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Senior Designer @RareLtd creating pirate adventures for @SeaOfThieves. Ambassador for @SpecialEffect. He/Him.

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Just pressed order on this afternoon seeing you post about it a couple of times. Looking forward to it!

14.03.2026 11:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, a Tune & Fairweather post! Guess I'm clicking 'order' again.

28.01.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with long hair is holding a microphone in his hands and says well ... you can certainly try . Alt: Matthew Mercer, the dungeon master for Critical Role, says "Well... You can certainly try", with a confident grin on his face.
26.01.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

10.01.2026 12:05 πŸ‘ 20717 πŸ” 7565 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 296

Hell of a year 🍻

31.12.2025 23:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

iconic.

25.12.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.

And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

18.12.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 3290 πŸ” 853 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 29
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This year has been absolutely astounding for SpecialEffect, and we'd love to take this opportunity to give our most heartfelt thanks to you, our amazing supporters!

Our team are taking a well deserved rest over the holiday season, and we'll be back on Jan 5th. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

19.12.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great shout tbf.

27.11.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Legit thought that was a croissant.

27.11.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for β€œmaking everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

22.11.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 2862 πŸ” 783 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 93

Impossible to listen to Shuhei without falling in love with videogames anew. What a bloke.

12.11.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The horrific thing about exercise is that it works.

23.10.2025 12:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The only safe place to use LLMs is in a field where you are already skilled enough to know you would never trust AI. So you might as well not.

We’ve got to start insisting on this Catch 22 being understood in all workplaces: AI only replaces workers too incompetent to notice it doesn’t work.

17.10.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

13.10.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 778 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 78
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Wow, what a fantastic #OneSpecialWalk! Thanks so much to everyone for braving the rain and (literally) going the extra mile for us, you're all stars! Keep an eye out for an update on how much you've raised, and the date for next year's event πŸ§‘πŸ’™

07.10.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You're going to smash it mate!

30.09.2025 08:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is important and good. Brilliant work.

23.09.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
April 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM

Typewriter Monke @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social "why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate April 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM

01.09.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 891 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] β€” and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫑

28.07.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 3349 πŸ” 1221 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 34
The Lionesses celebrate winning the Women's Euros by covering themselves head to toe in gold and silver strands of foil.

The Lionesses celebrate winning the Women's Euros by covering themselves head to toe in gold and silver strands of foil.

Football is life and those lasses do it better than anyone. Unreal.

27.07.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A wall inscribed with the story "SJ poo'd in town". White paint on red brick.

A wall inscribed with the story "SJ poo'd in town". White paint on red brick.

Leamington does have some real thinkers. Here's a fable I spotted a few years back...

26.07.2025 10:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to seeing you fella!

10.07.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I look forward to years of propserity (and never again losing my car keys).

08.07.2025 09:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have never clicked "purchase" faster in my life.

08.07.2025 08:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is awesome and important. So proud of our game and our people.

❀️

03.06.2025 08:36 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sunderland A.F.C.

β™₯️🀍β™₯️🀍

24.05.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man riding a horse in a video game Alt: A short clip of gameplay from the Witcher 3. Geralt rides his horse across a rugged landscape kissed by light from the setting sun.

Today marks ten years to the day since I bought a PS4 to play Witcher 3 on release.

Geralt's stories, through the craft poured into them by CDPR, ignited the spark of realisation that creating games is a worthwhile thing that real people actually do.

I will forever owe them a debt of thanks. 🐺

19.05.2025 12:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DOOM: Dark Ages is joyous. A beautifully focussed heavy metal spectacle. Beaming grin through every level.

Those folks at id really know what they're doing πŸ”₯πŸ’₯πŸ’ͺ

16.05.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0