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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 10h

They found the Mama Celeste floating adrift with no trace of its crew…

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 5h

This time there's a whole bunch of him!

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 10h

Damnit, Pablo! Now I have to connect my laptop to the classroom's HDM-Die connector.

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Vee Hendro @veehendro.bsky.social · 21h

One day left! Our last stretch goal is to develop Solo Society, a one player game mode.

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Adding Vivid Factbox to my list of NPC names.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THE MONKEY KING'S MANY FACES Just a quick run-through of the many, many shapes Hanuman / Sun Wu Kong takes, around the world, in Southeast Asia---and also a stealth announcement that I will have a new adventure out at the end of the year: slowlorispress.com/post/8295484...

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I always heard "We're cool. Ah, Christ." Like "Oh no, we're cool."

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Go Bag RPG Podcast @gobagpod.com · 04/10/2026

Every GO BAG should have a mini notebook.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Random career tidbits: I have two out-of-print published games (won't say which) that went from initial concept meeting to "files to the printer" in less than a week. Quarriors was turned down by 5 publishers before Wizkids took it. I've still designed more TCG content than any other type of game

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

When Earth burned, black people and anyone desiring freedom left for the stars. Pilot soulships to find new homes and travel the universe in Black Future: Emancipation of Stars by Quinn Murphy, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...

Black Future: Emancipation of Stars from the Griot Anthology from Thoughtcrime Games.

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

This bundle is 🔥 Play games and support Child's Play!

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ready to share your game with the world? Why not do it in the Day of the Devs Digital Showcase--Game Awards edition! You'll be in great company!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watched that Backrooms motion picture last night. Very good. Obsession was also excellent. If this is the kind of cinema the crazy kids today with their hula hoops and fax machines are giving us, I’m not going to yell at them to get off my lawn, I will instead welcome them with lemonade and cookies.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026

I strongly believe documentaries should present archival news reports, newsreels, and any other found footage in their original aspect ratios. Stop cropping!

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I enjoyed Resident Evil! I think Bryan is a worthy addition to this pantheon.

Ash from Evil Dead 2, Jack Burton from Big Troble in Little China, and Bryan from Resident Evil.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know I read, and enjoyed, this script back in, like, 2001, at ILM, but my memory of it is fuzzy. That will let me see it fresh, which is good. I'm a bit wary of the Skydance of it all, however.

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Logan Dean @logandean.games · 22/09/2026

they should make a way out that isn’t through

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People ask “Do you still play Don’t Let’s Start?” And the answer is YES.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

George Lucas Frantically Hosing Wasp Nest Out Of R2-D2 Before Museum Opening theonion.com/george-lucas-frantical…

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Agree! Seems like we should do everything we can to stop media companies from being controlled by his cronies!

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's almost as if Amazon buying it was the beginning of the end for its usefulness. RIP search by aspect ratio.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since some people apparently have "lives" & "families" & "friends" and so didn't spend the weekend smearing germs around a little screen & missed it, we've extended our DriveThruRPG flash sale for another 24 hours with all issues, including our latest, 1/2 price www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

a clever person, or at least their disembodied hand holding an iPad that is displaying the bold, bright and rather amazing cover to Wyrd Science issue 8 by Tom J Newell

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pray they don’t alter it any further…

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/09/2026

"I can always spot 'CGI'" - - - - - - - - - toupee fallacy

The crowd thing is a true epidemic. I have not seen one example of a CGI crowd that works. GET IT OUT OF YOUR MOVIE! If it's in your treatment, write another scene

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lots of the knock-off movies and shows it spawned were good!

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Tad Leckman @tadleckman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I *really* enjoyed In a Violent Nature, but it is, like Bone Tomahawk, not a movie that I can recommend to just anyone. But, if you like classic slasher movies, and are ok with gore, it's really great. I'm excited to hear there is a sequel!

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would much rather look at a YouTube thumbnail from a photoshop amateur than an AI one. Hell, my immediate distaste for AI thumbnails only encourages me to never improve my crappy Photoshop skills. I already get enough grief from bozos who accuse my poorly photo-chopped images of being AI slop.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 16/09/2026

"It's based on the style of Leni Riefenstahl," says Verhoeven after President Trump posted a gen-AI mockup of his Starship Trooper-inspired Space Force uniforms. www.avclub.com/paul-verhoev...

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Paul Verhoeven reiterates his Starship Troopers are Nazis

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We should start calling these Cronenburgers

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