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Michael Fitch

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Game developer, father, cultural critic. Wishlist Thick As Thieves on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3341000/Thick_As_Thieves/

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 18d

For anyone who’s just stumbling across me and wondering, “who is this idiot?”, here’s the end of a career retrospective I wrote this summer:

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25 years of game development: a long, strange trip | Michael Fitch posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Hi. My name is Michael. I've been making games professionally for 25 years now. June 5, 2000, I walked into Atomic games with a leather messenger bag, a comp book, an absurd number of pens, and a w...

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 9m

One of the best pitches I ever sat in on in my years in publishing.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 11h

They looked at polls?

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 14h

Canvassing. Talking to real people in person. Running registration drives in your town. The solution to a media problem isn’t media; it’s recentering people around what matters.

You can yell at the television all you want, but that will not change the content on it.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 1d

Kickstarter time…

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re focused on what the Dems can do with messaging, you’re missing that billionaires have bought all the media outlets.

It’s time for a different kind of organizing. The pundit class is complicit.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 1d

He’s a keeper

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 2d

And I would have gotten away with it, too…

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 2d

Shakespeare never met a dick joke that he wouldn’t use, good or not

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 2d

I'm starting to think that the goal with GenAI isn't profitability at all - it's market control.

They need a massive energy sink as cheap, renewable energy comes online.

They need ways to make convincing propaganda because propaganda is all they have.

Profit doesn't matter.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 2d

There is no way to scale this that makes money. They're losing money on every video made. Even if you did hit virality with some content, it can't cover the millions of daily hits.

The economics of GenAI are truly in Enron territory - look at the latest AMD deal.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 2d

The AI industry is about to learn the hard way something the games industry learned long ago:

No amount of marketing is going to get people to use software they don’t want to use.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 3d

The kids are gonna be alright...

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Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · 3d

Continued reminder I'm looking for work! I can't move from the Washington area but have successfully been remote for almost 10 years no matter the timezones!!!

Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · Jun 30

Starting this up again! Hi I'm Michelle Flamm Im a Senior Systems Designer and worked on Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Weird West and so much more! Currently I'm looking for work, please feel free to DM me leads etc!

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 3d

The reason they have to do it now is that Trump could die any day. We can all see this.

Once Trump goes, there is no support for these policies.

The lie of anyone having voted for this becomes unsustainable.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 4d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think people have fully processed that there’s an alternate reality factory inside the White House showing Trump video of things that are not happening.

The mad king is completely untethered to reality.

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 4d

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 3d

WGGB Free Online Gamewriting Talks, 15 October, 7-8.45pm (GMT)

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Shaping your game narrative

Every game has different writing needs, so how do you figure out the best approach? In this set of lightning talks-

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about this administration is that it has shown how hollow and empty the GOP is.

There is no principle they are willing to stand up for other than “winning”, whatever that means.

Freedom of speech, free markets, states rights - words only.

Republicans have no spines.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, exactly. Playing for the center makes sense when there’s a center. With no center, you play to your values and try to move the situation through turnout.

Playing for the nonexistent center just pisses off the people who are motivated by values.

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

But, you’re being mean to the people who want to kill you. Haven’t you already lost yourself if you go down that path?

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much

Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

It’s also awkward to talk about other people’s games in public. Easy for people to mistake critique for criticism.

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Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

There are about a thousand people in the world who are disproportionately responsible for most of the suffering that goes on.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Michael Fitch @fitchgames.bsky.social · 4d

The problem with this rhetoric is that there is no “center” anymore

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Tanya is seeking work || 🔜 TCNA @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 4d

I hate sharing this one so much, but winter is coming and thanks to medical weight loss, I'm looking at replacing fall & winter gear which ain't cheap. I've got an ongoing goal that I put up post layoff: ko-fi.com/tanya_hbic/g...

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