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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 12m

this post is making me want to re-read Alan Moore's run of Miracleman again

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 1h

Yesterday we posted a big Shadow of the Colossus oral history. Threading a few bits of trivia about that story below...

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 19m

The press, for some reason: An Elegy For The Discourse: How The Left Abandoned X And Doomed America
Everyone I love right now irl:

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kelsey irene @holographic.pink · 1d

hello it's #portfolioday !!!

always around for 3D generalist work-- my largest body of work is character work, but i've done props and environments in the past, very versatile

get in here early and you get my great personality and jokes for free 🤸‍♀️ there's also more at tinyurl.com/sz2yjpe3 !

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1h

this really does feel like end of days territory for the Xbox division

only way I can explain the Ally is if up top they're preparing to wind things down so they didn't particularly care about good results, just wrapping things up quickly and cheaply

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2h

The most remarkable thing about this review is how definitively it marks that we've entered a world where Linux gaming performance is *just better* than Windows www.theverge.com/games/799698...

This is not an Xbox

Microsoft’s first “Xbox” handhelds are shipping not fully baked.

www.theverge.com

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 2h

if you have the opportunity, it's stuff that's worth at least asking about

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 2h

admittedly i haven't been following it closely, but

they're releasing something with the Xbox brand and it cannot play Xbox games

a LOT of consumers are going to be extra mad

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 2h

wait, this is just a Windows handheld? it can't even play new Xbox games???

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 21h

Sonic saying, "Support your local, human, erotica creators. You need chatgpt to suck your e-dick for you? You absolutely fucking LOSER"

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⛧Vikintor⛧ 🇧🇷 @vikintor.bsky.social · 18h

For gamers out there, leaks like this means nothing without context.

It doesn't prove the in-game model is the same.
It could just be the LOD/low-res model from an aerial scene or main menu, a reference for mappers, a test model, or something completely different.

Pokémon Leaks 🦋 @pokemonleaks.bsky.social · 2d

The entire Pokémon Legends Z-A map is just ONE single model. That explains why the game has flat buildings everywhere.

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 6h

So if you’d like to support someone whose previous videogame website (which they spent a great deal of effort building into an award winning website with award winning journos and a mentorship program) also got turned into a casino site…

@thisweekinvideogames.com

😅

Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 8h

Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 8h

Mozilla adding an AI search engine WITHOUT TELLING YOU to the list of search engines in the search bar is currently pissing me off immensely

can easily be removed once you notice it, but also fuck all the way off

techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/m...

Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch

The integration offers conversational, cited answers instead of traditional links and follows positive feedback from earlier tests in select markets. Perplexity will expand to mobile soon.

techcrunch.com

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 18h

They’re so CEO coded it feels fake. It’s like, one of those things you see in a mediocre film when they go “okay what does a video game come to life looks like” and then there’s a cameo from a celebrity that was relevant ten years ago

Hell this last one is basically Pixels, you know? The movie

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 22h

important console command that epic doesnt want you to know about that was removed in ue5 and may or may not work when you run it in game in ue4.27 because Epic isn't just run by idiots, its run by malicious and very stupid idiots who hate color >:I

two pics of a frog twink in ue4, one with filmic tonemapping enabled and another with it disabled.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 23h

"gal i better not find you making a post process material to handle lighting, fog, a sky sphere, scene tint, and contrast"

galileo making the face of a guilty dog:

an unreal scene showing a location that wouldnt be too out of place in Twilight Princess for the game cube. below is a shader graph showing the aforementioned post process material.

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TheGhostsThatHauntAmie. 👻🎃 @miee.fans · 1d

Tell me you have no roadmap to profitability without telling me you have roadmap to profitability.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

hand raised

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

galileo back at it again setting up a post process material that takes the diffuse material hooked up to a power 0.5 + replace the tonemapper gives near identical results to blender but causes none of the other post processing features to work (AA, bloom) + requires forward shading to be disabled so

frog twink in the 3D software Blender on the left, unreal on the right

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

a long form researched article WITH COMMISSIONED ART in collaboration with shmuplations???

inject it directly into my veins

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

yeah it's cool stuff

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

oo nice mask

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