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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Apr 9

I'm concerned that one thing game companies will use genAI for is populating background details like fake magazines, store shelf products, and book covers. This is what they're trying to take from us. This is what's at stake. (Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines, Dead Rising, and Plastic Battlegrounds VR)

fake magazines mayday with plane, dead bird with bird photo, doggies with growling dog, greed with money in hand, slums downtown living, pain and suffering, chin, women whaler, eorm, energy, super punks.

fake cereals boo boo, blue honey, count ohoculo, meaties, storrios, fruit butte, mmmmy mmmy, by fake bags of chips.

books say all hail Caesar, first mayor of williomette, machines of destruction, they killed him, amazing Roosevelt.

side of large food box says below nutrition facts there is still a lot of space down here roo for a lot of text that I can't really think of writing just to make the box look full from a distance and busy and realistic. I just have to type a lot of things on the side of the box. don't believe nutrition facts here. they are just the same as the rest of them really they are and they are not accurate at all.

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 2h

Enjoy! I think the more recent ones are Weird (positive) 😆

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 3h

I make games and post them on itch with @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social ⭐ maybe next year we'll do one that's not part of a game jam (i.e., attempt a marathon rather than a sprint)

meghan0n.itch.io

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18h

Here are the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards!! Congratulations to everyone!!

reactormag.com/winners-2025...

Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards - Reactor

Congratulations to all!

reactormag.com

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I'm sat for this?! 🐎❤️

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

support @videogameschronicle.com @gematsu.com @rpgsite.net @trueachievements.com @vooks.net et al (there are many, many more, I know) for the love of christ

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

the magic: the gathering card "bagel and schmear" from the spider-man magic: the gathering set. Yes this is a real card that is legal to play

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 2d

Give it 3-4 I think

Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 2d

Back to work today

a panda bear laying on a wooden bench

ALT: a panda bear laying on a wooden bench

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 3d

Love a bit of urban juxtaposition 🇯🇵

Bye for now, Tokyo 👋🏻

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 4d

I think you've had an absolutely incredible career to date and I love finding out what you'll be up to next!

Bonus: Dundee is the sunniest city in Scotland, and it looks to be sunny tomorrow, too ☀️

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 4d

Looking sharp!

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 9d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 11d

Tokyo 2

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 12d

This is so random, but I once had a nightmare where the Venga Bus was a sort of vehicle to hell, complete with its own lyrics 😆 so it definitely has that horror vibe down.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 13d

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 23d

In my latest for @tabletopbookshelf.com I review why Rune by @gilarpgs.bsky.social is a fantastic little homage to FromSoft games in tabletop form ✨

(One of the tactical combat enjoyers, myself included)

tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

READ & REVIEWED: RUNE

By Meghan Ellis A dangerous zealot rushes towards a solitary figure, chanting a hymn of the stars. Nearby, a skeleton waits to join the fray, wearing clothes of an unfamiliar land. The sky above march...

tabletopbookshelf.com

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 14d

My cousin took us up the Rokkō mountain range to watch the sunset over Kobe and Osaka. What an incredible view 🧡

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29d

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 16d

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(Osaka aquarium is something else)

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 17d

Having an absolute blast! 🤩 this is the last leg before we go back to Tokyo so enjoying the Osaka vibes.

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 17d

Osaka ~ まいど 🥰

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 17d

In my recent video about sound novels, I showed some behind the scenes footage about the making of Kamaitachi no Yoru 2. All that footage came from a pre-order bonus DVD that I have now uploaded to the Internet Archive, so you can watch the whole thing.
archive.org/details/kama...

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Meghan Ellis @meghan0n.bsky.social · 18d

Kinosaki was pretty gorgeous yah

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