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Nate Shearer
@faultrunner.bsky.social
· Jan 3
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Happy 2025 everyone!
New Year, New Platform, New list of games completed!
New Year, New Platform, New list of games completed!
Even numbers are BaBa while odd numbers are KiKi
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Even numbers are BaBa while odd numbers are KiKi
Who would like to join me for a session of @secretplangames.bsky.social’s Flock Around sometime during the Christmas break?
There’s a demo out right now and I need to experience it with some peeps
There’s a demo out right now and I need to experience it with some peeps
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Who would like to join me for a session of @secretplangames.bsky.social’s Flock Around sometime during the Christmas break?
There’s a demo out right now and I need to experience it with some peeps
There’s a demo out right now and I need to experience it with some peeps
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Never mind ChatGPT.
Just go get a vasectomy.. like now.
Just go get a vasectomy.. like now.
you get one guess as to who came up with this thought experiment and considered it to be a useful way to think about abortion
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Never mind ChatGPT.
Just go get a vasectomy.. like now.
Just go get a vasectomy.. like now.
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I am making a unashamedly anti fascist game. Is it art? I don't know.
But it's brought me joy
store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...
But it's brought me joy
store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I am making a unashamedly anti fascist game. Is it art? I don't know.
But it's brought me joy
store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...
But it's brought me joy
store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...
Don’t sleep on this one, I’m begging you
@despelote.game, one of the best story games of all time, is now available on the Nintendo Switch in North and South America.
Grab it for just $9.74 USD, limited time only!! Makes for an excellent (and last minute 😉) holiday gift 🎁
👾 nintendo.com/us/store/pr...
Grab it for just $9.74 USD, limited time only!! Makes for an excellent (and last minute 😉) holiday gift 🎁
👾 nintendo.com/us/store/pr...
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Don’t sleep on this one, I’m begging you
Uh, I just want to tell everyone that Thumper is ONLY playable on VR
If you’ve played it without VR, no you haven’t
If you’ve played it without VR, no you haven’t
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Uh, I just want to tell everyone that Thumper is ONLY playable on VR
If you’ve played it without VR, no you haven’t
If you’ve played it without VR, no you haven’t
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Jingle Jam 2025 is over and our Games Collection is no longer available. What a year—thank you!
However, Trust in Rust continues through Dec. 18th! Until then, you can still donate to their campaign or purchase their Rust skins with all proceeds going to our Jingle Jam charities.
However, Trust in Rust continues through Dec. 18th! Until then, you can still donate to their campaign or purchase their Rust skins with all proceeds going to our Jingle Jam charities.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Jingle Jam 2025 is over and our Games Collection is no longer available. What a year—thank you!
However, Trust in Rust continues through Dec. 18th! Until then, you can still donate to their campaign or purchase their Rust skins with all proceeds going to our Jingle Jam charities.
However, Trust in Rust continues through Dec. 18th! Until then, you can still donate to their campaign or purchase their Rust skins with all proceeds going to our Jingle Jam charities.
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs
It’s a eggnog recipe
It’s a eggnog recipe
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs
It’s a eggnog recipe
It’s a eggnog recipe
I’m always reminded during the Steam recap that the average GamerTM plays a staggeringly little variety of video games
December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m always reminded during the Steam recap that the average GamerTM plays a staggeringly little variety of video games
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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this isn't a "pick your battles" situation. you can just not buy a game and it won't affect your life at all. you don't need it
we NEED to take a hard stance with this shit
we NEED to take a hard stance with this shit
this shit, despite its faults, is not going anywhere and people are going to have to pick their battles
Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN
This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes. The backlash has been swi...
www.ign.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
this isn't a "pick your battles" situation. you can just not buy a game and it won't affect your life at all. you don't need it
we NEED to take a hard stance with this shit
we NEED to take a hard stance with this shit
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Except if you’re Sandfall Interactive, it seems
No better time to re-share this article.
If you're a highly-respected game developer, there's no faster way to ruin your reputation than through the use of genAI.
If you're a highly-respected game developer, there's no faster way to ruin your reputation than through the use of genAI.
"The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose."
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.
@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Except if you’re Sandfall Interactive, it seems
Such an incredible undertaking the SIFTER team does every year
Go give both SIFTER and all of these wonderful game developers some love
Go give both SIFTER and all of these wonderful game developers some love
2025 The definitive list of Australian made video games. 🎮 We've recorded games all year for our seventh annual collection of local titles, across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and more!
FEATURE by @gdig.bsky.social + @juiceboxcat.bsky.social
www.sifter.com.au/post/2025-th... #videogames
FEATURE by @gdig.bsky.social + @juiceboxcat.bsky.social
www.sifter.com.au/post/2025-th... #videogames
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Such an incredible undertaking the SIFTER team does every year
Go give both SIFTER and all of these wonderful game developers some love
Go give both SIFTER and all of these wonderful game developers some love
My Steam recap is always so embarrassing.
December 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My Steam recap is always so embarrassing.
Second week into my new job and I’m already known as the Video Game Encyclopaedia
What am I doing with my life?
