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Hamish Zerbinati
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IT/AU - Senior LD/GD on Avatar FoP, former LD on StarWars Outlaws, GD on Mario+Rabbids Spark of Hope, former QA - Historical reenactor, love boardgames & ttrpgs. Occasional streamer https://www.twitch.tv/nertomaros
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Hamish Zerbinati @nertomaros.bsky.social · Nov 20
Four games I've worked on:
EVE Valkyrie splash art and logo Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Star Wars Outlaws
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December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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🥳🥳🥳 I'll be continuing this evening with an Against the Storm run 🥰 and hopefully we'll reach my next milestone? 👀

twitch.tv/nertomaros
December 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.
www.forbes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Last night was my 1st @jinglejam.co.uk stream. I'm bad with social media so here you have it, AFTER the stream 😂 My community and I raised £52 (so far) for @warchilduk.bsky.social ❤️
JJ raised £976k total so far, with more to come!

join us:
www.twitch.tv/nertomaros

tiltify.com/@nertomaros/...
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I haven't tried the others yet but Tactical Breach Wizards is such a good game, a gem!
jinglejam.co.uk Jingle Jam @jinglejam.co.uk · 11d
Because you've been so good, we're letting you open a few of your presents early this year.

Core Keeper, Dungeons of Hinterberg, Tactical Breach Wizards and an exclusive Jingle Jam edition of Train Sim World 6 are your first four games in the 2025 Jingle Jam Games Collection!
A blue graphic with the Jingle Jam logo and an image of four game thumbnails - Dungeons of Hinterberg, Core Keeper, Tactical Breach Wizards, and Train Sim World 6. Below this is a red banner with large white text that reads “2025 Games Collection”, followed by a smaller white banner that reads “Out Now”.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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@jinglejam.co.uk kicks off next Monday! A #charity #stream event I'll be taking part to. I'll be doing my best to raise money in support of @warchilduk.bsky.social ♥️ I'll be streaming on #twitch but if those games don't tickle you, check out any of the other amazing creators doing their own thing!❤️‍🔥
A schedule diplaying all slots when I'll be streaming on twitch at twitch.tv/nertomaros All planned streams start at 21:00 CET / UTC+1. planned streams: Tuesday 2nd: This War of Mine Thursday 4th: Pico Park 2 Friday 5th: This War of Mine Saturday 6th: Peak Monday 8th: Against the Storm Thursday 11th: Against the Storm Saturday 13th: JingleJam Games Collection donations available on junglejam.tiltify.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Already added to my library and I'll stream it tomorrow evening 🥰🥰
bluebackpack.bsky.social The Berlin Apartment + Constance - Blue Backpack Games @bluebackpack.bsky.social · 22d
✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨

Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past?

Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It happened, I too had my GF asking "do you still love me?" once she turned into a skeleton. I said yes but I do wonder how life would be with that 'condition' 😂 last night I saw the new Root biome ❤️
I've been playing Peak occasionaly while streaming with friends on Twitch. www.twitch.tv/nertomaros
A screenshot from an end-of-match scene in Peak displaying all characters that escpade with the helicopter.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Second hand embarrassment is on another level here. That is to say the least... Sadly there's also the dangerous fascists too ☹️ This is from yesterday in Predappio, birthplace of Mussolini. The usual rally they do each year.
A screenshot from a TV interview with two people, a man on the left, hunched over, looking lost, wearing a black shirt and a fascist helmet. On the right a women, roughly in her 30s, wearing a fascist hat with the insignia.
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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It doesn't account for the fact that many out there are at least bilingual.
Destroys whatever personality or vibe a creator might have replacing it with a dead-inside AI voice.
mrhands31.bsky.social Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · Oct 29
YouTube Auto-Translate is the perfect AI feature:
- It cost a lot of $$$ to develop
- Creators hate their videos being served poorly-translated without their informed consent
- Viewers hate being mindblasted by weird titles in their native language
- If they're not vacationing somewhere!
unangbangkay.bsky.social unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · Oct 29
one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Can't say much but I can share news articles.
Big hugs to all my buddies at Massive.

www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...
Ubisoft Massive initiates voluntary buyouts
Ubisoft Massive is offering workers a 'voluntary career transition program' to workers as part of its 'ongoing evolution and long-term planning.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Great 🙃
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Well, I guess there's a new round incoming...

