BaltMatrix

BaltMatrix

@baltmatrix.bsky.social

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Canada should garnish the Bioware IP and nationalize them so anybody can make a game using them, with profits going to a fund that supports the arts Call it a national cultural treasure and give it the same status as protected land or species

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social

Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...

Dear Co-Worker, I asked you a simple 'yes' or 'no' question. You don't need to write me a paragraph about how today is Monday. I KNOW it's Monday. Please, just answer the damn question. Thanks, Me

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Let's hope we follow Brazil's lead in eight days.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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RIP Eric Bauza. This is gigantic gut punch. It was absolutely wild and inspiring to see a Filipino guy takeover for so many iconic characters. Damn.

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

Eric Bauza has sadly passed away at the age of 46, his family confirms in new Instagram post.

I’m surprised at how good this figure is. Transformation is much more interesting than I initially thought. Robot mode’s pretty good too. Overall, it’s kind of a banger

Megatron Combiner looks so cool. But I'm worried that the individual figures are going to suffer. TM Megs look ROUGH. Cool to see Machine Wars Megaplex, Car megatron. Then a tank Megatron from....somewhere. Head looks like Monstructor.

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This ad played last night and my guts slammed shut. Imagine the unlikeable lazy thieving bastard being portrayed as aspirational. Makes me retch

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...

A 🧵of solid con attending advice

Rodimus Primal@rodimusprimal.bsky.social

To those going to @tfconofficial Orlando this weekend, here are a few tips to make sure everyone has a great time: -Be sure to shower and wear deodorant -Bring hand sanitizer if you can, and wash your hands after going to the bathroom. -Bring water to stay hydrated.

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#Pokemon #Pokemonart #pokemonfanart #corsola #galariancorsola #Cursola

Science Magazine@science.org

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. https://scim.ag/4ilLAZq

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Some folks online recently bumped into my autobiography without knowing there had actually been one. And while searching other topics today on NPR I bumped into one of the reviews of said book, which I took as a sign to link it here for the curious. www.npr.org/2019/07/23/7...

npr.org'Becoming Superman' Chronicles The Life And Career Of J. Michael StraczynskiWhile the prolific Hollywood writer's career is well-documented, his personal history has been a mystery. His memoir is painful and inspiring, infuriating and full of hope, humorous and depressing.

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even if you don't think you'll use Ebay again, if you still have an active account you should click through on the email you got and opt-out!

Kate Griffin@griffinkate.bsky.social

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiggg SAME.

Shawn McDowell@turboshawn.com

I am SO fucking tired of techbro assholes writing puff pieces about Asha Sharma. Every time, it's just them taking her "Don't worry, everything's gonna be great! Eventually!" attitude and using it to somehow glaze the awful things Microsoft has done to their employees and this industry.

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If only the Transformers community had a vast selection of talented artists to hire...

Zeether@zeether.bsky.social

Ultracon posted this to the TFCon Facebook page and it's so godawful I almost wanna call them out on it

A question: has there every been a figure of the New Macross Class ships that have both ship and battle modes? You know, like Frontier and Galaxy sized. The REALLY big ones.

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classic headline misrepresentation of what is going on. AI enthusiasts are hijacking projects from GitHub forks created/led by human decomp devs, dumping it into Claude/rounding off the rough edges of what the actual work does and needs to do so they can put Mario in Elden Ring for the Content Mill

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Don't buy from TF-Direct. Nazi bar rules apply. Boot em out on sight

Sixo | Transformers@sixotf.bsky.social

I’m not reposting it, but the website TF-Direct has put up a photo of Studio Series Optimus Prime posed into the shape of a swastika Absolutely disgusting There’s no ambiguity or nuance to stuff like this - it’s just awful, and it has zero place in the Transformers fandom

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Behold, my hastily put together TFcon Orlando catalog! All of these, and possibly more, will be available at the @nonnef.com table in the dealer room come Saturday / Sunday. Will share prices later, but there won't be any major changes to what I've asked at previous shows.

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GOALS HIT: VACATION WEEK (we take a break) MIKE PLAYS P.T. BLIGHT JAN (TOMORROW) BOWLING WEEK THIRTEEN DEADLY SIMS 2 w/ ABBY RUSSELL SPACE RACE (happening now) THIS IS THE RUN: MINESWEEPER MARIO PARTY PARTY 50 TURNS (TONIGHT) NEXT UP: CULT WEEK

Giant Bomb@giantbomb.com

THE GIANT BOMB-A-THON DAY 1 IS ABOUT TO START! Get ready to hang out with us for a whopping 12 hours as we play games and have a great time! COME HANG FOR THE WHOLE DAY WITH US! giantbomb.com/live/chat twitch.tv/giantbomb youtube.com/live/AhLz1KW...

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit