Syrenne 極
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Senior Producer looking for full-time work in video games and Producer at Draknek & Friends. Lesbian streamer. Friend to all Woops, Quags, and Clods.
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Syrenne 極
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· Mar 19
Can’t believe I’ve been working in games for 18 fuckin years lmao 💀🪦
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ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
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AiliA is out now! Move mirrors to shape reality, guiding Ail through their reflections to find her twin sister, Lia.
Save 20% on AiliA on Steam
To save her "twin sister" Lia who was captured inside a mirror, Ail is on her journey. She has no special power but going into the mirror and walking on the reflections. Manipulate the mirrors and guide Ail through this world where reflections intersect reality. And discover the truth in the mirror.
store.steampowered.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
AiliA is out now! Move mirrors to shape reality, guiding Ail through their reflections to find her twin sister, Lia.
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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TouchArcade's picks for Game of the Year on iPhone, iPad, Switch, Switch 2, our iOS controller of the year, & more are now live including LOK Digital @draknek.bsky.social @letibus.bsky.social @icedropgames.bsky.social, @potipoti.studio, @novect.bsky.social, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/toucha...
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
TouchArcade's picks for Game of the Year on iPhone, iPad, Switch, Switch 2, our iOS controller of the year, & more are now live including LOK Digital @draknek.bsky.social @letibus.bsky.social @icedropgames.bsky.social, @potipoti.studio, @novect.bsky.social, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/toucha...
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imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America
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The Epic Games Store is an actual black hole where non-Fortnite games languish and die
January 8, 2026 at 9:56 PM
The Epic Games Store is an actual black hole where non-Fortnite games languish and die
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We also added a "no AI" clause to our publishing contract and contractor agreements. Some people I've mentioned this to (some who also run studios) have been dismissive, saying that people will just use AI without declaring it, but that's pretty easy IMO: don't work with them if you don't trust them
Not every game company is hopping onboard the AI hype train. Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse bans gen AI art in its contracts.
"If I sound frustrated, it's because, like, honestly, all this thing has done is made our...
https://kotaku.com/hooded-horse-gen-ai-art-ban-4x-strategy-steam-2000658179
"If I sound frustrated, it's because, like, honestly, all this thing has done is made our...
https://kotaku.com/hooded-horse-gen-ai-art-ban-4x-strategy-steam-2000658179
One Game Publisher Is Pushing Back Against AI Art With Contracts That Ban It: 'It's Cancerous' - Kotaku
Hooded Horse won't work with developers that use gen AI
kotaku.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
We also added a "no AI" clause to our publishing contract and contractor agreements. Some people I've mentioned this to (some who also run studios) have been dismissive, saying that people will just use AI without declaring it, but that's pretty easy IMO: don't work with them if you don't trust them
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put mr blobby on traitors
a group of people are playing drums in front of a pink clown .
ALT: a group of people are playing drums in front of a pink clown .
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
put mr blobby on traitors
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Spa day with the fellas
January 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Spa day with the fellas
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As promised, audio of Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese answering my questions is in today's episode of It Could Happen Here.
You can also listen to him admit he has no idea what happens when your financial data gets stolen here.
You can also listen to him admit he has no idea what happens when your financial data gets stolen here.
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
As promised, audio of Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese answering my questions is in today's episode of It Could Happen Here.
You can also listen to him admit he has no idea what happens when your financial data gets stolen here.
You can also listen to him admit he has no idea what happens when your financial data gets stolen here.
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And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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what this week feels like to me
January 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
what this week feels like to me
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Jan. 6, 2021: "history will remember"
Jan. 7, 2026:
Jan. 7, 2026:
January 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Jan. 6, 2021: "history will remember"
Jan. 7, 2026:
Jan. 7, 2026:
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Clodsire the clodsquire
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Clodsire the clodsquire
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i hope this era teaches a lot of guys that actually you don't want to live in a deregulatory paradise since such a thing must feed on marks, and fair chance that's you
Polymarket disputes capture of Maduro amounted to invasion ft.trib.al/qIkh84u
Polymarket disputes capture of Maduro amounted to invasion
More than $10.5mn has been wagered on contracts seeking to predict when the US will ‘invade’ Venezuela
ft.trib.al
January 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM
i hope this era teaches a lot of guys that actually you don't want to live in a deregulatory paradise since such a thing must feed on marks, and fair chance that's you
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Game devs who say they're bad at estimating how long things take:
- Give a rough estimate
- Track how long it actually takes
- If wrong: is that the time it actually takes, or did something happen? (Life, distraction, etc)
- Revise old estimate
- Keep tabs going forward to revise as necessary
- Give a rough estimate
- Track how long it actually takes
- If wrong: is that the time it actually takes, or did something happen? (Life, distraction, etc)
- Revise old estimate
- Keep tabs going forward to revise as necessary
January 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Game devs who say they're bad at estimating how long things take:
- Give a rough estimate
- Track how long it actually takes
- If wrong: is that the time it actually takes, or did something happen? (Life, distraction, etc)
- Revise old estimate
- Keep tabs going forward to revise as necessary
- Give a rough estimate
- Track how long it actually takes
- If wrong: is that the time it actually takes, or did something happen? (Life, distraction, etc)
- Revise old estimate
- Keep tabs going forward to revise as necessary
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If you haven't already, January is a good time to cancel your Xbox Game Pass in solidarity with Palestine. Read more about the boycott on our website and sign our pledge at nogamesforgenocide.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:12 AM
If you haven't already, January is a good time to cancel your Xbox Game Pass in solidarity with Palestine. Read more about the boycott on our website and sign our pledge at nogamesforgenocide.com
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A touching tribute to Mike F
![Classic Mike F tweet:
Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g62tajye723r3fa4gqw7l7ql/bafkreiacssf7vnpkyqovhna4mfme3qexnhqifch625ta46ibfzgpswz6ue@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 AM
A touching tribute to Mike F
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HEY gang! I'm looking for work starting in JUNE.
ME:
- 10+yrs pub & print prod
- 4yrs game dev (graphic design, OS, UI)
- graphic design jack of all trades
- eagerly collaborative & enthusiastic teammate!
YOU?:
- FT comics, print prod/design, or UI work
- Contract UI work
www.sashamakes.com
ME:
- 10+yrs pub & print prod
- 4yrs game dev (graphic design, OS, UI)
- graphic design jack of all trades
- eagerly collaborative & enthusiastic teammate!
YOU?:
- FT comics, print prod/design, or UI work
- Contract UI work
www.sashamakes.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
HEY gang! I'm looking for work starting in JUNE.
ME:
- 10+yrs pub & print prod
- 4yrs game dev (graphic design, OS, UI)
- graphic design jack of all trades
- eagerly collaborative & enthusiastic teammate!
YOU?:
- FT comics, print prod/design, or UI work
- Contract UI work
www.sashamakes.com
ME:
- 10+yrs pub & print prod
- 4yrs game dev (graphic design, OS, UI)
- graphic design jack of all trades
- eagerly collaborative & enthusiastic teammate!
YOU?:
- FT comics, print prod/design, or UI work
- Contract UI work
www.sashamakes.com
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The Sucker Punch employee should get a bag too
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The Sucker Punch employee should get a bag too
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> US blockades Venezuela
> Kills over 100 via strikes on fishing boats
> Illegally seizes tankers going to China
> Increases sanctions on the oil sector
> Threatens anyone that gets in its way
> Bombs the country
> Kidnaps Maduro
The Economist: Why didn't China stop us from doing this?
> Kills over 100 via strikes on fishing boats
> Illegally seizes tankers going to China
> Increases sanctions on the oil sector
> Threatens anyone that gets in its way
> Bombs the country
> Kidnaps Maduro
The Economist: Why didn't China stop us from doing this?
Over the past few months China has regularly condemned America’s military deployment near Venezuela.
But aside from strong words, what did it do for Nicolás Maduro at his time of need?
But aside from strong words, what did it do for Nicolás Maduro at his time of need?
America’s raid on Venezuela reveals the limits of China’s reach
It is not a template for Taiwan but a reality check on China’s global power
econ.st
January 6, 2026 at 6:04 PM
> US blockades Venezuela
> Kills over 100 via strikes on fishing boats
> Illegally seizes tankers going to China
> Increases sanctions on the oil sector
> Threatens anyone that gets in its way
> Bombs the country
> Kidnaps Maduro
The Economist: Why didn't China stop us from doing this?
> Kills over 100 via strikes on fishing boats
> Illegally seizes tankers going to China
> Increases sanctions on the oil sector
> Threatens anyone that gets in its way
> Bombs the country
> Kidnaps Maduro
The Economist: Why didn't China stop us from doing this?
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Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...