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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 13h

The materials and rigging on this little flower creature are so deeply satisfying to me, my god.

Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@danfloydplus.bsky.social, you gotta take a look at Aniimo. I did not expect to be fully pulled in by a game like this, but the amount of work put into being able to control every single creature in this game is nuts.

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A real issue in the industry. The opposite problem also can be an issue when you get to 50+ people, but actually balancing management and production well is clearly a challenge for 95% of people in my experience, unfortunately. I don't think the appeal at the end actually solves it for every team.

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The Invisible Layers Holding Games Back

YouTube video by Laura Fryer

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you ever have a devastating life event that leads to crippling depression and then you're waiting for the SSRI to kick in, may I recommend the humble "watch 90 episodes of Syd and Olivia in 4 weeks." It's very effective.

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Mythical Chef Josh Scherer Eats His LAST MEAL! | Syd & Olivia Talk Sh*t - S3 Ep88

YouTube video by Syd & Olivia

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So much fun and cool reading this summer for reasons. ✨ But despite (insert worst emotional experience of the last decade here), I keep meeting new people, going out to events, seeing the city, making new friends, playing board games, and doing stuff. So. You lose some and you sort of persist some.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Working on a game that's real and people play and is on a magazine cover sure feels nice. Probably gonna have stuff I worked on in the next patch and I'm excited.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Rarely been more hype. What a beautiful trailer.

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Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Made a little video about the metaverse, adapted from the part of my dissertation I had to write twice last week because the cat deleted it youtu.be/aWRzvOiqc-s?...

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Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse

YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Name a book, song, film, and TV program that changed your world. 1. Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card 2. Helplessness Blues, by Fleet Foxes 3. Lilo and Stitch, by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois 4. Critical Role

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Astoundingly beautiful work of writing.

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 21/02/2026

Spent a whole issue of @aiandgames.com last month ripping these surveys apart. Everyone from AI providers to GDC like to pretend they represent the voice of the industry. All of them talk out their ass and over-inflate their worth. www.aiandgames.com/p/separating...

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Separating Truth from Fiction in AI Surveys | 21/01/26

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I just watched 3 seasons of Industry in 2 weeks and now I'm caught up on the two new eps and, uh. What. The. Fuck? This show is crazy. Unbelievable how much it's changed and also how under the radar it's gone for having some of the best TV performances in the last 5 years.

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juni/ico @aetherflo.ws · 09/01/2026

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Just moved and I have a box that's occupied 75% by cables sorted by category in re-used bags, and I had to label one "small ethernet cables" to remind that despite it having ethernet cables inside of it, they will never be of a length that I actually want. Also, the USB bag is horrifyingly swollen.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📌 Post 🎮 I made videos about enemy combat in games. 📺 I'd like to make more videos about game dev and media one day, hopefully something in '26/'27. ☠️ I worked on the cancelled KotOR Remake and Perfect Dark. ⚔️ Now I do combat design on a new game that people actually already play in closed alpha!

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Defining What IS an Enemy Attack

YouTube video by Signals and Light

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

take a picture (rerun)

A drawing of a trucker with a mullet and a mustache, in front of a truckstop, saying "how boutchu take a picture? it'll last longer."
and he is wearing a hat that says "I dug a tunnel straight down in to the center of the earth, and therein, found hell itself, set out to kill The Devil, but when I got there, sitting on that abyssal throne was my own shadow self, and had to confront that true evil is something that lives inside us all, not an external force upon us, and if i killed him in anger, I'd just be acting out that perverse will, and all I got was this lousy hat."

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I pay so much attention to this stuff, and some games are so unreal good at it. I'd say this is taken for granted, but also literally all of environment art as a field of expertise is taken for granted. The average player can barely tell the difference between masterwork and just okay.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Genuinely had a really enjoyable time watching this one.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Fantastic narrative analysis (from a creator that admittedly doesn't usually even like anime). Also this is just also secretly explaining why The Stormlight Archive is so good (because it builds emotional themes and character arcs into this concept so perfectly).

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Hype is Fantastic, Actually

YouTube video by Door Monster

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

OK, I don't think I'm gonna play a new game that'll end up here in the next 12 days. Top 10 plays of 2025 for me on @backloggd.com. 1. Silksong 2. Doom: The Dark Ages 3. Dispatch 4. The Alters 5. Peak 6. Zenless Zone Zero 7. Sultan's Game 8. The Seance of Blake Manor 9. Hades II 10. Blue Prince

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'Best Plays of 2025' a list of games by everin | Backloggd

A pretty good year in games I didnt struggle to fill this list and there are even a couple of 45s I chose not to include The notable missing item is Clair Obscur as frankly it meant very little to me ...

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Absolutely impeccable narrative analysis. Have I played the game? No, I'm a baby with horror games and nothing aligned for me to watch a friend play. But this is SUPER good.

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Why "Be Grateful" Is Actually Control | Silent Hill f Analysis

YouTube video by Pickle Ditto

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Vic Dimension 20 100 years Vic hell yes I love Vic.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The GenAI stuff is stupid, but also a lot of what's being said is silly. A game does not need to be more ambitious than Baldur's Gate 3. And a game more ambitious than Baldur's Gate 3 cannot be made in 4 years. Especially when moving to a new game engine. Baffling claims. See you in 2030s ,Swen.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Huh, I think this is the best criticism written about TLOU and TLOU2 I've ever seen? Such a good analysis of all aspects of what the games are doing and how those features synthesize with each other. Also, it says a lot that doesn't feel like regurgitating things I've already read scores of times.

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The Last of Us Games Deserve Their Reputation

YouTube video by Whitelight

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

"Wake Up Dead Man" was pretty good.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I think this is maybe the most overly-optimistic cringe thing I've ever written about technology (that wasn't me just reading Hyperion and being hyperbolically hopeful for post-human technology). Sorry, bud, VR isn't that good, lmaooo.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Genuinely one of the better The Game Awards to air, a lot of great trailers for new games, very little genuinely boring/slop AAA gaming content being shown. E33 sweep was very boring to me even if the game is good, it really isn't better than the competition in several categories and barely indie.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment. transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...

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I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human

I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Came across a video I watched 14 years ago. "Money in politics is the root of all political evil." And it's only gotten worse since then. Sigh.

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Guy Just Fucking Lost it on Air

YouTube video by merryfourtwenty

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm 75% through The Art of Reflection. The core mechanic is so abstract and challenging to wrap your head around to the point that I don't think it could ever be popular, but for people who WANT that kind of "I've never had to think like this" puzzle game, it's definitely a unique experience.

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Save 10% on The Art of Reflection on Steam

Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling...

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I knew most of this, doesn't make it hurt any less to hear it all laid out again.

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Greed is Destroying the World

YouTube video by Drew Gooden

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Listening to music when I'm sleeping utterly destroys any usefulness of this, but it's still kinda funny sometimes. #3 listener of Richard Dawson globally, I'll take it for the GOAT.

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Isaiah Everin @signalsandlight.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@backloggd.com best of time, the only game lists that actually matter to me. I don't repeat games on these. It's possible Dispatch will edge out The Alters when I'm done, but I think my heart is in just how unique and surprising The Alters was as a narrative game experience.

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