.

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