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Skybrush Threepwood

@skybrush.bsky.social
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I mostly ramble about trivial nerd stuff - or at least I'd like to, but I spend a lot of time hating on AI and bigots and it's funny how often the two overlap, isn't it?

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.
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John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I found a scan of the comic, and the cover is a trace/redraw of the final panel from the first story. Some kid would have bought that comic on the strength of the cover alone, only to realise the ending was spoiled for them.
Scan of a comic on pulpy paper, depicting a man and woman being transformed into centaurs. An ominous silhouette of a unicorn is reared upon a rocky outcropninnthe background.
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Phil @pi8you.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gaming, 2026.
Panels from a manga showing the doomed face of a girl being told "At this point, do you really think we can get our hands on the hardware we need to play that game?" with a smile frozen on her face roughly in a golden spiral of successively smaller panels.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next time I've done a shit job of something, I'm just going to tell people it's too dangerous to show them. The PowerPoint that I threw together last minute could actually pose a risk to humanity at large
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I heard the term ‘meat proxy’ recently, meaning someone who places themself as a human middleman between an employer and genAI, and it is simultaneously a perfect term for the practice, and existentially depressing when you realise how many want to nominate themselves for the role.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do understand what these words actually mean, but just for tonight, I'll convince myself that Jimothy Beast was lowered into a tank full of sharks. For happiness.
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Seantaclaus @seantaclaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 26/09/2026
HEARTBREAKING: Great Video Game Has Terrible HDR Implementation
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. Which is definitely, specifically because the cameras are smart glasses and not because, y'know, they're cameras recording everything. If they're put in a different accessory, people definitely won't hate them" Somehow I don't buy the argument here.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. Which is definitely, specifically because the cameras are smart glasses and not because, y'know, they're cameras recording everything. If they're put in a different accessory, people definitely won't hate them" Somehow I don't buy the argument here.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Colors Live for the Nintendo Switch was an app that came with a stylus you connect via the jack port. It also had a pixel mode, and, once I discovered that it could generate a timelapse at the end, I was pretty hooked for a while
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rewatching @foldablehuman.bsky.social's This Is Financial Advice and struck by the thought that all those memes they use would be AI-generated if it started today. Like, it's almost quaint now that anyone there made the effort to manually slap ape-heads on previously existing memes.
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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
when you find an incredible looking game an you see a no-ai blurb at the end of the description... hell yeah Almost wish steam would make a specific badge for AI-free games now
No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
watched Clueless with my daughter yesterday, and The Matrix highway music popped into my head..
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Black- and Orange-Wrapped Peanut Butter Taffy @pshumate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can’t explain it, but he looks like a @doublefine.com character.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rewatching @foldablehuman.bsky.social's This Is Financial Advice and struck by the thought that all those memes they use would be AI-generated if it started today. Like, it's almost quaint now that anyone there made the effort to manually slap ape-heads on previously existing memes.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bonus entry: Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match doesn't even have enough reviews to get a score, and that's a crime. Find it. Watch it. Is good. Is great!
Rotten tomatoes page for Cage Match. Not enough reviews to qualify a score on either meter.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
whats a movie less than 60% on rotten tomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? like not a bit, genuinely perfect film. If you add up the tomato- and popcorn meters, it's accurate
The 13th Warrior. 33 % Tomatometer, 66 % Popcornmeter.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's kayfabe, not kAIfabe
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Professor Layton fans who are sad that the new game is an AI slopfest: Have you ever played Puzzle Agent? Because you would probably love Puzzle Agent, and it's cheap as fuck on Steam right now.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Colors Live for the Nintendo Switch was an app that came with a stylus you connect via the jack port. It also had a pixel mode, and, once I discovered that it could generate a timelapse at the end, I was pretty hooked for a while
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like generative AI, I can only copy art, but at least I'm honest and also only consume resources on the scale of, y'know, 1 human being
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/09/2026
Went to the Kill Jackie premier last night in London. UNBELIEVABLY FUN :) (Also kind of an earth-shaking, life milestone moment for me personally. 20 years ago I wrote The Gone-Away World having bounced off the film industry pretty hard, and here I am with a show...)
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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
seems like there's a couple of vibecoded painting apps being announced lately.. ..so I just wanted to mention that there's also a new NOT vibecoded painting app being developed, that's awesome already, called @kalapaint.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/kala...
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
whats a movie less than 60% on rotten tomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? like not a bit, genuinely perfect film. If you add up the tomato- and popcorn meters, it's accurate
The 13th Warrior. 33 % Tomatometer, 66 % Popcornmeter.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I say this without exaggeration: I would genuinely rather die than willingly trade away whatever faculties I have. I wouldn't trade it for anything, but especially not for this bullshit-machine. Life has a way of eroding our bodies and minds as it is; I don't intend to give it a fucking assist.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I saw a trailer for a movie called "The Beast" today, where Samuel L. Jackson is the President and foiling an assassination plot by driving a super-car. But what really stuck with me was how they advertised the director. I'm going to present the text in posts below corresponding to how it pops up:
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I saw a trailer for a movie called "The Beast" today, where Samuel L. Jackson is the President and foiling an assassination plot by driving a super-car. But what really stuck with me was how they advertised the director. I'm going to present the text in posts below corresponding to how it pops up:
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I say this without exaggeration: I would genuinely rather die than willingly trade away whatever faculties I have. I wouldn't trade it for anything, but especially not for this bullshit-machine. Life has a way of eroding our bodies and minds as it is; I don't intend to give it a fucking assist.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Man, if you told me in 2005, hell, well into the 2010s, that a new Brad Bird animated sci-fi movie was coming out, I'd be vibrating with excitement. Now it's like "I wonder how this one will seethe at how the exceptional are held back by the ungrateful common masses."
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Man, if you told me in 2005, hell, well into the 2010s, that a new Brad Bird animated sci-fi movie was coming out, I'd be vibrating with excitement. Now it's like "I wonder how this one will seethe at how the exceptional are held back by the ungrateful common masses."
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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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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think my initial reaction to Keeper might be interpreted as faint praise, but I genuinely love it. I guess if I had to sum up my feelings better now, it's that sometimes, the style *is* the substance.
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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What's your "origin" video game? Come on. Come on. You know by now. This fucking vampire was the reason I did my fingers into toilet roll cardboard tubes for me to keep my digits into that three digit claw orientation. My hands now just are Like That today. The writing. The voice acting. Nosgosh.
Cover art for The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.

