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he/him/his, pakeha, former yank programmer, mostly games genAI should not exist

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Collie Cariad @colliecariad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seeing the ease and beauty of farm to table game development behind the bars of my industrial Jira hell.
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026
i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Christ, Resident Evil is such a fucking good time at the movies. Funny but not insistent on it, knows how to do terror and horror. Bloody, meaty, boney, but it isn't fascinated with gore. The protagonist is radiating little brother energy in the best way.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is, as far as I can tell, the only use of an em-dash by Reuters in its entire posting history on bsky. Their standard for this would be to either break the headline into two sentences, or use a semicolon, or a normal hyphen. The em-dash is being deliberately deployed here.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 17/09/2026
boring people should be exposed to ideas and art that make them uncomfortable only when someone becomes some sort of esoteric pervert, are they really complete to ignore the libidinal is to be half a person
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rush the stage. He's right there.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's art that people who aren't in the space have trouble seeing as such, much like poetry, noise music, and dada
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Man, Luxon has really mistaken ignorance for power hasn't he
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Silence is a side.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Eating several windmills and flock of sheep
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A donkey man yells at a fleeing trans woman with a black eye “bitch you better not leave! What are you going to live in the streets and vote for nobody? You’ll regret this! I’LL SEE YOU IN THE CAMPS, BITCH!”

Tag line “Vote Blue no matter how many times he hits you”
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Green Country Collective @gsustulsa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Darius
2h.

I got fired from AMC because whenever
someone ordered a small popcorn, I'd
"accidentally" fill up a large bucket and tell
them we ran out of smalls.

Now I work at McDonald's, and you better
believe you order a 6 piece, you're getting
8 or 9 nuggets. Order a 10 piece? There are
at least 13 in that box.

l'll keep doing this sh*t until the day I die.
F_ck these giant corporations. I'm here for
the people.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sitting in the airport hearing someone loudly brag about using chatGPT to do something and it is really clear that they are very proud of themselves and the person they are talking to is not
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hcnone | WISHLIST Endless Monday In Progress @hcnone.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Cirno Day
Cirno Touhou Project holding a letter of resignation and remarking that "truly, there has never been a better time to quit my job to enter the lucrative field of game development."
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Coyote v Acme was worth the fight to get it released, especially now, in the enshittification A/B testing metricshead era
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE TOKENS, ROB?
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Technical debt is embarrassing. It's not a necessary cost of doing business, it's a side effect of not having the time to do your job properly, or deciding not to finish. It's a stain. These agent dipshits do not understand this, they just think that whatever the agent does is good enough.
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eevee @eev.ee · 05/09/2026
i think it's good if people care about what they're doing
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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A duck walking on the small road near water, beak open. Text reads Let them be wrong.
Peace is realising you do not have to attend every argument you are invited to.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Omega Mart is the coolest thing that exists
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/09/2026
The quotable Tarn Adams: "It just reminds me of like a fucking Dead Kennedys song or something."
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Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this wave of AI has legitimately killed a huge part of what I loved about seeing stuff online, what I loved about being an educator, and what I loved about sharing my own work I just don't feel like doing it anymore
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The entire point of civilization is that suffering does not have to be hereditary. Your parents’ misery is not a debt subsequent generations owe them, it is information that tells us where the world failed them, so that we may build one that fails fewer people.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it's honestly brutal living in a world where people who pushed NFTs were allowed to just move on from that. they didn't even get less smug!!
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caburezinha @lilowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
essa o bsky vai gostar
meme
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If your article is paywalled, you cannot get mad about people responding to the headline and free portion, and not the body of the text. This obvious rage bait from someone whose position cannot actually be maintained. Video games are toys. Some toys are different to others.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A huge aspect of this is, you do not need to tell people about your AI use. People don't need to know, in replies or main. It's the equivalent of coming into a room and hearing women complaining about men, and then whining because they didn't want you to explain some "not all men" shit to them.
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 18/08/2026
🚧 *Taps sign* 👀
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Okay at this point, what evidence is there to suggest that Jeffries not a Republican plant?
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As someone who is really into some freak media, the idea that people only engage with stuff they agree with- morally, ethically, etc- fills me with horror.
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think about this at least a dozen times a day.
people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.
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Violet Voltage @tiltctrl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Recently learned about this scene from a British Anti-Bullying PSA. Idk why my British moots were hiding this from me bc this is peak reaction gif material.
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Ur Willy is Rubbish
Alt: Animated school boy is running fast down the street. He pulls out his phone and he receives a text from his bully that says "ur willy is rubbish". The boy looks up and sees the spirit of his bully grimace behind him as he continues to run.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Okay folks, keep leftists winning and we'll keep getting concessions like this this is the behaviour of a party that is broke, scared, and finally noticing that it is unwanted keep up the pressure
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"what if the human desire for self determination was actually kind of like a horny teenage boy having a stupid tantrum" "what if the thoughts in your head were monsters, would you fight them or would they fight each other" "have you considered how short a human life truly is"
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A lot of folks think that games are solid food and that content in one part doesn't affect the rest of it, but they're not. They're stews; every ingredient soaks its flavour into every other part. And AI is a wet turd.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of the best moments in Discworld is the description of Bluejohn, a gigantic troll who has become extremely, consciously gentle and non-combative after a life of "if I move wrong someone gets badly hurt." Big guys have bodies that hurt people if they're not careful.
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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Games programming is about ten times harder than programming for any other product, audience or service
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lucy @lycanlucy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
text that says "i dont want to be strong anymore i want nice things to happen to me for free" over a crusty image of a rat from super mario 3d world
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Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every day I'm more vindicated than the last. They were sending me death threats for this.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A lot of people are saying they expect Chris Bishop to emerge from this meeting as head of the party, but that's impossible as he can only attack diagonally
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, each Shine Sprite can be collected twice because the icon of it appearing is not merely visual, but literally another Shine Sprite. This provides a cautionary tale to developers about never implementing a visual effect as a copy of the object itself.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 11/08/2026
totally forgot I made a game adaptation of waiting for godot www.beesgo.biz/games/wfg/in...
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Waiting for Godot The Game
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN
ITS FINE TO LAUGH AT SOMEONE WHO THINK'S A MARKOV CHAT BOT IS SUPER INTELLIGENT, ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF THE TENDENCY TO OFF LOAD ANY CRITICAL THINKING ONTO AN APP THAT IS GENERATING TEXT WITH NO INHERENT MEANING, ITS ACCEPTABLE TO FIND IT HUMOROUS THAT AN ENTIRE SEGMENT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT A SET OF D&D DICE REPLACES A SEARCH ENGINE, ITS ONE OF THE NICEST WAYS TO HANDLE THE SITUATION, THE WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE DEVISED A WAY TO FORCE EVERY SKILLED WORKER OUT OF EMPLOYMENT AND TURN ALL ART INTO UNIFORM SLOP AND IF WE CAN LAUGH AT THEIR COLLABORATORS AT LEAST WE GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE DEAL - DA TEXT SAYS "ITS OK TO MAKE FUN OF AI USERS, THERE NOT ABLE TO READ WHAT YOU TYPED ANYWAY" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
—and that's why the AI bubble is imminently about to burst. But you know what isn't going to burst? Our sponsor, GriftAI. They're different for some reason.
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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
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