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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 3h

(Not saying that's INDUSTRIA 2's budget...I suspect it's quite a bit lower than that.)

Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 3h

Give me pointy $2-3M games showcasing a strong creator's POV over yet another super sanitized $100M FPS any day of the week.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 3h

Industria 1 also has very strong HL2 vibes. The sequel even more so (I have a build).

I'm loving this low-to-mid budget but high-quality kind of throwback to early 2000s FPS design, and I mean all that in the most complimentary way.

Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 3h

Booted up the Industria 2 demo and immediately this hallway alone had me feeling some type of way.

Concept art of G-Man standing in a hallway suspended in time in Half-Life 2: Episode 2

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 4h

A chance encounter

illustration inspired by the Scandinavian fairytale, "Bride of the Lindworm". A prince in the form of a lindworm perches on a moss-covered rock and peers curiously at a shepherdess from across a dark pond. The woman reaches toward him. The scene is set in a dark forest.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, VR has never made any sense to me, other than as a very expensive niche hobby. Same for AR.

Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h

Next I imagine he'll tackle genAI.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h

Such a good post about game industry hype cycles. Rare in that it comes from an ex-CEO (Nexon) yet also contains deep wisdom about how broken the industry is.

If you make games and run a studio, read it.

www.owenmahoney.ai/owen-mahoney...

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 9h

Prequel to TLD.

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 18h

This is looking neat. Get on it!

Mythwright @mythwright.com · 19h

Sign up for the Deadstick playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/771800/D...

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing anecdotes; if nothing else just goes to show you how informal the roles in game dev used to be, and how specialized and structured teams and roles have become in the ensuing years, not always to our benefit.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 9h

If nothing else, the scenery is beautiful!

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 12h

Some superb model work for ALIENS here - that atmosphere processor is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be, and the Queen miniature is a lot smaller!

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 11h

Just finished THE SHOUT on @criterion.bsky.social. What an unusual film, in the great tradition of 70s British folk horror.

letterboxd.com/film/the-sho...

The Shout (1978)

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

letterboxd.com

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 21h

It's really something.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 21h

Story:

bsky.app/profile/anim...

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 1d

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 22h

When other big name directors are busy shilling for genAI, GDT constantly works to elevate practical craft and creativity above all else. Truly a filmmaker’s filmmaker and a gift to creators everywhere. ❤️

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 22h

Este estudio estara iniciando con talento Mexicano y Latinoamericano para vincular animadores de varios paises y ifrecera estudios a un animador Mexicano por cda ciclo escolar durante una decada entera.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 1d

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix have announced plans to form a new stop motion studio that will be both a studio and a school to push the medium forward and will develop plans to make Del Toro's next stop motion project after Pinocchio. I'm very hyped to see what this leads to!

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 22h

a man in a suit is sitting at a table with his hand on his face

ALT: a man in a suit is sitting at a table with his hand on his face

media.tenor.com

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Andy Chalk @andychalk.bsky.social · 1d

AND FARTHER BELOW, LAKE ONTARIO
TAKES IN WHAT LAKE ERIE CAN SEND HER
AND THE IRON BOATS GO, AS THE MARINERS ALL KNOW
WITH THE GALES OF NOVEMBER REMEMBERED

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

The Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

Guess California is part of Canada now.

I’m cool with it.

(Also, the “Canadian flyers” are called the Snowbirds, ok?)

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1d

With the Blue Angels sidelined by the government shutdown, a team of Canadian flyers was promoted to a starring role in this year’s San Francisco Fleet Week festivities.

See more photos → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/f...

📸: @santiagomejia.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

WYKYK

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

(unless there's bloodsuckers)

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going in.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 1d

DO NOT GO TO THE US.

The Trump regime has waged culture war on its own people and any visitors who run afoul of the thought police.

The regime now enforces right-wing conformity and Christian nationalism.

The risks are very high. Stay home. Travel domestically. Buy Canadian.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 1d

It was barely reported on, but Trump signed a directive equating “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-American” views with terrorism.

Canadians: your socials and phones can be checked at the US border.

If you’ve questioned “capitalism” or “America,” you are now considered a terrorist.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

FBI's domestic terror watchlist expected to DOUBLE in size as a result of NSPM-7, the new presidential directive targeting "anti-Christian," "anti-capitalism" and "anti-American" speech:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent

Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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