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absolutely unhinged vibes at the new soft play place near us join me for a thread

"Interiors 2" 2022. Photoshop & Cinema4D

"Interiors 1" 2022. Photoshop & Cinema4D

Eughhh my Chrome keeps popping up: Error code: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION This is NOT the time for me to have dodgy RAM :( I'm reading that it could also be my CPU?

half life alyx drawings Watched through a non-VR mod so I wouldn't throw up, it's just so good. hopium is real🥹 #artpost

You can now play the entirety of Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: Klingon in your browser borgremastered.com

'The entire thing is going to fall apart:' Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox

Vancouver folks, there is a public hearing coming up regarding the data centre being proposed at the Hootsuite building, 111 E 5th Ave. Comments are being accepted, and also the opportunity to speak against it. www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I got some fired bits back today! The hands are bisqueware and will be clear glazed soon ☺️

I got some fired bits back today! The hands are bisqueware and will be clear glazed soon ☺️

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

bro they laid off the Doom 2016 developers. that's like if you laid off the studio that made arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time, like Doom 2016

An Id Software developer claims it’s been 'nuked into the dirt' and ‘relegated to support studio size’, as 136 layoffs are confirmed at the Doom and Quake studio. vgc.news/news/id-soft...

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

Well, this is a MAJOR blow to accessibility. Fortnite has nerfed the Visual Audio wheel, which was designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players. It makes the game almost unplayable for those players. Plus it helped a ton of other disabled players, including myself www.linkedin.com/posts/cdspow...

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

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I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

"One Billion Players a Day" isn't a business declaration, it's a bullet loaded into a gun aimed at everyone you *didn't* lay off today. It is setting an unattainable standard to justify further missed expectations.

Studios in the Bethesda organization like id Software (Doom) and ZeniMax Online Studios (Elder Scrolls Online) are not shutting down but are cutting a significant number of staff this morning, per sources.

erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president

Not sure who needs to hear this but Criterion Channel has added one of the greatest shows of all time, The Prisoner

For the second night in a row, russia has attacked Ukrainian cities and their peaceful residents. The terrorist state murdered at least 8 more people, including a 2-year-old girl. Dozens were injured. Help protect civilians — donate to Sky Defense: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

The number of victims has risen to at least 17💔

NEW: Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar has been accused of ignoring pay inequity, mandating crunch, and weaponizing bonuses by multiple unionized employees in the United Kingdom.

At least 13 people were killed in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Process of Artemis II Eclipse Teapot (available tomorrow!)

Is it a too-short problem or a boob problem when seatbelts always dig into your neck?

I'm wrapping up a new video answering student questions and the one I didn't address that's on my mind is how if you embrace AI art early, so you are "not left behind", you will be left behind due to lack of skills and visual language learning.

My flight out of Warsaw was delayed so I missed my connection, then my second flight had to turn back to the gate to fix a tech issue, turning a simple journey into a 20+ hr hell. A 9r direct from Amsterdam turned into 9hrs + 5hrs and I was downgraded from business to economy :(

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Personally if a thing that developers hate in game development also is a scarlet letter that makes players try to kill the game, I wouldn't do it instead of trying to hide it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-ga...

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The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

Bungie folks impacted by the layoffs: please let me know if you see anything on our careers page that is a fit for you. I will gladly help with application advice and recommendations: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

Funny how it’s always the people who actually worked at the studio and not the select few who are responsible for all its poor decisions

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!

Excellent thread debunking the UK's endemic "this is just summer" nonsense.

You cannot miss this one. And I can say that because this is a @jeremybjayne.bsky.social production. I could listen to @raphkoster.bsky.social talk design all day.