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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 4d

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

YouTube video by Joe Lynch

www.youtube.com

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

P1: a cartoon me, sat at a table --with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil on its surface-- grimacing in pain as he clutches his right wrist. Thinking to himself, he says "AUGH! My drawing hand hurts! Don't think I'll be able to draw a comic toda--"

P2: APPEAR! Suddenly, a larger and far more crudely drawn version of my cartoon self appears on the right. He has a big doofy grin onhis face. Original cartoon me, in shock, says "GASP! W-who --WHAT-- are you?"

P3: Via an equally crudely drawn (and written) speech bubble and text, crude cartoon me says "I'm you when you stop giving a shite about drawing well"

P4: Suddenly, original cartoon me gets transformed into a crudely drawn form. The other crude self finishes on "in my imperfection I am perfect in every way"

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Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social · 2d

#gamedev Blue orbs are used to unleash a shockwave when you swing with no target nearby. You’ll need to position your sword carefully to send the wave in the right direction #indiedev #pico8

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 3d

Yup

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 10d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 15d

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here!

Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 16d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · 17d

I've been patiently waiting for this since @electrondance.com covered it on a @thinkygames.com stream a couple of years ago!

Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 17d

Mars First Logistics, our open world physics game about building rovers and delivering stuff is coming out of Steam Early Access in 2 days with a big update!

Tag your favourite influencial person who you think might enjoy it!

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · 19d

Yes! We did love a good duel but I'd be lying if our relative corners didn't murder us before getting close! Swamp things, tall purple club monsters and... 'baloks'(?) thinned our numbers as kids. It was terrifying, but I remember the green knight having it easy with the furballs.

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · 19d

My brother and I were kids when we played this and it was such a great asymmetric and atmospheric coop game with friends. That loading music is etched into my mind followed by the quiet of the lair before whatever monster(s) appeared. We never got past a bug on interacting with the moonstone!

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 22d

It's important to celebrate even quite small reasons for climate optimism, because otherwise you will succumb to despair, and that will help nobody.

Sure, the line between optimism and delusion is a fine one, but you have to get out of bed in the morning and sometimes for that you need delusion.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23d

Jesus Christ.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Charkie @charkie978.bsky.social · 24d

I put together a collection of clips from every moment of playing Skate. where I felt like I was having fun.

None of them are on a skateboard.

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · 25d

I'm annoyed that the Union Jack doesn't have a dragon on it every day Joel.

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Evsailey @evsailey.bsky.social · 26d

Trees💜✨🌸🌿

#pixelart

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · 28d

Oh wow, and I thought the last trailer was bad.

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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂

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PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞 @punkcake.club · Sep 10

🎉 Frontline: War Of Echoes is out now! 🚩

💥 Play against yourself
🔴 Capture the flag
⏪ Change team, rewind time
🔵 Capture the flag
🌑 8 unique levels
⚡ 16 upgrades to mix and match

👩‍🚀 punkcake.itch.io/frontline 👨‍🚀
Get it now for Windows, MacOS and Linux!

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · Sep 4

A lot of the best games you could ever play are things that sold a tenth of what they should and have 60-80% review scores. The games that are strange shapes, and if you've got a hole in your brain and soul that matches it, it'll stick with you forever.

You gotta have the confidence to investigate!

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Gregg @geggis.bsky.social · Sep 9

Same! I loved almost all the bosses in Zexion, and that is one of the early spikes (no pun intended). I liked it because it felt like a claustrophobic nightmare 'trap' boss, funnelling everything into its maw. My first reaction was 'oh god no'. At that point I knew it wasn't messing about any more!

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · Sep 9

Former Indiana Jones And The Great Circle art director announces Solbrand, a very different kind of archaeology game

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle art director Mattias Astenvald has left MachineGames to make a game about "tuning into" the dead of an underwater city.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · Aug 16

A horse struggles to exist

#art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

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flame @aeriform.bsky.social · Sep 6

I I / I / I I / I — Project Ark demo
This is a narrative experience and the first thing I've ever made for SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis.

For a limited time I am making this available to all because I am excited to share this in the hopes that something comes of it—

www.aeriform.io/0232a57db92c...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Sep 6

POV: you've just been thrown off a balcony by the beatles (Beatles are looking down and delighted that you are splat on the ground)

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