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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 · 6h

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

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 17h

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 · 12h

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 · 15h

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 · 17h

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

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 18h

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

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 18h

don't use the @ sign

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 20h

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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.”

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

Dm me if you have questions!

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

And if you use synology for your nas they have a server app so it runs ON the nas, no extra pc etc needed

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

I've had mine for 10 years, works great

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! There's also apps for every platform so you can stream in your house etc

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 1d

Creative Assembly is looking for a Principal Narrative Designer.

No affiliation. Just sharing the link...

jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...

Creative Assembly is looking for Principal Narrative Designer.

Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria. We craft deep and detailed games that matter...

jobs.jobvite.com

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 1d

Two Point Studios is looking for a Senior Designer/Writer.

No affiltiaton. Just sharing the link...

jobs.jobvite.com/sega-europe-...

Two Point Studios is looking for Senior Designer/Writer.

Two Point Studios is looking for Senior Designer/Writer. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.

jobs.jobvite.com

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 2d

The horror

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, lets get you to bed

a man helping an older man use a walker

ALT: a man helping an older man use a walker

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 2d

Dear every fucking reporter

Trump is not cracking down on the left

Trump is making up lies to attack America

We don't need to hear from 10 citizens who have never been to Portland, give their opinion on the state of Portland - we need objective truth about what is happening you spineless fucks

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 2d

The end goal of all of this AI bullshit is computers just generating garbage for other computers to ingest, rinse repeat

Who the fuck thinks this is a good idea?

Game Development Daily News @gamedevdaily.bsky.social · 2d

YouTube's Comment Reply Suggestions Are Worthless

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #YouTube

YouTube's Comment Reply Suggestions Are Worthless — Wanderbots

Late December 2024, I was forcibly opted into YouTube’s new ‘Upgraded Comment Reply Suggestions’ feature- which automatically AI generates a short, one to two sentence reply to ran

www.wanderbots.com

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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