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Megan Fox

@glassbottommeg.bsky.social

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Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on something mysterious (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Jul 20

Oh shit I hit 12k! Neat!

Anyways uh if you'd rather only see my "on topic" posts, got a feed that only shows my next project: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Also got a Patreon if you want my especially nerdy blogs:

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Jan 25

I guess I should sometimes actually share the Patreon in a "hey, subscribers help!" kinda way: www.patreon.com/posts/ah-hol...

Anyways, next two posts will be how to use fake/heavy gravity to make games feel "heavier" and a UE5 ControlRig deep dive

Ah, holidays are over, time to blog again | Megan Fox

Get more from Megan Fox on Patreon

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 3m

Actually you tend to use an auto rigger these days, and those often already auto skin. I'd point at Houdini here for the one pushing on auto skinning.

This is another "yeah I guess we could call that tool AI but you're not using word like the AI bros mean / it's no more AI than the patch brush is"

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 2h

What's this? An actually reasonable, explanatory, clearly understandable take on what AI can and can't be reasonably expected to do (and how the "AI" that works has actually been in tools for years already)?

GOSH

Anyways this is real good

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 13h

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.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 3h

literally if ai worked at all companies would keep it secret and use it to make a lot of money like they wouldnt advertise to you

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 4h

I aspire to be as cool as this chicken

beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13h

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah alright, the melee flurry turned out ok

Still has a bit of dance party vibe, but that's fine, whole game's balanced on a comedic edge, I do Not want the player to feel like a monster for murdering these lil guys 🐭⚔️

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 6h

I can't shake this feeling that all of these are AI generated, even if they look like someone actually rendered them

It's almost like execs did shitty AI videos to sell the thing then said "OK artists fix these amazing videos we made, they just need a tiny bit of work" or, something? They vibe odd.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 11h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 6h

This would fix me

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 6h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 11h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 1d

Disco Elysium screenshot, wherein I am extremely rude to Harry (who I would... maybe?... date? but it isn't his looks it's more that he's self-destructive and also wearing piss-stained trousers)

Dialog as follows:

MIRROR - What are you doing with your die, why is your shirt hanging open like laundry on the line...

What does it even *mean*? What is the message you're trying to convey?

YOU - I'm twenty years old. My breasts are juicy and succulent. I am a god damn verdant field waiting to be ploughed, in a *tired 5 acres and an aging mule* kind of way. I possess a certain charm.

MIRROR - That might have been true thirty years ago, but the plot is fallow and the farmer left you for a larger, newer, factory-owned operation.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible: Failure] - It's too late. Like an illuminated masterpiece by the modern master Thomas Kinkade, your value isn't what it used to be. You're dusty, poorly framed, and have lost the fleeting, almost quixotic appeal you had in the 90's.

The jugs have been milked, and you're no dairy maid. You're the mule.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I was glad to see Optimum was like, actually good. Heard they cared, nice to see that proven out.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11h

Raimi still GOT IT

FUCK YEA

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11h

First trailer for Sam Raimi’s new horror film ‘Send Help’ starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien

Follows two co-workers who hate each other getting stranded on an island after a plane crash

In theaters on January 30, 2026

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11h

a man with long hair is sitting in the driver 's seat of a truck with his eyes closed .

Alt: Nic Cage appreciates the sunlight and wind

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11h

Just reading this interesting ar- <incoherent giggling>

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11h

Which normally isn't something you'd think about, but when you're functionally boiling and reducing that down an absurd amount to extract JUST the protein,

whelp

that's a cow super-concentrate, hope there wasn't anything Else in that cow you didn't wanna ingest

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 11h

The meat (protein), presumably, hence the beef-protein being still again higher than the milk protein. That is, the cow filters a lot of the lead out in the process of making the milk, but that lead is still, you know. There. In the cow itself.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12h

Anyways I can't be smug even though my protein is fine (I lean toward whey cus I'm cheap) because I eat a lot of spinach and

guess what

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12h

"The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones."

And similar thing here, cus: guess what cows eat

(milk gets heavily filtered by the body cus genetics say babies is important)

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12h

“It’s concerning that these results are even worse than the last time we tested,”

Yeah that's how air et al pollution works, innit

Maybe y'all should have listened to the greenies, huh

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12h

Like it probably has nothing to do with contamination or whatever, it's just: well yeah, that stuff is in the soil. Where ya growing. Who was using it before you. Do you even have records that go back far enough. Can you AFFORD land that's truly pristine. Etc.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 12h

Oh! This actually makes sense!

Like it's obviously very bad but also it's FASCINATING because this is the same problem chocolate has: plants are bio-concentrater of heavy metals, and the more refined the plant product is, the more of said heavy metal you're going to end up ingesting

Bad! But cool!

Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 12h

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"The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones."

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 15h

Ooooh.

I'd been prepared to write this off but, if it's another Arceus... oooooooh

Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously I am reasonably early still at 10 ish hours, but my big take away is that the Legends offshoot games are very much some of my Favourite Pokémon titles.

I am really glad for these experiments with different forms a Pokémon RPG can take.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character says it 's art in front of a red wall

Alt: a cartoon character says it 's art in front of a red wall

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 1d

Real ones know to use white noise that's home grown, right here, in your bedroom air purifier that's right by the bed