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/trials-...
Trials studio Ubisoft RedLynx is laying off up to 60 staff as it refocuses on ‘small screens’ | VGC
Ubisoft has announced a “restructuring proposal” for the Finland studio…
www.videogameschronicle.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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There are so many demos I want to try from this Steam Next Fest 😍😍 I don't even know if I'll have enough time to try them all 😭 in my list:

- The Last Caretaker
- The Berlin Apartment
- Cairn
- '83
- Earth of Oryn
- Tavern Keeper
- Long Drive North
- Norse oath of blood

And maybe a few more 🥰
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Came across panels about an Italian military op in Malta during ww2. To think that some current "politicians" praise the X Mas to this day. They were among the worst fascists.
A picture of the X Mas crest and myself giving it a middle finger
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Only because it's GCU, I'm back to supporting boardgame kickstarters. After the fuck up and the money lost to Mythic Games 😡 and their Darkest Dungeon that never got delivered, I grew cold to Kickstarter.

But I could hardly say no to Don't Starve 😭
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla...
Don't Starve: The Board Game
Official tabletop adaptation of Don’t Starve. A 1–4 player roguelike adventure—explore, craft, fight, and survive together (or alone).
www.kickstarter.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🇮🇹🇵🇸 notice a certain ☠️ flag? Today there's a nation-wide strike in Italy. For the Global Sumud Flotilla and Gaza. I'm in Modena but this is happening all over. There's a big mismatch between the will of the gov and that of the people.
A picture taken from the head of the march. A multitude of flags - palestinian flags, union flags and a Going Merry flag from One Piece
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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If anyone is wondering, the meeting the US president had with the top brass, and most of the things said during that occasion, seem to be lifted completely by the Eternal Fascism book by Umberto Eco. Funnily enough, out of all places it is based on a symposium held at Columbia University in 1995.
The front cover of the New York Reviewer, 22 June 1995, and the subtitle "Umberto Eco: Eternal Fascism". A heavily stylised man is in the motion of hitting a drum (like they were marching).
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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At this point it's just a matter of surviving somehow for 5 years or so until this bubble finally bursts completely 🙃
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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To be honest, I was expecting higher attendance but still happy to have taken part to the rally in Reggio Emilia yesterday 😁

🇵🇸🇵🇸
A picture of the street in front of the Reggio Emilia prefecture. Many people flood the street with a variety of flags: CGIL (largest union in italy), Palestine, peace, Emergency (ong). A picture of the people starting the march along the Regfio Emilia streets. Many people flood the street with a variety of flags: CGIL (largest union in italy), Palestine, peace, Emergency (ong).
September 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website
Happy Friday everybody! I don't know why, but I feel like spilling the tea this morning, so here are some hard truths about the game industry. A lot of people who got into the industry early were terrible game developers. This shouldn't surprise people, but we used to look at numbers in the early 00's like half of all people rolling out of the game industry in the first three years as though all of those people were qualified. Hiring in this industry has almost always been untrained amateurs looking for people they like and who remind them of people they know. Most interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they think you're worth hiring. Even the people who get training in how to interview almost never get coaching on how they do it, or real feedback on the success of their techniques. As a result, a lot of people walked in the door unqualified to do the job they were hired to do. Some of them survived for multiple cycles. Some of those were even promoted to leadership positions. There was a lot of nepotism involved - if you were friends with / had worked with the head of studio, department director, etc., then you were a known quantity and better than having to go out and find someone. Combine this with the prestige halo that comes from branding, and you have real problems. People tend to ascribe god-like powers to successful game studios - EA back in its heyday, Blizzard, BioWare. People who worked on hit games at big / known studios carried a ton of prestige - regardless of what they actually did. It's easy to say "I worked at Blizzard", and what that meant was not that you were part and parcel of the magic that made those games awesome, but simply that you were employed there; it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of people to make AAA games, and I promise you that inside every large, successful studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of. I've fired people with over a decade of expe…
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Well that's a very high amount of cherry picking for a country that shouts a lot about free speech all the time..
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Not good :(
September 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Sooo, indyref2 @oldfoghorn.bsky.social ?
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM