Denman Rooke

Denman Rooke

@denmanrooke.com

Artist & owner at RÚCAĊ an indie studio making art & developing games https://www.rucach.com/ Art for Magic and D&D @magic.wizards.com https://linktr.ee/denmanrooke Union member of Game Workers Unite Ireland Eco-socialist with People Before Profit

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With Magic's The Hobbit set now out, thought I'd drop the full artwork for The Five Armies Clash! scene. A huge thanks to my art director, Cassie Murphy. This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast © 2026 MEE LLC. TM lic MEE to WotC LLC www.rucach.com/project/the-...

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Hahahahahaha gas. I want them to keep going with this. how much water does Sally Rooney drink? How much electricity does her fridge use? How much disinformation does she spread and how many data privacy laws does she breach?

The Journal@thejournal.ie

"So Sally Rooney has published six and a half million books - that's quite a lot of books, well done - but that's about 15,000 tonnes of emissions." Ireland's data centre industry boss has lashed out at writer Sally Rooney for her opposition to the sector www.thejournal.ie/sally-rooney...

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NATO lecturer Declan Power has an unintentionally revealing piece on Triple Lock in Indo today. He literally quotes the section of the UN Charter which makes clear that regional enforcement without UN endorsement is illegal under international law. He shrugs & moves on. #TripleLock #SpéirGhorm

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Ireland has the shameful title as the puppy farm capital of Europe, with more than 122,000 dogs registered last year. No ban on surgical artificial insemination. No cap on the size of puppy farms. We need to ban this industrial farming of dogs. #BanPuppyFarming

Tim Sweeney is upset that the Epic Games Store is a huge flop & is furious that Valve has taken a very simple stand to make AI use transparent. These AI slopmongers can't stand that people don't want what they're selling and going all in to try and force it as "inevitable". Keep resisting folks!

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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Government shamefully votes to abolish the Triple Lock, which is at the core of our neutrality according to Micheál Martin. This is not the end. It still has to get through multiple stages of the Oireachtas. We need to build pressure to stop them and allow the people to decide.

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Replying to @paulmurphy.pbp.ie

"You don't trust us" - This one's true I guess... It's about freeing the government's hand to send young Irish people abroad to fight and die in US-led imperialist wars for profit. #TripleLock #IrishNeutrality #NoToNATO

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It's galling to hear government trot out the same Triple Lock spin that's been disproven time and again. "There's a veto" - There isn't "It's a reform" - They're scrapping it "We've a mandate" - They don't "It's for peacekeeping" - Why does it say 'peace enforcement' then?

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One of the big reasons I was so vocal a critic of Tim Swindle early on is that I saw what he was doing with EGS; massively juicing active user numbers. There was Fortnite users, but they had the habit of buying out popular multiplayer games such as Rocket League and now they have those users too...

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

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Save Our Neutrality - a clear message from the opposition today. It is scandalous that the government is trying to ram through the end of the Triple Lock without even allowing a full debate in the Dáil. We will be mobilising to stop them. #SaveIrishNeutrality #TripleLock

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Replying to @socialistdenman.bsky.social

Discussions to include the Mamdani mayor campaign and labour organising as well as a broader look at how we must organise and act now to fight for an alternative to the capitalist system. See you there!

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Event TONIGHT! at the Ol'55 in Galway City. Speakers Richard Boyd Barrett TD with People Before Profit and Emma Bally of New York City Democratic Socialists of America.

Losing a day of work to PC motherboard issues... 😭 Silver lining is it's finally fixed. At least I didn't have to buy any new components. I was worried it was the GPU there for a second which would have been a fortune to replace because... you know... AI needs all those.

Spooky Season announcement! I'm auctioning some original oil painting of mine. These Monsters were painted back in 2009 and have stayed with me since, but feeling now is a good time to pass them on to some collectors. 8 in the series. All paintings start at €300. www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?i...

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Spooky Season announcement! I'm auctioning some original oil painting of mine. These Monsters were painted back in 2009 and have stayed with me since, but feeling now is a good time to pass them on to some collectors. 8 in the series. All paintings start at €300. www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?i...

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Spooky Season announcement! I'm auctioning some original oil painting of mine. These Monsters were painted back in 2009 and have stayed with me since, but feeling now is a good time to pass them on to some collectors. 8 in the series. All paintings start at €300. www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?i...

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Spooky Season announcement! I'm auctioning some original oil painting of mine. These Monsters were painted back in 2009 and have stayed with me since, but feeling now is a good time to pass them on to some collectors. 8 in the series. All paintings start at €300. www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?i...

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In case you thought "dude is the jerkoff hand gesture incarnate" wasn't a good enough reason to not buy the dude's games, get a load of this:

Nick Suttner@nsuttner.bsky.social

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

I'm selling the following Magic the Gathering boxes: • The Hobbit: play boosters box • Secrets of Strixhaven: play boosters box • Murders at Karlov Manor: play boosters box • March of the Machine: draft boosters box • Kaldheim: draft boosters box • The Brothers' War: draft boosters box

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Worldwide action against the bosses of #Ubisoft who refuse to negotiate with their workers in hood faith. Our comrades of the FIOM-CGIL working at Ubisoft #Milan will also take action, starting October 6th. They will appreciate all the support they can get.

The very predictable side effect of not hiring junior roles and replacing* them with AI instead. *AI can't actually do the job of humans. (Credit: inspired by a tweet by a @Dylanszn01 on twitter)

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Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.