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Thomas Söderlund @gnistregn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Orbitals is out! I'm so incredibly proud of how it looks. I was the Technical Art Director on it, and made the cel and "painted" backgrounds shaders, as well as the full graphics pipeline and tooling. (invaluable art guidance provided by @tonyholmsten.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAaJ...

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Orbitals – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2

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Tony Holmsten @tonyholmsten.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So much nice concept art I did on orbitals that I’m hoping I’ll be able to share in the not so distant future

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 09/03/2026

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 16/03/2026

Nvidia has rolled out DLSS 5 and holy jumping fucking shitballs does it make everything look terrible. It runs every NPC through the same shitty uncanny valley filter that AI imagery cannot escape. It is the "I fixed [insert female character]" meme made real and, inexplicably, not a joke.

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NVIDIA DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games

NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA DLSS 5, the company’s most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018.

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Tony Holmsten @tonyholmsten.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The only thing you can do to save money and be successful in gamedev is to work smart, have a strong vision , good communication, good planning. Gen ai is a cheat code (that doesn’t work) for people who don’t know how to do what I just mentioned.

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 29/01/2026

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

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Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'

The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 25/01/2026

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

Pixel art of various animal themed robot bosses. The tag at the top says MegaGear X

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

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Dezi (Boto) @boto.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

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Tony Holmsten @tonyholmsten.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Finally! The game I worked on previously as env ad / lead concept trailer is out :) youtu.be/bvMDXtgz1bo?...

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Orbitals – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2

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Tony Holmsten @tonyholmsten.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Celebrating #metroidprime4 launch with an old fan-art I did way back. I guess I gotta get a switch2..

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Spotify stock graph showing a decrease of $28 in one day (Friday 10/24), the day after Spotify’s boycott became a trending topic on Bluesky. This is a roughly 5% decrease in value.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Go fash, lose cash

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Mei-Li Coolan @meili.coolan.games · 18/08/2025

Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

ChatGPT not only helped the kid with the planning but it also helped him correct the mistakes he made the first time so he'd get it right when he tried again.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 26/08/2025

i want to see sam altman set on fire in a public space

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 26/08/2025

Ai might not be able to suffer but billionaires can so let's focus our efforts there.

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/07/2025

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"we're just using it to speed up development" / "we're just using it on art assets" / "we're just using it to construct side stories" or whatever. i simply do not give a shit. the poison is in the blood.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There’s a heartbreaking truth to this. As @charalanahzard.bsky.social says at least 10x a day: publicly traded companies don’t work for developers or players, they work for the markets. And the markets are consistently, objectively and repeatedly stupid.

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Del @del.art · 11/06/2025

Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century, Universal City Studios Productions and DreamWorks Animation, have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney. They have described it in the suit as a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.”

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Okay so imagine this, you have no opinions, you have no skills, you have no wants or desires, you are a smooth orb of nothing and our subscription service helps make sure you still cast a shadow that resembles a human being. Sounds sick right?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

something people don't talk much about in this era of "publishers expecting a near-finished game before investing" is games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 29/03/2025

"I used AI to make a Studio Ghibl-"

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

AI images have an extremely distinctive and very strange distribution of spatial frequencies. They're basically made of zebra stripes at varying scales. Every dark band has a corresponding bright band of the same thickness immediately alongside it this is actually MORE noticeable at thumbnail size

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