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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · Oct 17

Never posted this here, but hey:

If you’re looking for voice over talent for any sort of project, keep me in mind 🤙🏻

Check out my demo reel at barrettcourtney.com

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact: Obama remains the only Nobel winner to order a drone strike on another Nobel winner

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 21h

Happy anniversary to the day Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Somewhere, Trump is rage-Googling “how to win Nobel without doing peace.”

#TrumpTantrum

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 20h

When you say this, what I hear is "3D TVs and NFTs are here to stay"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 2d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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alessandro fillari @afillari.bsky.social · 2d

This dude has always sucked.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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AK @akfamilyhome.com · 4d

SOUP IN 4K

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 2d

Learning a lot from golf week already, I see

Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 2d

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Fantastic work by @jaymcastello.bsky.social

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 3d

So I bet that they try to develop a game generated by AI, it does not work, so they use people for cut-rate salaries (or don’t pay them at all), don’t credit them, and pretend the AI made it.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

Still very trippy how we brought back the old studio

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

Double check which tracks are being recorded and which audio sources are activated on each track?

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

Funniest thing is, I was gonna finally request a code to give it a fair shake this week but this just stoked my hater fire again lol

I finally understand people who don’t play Undertale because of the fanbase

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

Last thing I’ll give you here, the way fans talk about this game sounds like they haven’t played any other game this year. Again, just annoying.

Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

Dawg, you made an account just to do this. Almost every interaction I’ve had with people about this game has been like this.

If you don’t understand how offputting that is, touch some fucking grass

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a fan of the dude they brought up, therefore I must like every piece of art that dude likes lol

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

It started when we reviewed Blue Prince and most of our comments were “how can this game about walking around be game of the year? It’s nothing compared to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. The most influential game of all time! These guys need to start playing real games.”

stfu, you sound like an asshat

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 3d

My lack of interest in Kingdom Come is due to it’s fans being fucking annoying, not whatever thing you just made up in your head

You’re proving my point

tristanwinfie1d.bsky.social @tristanwinfie1d.bsky.social · 3d

So weird @barrettcourtney.bsky.social hate for KCD2. It’s Hasan Pikers favorite game. So acting like it’s game for maga chuds without playing any of the game, and taking your opinion of it from Reddit comments seems like a petty bitch move honestly. Lack of objectivity is crazy for a goty nom.

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 4d

Melinoe and her story are way less compelling though. It’s a very cookie cutter hero’s quest whereas the first one felt more personal, raw, and less easy in terms of the motivations from everyone involved in the story

Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 4d

Great sequel. Gameplay, mechanics, and the roguelike flow all have major improvements that made me enjoy this kinda game much more than Hades 1 did.

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 4d

Hades II finished.

Final run results:

(Tagged for some slight spoilers)

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 4d

In the late 1950s, the US government and its intelligence agencies started to promote the idea that the civil rights struggle was actually a product of Soviet communist manipulation, and that there was no other reason why the black population would protest against segregation and for civil rights.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

As Israel continues the genocidal onslaught, Van Jones just blamed Iran/Qatar “disinformation” for why the world has turned on Israel — and ignores Bibi’s recent admission they plan to take over and weaponize TikTok themselves.

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Barrett Courtney @barrettcourtney.bsky.social · 4d

Yea yea, the final season of My Hero started. Sure.

More importantly, Spy x Family is finally back

a girl with pink hair is smiling with her eyes closed and wearing a black hat .

ALT: a girl with pink hair is smiling with her eyes closed and wearing a black hat .

media.tenor.com

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 4d

This is also a contributor to rising hardware costs as well, alongside tariffs.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d

The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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