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T E Bakutis

@tebakutis.bsky.social
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(he/him) Author and freelance game designer. My scifi trilogies are published by aethonbooks.com, and you can read more about them at www.tebakutis.com.

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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After 18 years, as of 5pm EST today, I am no longer employed by Zenimax Online Studios. Over almost two decades I contributed to the game's content, both in pre-production and expansions. The team at ZOS, both those still there and those laid off, were brilliant. It was an honor to work with them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After getting fixed, this big doofus has already Houdini'd his way out of one cone of shame and now I need to go get him another because he chewed it up. He is way too smart and determined to rip his stitches out.
A beagle puppy wearing a plastic cone.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
Nivalis Nights is now available on Steam! "Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing, maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds." By the makers of Cloudpunk (2020) 💪
Nivalis Nights
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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Book hype! Once upon a time, I joined the military. It sucked. I liked sci-fi and I realized most military sci-fi is about leaders and hotshots. It's rarely about the guy at the bottom who never accepts the military life. So I wrote it. It's punchy, it's real, and it's fun. tinyurl.com/35cwwasu
Cover for Poor Man's Fight by Elliott Kay.
Art by Lee Moyer.
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me and my perspective grid against the world
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
what percentage of supposed 'centrist' goofs who long ago accused folks of TROMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME will ever actually address their own misread? address that actually everyone who said it would be very bad was not 'deranged', but much more in tune than they were. i have yet to see it happen once
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure, the Dems will ask a bunch of funny questions and get some zingers in that make great Bluesky and X clips. Then after that this unqualified sycophant will get the post anyway, just like all the others. I could take these Q&A sessions more seriously if they actually disqualified these people.
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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 22/09/2026
The only advice I give anymore when it comes to longevity in the video game industry is “never go public, and never sell.” If you go public, the shareholders and MBAs will rot you from the inside. If you sell, they’ll throw you out with the gypsum once they’ve stripped the copper out of the walls.
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Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com · 22/09/2026
i know something's happened whenever this starts popping off again
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Go read a book. Watch your favorite comfort show. Eat a thing that tastes good. This is not about avoiding the horrors or sticking your head in the sand. It’s about protecting yourself from being tormented so constantly that you can’t make level headed decisions.
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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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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Crunch is bullshit and typically a sign of poor planning and/or a failure to address issues early. Indies, co-ops and employee-owned studios notwithstanding. Somehow, I'll manage to survive spending time with my family even if I sacrifice the opportunity to make millions for Tencent.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 14/09/2026
🎮🚨 New stick steering control options on main! 🎮🚨 Drive like a monster with the Dpad or tank controls on the stick, we won't judge you. This and more awaits you. Check out the patch notes for our latest update for the demo on GOG and Steam.
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity - Patch Notes 6484 - September 14, 2026 - Steam News
Patch notes for the new build.
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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are tired of posting statements like these.
Today was an awful day at IGN. We were blindsided by the layoff of four union members and many more people across the organization who contributed years of their careers to making IGN an unparalleled voice in games and entertainment. 

With each successive layoff, core parts of IGN’s operation continue to be stripped away. Today, IGN has decided to do away with many of our talented producers, editors, hosts, and other crucial roles, both within and out of the union. How many layoffs will occur before we no longer recognize the company we work for and the content that we make? 


While we recognize the challenges the media industry is facing as a whole, it is difficult to understand how laying off valuable employees better positions us to meet those challenges. In turn, remaining employees bear additional workloads worsened by anxiety over the ever-looming threat of another layoff.

