Robert Paul

Robert Paul

@tempusrob.com

📸 Visuals for Video Game Marketing - Photo, Video, Game Capture 📨 robert@arpeggio-creative.com 🤩 Cat Dad, Coffee Fiend, Computer Nerd 🌐 http://arpeggio-creative.com

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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

They also recently added proper RAW photo editing support which, while challenging to work with, is crazy powerful. I cornered a BMD product manager years ago at a conference and begged them to build a photo editor with Resolve's color tools, I never thought it would happen.

Saw You Can See Everything last night. Not much I can say about it without spoiling, but man ... probably going to be thinking about it all week.

It's literally just outsourcing and contractors. So what does that 75 number even really mean?

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg

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Polymarket is paying people to QRT its branded esports accounts on X. Players, coaches, and other prominent figures make hundreds or even thousands per month. “Literally this needs to look organic,” wrote a Polymarket rep on the Discord where this is organized. www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket...

readergrev.comInside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program"This needs to look organic," wrote a Polymarket rep in an internal Discord server for the program.

I'm going back to bed.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

Really don't think it's fair to reduce Notion to "a genAI notepad." I use Notion extensively for project and knowledge management without touching AI, even indirectly. Nothing this dev mentions about Notion here necessarily implicates AI usage, simply organization.

Duck AI Slop!!@duckaislop.bsky.social

Shutter Story Frostwood Interactive. No disclosure, research and debugging. Personally uses notion which is a genAI notepad. -y frostwoodinteractive.com/dev-check-in...

I'm as hardline anti-GenAI as anyone but if we're flagging devs for simply using AI-capable products ... idk man.

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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The Verge@theverge.com

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

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‼️ dsa.la/voterguide ‼️ The DSA-LA voter guide is here and it’s jam-packed with information, political analysis, and lowkey, quite a lot of fun little jokes. Head to dsa.la/voterguide or the link in bio AND SHARE WIDELY!!

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Replying to @ultradavid.bsky.social

Harm reduction politics is over for me. The harm is here, the harmers are in power & doing tremendous harm. No, in an era of fascist control the way to end harm is by being anti-fascist. I don't need ideological purity, but if we're gonna make an anti-fascist coalition here, it can't include harmers

jfc dude, you can just say "we won't tolerate transphobia on bsky." It's ok if you can't assign a mathematical proof to every moderation decision. All you're doing here is the same shit that makes people say "unalived" on TikTok. It's busy work, just to avoid having an opinion on anything.

Aaron Rodericks@aaron.bsky.team

That takes a bunch of work to get there, with the biggest part being accurate detection. Constantly calculating toxicity scores for every quote post, reply, and mention allows you to roll those up to the user level. The worst of the worst we can suspend. The rest though is a bigger question.

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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

Derek continues to give away crazy game all for free. Great watch if you touch game marketing at all.

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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

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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.

Stephen Totilo@stephentotilo.bsky.social

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-...

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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

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.

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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.

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🚨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:

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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

gdconf.typeform.com2026 State of the Game IndustryThe 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...