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Wojtek Borowicz

@wojtekborowicz.bsky.social
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Words, games, and word games. www.narramblings.com Dublin/Kraków

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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RPS | Wishlist Fallosophy on Steam! @fallosophygame.com · 25/09/2026
🏛️Fallosophy is OUT NOW!🏛️ Climb the history of thought as a pinball using only two buttons! 🔵🟠 Available NOW on STEAM 🎮
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Been musing lately about the story structure of classic jRPGs and how it's different from western RPGs. The musings now spilled onto my blog: www.narramblings.com/narramblings...
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Narramblings #13: Square princess
She doesn’t get to be the protagonist, but she still carries the entire story structure.
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Essential life skill
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate being all young people need to learn to pirate properly but young people need to learn to pirate properly.
went to go rewatch twin peaks to make myself feel better about being sick and my google drive link has expired
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Could a depressed person do this?* *proceeds to do nothing
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ICARUS @mistericarus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thing I heard that greatly amused me. "If you hate Ed Sheeran now, just wait till you hear his music."
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neutral @neutral.zone · 17/09/2026
This place needs more “look at this stupid thing I made because the idea amused me” and less “here is my position on the recurring social object”
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 16/09/2026
I’m up before dawn for travel, which means I can bug the lunchtime UK crowd: Do I know any game nerds with interests in 18th century (1660-1835) within shouting distance of Oxford (or willing to be for purposes of talking about their work for/with 18th century scholars?)
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is my entire timeline at the moment and I need youse to stop because I have neither the money to buy Switch 2 nor the 200 hours to play Fire Emblem
Three posts in a row talking about Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'If we cut a generation of people from learning their craft, you're cutting the rest of the history of that medium away from them. For what?'
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great and depressing read. Internet is becoming an ouroboros/human centipede crossover, shitting out slop and immediately feeding it back to itself.
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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Obviously having your game erroneously banned for daring to suggest that adults sometimes have sex is an absolute nightmare. Particularly the week before launch! But...I have to admit that playing a vampire in a game deemed "too sexy for Steam" might be the coolest I've ever been.
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Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'
The label "immediately makes the game persona non grata in several important countries like Germany".
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Basically this is the reason I don't use AI in my core work, because like we can't remember phone numbers now our mobiles do it, you lose a skill you don't use. And unlike outsourcing phone-number-remembering, these skills matter.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The urge became too strong.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This would do your head in. The most ‘successful’ use of genAI is the pollution of the information ecology, and the destruction of the careers that are built on it.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Nɪɢʜᴛ Exᴄɪsɪᴏɴ🔪 @nightexcision.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 01/09/2026
🐧 hot demo! 🐧 Fly a balloon! Wear a hat! Be a penguin! And hear a breezy funky jazzer from me while you're at it 🎶🏖️❄️🌊🌬️🎈🌅🎷 Sure what more could you ask for eh
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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the last good technology was when emails started to say, "you wrote 'attached' but didn't attach anything, u ok"
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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yesjohn 🌧️ @yesjohn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i am fucking done begging, Jolene.
aubrey plaza on a hospital bed pointing a butter knife: stay back slut!
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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
made this edit in a fit of rage
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Quiet Year was my introduction to GM-less role-playing and it remains the best game in that category.
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been playing (& teaching!) "The Quiet Year" for years and years now and it remains my #1 recommendation for folks who want to explore playful co-creation with others. If you somehow don't have it already - now's a good time!
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 27/08/2026
Let it be known that Neurocracy is a must-play for any puzzle/murder mystery lovers ❤️
A five-star rating for Neurocracy on itch.io with a short review that reads:

A game I could pour the rest of my life into. I mean, assuming I lived only up to 2049. Still a great mystery with a fascinating world featured in hundreds of detailed Wikipedia (crossed out in favour of) Omnipedia articles. A mustplay, dare I say, for any puzzle/murder mystery lovers.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Simpsons Lenny award show
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rest in power, legend
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've said this before, but Godot just lets me get things done. It's lightweight, agile, and you can *really* customize the editor/workflow with your own scripts. Plus open source means you're not tied to a shitty corporation. You can take the code and leave.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A gentle reminder. (violent reminders will follow, closer to the time) #SpeirGorm
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I will vote for whoever promises to pass a law standardising shoe sizes across companies
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Indie RPGs Dublin community (including me!) is back for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social with The Unretirables Play as retired superheroes reluctantly reuniting one last time. Dust off the spandex, fight villains, AND relitigate decades-old drama #OnePageRPGjam artemisnova.itch.io/the-unretira...
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The Unretirables - A One-Page RPG by ArtemisNova
Once-legendary retired heroes pulled out of retirement for one last job
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Titian Coppoli @titiancoppoli.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Broken Clocks was awarded 'Best at Show' at The Brody Awards, Dublin Comicon 2026, for the most engaging exhibitor booth at the Indie Games Area! 🏆🕰️ Thanks to all the people involved and all the guests who stopped by to try Broken Clocks and the @panic.com @play.date #gamedev #indiedev #playdate
broken clocks comicon award for best at showbroken clocks comicon award on stage picture for best at showbroken clocks comicon award for best at show and playdate console
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 12/08/2026
Apparently those Meta AR glasses will automatically protect your eyes if you stare directly at the sun during the eclipse. Pass it on!
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/08/2026
the skeleton key to understanding contemporary consumer culture is that doing a good job costs money so corporations have abandoned the concept
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Was out "raving" at a thing at the weekend with lots of other middle aged people. Sent my friend a picture from the dance floor and he sent back this:
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 09/08/2026
Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.
A tan plastic with gold mechanical owl. Very cute.
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ceej @ceej.online · 06/08/2026
ceej
@ceej.online
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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Wojtek Borowicz @wojtekborowicz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI has ushered in an era of customer service so shit I yearn for being on hold with a call center for 40 minutes like we used to. Behold, Playstation support bot:
I tell a support bot I can't log in. It tells me to log in to receive support.
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