It features a desolate mountain landscape with in the front a gaunt, skeletal blue ghoul standing on and mounting a stone, looking back over a shoulder. It's Raziel! Musculature, tendons, bone are all visible on his emaciated frame. His arms and legs are bound by leather, his limbs terminating in two claws each and clawed thumbs on the arms. His hair is oily, dark, looking like he's drowned. A scarf of cloth is wrapped around his shoulders and his lower half of his face. His eyes glow with a sickly green half light.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There are as many murderers in this photograph as there are women
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Atrus, man of low moral fiber (pirate) @atrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (2006)
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was already honored to be a voice in their game, but now I’m DOUBLY grateful to have @doublefine.com’s continued support as they unabashedly celebrate our collab! (And please don’t worry. While my success & public joy seem to be upsetting to some, I feel like I’m getting to live my dream life!)
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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There are as many murderers in this photograph as there are women
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I thought "Shit, did someone say some AI shit or something," but then I realized they're talking about Erika Ishii joining the cast of the winning game. "Controversial" for, basically, existing while being queer. Sincerely, Fuck You, @polygon.com, enablers of bigot, fascist narratives.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Replaying Keeper, because I re-bought it for PS5 after Double Fine went re-independent, and it fits well with needing something to take up a small amount of hours throughout this week before Control Resonant comes out. And boy, is it even more gorgeous on a large screen.
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Surprise, Dave! #grickledoodle #horror #dog #alien #scifi #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
A kneeling man holds a dog mask in shock while a small dog with a distorted, alien, human-like head admits he ate the original Rufus years ago and has been impersonating him—a darkly comic reveal. Caption reads "It's true that I did consume the real Rufus many years ago, but you have to admit I've been a good dog in his place, Dave."
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎶 A pirate I was meant to be, Download files and roam the sea 🎶
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A Pirate I Was Meant To Be Monkey Island 3
Alt: Guybrush Threepwood on the deck of a ship, looking very skeptical while staring at his crew do a little sea-shanty-dance.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look, there's a reason for the username and pfp. Although, contrary to the current image, it was really Monkey Island 2 that did it.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is there a good password manager that doesn't fuck with AI? I think I'm dumping Dashlane.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🎶 A pirate I was meant to be, Download files and roam the sea 🎶
static.klipy.com
A Pirate I Was Meant To Be Monkey Island 3
Alt: Guybrush Threepwood on the deck of a ship, looking very skeptical while staring at his crew do a little sea-shanty-dance.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It wasn't due to renew until December, and it wasn't connected to a card that would've expired by then anyway, but it was still worth going in and actively unsubscribing.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm just going ahead and doing this now, so I don't get spoiled on anything. 30 days, because I might be taking my time with it. I'll just be enthusing with @philwbayles.com in DMs instead ;)
Muting Control Resonant on here for 30 days
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is there a good password manager that doesn't fuck with AI? I think I'm dumping Dashlane.
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Skybrush Threepwood @skybrush.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look, there's a reason for the username and pfp. Although, contrary to the current image, it was really Monkey Island 2 that did it.
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