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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 4h

I'm glad so many people like how the mittens are coming out but just wait until you can actually see the kitty cat it's going to be SOOOO CUTE

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 5h

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 6h

It was my first time doing them and I was convinced I didn't do a good job, so this compliment means so much to me!! thank you ❤️🙏🏻

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18h

I also started on some mittens for the first time for a friend! These are Florence Miller's Kitten Catch Mittens knitted with Knit Picks Pallette in Silver and Ash using recommended sized needles :) Been a ton of fun so far! #craft #knitsky

The back side of some partially knitted gray mittens.

The palm side of some partially knitted gray mittens.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18h

I'm quite laggardly with my #craft updates and this photo isn't even the most up to date, but I've completed the torso and just have the sleeves left 🥳

A blue and white sweater with swords on it.

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Celesse ✿ @celesse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Witch's Garden 🌱✨ #art #Drawtober #cats

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Okay but for real this time ♥️「 twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 」

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Peach @voidpeaches.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

doing some soulstober drawings again this year! 🧡🎀

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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only slight changes on our second week back in the saddle ☺️ I'll do my best to be on a little earlier tomorrow; we will be streaming longer to make up for last week + as mentioned on stream, our Friday is pushed to Saturday due to D&D 😝 can't wait to see y'all again ❤️

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

「 streams week of 10/4-10/10 」 🕯️ twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 🕯️ ✶ Monday 10/05 ✶ ✧ 1:00PM PDT ✧ 🔻CONTROL Resonant ✶ Saturday 10/10 ✶ ✧ 7:00PM PDT ✧ 🔧 SILENT HILL: Townfall

A graphic depicting Steph's streaming schedule. It states October 2026, all times PDT. The two streams listed are CONTROL Resonant on Monday October 4th and SILENT HILL: Townfall on Saturday, October 10th. Streams are available on twitch.tv/stephanie_stone.

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Nath @headwaregames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here, a perfect example of what I mean from today's run of RE2 Claire B. Notice how zombie placement, reaction speed, turn speed and movement speed are all dialed in to match the player's traversal limitations. There's incredible depth here that did not happen by accident.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

guess who's back again :) ♥️「 twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 」

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 29/09/2026

Curry Barker's next film ‘ANYTHING BUT GHOSTS’ releases on May 7, 2027 in theaters. • Follows 2 con artists whose fake ghost hunting business spirals out of control after encountering a real ghost • Starring Curry Barker, Cooper Tomlinson, Aaron Paul & Bryce Dallas Howard

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Took my MIL out for her birthday on Sunday to a little Oktoberfest celebration :) Really liked my outfit for the day - now that it's sweater weather, I've finally had the opportunity to wear this knit out. #ooc

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are so sweet!! thank you so much :)

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For real haha but it did that weird PlayStation thing where it downloaded like, 10GB so I could boot up but left the other however much GB to slow install - so I got like 5min in before it told me I needed to download the whole thing to continue. I just wish it did that in the first place LOL

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stream was shorter than I'd like since I didn't completely download CONTROL (oops) but I will be back on Friday and I am very much looking forward to it!

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh yeah, we are so back :) ♥️「 twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 」

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𝖔𝖝𝖈𝖔𝖝𝖆 ✨🔜 Roundhouse | Evo France | Youmacon @oxcoxa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) 🤍 I will try her in Street Fighter 6 next year ☺️

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So much has happened in my life in the past 6 months y'all - I have a lot to talk about, and I would love to reconnect and hear how y'all have been!

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been 6 months since I've posted one of these... but I am coming back from my hiatus next week ❤️ 「 streams week of 09/27-10/03 」 🕯️ twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 🕯️ ✶ Monday 09/28 ✶ ✧ 1:00PM PDT ✧ 🔻CONTROL Resonant ✶ Friday 10/02 ✶ ✧ 7:00PM PDT ✧ 🔧 SILENT HILL: Townfall

A graphic depicting Steph's streaming schedule. It states September and October 2026, all times PDT. The two streams listed are CONTROL Resonant on Monday September 28th and SILENT HILL: Townfall on Friday, October 2nd. Streams are available on twitch.tv/stephanie_stone.

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 23/09/2026

Berlin and London have been graced with murals of the Artist, one of the Resonants you will face as Dylan Faden in CONTROL Resonant. Watch how we made her come to life! CONTROL Resonant releases tomorrow, September 24th. #CONTROLResonant

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Juby @jubyart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wanna watch the new Madoka movie #art

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jtav4.bsky.social @jtav4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

A forested region of the crater rim slopes down to the lake. One of the tree trunks hosts some moss. In the lake the Phantom Ship rock outcrop rises from the water. The sky is mostly cloudy with a streak of blue running through it.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Didn't mean to take a 6mo break from this #craft project, but I had a particularly busy summer! Picked this up again last Friday and we are at 127/900 I believe :) Really love how it's turning out ❤️ #knitsky

A work in progress photo of a scarf with a dragon motif.

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#craft update ❤️ I believe I started this nearly two years ago for my MIL, and at my husband's suggestion I've finally finished it for her birthday this year 🌻 She had loved mine, so I'm very glad to make one for her. Fun fact: this pattern is what started my crochet > knitting pipeline 🧶

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

XBOX and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS Expand Partnership to Publish PHYSINT news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gossip-godlings: Extroverted deities so addicted to human drama, they pivoted to govern over secrets, scandals and stories.

Southeast Asian Fantasy: 4 adventurers hover over a bronze statue, statue is talking to them.
Text below: "So I told her, I said, girl, these offerings ain't nowhere near enough to tell you where the ruby is." - Gossip-godling Sanba.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there's a lot of nuance to the situation, but I think other devs may see that if they make a good enough game and apologize later, they would be forgiven also when they should never have touched it in the first place. It just feels safer to look at older games when it was never an option 🥲

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah... it feels incredibly demoralizing. I'm in the same boat but I feel wary. I enjoyed E33 and then found they had used AI at one point. It's not in the game and they realized their mistake, but it feels like I can't trust devs to not use it. Many people were quick to overlook their mistake and

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pattern is Sweater of Swords by Dear Ingenue, made with DROPS Flora (I'm pretty sure), though I don't quite remember the colors. I really like this yarn! And it's been very easy to knit :) Many of my projects ATM are all just fingering weight though and I crave variety.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Long time no #craft update, but it's been a very busy and very social summer! I started this before summer, but I haven't been able to dig in until recently. This photo is outdated as well - the sleeves are separated and I'm working on the torso decreases now.

A navy and white knitted sweater in progress. Crescent moons and swords encircle the neckline.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel largely disillusioned by games lately because of AI. does anyone else feel this way?

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

somehow I'm not particularly jazzed by all the Switch 2 game offers. I was talking with my dnd group about it and I think the only thing that would truly make me cave is if Twilight Princess got the OoT remake treatment tbh 🤔

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thanks so much KJ!! one of the games I'm hoping to play is Dispatch :') I hope you've been well!!

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