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Sam Barlow 🔥

@mrsambarlow.bsky.social

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Writer & Director of 🔥 IMMORTALITY - "10/10" Edge 🔥 HER STORY - Telling Lies - Aisle - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - He/Him NEXT! → PROJECT C (@blumhouse.com) and PROJECT D - Two new and mindblowing horror games coming in your future

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1m

(Luckily for everyone there IS a bit of fan service air guitar thrown out for the fans. I'm not sure if Beckett would have found this more or less acceptable than women in the roles)

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 3m

The performance I went to was full of fidgeting, uncomfortable partners of people who had clearly come for Bill & Ted 4. When we hit the intermission a bunch of them thought it was the end and seemed relieved

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1h

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1h

AirPort Express still the best bit of tech Apple put out

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 4h

That was one of the inspirations for TELLING LIES :)

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 5h

Love that SINNERS and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER broke records this year showing that this logic is total bullshit

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 5h

❤️

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 7h

Utter spineless failure

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

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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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 14h

Me and PTA kicking back in his screening room hunched over a 3DS XL giggling, “just look at this, so good”

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 14h

Had an incredible urge to seek out the sega ages Powerdrift port since seeing this movie. I guess physical is my only option at this point, rip 3DS eshop

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

This bit of the movie proves that Paul Thomas Anderson loves super scaler games

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 15h

did someone say “Abel Ferrara’s commentary on King of New York”

youtu.be/WQRzH9BAzks?...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

This bit of the movie proves that Paul Thomas Anderson loves super scaler games

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

One Battle After Another

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

OBAA 👍👍

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

Just fixed shower temperature by taking the handle off and adjusting the scald guard and feel like a genius now (also having to extend my hex key collection to include a 3/32 size means I feel *upgraded* as a practically useful person)

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

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Tatum @tatum.bsky.social · 4d

“Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared.”

Finally got some of the extra goodies framed from @lostincult.co.uk’s Immortality Design Works. An extremely special game and an experience playing I’ll never forget.

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · 1d

This week on Quest Quest: The Adventure Game Podcast,
@bvigeant.bsky.social and I discuss @mrsambarlow.bsky.social's Immortality. Find out why this ridiculously ambitious FMV game is one of our favorite modern adventures!

Listen here: zencastr.com/z/8QxWP2de

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 2d

Bought a Japanese SNES copy of this game that I couldn't understand just for this box art

(Then it got stolen when I lived in Pompey :()

beluga's kin @emmartian.bsky.social · 2d

Still the best cover ever created.

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beluga's kin @emmartian.bsky.social · 2d

Still the best cover ever created.

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Katie, world's scariest Little Lady @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 2d

If u only play one game in ur life play Immortality

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 8d

Hey it's #SteamSale! You can get
🔥 IMMORTALITY for $9.99
👁️ TELLING LIES for $4.99
☕ HER STORY for $4.99
& wishlist Project C and Project D whilst you are there...
It's a good time to play good games in the present and wish for good games in the future! ✨
store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 2d

The Rainbow is such an indulgence

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 2d

Film critic David Thompson spontaneously explodes