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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Producer at @Coatsink. Working on ??? and ???. Prev. Phantom Spark.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · Oct 21

Cool shit I've achieved in recent months:
- Interviewed by MCV/DEVELOP.
- Published in Lock-On 004.
- Shipped Phantom Spark.
- Acquired two beautiful coconut raccoons.

A photograph of an article in magazine MCV/DEVELOP's "Levelling Up" section in which the poster is interviewed.

A photograph of the article "Death by Design" in LOCK-ON 004, written by the poster. The piece is accompanied by original artwork by Max58 depicting Solaire of Astora from the Dark Souls series.

Key art from the time-trial racing game "Phantom Spark".

A photograph of the poster's two British shorthairs laying side-by-side with a sleepy expression on their faces.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes, the king is just yellow.

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 6h

YOUTUBE MUST BE STOPPED

What even is this? 😭

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail depicting a yellow-cloaked faceless figure with the caption "WE ARE HIM" presented in the lower third in red capitalized text. The video is named "Why You Must Fear Hastur".

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 6h

Y'know that meme of the spider trying to make a cobweb while under the influence of various substances? That's how my brain and its resulting output feels these days when trying to accomplish any simple task. I have caffeine web brain.

Six spiderwebs of varying quality, with labels indicating the influences affecting them (Normal, LSD, Marijuana, Sleeping Pills, Caffeine, Benzedrine). Every web other than the "Normal" one appears incomplete in some way.

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 8h

Found a cool subreddit called r/BooksThatFeelLikeThis where users post a bunch of images evoking the kind of vibe they're looking for, and then people share recommendations with a similar atmosphere.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 1d

The music in Skate Story sounds like this

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 1d

The music in Skate Story sounds like this

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

It seems so extraneous!

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

I’m experiencing some major Mandela Effect right now!

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

Did anybody else think it was called this already or…?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

33 next month - funnily enough, it was around 30 that I started to really notice these feelings bubbling up. I think society/culture is definitely a huge part of it - everything is designed to be consumed and shared and tracked. News, entertainment, even day-to-day stuff. Living becomes work!

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, the need to listen to my body is something I've become super conscious of this year. Part of me wonders if it's something that comes with age too, having less capacity for being a relentless Media Consumption Machine.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

I've been reading a lot instead, and I've also been spending more time outside, just wandering, or exercising, or even just...being. Slowing down, stopping, smelling the roses. For whatever reason, my wheels have really come off this year. I am *exhausted* and gaming feels too cognitively demanding.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

Death Stranding 2: bounced off
Donkey Kong Bananza: bounced off
Hades 2: bounced off
Silent Hill f & Ghost of Yotei: didn't even purchase

I'm kinda going through something with games at the moment. I need a break. I'm overstimulated by overconsumption.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 3d

Very much enjoyed the pilot episode of Critical Role's new season. That said, are we really going to have to listen to Matt Mercer's terrible Scottish accent for an entire campaign? It's giving Mrs Doubtfire meets Braveheart.

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 4d

Oh 100%, it’s something I’ve found oddly thrilling too. Makes me feel alive!

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 4d

Oof. I count myself lucky every time I fall cleanly and don’t, y’know, smash my teeth in or something. For the most part my landings have been pretty clean but then I’m just taking my first tentative steps into tricks now…

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t tried a manual in motion since I last tried it skating on a slight descent and the board slipped out from under me and I hit the deck fast 🤦‍♂️ I suspect the key is to lean forward and control the balance via your front foot so failure simply means returning the board to neutral?

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 5d

I was practicing my rail balance and accidentally landed a trick 💀

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 5d

I was practicing my rail balance and accidentally landed a trick 💀

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like the human mind just isn’t built to last that long. There’s only so much we can go through. Choosing eternity would be like choosing insanity, and the portion of your life in which you were sane would be like the blink of an eye in comparison. Grant me the sweet release of death please 🙏

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 6d

Generations Z and Alpha turn desperately towards their millennial compatriots in the corner, searching their faces for any sign of hope.

The elders chuckle ominously: “First time?”

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

screenshot from article, 4 short paragraphs: Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.

Analysts — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself — have acknowledged that AI companies are struggling to make enough money to cover their exorbitant expenses, concerns that drove a major tech selloff earlier this year.

And whether they’ll ever be able to produce enough revenue is a looming question. A startling report by researchers at MIT spooked investors in August, finding that only a measly five percent of AI pilot programs help businesses succeed at “rapid revenue acceleration,” with the vast majority falling flat.

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

older man tim gunn wearing rimless glasses has hand on chin saying that concerns me enormously.

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 6d

Knobel Peace Prize.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 7d

Close-up of Mila’s face, now looking scrunched up and tired.

Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 7d

She’s not amused.

Gary’s cat Mila, lying on top of a flower-shaped scratching post/platform. As usual, she looks a bit grumpy.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 7d

Huh. I just figured it was because of its hypnotic appearance, and the cover's implication that kids were being lured into some kind of spell. The more you know!

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