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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Especially if you played Control! I love how the story played out. Each map moves the plot forward and those big cinematics go deep, without being super explicit (a hallmark of Remedy)

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incredible, if not unrivalled 3D design, from maps to combat. Lots of personality, thanks to lovely side quests and a main story that packs a punch. You can feel it doesn't have the Sam Lake touch, but that makes it fresh. What an "ending" to this Saga. I loved every bit of it.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought I played a lot more than 37h of Control Resonant, given how much fun I'm having. But I have kids, a life, and other games :)

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing shows how selfish and uncivil Americans are than car traffic. Special shoutout to the old Indian lady in a Californian white Tesla who indicates her turns when she's 50% through them.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watching a (recorded) DJ Livestream that was done in freezing temperature and unsurprisingly this happened (but they were prepared): youtu.be/TbloZ8rmux4?...

DJ mixing music in cold environment with the message on screen "Weather induced audio recording device failure status: imminent"

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love that Control Resonant gives me Descent (the 1195 Parallax Software space shooting game) vibes. Guild Wars 2 also gives this with the amazing mounts. Enjoying being lost in a very complex map is a very lovely feeling.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Part 1 was meh but part 2 was amazing so it's exciting news!

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Chron 🇨🇦 @xhp.ca · 30/09/2026

Listen to The Board, folks

The Board from Control says "Support independent/lonely media as they are underfunded/poor yet essential"

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026

Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026

Is the air too clean? Are you spending too little on gas? Boy, do I have a solution for you! bsky.app/profile/lega...

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're usually optional and hidden in a little corner? See the Swift Platform mission in Control

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The solar panels, electric vehicles, EV batteries and wind turbines exported by China in 2025 will avoid annual emissions equal to those of the UK and Portugal combined, according to my new estimates. Avoided emissions increased 30% compared with 2024 exports.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This one hurts. All the devs that were fired and must see this now (I play in a soccer league with some of them :( )

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TIL there's a French live action of the old anime Cat's Eyes. Lucky that it's on Hulu!

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

<Ice Cream/Saxophone/Kitten> I'm in Control :D

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's ok, I'll be staring at this screen for 13 hours

Loading screen of Control Resonant with the main character swinging a hammer and a countdown under it, counting 13 hours

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I acknowledge the subjectivity, because games are art! But, while I agree that reviewers should stick to their role, I think they need to acknowledge the power they have over sales.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What I find baffling is the matching of words to score. A 40 (or 50) means different things to different people. Yet we celebrate an aggregated 90 the same way, or we don't see how an 84 is the result of a few people disliking it.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brighton is always a tricky team for us. They fight hard!

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you like Dev Patel, Welsh folklore movies and have Amazon Prime, watch Rabbit Trap before it's gone soon. That eerie tale was a very enjoyable 80 minutes

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The future of automation is here!

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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 18/09/2026

My eldest girl's 16th birthday is very soon and since we recently played most of the @remedygames.com games this summer together (Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake 2), she wanted an Alan Wake themed cake. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Alan Cake. (Please tell @samlakewrites.bsky.social)

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

15 minutes left in the Manchester derby and there's still a ton of drama potential. Foden's red card at 22 mins, Haaland's goal at 60, Man City is in the driver's seat.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

Australia Bans AI Music From Charts theonion.com/australia-bans-ai-musi…

“Real AI music fans don’t care about the charts. Or the music. Or anything really.”

Maurice Atkins, Tuber Peeler

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been hoping for 6 months now that I could attend my first ABGT at The Gorge but alas it won't happen. Happy to listen to the stream, but sad to know that some of my favorite DJs (Nourey, Amy Wiles, Marsh, Durante) are a few hours away

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very busy September! 15: Guild Wars 2: Code of Creation 24: Magic the Gathering: Reality Fractured pre-release 25: Control Resonant 30: Aion 2

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was very excited last weekend to get my first Hall of Monuments point in over a decade! Excited to get back into Guild Wars Reforged <3

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even cooler: this story I shared with colleagues was prompted by talking to an ex-colleague. He and I shared a hotel room at Paris Games Week 2011, where he told me he wanted to join NASA. I gave him a massive maths book that I used when I was teaching. Look at him 15 years later:

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We all have cool stories to tell, this is one of mine

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Because we american! Although we probably shouldn't

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Favorite moment from PAX in a very long time: a panel from 5 NASA people talking about Artemis 2 and 3. Three of them were communication, one was visualization coder, and there was the lead of the Closeout crew, who got to manage the 3h27m to get the astronauts into Artemis 2.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An hour into PAX (the Summit). Very few masks. I think I saw Wizard of the Coast's Mark Rosewater. All riftbound's products and events are sold out (typical). Are these businesses farming us for money?

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stephanewithane.bsky.social @stephanewithane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When you plan a productive Friday but the day fights back and chooses what you're going to do

Car turning at a highway exit, tires burning, with a sign indicating exit

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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