Matthew Donald 📖🦖🤣
@matthewdonald64.bsky.social
Author, creator, and funny guy I guess. Author of the Megazoic and Teslanauts book series and host of the Paleo Bites podcast. My opinions are mine alone. He/Him
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New #promosky post! This time it's all about my writing. Link to my books in profile:
🙋♂️YA Fiction
⚔️Action/Adventure
🚀Sci-Fi
🧚♀️Fantasy
🔮Alt History
😄Comedy
🦖Dinosaurs
👨👦Character-Driven
🙉Mostly Lighthearted
🕳Sudden Darkness
🚂Steampunk
🚃Dieselpunk
⚡️Teslapunk
👨👩👧👦Found Family
👨❤️💋👨Slow Burn
🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ Friendly
🙋♂️YA Fiction
⚔️Action/Adventure
🚀Sci-Fi
🧚♀️Fantasy
🔮Alt History
😄Comedy
🦖Dinosaurs
👨👦Character-Driven
🙉Mostly Lighthearted
🕳Sudden Darkness
🚂Steampunk
🚃Dieselpunk
⚡️Teslapunk
👨👩👧👦Found Family
👨❤️💋👨Slow Burn
🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ Friendly
I'm all for transparency in theory. In practice, considering people currently get review bombed, doxxed, death threats, rape threats, and wild defamation thrown their way when certain folks even have a whiff of SUSPICION of AI being used, I'd say that Sweeney is completely correct here.
Opposing Steam’s AI Disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Says Game Stores Should Drop "the AI tag" Because "it makes no sense" When "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm all for transparency in theory. In practice, considering people currently get review bombed, doxxed, death threats, rape threats, and wild defamation thrown their way when certain folks even have a whiff of SUSPICION of AI being used, I'd say that Sweeney is completely correct here.
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Nostalgia for past eras of entertainment has blinded so many of us into thinking the entertainment industry hasn’t mostly been mediocre on any given year.
The great stuff we tend to remember more than the constant mediocrity of past decades.
The great stuff we tend to remember more than the constant mediocrity of past decades.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nostalgia for past eras of entertainment has blinded so many of us into thinking the entertainment industry hasn’t mostly been mediocre on any given year.
The great stuff we tend to remember more than the constant mediocrity of past decades.
The great stuff we tend to remember more than the constant mediocrity of past decades.
No greater atrocities are committed than by those who are convinced they are on a moral crusade.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
No greater atrocities are committed than by those who are convinced they are on a moral crusade.
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Normalize being nice without expecting anything in return or having ulterior motives.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Normalize being nice without expecting anything in return or having ulterior motives.
So you liked the art until you saw it was AI? That is 100% a *you* problem, lol. It is totally within your power to just, I dunno, get over it?
thought this was sick for like 2 seconds and then i saw it's AI lmaoooo 🍅🍅🍅
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So you liked the art until you saw it was AI? That is 100% a *you* problem, lol. It is totally within your power to just, I dunno, get over it?
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We occasionally get questions about whether we use AI.
Yes. Just like Bluesky. Just like the majority of software projects these days.
It's especially unrealistic to expect projects without serious funding to not use AI and try to compete.
Yes. Just like Bluesky. Just like the majority of software projects these days.
It's especially unrealistic to expect projects without serious funding to not use AI and try to compete.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We occasionally get questions about whether we use AI.
Yes. Just like Bluesky. Just like the majority of software projects these days.
It's especially unrealistic to expect projects without serious funding to not use AI and try to compete.
Yes. Just like Bluesky. Just like the majority of software projects these days.
It's especially unrealistic to expect projects without serious funding to not use AI and try to compete.
I realized something funny on my millionth binge of New GIrl. Schmidt would LOVE AI, use ChatGPT for emails and efficient marketing strategies, and use Sora to make self-aggrandizing videos. Nick would HATE AI, fear the machines taking over, and write his next zombie book on a typewriter in protest.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I realized something funny on my millionth binge of New GIrl. Schmidt would LOVE AI, use ChatGPT for emails and efficient marketing strategies, and use Sora to make self-aggrandizing videos. Nick would HATE AI, fear the machines taking over, and write his next zombie book on a typewriter in protest.
Call me a "corporate bootlicker" all you want; it's amazing how so many online have deluded themselves into thinking they know better about something than people with market experience and heaps of data we don't have. No, random Redditor, you do not know more about tech than big tech companies, lol
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Call me a "corporate bootlicker" all you want; it's amazing how so many online have deluded themselves into thinking they know better about something than people with market experience and heaps of data we don't have. No, random Redditor, you do not know more about tech than big tech companies, lol
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"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
I'm starting a movement. Rather than try to counter with an argument like "let people enjoy things," let's hit these folks back with a term of our own. They call our beliefs anti-intellectualism. I henceforth call theirs "artistic solipsism."
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm starting a movement. Rather than try to counter with an argument like "let people enjoy things," let's hit these folks back with a term of our own. They call our beliefs anti-intellectualism. I henceforth call theirs "artistic solipsism."
