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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h

Spielberg: “Drew made event art. His posters made many of our movies into destinations … and the memory of those movies and the age we were when we saw them always comes flashing back just by glancing at his iconic photorealistic imagery. In his own invented style, nobody drew like Drew.”

Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style as Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro pay tribute.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 7h

Dear [Everyone Who Has Told Me To Read The Murderbot Diaries],

I have started reading The Murderbot Diaries so you may now stop telling me to read The Murderbot Diaries. Furthermore, you were all correct when you said they were “something [you] bet [I] would love” and “absolutely [my] shit.”

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23h

I also patted the electric stovetop with my fingertips to see if it was on (it was) so I’m a wild card today.

eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23h

I finished a bottle of shampoo and conditioner at the same time. AMA.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23h

Sometime around when I had half of my 7th bottle of shampoo and all of my 5th bottle of conditioner

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 23h

I finished a bottle of shampoo and conditioner at the same time. AMA.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

There’s been a steady uptick the last few years of people rediscovering and/or reassessing MCSM, and it’s made me proud to see people starting to recognize and appreciate what we were trying to do.

To all those people, thank you for playing. To all my old teammates, happy ten years of Story Mode.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

My belief is that what people were responding to was the *earnestness*, particularly as the series went on. We weren’t cynical, we weren’t tongue in cheek, and we told a story of friendship and community at a time when that was deeply uncool.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

Because in spite of the mockery, we still built a fanbase full of sweet, beautiful weirdos who supported us for all 13 episodes. We had a steady stream of fan art and kind letters from kids around the world. And it’s a fanbase that still unbelievably exists today.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

On season 1 I was a contributing writer for eps 1-4, promoted to lead writer for eps 5-8, and then made a Creative Lead for all of Season 2. I was proud of what we were making even as the internet - and even other devs at Telltale - laughed and rolled their eyes.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of younger MCSM fans I talk to don’t realize how DEEPLY uncool Minecraft was in 2014/2015 - it was “for kids” at best, and the “Tylenol” punchline of its day at worst. Making a story game set in that world was something we got roasted for on the regular across YouTube, Social Media, etc.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow, today marks the tenth (?!) anniversary of the launch of “Minecraft: Story Mode.” It was a bit of a punching bag for the internet and social media back then, but it has unbelievably continued to draw fans all these years later even while unavailable to play in any (official) form.

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Elan Ruskin @despair.bsky.social · 2d

Tron: Ares is a very colorful movie in which many things happen. But it misses a big part of what made the original "Tron" work. Since no one asked, let's talk a bit about cyberpunk, video games, and religious allegory.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

my infant son (remotely) attended 90% of the VO recording sessions for Fortnite during the 2021 lockdown and his constant goober-y grin on video definitely helped morale

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 2d

b o n e c h i l l i n g .

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 5d

Packaging is an electronic duo from the Pacific NW that feels kind of Broken Bells adjacent if that’s your fancy. youtu.be/qqNmcq8V4sI?...

Running Through the Airport

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 5d

Long Fling is an indie duo from Amsterdam that gives me LCD Soundsystem vibes with their “drum and guitar driven computer anthems.” youtu.be/O23xBby9gb4?...

Cool Bottle Water Park - Long Fling

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 5d

Two really fun debut self-titled albums dropped today - PACKAGING and LONG FLING - plus a great remix album of one of my favorite 2024 releases.

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New Music Friday! October 10th, 2025

Two self-titled debut albums and remix album of one of my favorites from 2024

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta give it up for these three - had such magical experiences playing all of them, and they were a huge part of opening my mind to the wider world of game development at a crucial point in my career.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 5d

I like that mercy is just as easy as killing in the moment, but has more burden afterwards. Yes i can non lethally skyhook ten dudes into the wild blue yonder, but then they’re my responsibility to clothe and home back at motherbase.

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 5d

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social · 5d

This was one of the coolest things about working on the Lord of the Rings Magic set. Need another setpiece? Well there's one sentence where Treebeard says Galadriel solo'd an entire orc army so let's depict that shit.

julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 5d

one of my favorite lord of the ring-isms the movies carry over from the books is that tolkien isn't really an action writer, so we're always hearing about the coolest shit gandalf and saruman did that sorry you just missed it but it slapped it was real anime

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 6d

A simpler time

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BIGGER THAN BEFORE

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 6d

remeber when egg was bigger than before

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