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Mike W

@gekido.bsky.social

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Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years... Current: Cloudhead, Instructor @ VFS In Vancouver

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · Oct 19

Intro! I'm a Metis Canadian living near Vancouver. I've help grow a half dozen studios over the years (Namco, DeNA, etc), founded 2 studios, worked at Unity for 7 years, and have shipped a few dozen games doing tech direction and producing. Cofounded Megacrush, building games, animation and previs!

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1h

😭😱 the programmer nightmare

Iver @iver.bsky.social · 1h

Works on my machine.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 8h

Amazon would literally put surge pricing on guillotines.

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 2d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 3h

Producer played new game

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 3h

Quick chat with HR

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

we need to abolish this shit

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 11h

Not quite that bad but probably 3, 4 a week easily

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 15h

Doing direct for the different stores (UAS / Fab) is probably the best plan, even though it's dbl work.

Most of the artists I follow tend to have their stuff on "everything" eventually but starting with the engine specific ones is probably a good start.

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 16h

It's all a scam.

And the canadian govt wants us to get ensnared by this bullshit too

Fucking hell

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 17h

There's definitely vocals in the backing track for the chorus etc but the core of it absolutely is live

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 20h

Luckily we can at least disable it (for now)

bsky.app/profile/geki...

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 22h

The rest of the settings are chrome specific not "google search" specific fwiw

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 23h

here's the .reg file you need if you want to speed up adding them all as well, just download as a .reg file and add them

gist.github.com/gekidoslair/...

Windows registry flags to disable the new Chrome AI bullshit

Windows registry flags to disable the new Chrome AI bullshit - DisableChromeAI.reg

gist.github.com

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 23h

don't use the @ sign

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

Came here to say this ☝️

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”