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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 15h

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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Splattie @splattiecake.bsky.social · 8h

The PROXY soundtrack is going to kick ass!

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sAm @samdrawngame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Demo soundtrack available on Youtube and Gamejolt Composed by Max Freeman (@toiletdragon.bsky.social) youtu.be/zGrc9XCv5So gamejolt.com/games/crash_...

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Crash Bandicoot Dimension Twist - Demo soundtrack

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The actor who plays the monster in The Fly is the same guy who plays the scientist at the beginning of the movie. Makes me wish i paid more attention lol. Time for a rewatch

the same actor playing the scientist at the beginning of the movie

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 18/09/2026

Fortnite is selling your favorite characters back to you as husks aftermath.site/fortnite-kingd...

the Don Draper presentation meme with Kingdom Hearts characters in Fortnite on the easel

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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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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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 09/09/2026

to anyone who has a community, or anything like it: i implore you to understand that you can do this too. if someone's vibes smell like diarrhea dogshit, you can just throw them out. they don't need to explicitly break five rules and acquire three strikes. you can just kill them.

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UpsettiSpaghettiVulture @spaghettivulture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Decathexis colour pencil on paper

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Outcrops (April 2024)

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why did I open LinkedIn?? Never open LinkedIn

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Housing Inspection

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey if you’re an artist can you please consider posting your work to at least one site that doesn’t destructively compress images? It sucks only being able to enjoy someone’s art while peering through a wall of jpeg compression 😭

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Had a dream that the first four Crash games got rereleased as ports and they were good except they changed every instance of Aku Aku into a small floating version of the Crash Fortnite skin

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Idolon @idolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

level design (Portal A&K escape spoilers)

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𝖘𝖓𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞💥 @dasnapps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bartender fly girl Comm

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 18/08/2026

I think when you are coming to the end of a project (if you are a company) you should always be thinking not just of the next big project, but of the immediate thing to roll onto so people aren't at a loose end, the thing that can extremely leverage everything you just did. Anything else is wasteful

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TWITTER ISN’T EVEN DESIGNED FOR ART SHARING IT’S A MICROBLOGGING SITE I’M LOSING MY MIND

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Sky Burkson @skyburkson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

progress on WIP Nitro Kart bristol paper, cardstock, toilet paper

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That’s not how you spell Mario Kart Double Dash

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

do I really have to repost this part of A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us once a month auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Players (respectful) vs Gamers (derogatory)

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 05/08/2026

if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour

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Manuclay @manuclay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Crash 2/3 model clay figure #CrashBandicoot

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As a Handheld Gaming Virgin I do really love the Switch 2. I can’t imagine how cool it must have been to own a PSP or DS back then. I really hope we see a return of true handhelds (and AA games industry to support them) someday soon

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Tawny / Gawny

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 26/07/2026

it is endemic, this. you might suffer from it yourself. people think half-life 1 was trying for realism and do realistic remakes of that. they were hand painting textures and doing pixel art

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 26/07/2026

don't let the phoned-in visuals of the Halo remake off the hook by scapegoating Unreal imo. if something looks boring it's because someone boring made it

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Happy 62nd birthday to the Nintendo 64!

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Moth (Comms Open!) @bloodcrisis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

so many of these basically boil down to "games should feel good to play, not bad to play. when making your game, make sure to avoid things that will make it feel bad" and wow i dont even know if i have the words to explain how useless this advice is

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Max Freeman @toiletdragon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Every time I get stuck in roadworks I think about how the Sumerians started the roads 6000 years ago and somehow we still haven't finished them. When will they be done?

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The environment is the most important character in the game, and it has a story to tell. When designing levels, I’m thinking about several aspects that have to do with its place in the world, what its function is, how can I innovate in its design... 1/2

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

... how the space moves and affects the player, how I want them to feel and where I want them to go. I can’t separate how I think from who I am or my background, but I do know that my experiences in the desert, the landmarks, the “enemies” and so on heavily influence what I build. 2/2

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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i like posts about sports because rarely is there any barrier to somebody like me understanding them. not esoteric in the slightest. i think it's delightful that people who have been watching soccer for years or decades will be going like "they should try kicking the ball in the goal to score"

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Gobshite @gobshite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Spyro.

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Gobshite @gobshite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Drawn by me and colored by a friend.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Genuinely I think I link this post every 3 months at this point but I've been seeing random people talking about how with AAA in a bad state it's time for "the year of the indie" or whatever and: it's time for those people to read A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally got around to putting the soundtracks of my doom wads on bandcamp if anyone would want such a thing cyriak.bandcamp.com They will end up on streaming platforms as well at some point.

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I am the animator who does weird videos on youtube

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Simardluc095 @simardluc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hello! This is my new rpg character from my friend’s TTRPG: Hollow Kingdom! She’s Savannah, the salt nomad alchemist. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to like, share, and follow! have a good day everyone! #rpgcharacter

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