What am I doing with my life?
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Second week into my new job and I’m already known as the Video Game Encyclopaedia
What am I doing with my life?
What am I doing with my life?
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Having gone through the process with them three times (I liked the writers and wanted to live in Ireland), every negative thing you've heard about Larian's hiring process is not only true, but quite probably understated.
What they demand for a "test" would be considered a prototype at some studios.
What they demand for a "test" would be considered a prototype at some studios.
Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Having gone through the process with them three times (I liked the writers and wanted to live in Ireland), every negative thing you've heard about Larian's hiring process is not only true, but quite probably understated.
What they demand for a "test" would be considered a prototype at some studios.
What they demand for a "test" would be considered a prototype at some studios.
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I adore the work and advocacy of Larian, and wish it extended to respecting and refining the craft used in *all* of their processes, rather than selectively eroding them with AI--especially because it's those refined processes that have produced the games so many loved over their last three titles.
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I adore the work and advocacy of Larian, and wish it extended to respecting and refining the craft used in *all* of their processes, rather than selectively eroding them with AI--especially because it's those refined processes that have produced the games so many loved over their last three titles.
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the White Guys Having A Hard Time story is darkly funny because it's full of quotes like these and zero self-awareness.
I can't help but think about the editor I had who, as a fellow PoC, told me he was intentionally harder on me than others because as PoC, we had to be 2x as good as everyone else
I can't help but think about the editor I had who, as a fellow PoC, told me he was intentionally harder on me than others because as PoC, we had to be 2x as good as everyone else
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
the White Guys Having A Hard Time story is darkly funny because it's full of quotes like these and zero self-awareness.
I can't help but think about the editor I had who, as a fellow PoC, told me he was intentionally harder on me than others because as PoC, we had to be 2x as good as everyone else
I can't help but think about the editor I had who, as a fellow PoC, told me he was intentionally harder on me than others because as PoC, we had to be 2x as good as everyone else
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Excited to officially announce something I’ve been working on this *entire year* - GODMOTHER. We accomplished the seemingly impossible feat of writing an original screenplay and actually getting it funded 2025! Follow @ watchgodmother on Instagram for updates.
collider.com/dee-wallace-...
collider.com/dee-wallace-...
‘9-1-1’ Star To Lead Ritualistic Indie Thriller ‘Godmother’ [Exclusive]
Indie movie veteran and 9-1-1 alum Dee Wallace to star in Godmother, a new thriller from writer/director John Veron. Get a first look at the feature!
collider.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to officially announce something I’ve been working on this *entire year* - GODMOTHER. We accomplished the seemingly impossible feat of writing an original screenplay and actually getting it funded 2025! Follow @ watchgodmother on Instagram for updates.
collider.com/dee-wallace-...
collider.com/dee-wallace-...
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Always fascinated by these studios trying the “we’re just using it as an internal tool, don’t worry” as if the problem with AI is visible usage and not a holistic ethical, moral, literal rot that makes anything you do moving forward impossible to trust.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Always fascinated by these studios trying the “we’re just using it as an internal tool, don’t worry” as if the problem with AI is visible usage and not a holistic ethical, moral, literal rot that makes anything you do moving forward impossible to trust.
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keep the golden rule in mind: you can never trust a CEO. this absolutely REEKS of a forced mandate and people fighting back. "i think" "more or less" sure buddy
doesn't change the fact this rightfully sucks tho, any boycott or dropped sale is justified
doesn't change the fact this rightfully sucks tho, any boycott or dropped sale is justified
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
keep the golden rule in mind: you can never trust a CEO. this absolutely REEKS of a forced mandate and people fighting back. "i think" "more or less" sure buddy
doesn't change the fact this rightfully sucks tho, any boycott or dropped sale is justified
doesn't change the fact this rightfully sucks tho, any boycott or dropped sale is justified
WILD CONCEPT INCOMING
With all the money Larian made from Baldur’s gate, it’s almost as if they could hire someone to do concept art and create placeholder text. Hell, they could hire someone full time exclusively to jazz up their PowerPoint presentations and not see a dent in their financials
With all the money Larian made from Baldur’s gate, it’s almost as if they could hire someone to do concept art and create placeholder text. Hell, they could hire someone full time exclusively to jazz up their PowerPoint presentations and not see a dent in their financials
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
WILD CONCEPT INCOMING
With all the money Larian made from Baldur’s gate, it’s almost as if they could hire someone to do concept art and create placeholder text. Hell, they could hire someone full time exclusively to jazz up their PowerPoint presentations and not see a dent in their financials
With all the money Larian made from Baldur’s gate, it’s almost as if they could hire someone to do concept art and create placeholder text. Hell, they could hire someone full time exclusively to jazz up their PowerPoint presentations and not see a dent in their financials
I’m gonna lose my fucking mind
Real “I swear, all my employees love me” energy coming from Vincke
Real “I swear, all my employees love me” energy coming from Vincke
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’m gonna lose my fucking mind
Real “I swear, all my employees love me” energy coming from Vincke
Real “I swear, all my employees love me” energy coming from Vincke