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Incomprehensible Bias @incomprehensibias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Geller news is heartbreaking. Learning of these crimes always is. Rather than listen to a perpetrator, I recommend reading Nathalie Lawhead‘s important account of outing a rapist and games media‘s subsequent betrayal of her bravery. It must have been so heavy to write. Justice for survivors.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing is a cognitohazard. You are just mentally gumptionless.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It looks like it encountered the “please subscribe or allow cookies” pop-up and decided that was the article topic. In a more amusing irony, when I went to sign up to the author’s newsletter, of course I got a picture captcha to do.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This has been sold out since the day after it went on sale. I acknowledge the interest in cashing in on physical media’s sudden prominence but you may want to actually have something to sell.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Staring at my shelf of boxed games then off in to the distance wistfully.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

And you’ve even failed to understand that.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Oh my god you haven’t even read the book, you’re going by the abstract.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’m pretty sure it was published by you hitting “Reply” on a social media app after fundamentally misunderstanding Prof. Jones’ scholarship but go off king.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This take is so bad that it should be engraved on the thousand year monument that looms over the underground facility where they entomb world-endingly bad takes.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’ll give myself a manicure with a hammer before I use the physical CAS Abstracts again though.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This used to be entirely what the web was for, lore-hounds trading their secrets. I find myself increasingly dependent on old-school approaches (indexes, chasing references up to their origin) as time goes on. I’m reminded of Gleick’s “The Digital Attic” essay from the dot-com era.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

(Because this is social media I feel the need to caveat that when I say “game AI” I mean “games in AI” as much as “AI in games”. And I don’t mean that AlphaFold is derivative of AlphaGo, just that they’re fruit of the same creative tree that outcomes-oriented research would not have nurtured.)

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Well, there’s almost certainly no AlphaFold without AlphaGo; Hassabis’ career is pretty much a series of orbits through game AI and biology and back again. We advance our frontiers when people are allowed to apply their talents to their passions.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I particularly miss GamesTM though. It struck a remarkable balance between Edge’s sense of professionalism and the other mags’ variety of authorial voices and sense of fun.

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Probably hard for younger readers (if there are any!) to understand what a golden age for mags that was. Edge & GamesTM for quality content, Gamesmaster for the kids, characterful but tasteful official PS/PS2/Xbox mags, PSM2’s must-have covermount VHS tape of the MGS2 trailer…

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Alex W. @sockatume.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I have a soft spot for Extermination. It made a stumbling attempt at almost everything Resident Evil 4 would eventually do perfectly - weapon customisation, over the shoulder aiming, a then-novel contextual action button. I think I cleared it four times.

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