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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 5h

Appreciating the kind words I’m seeing bouncing around the web RE: TRON: Catalyst and Identity. Proud of what the team achieved with those games.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 13h

Fun to hear about new places I will one day live commutable distance from.

Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 21h

The secret is that’s everyone

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 1d

- learn in the broadest strokes how pros do a thing
- work out how to cheat, fake and emulate the thing
- repeat indefinitely
- become a pro, have people assume you studied it properly. Correct them on that assumption if asked

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent stuff

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely work

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

See your headshot indicates that you worked with someone with skills that crossed that arbitrary line

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

Do any portrait photographers / headshot type folks follow me on here? Wanna look at your stuff.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

Good shit

Slide before a Rian Johnson q&a.. which was a good time

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 2d

Heroic

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 3d

I would very much like them to release a vinyl of the overwrought song covers used in traitors. Thank you for your time

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 3d

Love the clarity of this message

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Let's make hope normal again.

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

Almost

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

Not a wrong take

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 4d

it turns out industry was the issue the whole time

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 4d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

The games industry sucks, but it could be worse, we could be in the animation industry

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

Shutting me up is more of a problem

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

You’re an excellent host mate, thanks for the learning opportunity

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

Guilty

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

For sure. I think there’s room here for multiple true tragedies

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

Watching corporations exploit human longing and use marketing to project hope that string generators are people is… well it’s not the worst crime but it’s top 10. Someone on here said to me that these things have ‘more emotional intelligence than the average human’ and it bummed me out for hours

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 6d

The two genres of AI enthusiast appear to be people who believe:

- other people are inanimate objects, NPCs, and therefore replaceable
- inanimate objects are capable of being people, and should be treated as such.

I have a bit more respect for the second group, but I wish both were less lonely.

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 9d

You can’t find the right candidate cause the candidates are in a group chat talking about how it takes you 6+ months to hire. You can’t find the right candidate cause the person with the best resume/interview declined and went and told all their friends how shitty your process was

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