Sheri Shaw
@sherishaw.bsky.social
https://sherishaw.net/ they/them | socialist writer & video producer who psychoanalyzes development of both games and tech 🌷 there's enough words for all of us
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Sheri Shaw
@sherishaw.bsky.social
· Jul 4
🟡Modern Gaming & Layoffs: youtu.be/Biay2i3hx_s
🔵PAYDAY Retrospective: youtu.be/TRH7tzeT300
🟠Trevor Project's Union Busting: sherishaw.net/blog/inside-...
🟢AI Slop & Games Writing: youtu.be/ZfEWOl0WHX8
🔴RAID WWII Documentary: youtu.be/uAQzI8GLhXI
⚫Starbreeze Allegations: sherishaw.net/blog/starbre...
🔵PAYDAY Retrospective: youtu.be/TRH7tzeT300
🟠Trevor Project's Union Busting: sherishaw.net/blog/inside-...
🟢AI Slop & Games Writing: youtu.be/ZfEWOl0WHX8
🔴RAID WWII Documentary: youtu.be/uAQzI8GLhXI
⚫Starbreeze Allegations: sherishaw.net/blog/starbre...
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there's a fuzzy number of years that you are allowed to act smart based off of past achievements before everyone realizes you're full of shit in many other ways
this is the Sweeney Number, and it's different for everyone. 7 is a good estimate but your Sweeney Number will vary.
this is the Sweeney Number, and it's different for everyone. 7 is a good estimate but your Sweeney Number will vary.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
there's a fuzzy number of years that you are allowed to act smart based off of past achievements before everyone realizes you're full of shit in many other ways
this is the Sweeney Number, and it's different for everyone. 7 is a good estimate but your Sweeney Number will vary.
this is the Sweeney Number, and it's different for everyone. 7 is a good estimate but your Sweeney Number will vary.
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I talked to @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his Assassin’s Creed book, which turned into wide ranging conversation about how everything in entertainment is basically trying turn us into conspiracy theorists
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
Conspiracy Thinking Is Flourishing. Some of Our Most Popular Franchises Aren’t Helping.
Video games may be turning players into conspiracy theorists, but so is everything else.
slate.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I talked to @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his Assassin’s Creed book, which turned into wide ranging conversation about how everything in entertainment is basically trying turn us into conspiracy theorists
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
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It's Dolmistaska Monday~ This week PM arrives at a very warm and cozy home dolmistaska.com?page=303
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's Dolmistaska Monday~ This week PM arrives at a very warm and cozy home dolmistaska.com?page=303
this is me telling you to go buy RAID, it's $5 my friends are developing it and was worth my time to get every achievement. it's the co-op shooter you've been missing fr, trust me store.steampowered.com/app/414740/R...
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
this is me telling you to go buy RAID, it's $5 my friends are developing it and was worth my time to get every achievement. it's the co-op shooter you've been missing fr, trust me store.steampowered.com/app/414740/R...
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Last call to get 30% off in stock items! Use code YEAREND2025 during checkout to get 30% off 💫 meyocostudio.com/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Last call to get 30% off in stock items! Use code YEAREND2025 during checkout to get 30% off 💫 meyocostudio.com/collections/...
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Hello it's that time! Everything is 15% off on my shop with code: FRI25✨This includes my signed artbooks and comics! Come get your sad boys and horny monsters🦋
Main🛒: Velinxi.art
UK/EU🛒: Etsy.com/shop/Velinxi
Main🛒: Velinxi.art
UK/EU🛒: Etsy.com/shop/Velinxi
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hello it's that time! Everything is 15% off on my shop with code: FRI25✨This includes my signed artbooks and comics! Come get your sad boys and horny monsters🦋
Main🛒: Velinxi.art
UK/EU🛒: Etsy.com/shop/Velinxi
Main🛒: Velinxi.art
UK/EU🛒: Etsy.com/shop/Velinxi
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HELLO IT'S BLACK FRIDAY
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
HELLO IT'S BLACK FRIDAY
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
NUMBER GO UP!! 🍾 thanks y'all
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
NUMBER GO UP!! 🍾 thanks y'all
i'm never going to be taken seriously in this medium am i. there isn't upward mobility, this is the cap of public perception.
defunctland can do it and it gives me hope but i really am forever going to be associated and compared with the worst of the medium if i keep making documentary video essays
defunctland can do it and it gives me hope but i really am forever going to be associated and compared with the worst of the medium if i keep making documentary video essays
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i'm never going to be taken seriously in this medium am i. there isn't upward mobility, this is the cap of public perception.
