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Simon Cox
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Creative Partnerships at Cook & Becker. Formerly videogames and media at Rolling Stone, Ziff Davis, Future and Fandom. Occasional artist.
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jamesintrocaso.bsky.social
Join the Crack the Sun launch party and get notified as soon as the next Draw Steel Backerkit campaign goes live. Coming soon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Draw Steel: Crack the Sun Launch Party
Get excited about Draw Steel: Crack the Sun on BackerKit - come join!
www.backerkit.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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stinasdemons.com
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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aftermath.site
What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean:

aftermath.site/splash-damage-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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cookandbecker.bsky.social
We're thrilled to unveil The Doll, an exclusive, officially licensed BLOODBORNE artwork made by artist 'Saprophial'.

This artwork is available as a limited-edition screen print in both large and small size editions.

www.cookandbecker.com/en/artwork/3...

#Bloodborne #fromsoftware
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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cookandbecker.bsky.social
Mayhem at the Mothership! Check out this super cute, official ASTRO BOT art print by the talented
@requinoesis.bsky.social !

Exclusively available as a limited-edition print via Cook and Becker:

www.cookandbecker.com/en/artwork/3...
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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michigrim.bsky.social
What a banger
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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gshegs.bsky.social
独立系ゲーム雑誌『A Profound Waste Of Time』6号のローンチに合わせて制作される、ケースのデザインを担当しています。
12/5までKICKSTARTER実施中です（目標額は1時間で達成済み）！
kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
APWOTはゲームを芸術と捉え、インタビューや論考を美しいビジュアルと誌面で紹介する雑誌です。Forbesの記事になったこともあり、来年創刊10年、5号まで発刊されています。
全編英語ですが、ゲーム好きなら見ているだけで楽しめます。
5号には私もイラストもあるので興味のある方は是非！
apwot.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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aurorapeachy.bsky.social
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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patchthompson.bsky.social
Damn, if only 'hard men of Gondor' with their hollowed out, atrophying state, obsessed with the glories of the past and which was only saved from defeat by the actions of those it claimed to protect, could teach us anything...
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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silkyweineck.bsky.social
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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milkman.bsky.social
OK so this is officially out. This pic was sent to me by a bestie who got his copy. I wrote the majority of this w the help of two homies (I know what I know and Sailor Moon ain’t it, so I recruited help). I took every single screenshot in the book and it’s packed with interviews.
amzn.to/4nRInkT
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
simonsimon.bsky.social
Sega’s epic Space Harrier coin-op is 40 years old! I remember being utterly transported by it whenever I encountered it in arcades. Here’s a piece in pen and ink - scanned in and colored in Photoshop - I made during Covid. I tried to capture that otherworldly feeling it gave me (for 20p!).
An illustration depicting the Sega game Space Harrier featuring three large flower-like spacecraft towering over a man in a red jumpsuit with a gun in an alien landscape.
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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rpgfan.bsky.social
To celebrate #FinalFantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles, different Square Enix departments shared new artwork!🎨 In order: Original artist Akihiko Yoshida, the #FF14 team, #Harvestella artist Yasushi Hasegawa, and #FF16's Kazuya Takahashi.

Our Review ICYMI: www.rpgfan.com/review/final...
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.
gigerpunk.bsky.social GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · Sep 18
Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.
September 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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btsensej.bsky.social
I wanted to thank you all for the overwhelming positive response to my cover art for The Delian Tomb! Your kind words left me speechless number of times!

Here are some details of the painting 😉

#mcdm #drawsteel #thedeliantomb
#heroes #goblins #blacksmith #fantasyart #ttrpg #fantasypainting
Detail of the heroes in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. One hero is a human man with blonde hair and shining armour, blue magic blasts from one hand, while the other hand holds a glowing mace. The other hero s a female elf with a flowing cape and a sword made for swashbuckling. Detail of the horde of goblins in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover. They bear arms and are rushing towards the heroes from all sides. Detail of the villager tied up and watching on helplessly in the painting for The Delian Tomb cover.
August 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/
August 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
simonsimon.bsky.social
No, Google, I do not want to summarize this file you absolute horror of a company. You can get in the fucking sea with that Gemini nonsense.
August 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
simonsimon.bsky.social
Huge congrats to our friends at MCDM for the launch! It’s been an amazing journey. We’re printing the Limited Edition books as we speak - and the stunning box set Ajax Edition of Draw Steel is close behind and looking really gooooood :)
hellomcdm.bsky.social Hello MCDM @hellomcdm.bsky.social · Jul 30
[Today 3:19PM] You can share this link as long as you remind them not to click it until 12:01am PDT: mcdm.gg/rpg
July 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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katbailey.bsky.social
How I feel in every games media convo these days 😅
July 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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hitpoints.bsky.social
Pretty sure that's an errant bit of moustache rather than a nose hair, but who can really say. I adore this podcast, have been thinking about what I'd pick if I was invited on since the day it launched. Whittling 40-odd years of games down to just five was, nonetheless, absolute agony. Go!
myperfectconsole.bsky.social My Perfect Console podcast @myperfectconsole.bsky.social · Jul 29
Tune into our latest episode to find out what Nathan Brown, former @edgemagazine.bsky.social editor, consultant, and creator of the @hitpoints.bsky.social newsletter, picked for his perfect console.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0vhq...
July 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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dieubussy.bsky.social
Here's my gift to true #MetalGearSolid fans: a full scan of "Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes Survival Guide In The Darkness of Shadow Moses", published in Japan in 2004. It is one of the most unique videogame guidebooks ever created. Archive link and book highlights below ⤵️
July 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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yeetkunedo.bsky.social
re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM