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Writer of Less Useful Things, Wrestling With Wrodger Wrestling, Poetic Collect and ____ ____. My day job is in marketing and advertising so I talk about that sometimes too. https://lessusefulthings.com/ Game Over T1D: https://tilt.fyi/QXlJ3szGvn

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · Oct 4

As promised, here's a new article: an updated look on my pre-season vibe check. What teams have shifted for better or worse? Let's discuss.

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On The 2025 NFL season: VIBE check UPDATE WEEK 5

As we head to Week 5 of the NFL, let’s take a look back at my preseason vibe check and see what times moved up and down.

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1h

I'm live on Twitch right now, doing my first charity stream for Game Over, T1D! I will be talking, playing some Ball x Pit and just kind of tinkering with my stream. This is night one of many coming up this month for @play.breakthrought1d.org

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Twitch is the world

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 2h

9:30 (ish) EST (one hour from now) Ill be streaming, probably just chatting tonight, playing something and talking about this month's streams and #GameOverT1D

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 7h

Streaming Tonight for @play.breakthrought1d.org on Twitch.TV/LessUseFulThings

Raising money for Game Over, T1D!

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 2h

Sometimes I think about that video of Bill Belichick dressed as a pirate roller skating

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 5h

best ending of all time, let's be real

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 6h

I was late to the party but I Saw The TV Glow's ending really got me in ways most movie endings do not anymore. Just thinking about it afterwards more so then I would typically for any movie.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 6h

what’s the best movie ending of the decade so far?

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Breakthrough T1D Play @play.breakthrought1d.org · 6h

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Raise $1,000+ USD this November for #GameOverT1D and make a statement—our tie dye hoodie with controller-button logo awaits. Unisex S-3XL (4-5XL in light blue).

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#CharityStream #T1D #GBdoc #NDAM

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Breakthrough T1D Play @play.breakthrought1d.org · 6h

Join us on Twitch today at 3PM PT / 6PM ET for ✨DEV DIARIES✨ featuring the legendary Ron Gilbert 🤩

In honor of Ron Gilbert, we are offering exclusive donation rewards inspired by some of the games Ron worked on!

These rewards are available today only -- don't miss out! ➡️ tilt.fyi/fKoMRenZsF

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 6h

That being said, if you have a game that you were scared to launch in May of 2026, now's the time to batten down the hatches.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 6h

GTA 6 has to be a total and utter mess. There's just no way that after like 10+ years, they needed to extend 6 extra months from a date that's currently 7+ months out otherwise.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 7h

As always, the Game Awards fail.

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 10h

EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.

The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.

The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice

Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 7h

Streaming Tonight for @play.breakthrought1d.org on Twitch.TV/LessUseFulThings

Raising money for Game Over, T1D!

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 7h

What if 5 fail?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9h

David Sacks says there will be "no federal bailout for AI", as the US has at least five major AI companies and "if one fails, others will take its place" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 7h

This is one of those things I remember ads for but absolutely never tried. It just does not seem appealing.

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TAPE @tapemachines.bsky.social · 12h

The PWI 500 has run for 35 years and become a yearly source for a lot of dumb debates. But here's the thing: It rules, and we're going to have some fun with it. Join me for the top 200 of the top 100 of the PWI 500, ALL-TIME!

The All-Time Top 200 of the Top 100 of the PWI 500: Part One (200-181)

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 10h

I understand why some people's names (Key for instance) will come up for some of the bigger schools. The reality though is that, a lot of the benefits of going to those schools are not nearly what they were even 3-5 years ago. If you have good enough boosters, almost any school can compete.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 11h

You should make an idle tree planting growing game where you are trying to create more oxygen by planting more trees. I can guarantee you I will play it.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 11h

You talking about Turbo?

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 13h

Companies look to eliminate the the jobs they have defined as the "least valuable" while wildly misinterpreting the value they actually hold. They are trying to use non-exist tech to replace something that a computer can't do: think of outlandish ways to break something.

Jade King @konayma6.bsky.social · 13h

When I was growing up it felt like QA tester was an entry level role that could teach you so much about the industry as your skills matured and you moved up the ladder.

Seeing that career path essentially wiped out by corporate use of AI really sucks.

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Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC

The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 13h

As it is often said: the fact that any games come out and function is a minor miracle.

Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 16h

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 13h

I think one part of college football that's made is so successful is history but it's also what leads to a lot of delusions. Teams previous success or history, no matter how badly people want it to, do not define individual seasons where the team is outright bad.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 14h

The main problem with corporations is that impotent unknowing idiots work their way through the corporate ladder by sucking up and snitching but know less and less about what they're doing. The further you go in many of these companies knowledge matters less then your loyalty

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 14h

That article about all the ways companies fail had multiple people discussing how little those in charge understood game dev, scope or anything at all. This happens all the time across industries. Bosses want people in their pocket that then move all the way up without knowing anything.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 14h

My kid wanted to watch the Outsiders the other day and it is literally only on Tubi. The ads were wild. Literally in 2 of the most climatic scenes it just randomly inserted car insurance ads. Really killed the flow

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 14h

I will make a post with graphics but is my first night streaming in....years? I'll be streaming for Game Over, T1D!

9:30-11 EST. Come one, come all. This stream will probably be a bit all over the place but I have some cool stuff planned this month.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 15h

One weird side effect of the last few years is this strange bagged pickle growth