defunctland can do it and it gives me hope but i really am forever going to be associated and compared with the worst of the medium if i keep making documentary video essays
defunctland can do it and it gives me hope but i really am forever going to be associated and compared with the worst of the medium if i keep making documentary video essays
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we are LIVE!! cmon in! www.twitch.tv/aqualounge_tv
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
we are LIVE!! cmon in! www.twitch.tv/aqualounge_tv
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from my recent interview with PAYDAY level designer & RAID WWII creative lead Ilija Petrusic
regarding short development cycles (18 months for a co-op FPS), and publishers expecting playable vertical slices for press events to be ready before, uh, the game itself even *exists*
#PAYDAY #RAIDWWII
regarding short development cycles (18 months for a co-op FPS), and publishers expecting playable vertical slices for press events to be ready before, uh, the game itself even *exists*
#PAYDAY #RAIDWWII
August 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Is that real change, or just a line from ChatGPT that some intern at McKinsey consulting thought sounded good?"
holy shit lmao
holy shit lmao
Ubisoft didn't get sold: everything we learned about accounting errors, upcoming release dates, and AI https://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-remake-ubisoft-sold-ai-2000646161
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Is that real change, or just a line from ChatGPT that some intern at McKinsey consulting thought sounded good?"
holy shit lmao
holy shit lmao
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the buried lede here: ubisoft made accounting "errors" that masked the fact that it's in serious debt
Ubisoft didn't get sold: everything we learned about accounting errors, upcoming release dates, and AI https://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-black-flag-remake-ubisoft-sold-ai-2000646161
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
the buried lede here: ubisoft made accounting "errors" that masked the fact that it's in serious debt
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if you need an answer to the question "if companies understand we're in an AI bubble, why are they still getting involved?" sherishaw.net/blog/ever-af...
Ever After Reality: AI is a Plot Device in the Story Businesses Sell to Investors — Connor Sheri Shaw
Mass layoffs are a sign of future-proofing, in the narrative bubble that is investment in AI.
sherishaw.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
if you need an answer to the question "if companies understand we're in an AI bubble, why are they still getting involved?" sherishaw.net/blog/ever-af...
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that time monty python's John Cleese took up a role for "a character in a world war II video game", only to fly out to the studio and be hit with: "so you're gonna play Adolf Hitler"
he refused the role (as per his contract), and thus a new character was thrown together for him in under 24 hours 🙃
he refused the role (as per his contract), and thus a new character was thrown together for him in under 24 hours 🙃
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
that time monty python's John Cleese took up a role for "a character in a world war II video game", only to fly out to the studio and be hit with: "so you're gonna play Adolf Hitler"
he refused the role (as per his contract), and thus a new character was thrown together for him in under 24 hours 🙃
he refused the role (as per his contract), and thus a new character was thrown together for him in under 24 hours 🙃
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i hope i'm not the person who has to tell you to get off the nazi socmede site but it's not worth sticking around.
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
i hope i'm not the person who has to tell you to get off the nazi socmede site but it's not worth sticking around.
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
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every time i see someone argue for a "middle ground" on generative AI i refer back to my video on the subject
if you work backwards from 'humans use AI as a tool', you'll eventually arrive at the conclusion that any automated systems that could be conceptualized for that creative flow ALREADY EXIST
if you work backwards from 'humans use AI as a tool', you'll eventually arrive at the conclusion that any automated systems that could be conceptualized for that creative flow ALREADY EXIST
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
every time i see someone argue for a "middle ground" on generative AI i refer back to my video on the subject
if you work backwards from 'humans use AI as a tool', you'll eventually arrive at the conclusion that any automated systems that could be conceptualized for that creative flow ALREADY EXIST
if you work backwards from 'humans use AI as a tool', you'll eventually arrive at the conclusion that any automated systems that could be conceptualized for that creative flow ALREADY EXIST
i hope i'm not the person who has to tell you to get off the nazi socmede site but it's not worth sticking around.
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
i hope i'm not the person who has to tell you to get off the nazi socmede site but it's not worth sticking around.
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
"my following is there" they're only sticking around cause the people they follow are still there! leave! anywhere else! it doesn't have to be bluesky, just not the fucking nazi bar
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Deleting some images and rediscovered this gem.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Deleting some images and rediscovered this gem.
if you need an answer to the question "if companies understand we're in an AI bubble, why are they still getting involved?" sherishaw.net/blog/ever-af...
Ever After Reality: AI is a Plot Device in the Story Businesses Sell to Investors — Connor Sheri Shaw
Mass layoffs are a sign of future-proofing, in the narrative bubble that is investment in AI.
sherishaw.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
if you need an answer to the question "if companies understand we're in an AI bubble, why are they still getting involved?" sherishaw.net/blog/ever-af...
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turns out i got a banger birthday gift yesterday wtfff www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr96...
Bowling For Soup, Punk Rock Factory, Wheatus - Endless Possibility
YouTube video by BowlingForSoupVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
turns out i got a banger birthday gift yesterday wtfff www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr96...
do you think journalists even understand why they use a passive voice anymore, or is it a compulsion for safety like cats to a box?
"a woman set on fire" "after man pours fluid on her and ignites it"
"a woman set on fire" "after man pours fluid on her and ignites it"
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
do you think journalists even understand why they use a passive voice anymore, or is it a compulsion for safety like cats to a box?
"a woman set on fire" "after man pours fluid on her and ignites it"
"a woman set on fire" "after man pours fluid on her and ignites it"