We are devastated, angry, and heartbroken for our colleagues.
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Game doesn't sell? Layoffs. Game DOES sell? Layoffs. Bad game, layoffs. Great game? Layoffs still. We lay them off and then hire new people to make the sequel. Your team is not efficient? Layoffs, right away! Straight to layoffs. Your team is TOO efficient? Believe it or not, also layoffs.
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Billy put decades of his life into a career in game development. Now, he questions if he can continue to weather an industry that is becoming increasingly hostile to its workers. Follow the link in our bio to demand better of employers like Microsoft and #SaveGameWorkers.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
First thing the Blizzcon attendees see as they join the queue for this year’s show.
The Blizzard union stall set up outside of Blizzcon 2026A sign reading “Unionized Blizzard Gamemakers. We make the games!”
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Consider the trope of an “AI escaping containment” and distributing itself across lots of computers around the world. VRAM moves data incredibly quickly; replacing that with bottlenecked distributed computing would slow things down by orders of magnitude. There are reasons they need data centers.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026
REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Totally awesome to hear this is running in Godot! It's such a well-designed game engine.
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If companies like Patreon and Android would stop changing their entire effing interface with every update that would be great, thanks. Just moving buttons around randomly doesn't improve usability.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026
"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful"
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/09/2026
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The official sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters releases its free demo today
Blast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again.
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The 40 hour work week. Compensation for overtime. The right to organize and strike. These were not inherent rights given to all in the US and Canada. They were fought for by the courageous workers who came before us. On Labor Day, we remember how far we've come, as well as our fight left ahead.
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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
WANDERING MONSTERS is moving to Royal Road—and Patreon, where advance chapters are going up today! I can't think of a better time than Labor Day to kick off a story that is, at its heart, a labor revolt. Chapters 1-2 are FREE on Patreon now! www.patreon.com/elliottkay/p...
Cover for WANDERING MONSTERS: RUN LIKE HELL.
Scars of No-Clan and DigDig flee from a pack of "heroic" adventures, driving them deeper into the dungeon.
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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I also did a narrative/fiction pass on the new ability/passive names and mastery flavor text (for Warden and all the refreshed classes).
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Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 04/09/2026
Saw this quote elsewhere: "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." That just hits the nail on the head, doesn't it? 
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ZOS United-CWA @zosunited.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You may have heard ESO’s great-looking Warden Refresh got delayed. You may not have heard who was among those bringing it to life. Christina Cornett, Senior Concept Artist, worked on the storyboards, and Vincent Wong, Senior Animator, worked on the animations. Microsoft laid them off on July 6
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T E Bakutis @tebakutis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Speaking of Godot, if you haven't tried to use it yet to make games yet, this tutorial was super useful and well done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhf...
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How to make a Video Game - Godot Beginner Tutorial
YouTube video by Brackeys
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 03/09/2026
10 years in Unreal has been fun (love me some Blueprint), but I think I might officially be a Godot convert for all my own stuff from here on out. Really impressed with it, love that it's open source, really just seems like the Blender of game engines (adulatory)
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Devs like Marie want to make great games. But with the sword of layoffs poised over our heads, we are forced to split our attention between our work and the campaign to save our industry. #SaveGameWorkers by going to the link in our bio and telling Microsoft to take bargaining seriously.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 31/08/2026
🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨  Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 www.dfaf2026.com
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Klanky @k1anky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Trailer. Launch fighters! youtu.be/77mN4GV2hxE
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Trailer
YouTube video by Pistol Shrimp Games
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 01/09/2026
80% of Bitreactor being furloughed after releasing a 10/10 Star Wars game just reinforces the belief that the games industry is moving extremely fast towards fixed-term gig work - the notion of full-time employment or a 'career' with a studio is dying fast. And yet, they still want you onsite...
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our union in the news today! From The Guardian, read interviews from our members on the impact of XBOX's mass lay-offs. With 1,600 more to come, we must act now to protect the future of the games industry. Read more: tinyurl.com/2p9m32f5
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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com · 31/08/2026
"There were days where I didn't see my son the whole day; multiple days of that that I sacrificed to get this out the door at the level of quality." EXCLUSIVE—DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations Faced ‘Worst Crunch’ in Franchise History insider-gaming.com/doom-the-dar...
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EXCLUSIVE---DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations Faced ‘Worst Crunch’ in Franchise History
DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations faced brutal crunch, with developers working up to 80-hour weeks to finish the expansion before release.
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Developers like Ruben care about making games players can enjoy for years and improving with every update and future release. You can support devs like Ruben by using the link in our bio to #SaveGameWorkers.
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carmen rd. 🏳️‍🌈 art commissions open @lucie-raoux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gwendis, inked headshot The Elder Scrolls fanart, glazed image 🔁 · 💙 · follow appreciated, thank you :) #lucieraouxartwork #ElderScrollsOnline #ESO #ESOfam #TES #vampire #bosmer #art 3/
the elder scrolls fanart of gwendis; inked headshot.
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Even with over 17 years of experience in AAA games, Kitty was laid off on July 6th. Making profitable games doesn’t spare developers from mass lay-offs; only fighting for their protections will. Help us #SaveGameWorkers by going to the link in our bio and tell Microsoft to stop killing our games.
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 27/08/2026
Star Wars Zero Company is out today. A labor of love for a galaxy far, far away. Please enjoy it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Last week, hundreds of CWA members, video game workers, community organizations, and local labor allies held Save Our Devs rallies in the U.S. and Canada to call out layoffs and corporate greed across the industry and to demand fair first contracts across Microsoft’s gaming studios!
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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When you get lay off devs who care about the games they make, you tear out a studio's heart. Stephanie was part of that heart, loving the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises. We won't let corporations destroy us from the inside out. Join us to #SaveGameWorkers by going to the link in our bio!
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