I'm gonna call folks like this "art solipsists" from now on. People who think what they consider well written is what the universe must as well, and any other opinions, rather than just from people with different perspectives, are "wrong" and "uninformed."
if your view of rogue one is that it is a "well-acted and well-written action flick" then i'm just going to assume you've never seen a movie before
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'm gonna call folks like this "art solipsists" from now on. People who think what they consider well written is what the universe must as well, and any other opinions, rather than just from people with different perspectives, are "wrong" and "uninformed."
"If this movie doesn't adhere to my personal tastes, it is a bad movie and you are stupid for enjoying it" type energy, lol
i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.
Or, movies are art/entertainment and that means wildly different things to different people.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"If this movie doesn't adhere to my personal tastes, it is a bad movie and you are stupid for enjoying it" type energy, lol
Nah.
One thing the "LeT pEoPLe eNjOy tHiNgS" crowd never seem to get is that enjoying something and that thing being Actually Good are two very different things.
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Nah.
I swear, Edge is like the Robbie Williams of internet browsers. It's perfectly fine, totally acceptable, in fact very good at what it does even... it's just most of us (especially here in America) absolutely REFUSE to engage with it out of principle.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I swear, Edge is like the Robbie Williams of internet browsers. It's perfectly fine, totally acceptable, in fact very good at what it does even... it's just most of us (especially here in America) absolutely REFUSE to engage with it out of principle.
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🕛 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕐 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕑 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕒 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕓 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕔 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕐 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕑 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕒 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕓 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕔 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🕛 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕐 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕑 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕒 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕓 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕔 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕐 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕑 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕒 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
🕓 Sees bad CGI “CGI IS RUINING MOVIES!”
🕔 Doesn’t notice the CGI “PRACTICAL IS BEST!”
This isn't a dumb fan. This isn't a grifter. This is a professional critic's review of Wicked: For Good, complaining that they couldn't see a different movie they've already seen because the movie actually in front of them to review was in the way.
I will NEVER respect criticism as a profession.
I will NEVER respect criticism as a profession.
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This isn't a dumb fan. This isn't a grifter. This is a professional critic's review of Wicked: For Good, complaining that they couldn't see a different movie they've already seen because the movie actually in front of them to review was in the way.
I will NEVER respect criticism as a profession.
I will NEVER respect criticism as a profession.
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I think there's a special dislike I have for people who keep saying things like "why do movies not look like movies", or "it looks like it was shot on a phone!", which a) is not true, b) demeaning and ignorant to people who work on films, and c) an excuse for only liking movies when you were 10.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I think there's a special dislike I have for people who keep saying things like "why do movies not look like movies", or "it looks like it was shot on a phone!", which a) is not true, b) demeaning and ignorant to people who work on films, and c) an excuse for only liking movies when you were 10.
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I love practical as much as I love digital.
The potential of both to be awesome is equal to their potential to be terrible.
It, as always, is up to the filmmakers.
The potential of both to be awesome is equal to their potential to be terrible.
It, as always, is up to the filmmakers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I love practical as much as I love digital.
The potential of both to be awesome is equal to their potential to be terrible.
It, as always, is up to the filmmakers.
The potential of both to be awesome is equal to their potential to be terrible.
It, as always, is up to the filmmakers.
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This is gonna be a tough holiday season for the “audiences are starving for original movies” crowd.
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is gonna be a tough holiday season for the “audiences are starving for original movies” crowd.
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My hot take with the whole current idea that “cgi takes me out of a film” is that hella practical effects, compositing and matte paintings have been “taking me out of movies” forever.
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My hot take with the whole current idea that “cgi takes me out of a film” is that hella practical effects, compositing and matte paintings have been “taking me out of movies” forever.
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*gonna see
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
*gonna see
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UNPOPULAR OPINION: Spending hours gaming is better for your mental health than hours of doom scrolling through social media. Games give you critical thinking, strategy, stories, goals and actual dopamine, as opposed to anxiety.
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
UNPOPULAR OPINION: Spending hours gaming is better for your mental health than hours of doom scrolling through social media. Games give you critical thinking, strategy, stories, goals and actual dopamine, as opposed to anxiety.
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Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again
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Hundreds Protest Gender-Based Violence in South Africa Before G20 Summit www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Hundreds Protest Gender-Based Violence in South Africa Before G20 Summit
Demonstrators called for their government to declare gender-based violence and killings a national disaster in South Africa. This comes as Johannesburg hosts the first G20 Summit in Africa this weeken...
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hundreds Protest Gender-Based Violence in South Africa Before G20 Summit www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
People seriously say classic dogwhistles like this and try desperately to say they're not antisemitic, lol. Imagine someone stating racist stereotypes and then saying they're "not racist." Same energy.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
People seriously say classic dogwhistles like this and try desperately to say they're not antisemitic, lol. Imagine someone stating racist stereotypes and then saying they're "not racist." Same energy.