Xavier "Mr. X" Torres
@xenarcade.bsky.social
Professional gamedev cat-herder. Formerly at Disney, Treyarch. Usually I'm the producer, or the PM, or the ops guy. I make sure games get made and my devs get paid.
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NO ITS NOT LMAO - dashare.zone ADMIN
October 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
NO ITS NOT LMAO - dashare.zone ADMIN
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[car dealership waiting room]
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
www.forbes.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
[car dealership waiting room]
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs-
Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS
Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
October 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Retiring to spend more time on his passion of subaquatic computer repair
Did he just say Why is no longer employed at Bluesky?
September 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Retiring to spend more time on his passion of subaquatic computer repair
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The Matrix (1999)
September 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Matrix (1999)
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Girl dinner
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten. www.wired.com/story/venus-...
Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon
One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.
www.wired.com
September 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Girl dinner
SIG Sauer put out a gun that can go off on its own. That did less harm than OpenAI has done, and SIG was held to greater liability than OAI ever has.
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
trib.al
September 25, 2026 at 1:11 AM
SIG Sauer put out a gun that can go off on its own. That did less harm than OpenAI has done, and SIG was held to greater liability than OAI ever has.
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sega canceling sonic? that’d be like if microsoft didn’t know what to do with halo, laid off a bunch of people, and gave it to activision
Sega wanted to cancel the entire Sonic series but the success of the first movie saved it, says Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-wa...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-wa...
Sega wanted to cancel the entire Sonic series but the first movie saved it, says Sonic Team head Iizuka | VGC
The live-action Sonic film “definitely changed the course of this franchise…
www.videogameschronicle.com
September 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
sega canceling sonic? that’d be like if microsoft didn’t know what to do with halo, laid off a bunch of people, and gave it to activision
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there's nobody on Bluesky you *have* to argue with. just saying. you can just opt to not do that if you don't think you'd get anything out of the experience.
September 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
there's nobody on Bluesky you *have* to argue with. just saying. you can just opt to not do that if you don't think you'd get anything out of the experience.
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What's amazing about this website is its ability to generate endless waves of discourse about subjects and topics that aren't worth anyone's time
September 21, 2026 at 5:01 PM
What's amazing about this website is its ability to generate endless waves of discourse about subjects and topics that aren't worth anyone's time
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I'd say I don't want to rain on your parade but my worst quality is I'm passionate about marketing so I am actually all too happy to talk about brand guidelines and why it actually sucks that Roxas is dabbing
Fortnite Is Selling Your Favorite Characters Back To You As Husks
Fortnite's latest crossover season is a weird branding exercise that's bad for both companies and fans
aftermath.site
September 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'd say I don't want to rain on your parade but my worst quality is I'm passionate about marketing so I am actually all too happy to talk about brand guidelines and why it actually sucks that Roxas is dabbing
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holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph
gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph
gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
September 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
"I am not Terminally Online, I don't have a problem, I can quit any time I want"
Can social media be addictive?
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no.
“You wanting to communicate and chat with your friends every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.”
September 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
"I am not Terminally Online, I don't have a problem, I can quit any time I want"
"Both Of Deez Nuts"
Add these 4 words to your vocabulary right now, experts say: They can make you more influential at work
Add these 4 words to your vocabulary right now, experts say: They can make you more influential at work
Incorporating a handful of simple words into your vocabulary can make you more persuasive, according to a Wharton professor, a Harvard study and more.
cnb.cx
September 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
"Both Of Deez Nuts"
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Mitch McConnell is so dead that people are unironically calling him punk now.
September 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Mitch McConnell is so dead that people are unironically calling him punk now.
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this is my biggest pet peeve with the way the Internet has evolved. under no circumstances do I want to watch a video about your product, opinion, or recipe. I read like 3x faster than you can talk. video is such an inefficient form of learning & the switch to video primacy annoys me so much
There were endless car and video game magazines and websites when I was in high school, but the pivot to video just destroyed both industries
September 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
this is my biggest pet peeve with the way the Internet has evolved. under no circumstances do I want to watch a video about your product, opinion, or recipe. I read like 3x faster than you can talk. video is such an inefficient form of learning & the switch to video primacy annoys me so much
Manufacturing consent tends to work best when *all* the major players are singing the same tune.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
techcrunch.com
September 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Manufacturing consent tends to work best when *all* the major players are singing the same tune.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
I imagined this being read with the Half-Life: Full-Life Consequences narrator voice and it's worrying when a head of state's public statements fit that cadence
Trump: "The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, & that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said the World would be extinguished by 'Climate Change.' That HOAX never worked out, and now they’re on to the next one. These people are Revolutionaries ... "
September 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I imagined this being read with the Half-Life: Full-Life Consequences narrator voice and it's worrying when a head of state's public statements fit that cadence
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everything I learned about not gatekeeping all last decade has kind of gone out the window because of vibecoders and I'm like please, call these guys posers as much as you want
September 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
everything I learned about not gatekeeping all last decade has kind of gone out the window because of vibecoders and I'm like please, call these guys posers as much as you want