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Robert Paul
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📸 Visuals for Video Game Marketing - Photo, Video, Game Capture
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🤩 Cat Dad, Coffee Fiend, Computer Nerd
🌐 http://arpeggio-creative.com
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ultradavid.bsky.social
Cracking up at AI devs saying AI will kill all humans but they can't stop because someone else might make it worse

You can't raise the stakes from "it'll kill all humans" dude, that's already the max. Like "it'll kill all humans but in CHINESE" ok now I think poorly of you for a whole new reason
September 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
tempusrob.com
Derek continues to give away crazy game all for free. Great watch if you touch game marketing at all.
derek-lieu.com Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 1d
Folks ask me a lot whether TikTok/Instagram/Shorts make trailers less relevant. The answer is kind of yes, but trailers are still super duper important!

In this video I explain the differences between the formats and how they fit into your marketing tool belt.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J8...
Marketing Your Game in 2026 - Trailers or TikTok?
YouTube video by Derek Lieu
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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ellecordova.bsky.social
We were racing the setting sun here and only had enough light for one take but this was one of my favorite sessions with Toni Lindgren ever.

Those turtles move fast. 170bpm if I remember right.

🎵 Come Back Home by Trampled By Turtles
September 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
tempusrob.com
🎵🎶 I'm rockin the suburbs
just like Motorola did 🎶🎵
jakevig.bsky.social Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 7d
Ben Folds Phones
September 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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andylevy.net
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films. A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it. I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period. It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam. When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
September 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
tempusrob.com
rare los angeles rainbow, just now
a faint rainbow against stormy clouds; toward the bottom of the frame, the tops of a couple palm trees silhouetted against the sky
September 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Biblically accurate SF
tevistickles.bsky.social Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 11d
This artwork is an oil painting titled "Level Crossing, San Francisco" (2025) by artist Rob Pointon. From his "Fake Tales of San Francisco" collection.
September 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
The image is of a four panel comic. In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?” In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”. In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure. In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
September 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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theverge.com
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
www.theverge.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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plante.bsky.social
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
stephentotilo.bsky.social Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15d
SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed

The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen

I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit:

www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...
‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch
The details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years
www.gamefile.news
September 1, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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adashtra.bsky.social
Re-upping this call for folks to talk to me about a time they ordered gaming apparel or merch only to receive a cheap knock off
adashtra.bsky.social Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 27d
Hey! You wanna talk to me about your bad experiences with bootleg gaming apparel for a potential story? Get in touch. My DMs and Discord and email (found in my bio) are open.
August 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it.
No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this".
We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now.

NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
August 31, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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chadloder.dev
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
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goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
August 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
tempusrob.com
AI will usher in a utopia! Universal income, disease has been cured! But also it will be super petty and retaliatory if you're mean to me.
comraderobot.bsky.social Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22d
damn. Imagine a turd… that farts. makes u think
hailey O @hailey.at bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this: future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result 12:14 PM • Aug 25, 2026 Everybody can reply
August 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
August 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.

Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out. We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
August 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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pattheflip.bsky.social
"Thank you, 2XKO"

I wrote about my thoughts and feelings about 2XKO's announced end of development. Thank you to the team, thanks to the players, and thanks for giving me a chance to learn how to make fighting games.

Interactions on this post limited for my sanity.
www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...
August 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
tempusrob.com
If you're a coffee nerd you owe it to yourself to check out the Fermentation Project tasting set. It's a harvest of coffee processed 4 different ways, exploring the impact of fermentation.

www.yesplz.coffee/product/ferm...
yesplz.coffee YES PLZ Coffee @yesplz.coffee · 29d
excited to be a part of The Fermentation Project with Lucia Solis and James Hoffmann ☕️
August 21, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
*laughs in Bluesky*
Sidewalk sign with photo of pancakes and text: Pancakes Something we can all agree on
August 20, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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rajio.bsky.social
They haven't posted about it yet but this year's GDC State of the Game Industry Survey is available to fill out should any of you desire.

You've seen all the articles and that the results end up driving, so may as well make them reflective of your contributions too.

gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26eoy
2026 State of the Game Industry
The gaming industry's most comprehensive annual survey is back, and we're casting a wider net than ever before. Whether you're a developer, executive, investor, marketer, educator, or any other profes...
gdconf.typeform.com
August 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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#CEO2026 day 2
wide angle photo of the venue, a wrestling ring is in the middle, where two players face off in 2XKO two people playing ddr, in the middle distance; in the foreground spectators sit around on the floor UMVC3 player rayray, on his way up to the stage a wide angle match of the venue; a match ends with a KO
August 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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#CEO2026 day 2
wide angle photo of the venue, a wrestling ring is in the middle, where two players face off in 2XKO two people playing ddr, in the middle distance; in the foreground spectators sit around on the floor UMVC3 player rayray, on his way up to the stage a wide angle match of the venue; a match ends with a KO
August 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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hopped in the pool for some @ceogaming.org merch shots
very bald photographer in chest-deep pool water holding a DSLR with a flash; two subjects sit at the edge of the pool with their feet in the water close-up of CEO-branded shorts; the model can be seen sitting at the edge of a pool, kicking their legs in the water two models sit at the edge of the pool, splashing water
August 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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aneternalenigma.com
The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.
August 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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zachbussey.tos.gg
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default.

You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
August 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM