Mike Murray

Mike Murray

@mikeadmurray.blacksky.app

🇨🇦 Game Designer/Programmer. Known as King9999 in some parts of the Internet.

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Crazy size. Good thing game sizes like this are an exception. Otherwise we'd be in trouble. I wonder how much work they'd have to do to get the game down to something more reasonable. The first thing I'd target is the 4K textures, which is probably the main cause of the bloat.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Grand Theft Auto VI reported to be 210 GB download

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sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

That Avenging Spirit art has to be the most misleading cover art of all time.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Game Boy - Nintendo Classics titles added to Switch Online: - Avenging Spirit - Mole Mania - Pinball: Revenge of the 'Gator www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaCw...

Why AI is a mistake: exhibit 562 This is a real ad promoting theft. Microsoft knows what they're doing is wrong. They're revelling in it. The optics here (white guy stealing from a Black man who did the work) just makes things worse.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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LinkedIn posts are starting to confirm the breath of today's layoffs at EA. Senior talent across multiple studios have been impacted, including a senior creative director at Maxis and veteran designers at Full Circle.

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PATRICK STEWART singing & dancing on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-D in 1991 as a birthday surprise for STAR TREK creator GENE RODDENBERRY. (never intended for public release this clip eventually surfaced as a DVD bonus feature)

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Why AI is a mistake: exhibit 400 AI kills communities. Why get together to build something if an AI can do it for you? Who is checking what the AI is putting out?

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

Why AI is a mistake: exhibit 96

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Richard B. Gray - LEVELORD 11/15/1957 - 10/12/2026 Just heard the news that an old friend of mine has passed on. Richard Gray - aka Levelord has departed the planet. I know he's dealt with cancer on and off for awhile now, a word that I cannot stand. Word comes from his wife Olga.

Stuffed from Thanksgiving dinner. Got to meet my brother's wife's parents today from Hawaii. Very nice people. Thanksgiving is on the 12th, but my family always celebrates the day before the actual holiday so we can chill afterwards. We'll be having Christmas dinner on Dec. 24.

The saddest part of this news? There's going to be no pushback from the FGC at large, at least not enough to make ArcSys reconsider. It's a shame too, because there are lots of LGBTQ ArcSys players. Some of them were even champions.

Anime FGC News@afgcnews.bsky.social

Arc Revo Qiddiya is a Platinum event as part of the Arc World Tour 2026/2027 season taking place in January. Registration opens in December

I heard the SF4 rollback mod was vibecoded. Wouldn't be surprised if FGC didn't pushback on it. Between that and all the decomps of various games, the rate at which these things are developing should be raising alarms. Software needs to be made with care, which takes time.

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hi everyone we’ve gotten the horrible news today that BoneFigure, a beloved local Tekken player/TO, has been detained by border patrol on his way back from First Attack. this has been set this up to help cover legal fees, please share around and donate if you can 💔 www.gofundme.com/f/daury-baez...

gofundme.comDonate to Help Daury "BoneFigure" Baez Legal Fees after being detained, organized by Brianna NilHello. This is an emergency fund coming from Boston Tekken … Brianna Nil needs your support for Help Daury "BoneFigure" Baez Legal Fees after being detained

I think Sakurai is done with Smash. I mean, how do you follow up? I guess he could do a Switch 2 version of Ultimate with even more fighters and stages.

Zal@zalman.bsky.social

Genuinely, how will they achieve this high again?