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Bent Stamnes
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Graphics & rendering person, musician & audio engineer. ½ of the drum and bass duo Sophon. Co-founder of Nerd Nation Records. Siggraph Asia 2025 Real-Time Live Chair. He/him. Occasional public speaker. Highly sought after dinner guest.
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discussingfilm.net
Zach Cregger's ‘RESIDENT EVIL’ is tracking to open with $80M+ worldwide.

Biggest opening ever for the franchise.

Read our review: bit.ly/DFEvil
September 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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ctrix64.bsky.social
Getting some cheeky NES stuff ready for this weekends launch of Radical Computing at NCM! They don't have Blusky... but here's a link :-) ncm.org.au/events
September 17, 2026 at 5:34 AM
gloom303.com
A blobbering mess at the end of “Arrival”, every single time.
September 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Very much looking forward to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Pd...
LONG GONE [30 Spot Trailer] | PC
YouTube video by Hillfort Games
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September 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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💪🏻
September 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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gizmodo.com
'Evangelion' Has Been Deemed Worthy of the Criterion Channel, but Don’t Forget Its Mecha Anime Predecessors
'Evangelion' Has Been Deemed Worthy of the Criterion Channel, but Don’t Forget Its Mecha Anime Predecessors
'Evangelion' is a masterpiece, but it owes a lot to 'Mobile Suit Gundam.'
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September 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
gloom303.com
Wanted to watch some of the Emmy's acceptance speeches, and impressively, every single one had reference frame corruption/inter-frame error propagation!

Also; not a single one includes the point when the winners are announced, which is what people want to see.
September 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oCm...
Why Are There SO Many Mega Man Games?
YouTube video by Pixel Playback
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September 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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thetechknight.bsky.social
VCF Midwest had its first christening, went off with a bang
September 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
gloom303.com
It’s has been 26 years since the first, brilliant, StarCraft 2 and finally we are getting a new one, and it is… a shooter? Sigh.. :/
September 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM
gloom303.com
Shanghai Technology and Science Museum.
September 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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badgerpunch.com
Roguecraft DX is out now!🎉

We are flabbergasted by the response from you awesome players! 90% positive reviews!🥰

Roguecraft DX blends cozy pixel charm with turn-based dungeon tension.

Buy now on Steam: thalamus.link/roguecraft

#steam #screenshotsaturday
September 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
gloom303.com
“Fuck it, let’s just greeble the hell out of it”
September 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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muzzhq.bsky.social
If you’re an artist and want a great read this evening, here’s an entire thread of professional Ai sloppers complaining at Suno models retiring:

www.reddit.com/r/SunoAI/s/s...
From the SunoAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the SunoAI community
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September 11, 2026 at 10:11 PM
gloom303.com
Nice write up on something I worked on back in March:

www.notch.one/madewithnotc...
Notch - Arm Everywhere
The graphics tool for interactive performance and motion design.
www.notch.one
September 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
gloom303.com
Wake up, honey, our favourite TV hardware testing channel is diving into privacy issues! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu...
LG Isn't the Only TV Company Spying on You
YouTube video by RTINGS R&D
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September 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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dave.powerhoof.com
I collabbed with ReBoxy to get a classic PC Big Box physical edition of The Drifter made! As a collector of old DOS game big boxes this is the coolest :D
Contains a CD-ROM, manual I helped write, a poster, digital codes, the lot! You can get your hands on it here- store.reboxy.net/p/the-drifter
Front of The Drifter Big Box. Box and contents shot- including front/back of box, CD-ROM, manual, and poster. Manual included in the box!
September 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
When I tell people I've been a denizen of the internet since the 80s, they sometimes fact check me & tell me the "internet" didn't exist until 1994.

I'm always like "Oh, you sweet summer child..."

Then I howl at them in a tone only known as 14.4k baud like a feral child about to bite your hand.
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Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
September 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food
December 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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moorejh.bsky.social
Who will be at VCF MidWest this weekend? I will! Hope to see you there :) vcfmw.org #vcfmw #chicago #retrocomputing
September 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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philnobilejr.bsky.social
I know I’m a dinosaur shrieking from the tar pits, but I’m begging filmmakers: hire a set photographer. Studios will just send out dimly-lit screenshots to press and if you think they look like ass on your device, wait’ll you see how shitty they look printed on paper 😵‍💫
January 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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theverge.com
Arm’s DLSS for Android is imminent. www.theverge.com/games/990676...
First Xiaomi, then the world: why Arm might give phone gaming a huge graphics boost
Arm’s DLSS for Android is imminent.
www.theverge.com
September 8, 2026 at 2:02 AM
gloom303.com
A+ work from Wired here.
September 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
gloom303.com
Or, you know, do like the rest of the world: stop unjustly worrying about it and instead build more chargers.
September 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM