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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 3h

Jason Blum is a fucking hack.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 12h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4h

Most did, but you can guess exactly the kind of people who were mad.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6h

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, so is GDC just not a game professionals conference anymore?

Lego? Speedruns?

San Francisco is expensive and America is unsafe. This is your play?

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

Calling partners for GDC 2026! Deadline extended to Friday, October 10

From speedruns, to LEGO building, to movie screenings, to concerts in the park, and more! Here’s what you need to know about GDC's search for new partnerships.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 9h

If you think a game about going after the KKK would be controversial due to the current political climate, it's a good sign you should make a game about going after the KKK.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 13h

On Nov 8th I'm playing games for 24hrs to raise money for SickKids Children's Hospital!

Every $10 donated gets your name in the raffle for a bunch of prizes at the end of the stream.

2025 has been A Lot(TM) but we can still put some good into the world!

www.extra-life.org/participants...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @ivimey.bsky.social for getting us started!

Who wants to get us to $50?

Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 2d

It's October, which means you know what time it is:
ASHLEY IS RAISING MONEY FOR SICKKIDS!

Gaming for 24 hours. Live stream. Prizes. Special guests. Shenanigans.

This is my 10TH YEAR fundraising for SickKids so let's make it the best year yet!

www.extra-life.org/participants...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 2d

It's October, which means you know what time it is:
ASHLEY IS RAISING MONEY FOR SICKKIDS!

Gaming for 24 hours. Live stream. Prizes. Special guests. Shenanigans.

This is my 10TH YEAR fundraising for SickKids so let's make it the best year yet!

www.extra-life.org/participants...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 3d

That's awesome.

For a while, I seriously considered trying to do the same with a Sega Naomi cab, but never pulled the trigger.

Still think about it once in a while, though!

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 3d

Siiiic. What are you building?

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: words mean different things.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4d

Catgirl supremacy.

A hand holds a Magic: The Gathering card of Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. She is a human/cat hybrid, dressed in a dark cloak, with a gnarled staff.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4d

I want to make a game like those OG Thiefs so much.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4d

ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIIIIVE
TAKE ME TO HEAVEN WHEN WE DIIIIIE

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6d

I heard it was multiverse shit and immediately lost interest.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think that's true. It's every store.

The only places you are guaranteed to get MSRP are big box stores. When you turn Gamestop into the good guy, you've really fucked up.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6d

Local game stores acting like scalpers and setting pre-sale prices based on speculation is the worst part of playing Magic.

I want to root for independent stores but when they do shit like this they make it so hard.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 6d

Momentum.

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 6d

UK workers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionised - the first recognised video game union in the UK.

(Read more: GamesIndustry)

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 7d

Subscriptions are the enshitification of access to art.

GenAI is the enshitification of creation of art.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, so Game Pass is just cooked, huh?

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 8d

Players largely have a good nose for bullshit, which is why they have been so vocal in their wholesale rejection of AI. It's bullshit top to bottom and they can smell it a mile away.

There are more great games releasing than ever before. Players have the power to walk away and they will.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 8d

Most of these people could never work again and be comfortable for the rest of their lives.

And yet...

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 9d

I understand this on a deep level.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 9d

Loot!

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 10d

Even among the shock of Konami actually doing stuff again, this is maybe the most shocking?

Suikoden? Anime??

Nice to see them not just hitting the low hanging fruit.

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