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If you haven’t played this lovely gem of a game, ya really should. One of my favorite indie games of all time. Such fun gameplay, gorgeous art, charming storytelling… go play!

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2h

Just saw it again. Loved it just as much. I need this thing on Blu-ray with commentary STAT.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is easily my most anticipated game this year and hoooooly cow it looks like they pulled it off

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Holy shit that was my favorite movie I’ve seen in a long time holy shit

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning

a black cat lounging with a cocktail
"I have once again decided to be difficult"

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Playing Guacamelee! by @drinkboxstudios.com for the first time, and this game is charming as all heck!

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hey wouldn’t it be hilarious if we all pretended like i was a synth/drum machine influencer so companies would send me free gear to review? Haha jk jk jk Unless

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know nothing about Deadlock but I have just learned there’s an undead skeleton in an old-timey pilot getup with a steampunk jetpack AND MUSTACHE and do I need to play Deadlock??

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While some scenes were let down by shaky VFX, ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ was a very charming movie with a wonderfully sincere and heartwarming tone. I wish there were more traditionally-animated characters, but Will Forte and John Cena are both perfect human foils to the toons.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just read the Krakoa era “Giant Size Fantomex” for the first time and holy shit that Rod Reis art is STUNNING

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congrats to the CONTROL Resonant team on getting this wild beast across the finish line and into the hands of the people.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is what would have been the 90th birthday of one of my biggest heroes, Jim Henson. His spirit, creativity, and massive heart continue to reverberate as an enormous inspirations decades after he’s gone.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Episodes 4 and 5 of Lanterns had me a little worried but episode 6 has got me right back on board, baby. LANTERNS.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Having a little “Changing of the Guard” moment this morning at Casa di Stirpē

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 22/09/2026

Thank you for your support and over 2 million wishlists for CONTROL Resonant! Altered Manhattan awaits. Pre-order bonuses are still available! #CONTROLResonant

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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite superhero costumes of all time is Bobby Drake’s 2001 outfit in his 4 issue miniseries and I can barely find proof it exists outside of the covers.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I find this stuff fascinating; this is basically the animation world's equivalent of how pixel art games were designed to be played on glass tube TVs. The "imperfections" created in the process of publishing the work are part of the planned end product.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A fan on Tumblr pointed out to me that this weekend marked *ten years* since the finale of Minecraft: Story Mode Season 1; how crazy is that?

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh! Another game I got to help out on also launched in Early Access this month! TYR is a fun and stylish tank combat game more focused on strategy than twitchy reflexes with some deliciously engineered greebly machines. youtu.be/A5W65B-8fdM?...

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Tyr Launch Trailer | Official

YouTube video by Tyr

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve had the pleasure of contributing to this video game over the last few years and can attest that the team has been cooking something seriously special. If you love fantasy stories, tabletop gaming, or just staring at gorgeous minis and diaromas, go check it out!

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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?

GDT:

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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Charles Harte @chuckduck365.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Soubds like Xbox is doing what Sony Physint

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Back when I was developing and writing movies for Chinese animation companies, one of the reps told me that if China's leader identify a way to be the best at something AND make other countries look bad simultaneously they will throw ungodly amounts of resources behind it.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Have you ever watched video of Clara Rockmore playing the theremin? She was a violinist born in 1911 who is arguably the greatest theremin player of all time and the sounds she manages to pull out of it are so beautiful and otherworldly. youtu.be/XdFSU8sn3mo

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Clara Rockmore | The Swan

YouTube video by Moog Music

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

brettcodes.com

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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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of my favorite little internet gems for finding new music is radio.garden - A fun way of exploring live radio stations around the globe. Give it a spin, take a listen. You never know what you'll find.

radio.garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This "battle damaged" figure of KING JOE (a recurring Ultraman villain originating back in the late '60s) is maybe the perfect harmony of "charmingly dorky" and "legitimately badass".

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Don’t mind me. Just sobbing while I read this two page spread in my son’s Dog Man comic.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

God 1970s Bang & Olufsen design was on another level. Look at this hifi setup.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Criterion's K-POP DEMON HUNTERS release is targeting a generation just discovering the wonders of collecting physical media at a time when physical media companies need it most, while also introducing their catalogue to young movie lovers. This is a genius move. Get the kids into Criterion!

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Lanterns doesn’t premiere and unlock on HBO Max until 4am my time 😭

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Someone was parallel-parking their Tesla outside of our apartment last night and the constant sound of the engine revving up and down sounded like the wailing of a haunted hard drive. What an annoying vehicle.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

god I want to make a game with this vibe someday

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Tove Jansson. Born on this day in 1914.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh wow oh wow I love me a newsroom thriller and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one made in a game before??

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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 22/07/2026

Our debut game OFFBEAT is OUT NOW in early access! OFFBEAT is a music-tycoon game where you build the recording studio of your dreams. Collect and upgrade increasingly strange musical objects, complete jobs for cash, and record real, actual music! store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/... #indiegame

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Spent the last day of vacation in the woods. Not a bad way to do it. Tomorrow is my first day of work after six weeks; I don’t think I’ve taken such a long break since my university days.

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