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Zack Zwiezen @zackzwiezen.com · 19h
Seeing online chuds get mad about E-Day having women soldiers/commanders has been so funny. It reveals instantly to me they either are full of shit (likely) or haven't played past games (also likely). Women have been barking orders at dudes, killing Locust, and kicking ass since the 360 era.
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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
7. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hear, goddamn hear.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a generational book. It will like on forever as a starter Bat book along with Year One and Dark Knight Returns
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope you all are having fun working on your favorite projects
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my ps5 pro has been randomly turning on for days and i was getting kinda stressed because they’re very expensive to replace now but it turns out that this criminal has decided that the cables/old peripherals/misc. bin in the closet is her new bed and she was turning it on via a spare controller
a fluffy white and gray tabby cat perched up on a man’s seated thigh exposing her chin and neck for scratchessame cat now flopped chin-down on the man’s leg for back of neck scratches
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
The locust aren’t the only monsters in Xbox's thrilling 'Gears of War: E-Day.' Read our review!
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'Gears of War: E-Day' Review: An Adrenaline Rush of a Prequel
The gameplay doesn't break the mold, but it's a finely tuned experience that builds on the mechanics established across the series.
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Ryan Aston @theryanaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I adored GEARS OF WAR: E-DAY, one of the best big budget games of the year. This is a spectacular entry in the series that builds on the gameplay, looks INCREDIBLE, and boasts some meat on the bone when it comes to the narrative and ideas below the surface. www.slantmagazine.com/games/gears-...
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'Gears of War: E-Day' Review: An Adrenaline Rush of a Prequel
The gameplay doesn't break the mold, but it's a finely tuned experience that builds on the mechanics established across the series.
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is such a shitty practice, treating games as product and game critics as objective product evaluators rather than as actual critics engaging with a creative work.
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm sorry, "Metacritic bonuses" are still a thing?! They should never be a thing! If I play your game and review it and it didn't work for me and I don't think it's good, that doesn't mean the people who made it should get paid any less!
As well as having the life-changing impact of losing a job, imminent layoffs at The Coalition could also lead to another financial loss for current employees. According to Eurogamer, E-Day developers were working under the assumption of receiving a so-called “Metacritic bonus,” a pay-out should the game achieve a given Metacritic score based on critics’ reviews. However, according to the terms, to be eligible for this you still have to be working at the company at the time of the pay-out, which is expected to be “near the end of October.” Anyone let go before that could possibly no longer receive the reward for their work.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
Alt: Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for
Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"
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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cartoonists have known this for a while
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cast Alan Ritchson as Doctor Who
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2026
probably something like "racist imagery we can semi plausibly deny will temporarily lose xx liberal market share that will recover as people forget/forgive but gain us xxx conservative market share from people who will always remember and pass that knowledge on"
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2026
re the KKKonverse ad, shit like that is never an accident and sharing the image is promotion even if your intent is to roast I'm not an advertiser so I don't know the calculation, but clearly there is one the way these "mishaps" keep happening
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not an actor. Not a woman. Not an interview. Not a journalist. Not a denial. Not an AI 'malfunction', but a persistent nonsense-feature. Other than that, hot story, guys.
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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The real risk of AI destroying the world is through some bullshit like this honestly
Tweet from Zachary Cohen CNN


NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. 

But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this is what wargames is about
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s actually a doctor Every episode takes place across a real hour in an emergency room and the season spans one day in the life of the doctor. He works in Pittsburgh and colloquially people call the hospital he works in The Pitt. The camera will never step outside eye level so it will feel like—
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T1J @the1janitor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it seems a lot of people think that beating up rihanna is the only shitty thing chris brown has ever done. he in fact has a timeline of violence and abuse that extends literally to present day. support his work if you want but be aware that he is the furthest thing from reformed lol
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Ryan Aston @theryanaston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Took my partner's kids to the stupid new Paw Patrol film. They're at that special age where they ask a lot of questions (37 and 34) like "Why did you take us to a children's movie?!" and "What kind of scam are you trying to pull on our mother??" Children, children, please. I really, really like her
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 29/08/2024
X Files had the greatest photo shoots in the history of broadcast television
Gillian Anderson licking David Duchovny's face while he deadpans the camera
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Ryan Aston @theryanaston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA
youtu.be
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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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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Niv M. Sultan @nivmsultan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
in a Zelda mood, so I will now say that the final sequence/cutscene of TotK is a masterpiece
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I can't wait
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‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up
The ‘hugely important artefact’ that’s followed 14 children since they were seven is set to air its final instalment. The now-septuagenarians and director Asif Kapadia talk about breaking new ground f...
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FakeEyes @fakeeyes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hope this movie is true to Link’s very deep character traits of screaming EYAAAAGHH! and smashing pottery that isn’t his.
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 07/09/2026
Eighteen years on from its debut, METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS remains an utterly idiosyncratic and awe-inspiring chimera of a game. tinyurl.com/5djem9pw
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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
i dont think anyone has achieved mastery of the bullshit graphic more than brass eye
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is perhaps the greatest actor that could ever have been cast as Jack Reacher, the ultimate masculine man. the right wing would LOVE to have this guy but he just wants to sing showtunes and tell Donald Trump to fuck off
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Skip!
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sin City: Family Values (3166)
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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone
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James Longstrider @jameslongstrider.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hear hear! If you want wizards, witches, magic and fantasy by a British author, pick up a Terry Pratchett book~ (he was also a huge ally)
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Amazing and chilling thread about how the big tech companies are enthusiastically weaponizing their own products against people & institutions Trump perceives as enemies
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Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can I just say that whatever is going on with this site, and whatever its motivations may be, I am fascinated to see that the outlet I write for, Slant, is "most player aligned" since the players yell at us all the time for not giving a game a high enough score.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why isnt there a Don't Look Now location tour in Venice where at random stops, you think you see a tiny figure in red but can't be sure if it's just your imagination
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Jason @longwall26.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
For sale: baby jetpack. Worn once
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
how does she keep getting my clothes drawer open
Little brown cat Robo poking her head up from my clothes drawer.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cause of death: Suicide
Occupation: Slave
Known for: Being castrated
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ten years later its still the best thing they ever put on tv
twin peaks 3. tracy brought coffee
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