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Tommodore 64

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Lead Level Designer @DoubleElevenLtd - Previously: Minecraft Dungeons, Prison Architect, LittleBigPlanet Vita, Lego Harry Potter Collection. Views are my own.

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · Nov 19

Four games I've worked on:

Minecraft Dungeons cover art. A couple of blocky heroes leaping towards us surrounded by enemies.

Prison Architect console edition cover. A cartoon man is walking to us in handcuffs surrounded by prison staff

Littlebigplanet PS Vita cover. Sackboy is being picked up by a hand off a small planet made of lots of things.

Songbringer cover art. A hero on a mountain holds up a sword with a beam of light shooting from it. A woman and a robot are either side of him and a ringed planet in the background

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 1h

Repost if you're old enough to remember when people called Antifa "The Allied Forces"

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 1d

This was all I could think of.

A panel from Preacher, showing the character 'arseface' shouting incoherently. A panel to the side reads "I will become arse face".

He is wearing a white t-shirt and has a face shaped like a sphincter.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 3d

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Rick Schmitz @rickschmitz.bsky.social · 3d

Another monster for October… the Swamp Thing!

The Swamp Thing, lit from below somehow while stalking its swamp. Ink on paper.

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NESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · 4d

Nintendo reportedly lobbying japanese government to push back against Generative AI
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 5d

Switch-lite form factor is so nice. I'd kill for a Steam Deck this size.

Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 5d

Just one phoenix down and you're good.

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Chloe Goodchild @gendertruckery.bsky.social · 5d

Hey folks!

If you or anyone you know is after an experienced designer to pick up full time, part time or contracting positions I'm available via my company WitchGraft Ltd!

● 10+ years design experience
○ Level, systems, mechanical, you name it, I've poked it
● Also team lead/management experience!

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 6d

A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d

In memoriam...

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 5d

I loved the way the drew Knuckles in these strips. He always looked so cool! Is this Richard Elson?

Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 7d

This looks fantastic, what a lovely way to spend a weekend.

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 7d

Between this and the Avalanche layoffs, I believe a quarter of the Stockholm game industry got wiped out in one day? 🫠

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

Funcom, the Oslo-based studio behind the recently released Dune: Awakening, has announced it will be laying off staff.

www.gamesindustry.biz/dune-awakeni...

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom announces redundancies

The Tencent-owned studio says it needs to "restructure our teams and focus our resources"

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d

Folks who create videos about games on the internet: I have questions for you if you'd be so kind. I'm trying to determine the relationship between traditional media and those who create videos about games and have never worked for the games press. Sharing is appreciated!

forms.gle/cG3BEkGqwuoh...

Games influencer press relationship query

I'm trying to determine to what extend people who create videos about games engage with "traditional" press as a source for what games to cover. Please only answer these questions if you are someone w...

forms.gle

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d

Now I am not the biggest fan of copyright law but I do miss way back a couple years ago when doing this was illegal

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 7d

Don Draper couldn't come up with an ad this good.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 7d

Not bad considering it was a fairly bad month in terms of routine!

Gym stats for this month. Hit new bests in Cable Row, Lat Pull and Leg Curl.

Gym stats for this month. 9 workouts, 6h 44 duration, 55kg volume and 187 sets.

Gym stats for this month. Sets:

Lats 38.5
Biceps 37.5
Chest 35
Triceps 34.5
Upper back 28.5
Abs 28

Gym stats for this month.

Top Excercises

Candlestick
Pull Up
Seated Cable Row

Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 8d

Loving the case, I'm so glad case makers now understand there are other aesthetics than GAMER RGB.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

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Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social · 9d

This isn't funny its chilling..

It's fascism, its the Warsaw ghettos. Its kristalnacht, it's the red Terror, it's hunting people for their color and race, it's the banality of evil.

Stupid dumb ignorant men who would rather hunt human beings than shelter them.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 10d

On this day in 1998, 27 years ago, Pokémon Red & Blue were first released in the US. These games were adaptations of Pokémon Red & Green based on the Pokémon Blue engine and brought the franchise to the west!

www.serebii.net/rb

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 11d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 11d

Since the media is currently obsessed with Reform I hope this carries on for as long as Angela Rayner's tax affairs did.

BBC News - Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.com

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