Nate Horsfall

Nate Horsfall

@lightningarts.bsky.social

Animator and Artist. 20ish years of Game dev. VGM album art, Live videos, logos, illustration. AI is trash. Last game: Soundfall Currently: Available for work http://www.lightningarts.com/

786 followers2.1K following288 posts

In less happy news, Musk and the billionare class are going on a media takeover. This and "investing 1 billion into skydance", the new merger that should never have been allowed.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Elon Musk has apparently paid hundreds of millions of dollars to block the distribution of "Musk," the documentary.

Saw Wildwood last night and it's a cinematic masterpiece while also being one of the best animated films ever made- and certainly THE largest stop motion animation undertaking ever created. In a world telling us real art doesn't matter, this is a nuclear bomb level F-U to that idea. See it.

Every single time there is a buyout, there are massive layoffs. EVERY SINGLE TIME. The rich are never satisfied. They never have enough. This was inevitable after the Saudi buyout, and will get worse.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tim's downfall is probably one of the saddest to see in the industry, as well as the most dangerous because a huge amount of us rely on UE for game dev. We're lucky Gabe Newell hasn't succumbed to AI psychosis yet, or then we'd all truly be screwed. Too much power in too few companies.

æon@aeon.bsky.social

Epic Megagames CEO To Developer Community: "Up Yours"

Here we are again: No Kings vote early, don't vote by mail, drop it off. Don't be intimidated. If you think voting doesn't matter, consider the vast efforts this regime has done in the last 2 years alone to make sure you can't vote. And still continues do so.

I knew when this guy took power that his only goal was to make WB so bad that it would force another sale where he could walk off with millions. I wish this country didn't reward garbage like this.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Poor Zaz will only get a golden parachute of more than a half-billion dollars, after he spent the past few years cutting Warner Bros to the bone so it could get gobbled up by another company (and retire with a massive pay package). variety.com/2026/film/ne...

A reminder that Agents "don't go rogue". This is criminal behavior and at the least- gross negligence. Altman as well as multiple other Open AI employees should simply be in jail. "we're so dangerous" is a naked marketing stunt. Shut them all down.

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Hey actually, if this is what his events are gonna be like from now on, lets keep the press pool away until he also goes. Best video of him I've seen in 10 years.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Just got out of the new RE movie, and a friend described this as "The Fury Road of horror movies". I feel that. What it translates to is: light on story, heavy on scenarios, rollercoaster of absurdity. Loved it. Really happy to just have *fun* at the movies lately. See it with friends.

It's nice to see that what people have been saying loudly for years was WELL KNOWN by the execs doing it. We knew they knew. They always know.

Ellipsus@ellipsus.com

"The largest theft of labor in human history." We done knew it. (www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...)

Be Loud. Pushback does matter. Just look at how the narrative has changed with AI now, and how scared all the billionares are about public backlash. That means the backlash should be even stronger.

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Just saw Coyote vs Acme and my verdict is: It rules. WB tried to kill it, but it's a modern day Roger Rabbit. Full stop. Not a perfect movie, but fun, hilarious, and deserves support instead of being canned for a *tax write off*. The love in this movie is on every frame. See it. #coyotevsacme

new AC album revealed last week. This is a monster for AC fans- and frankly, music fans. How do you follow up the first album? Way more live players. String, brass, vocals, you name it.

The Tiberian Sons@thetiberiansons.bsky.social

While we have you here (hopefully on your way back from #MagWest2026): our *second #AceCombat album*, "Aces Without Borders", is now available for pre-order: thetiberiansons.bandcamp.com/album/aces-w... (cover art, as always, by the amazing @lightningarts.bsky.social ) Releasing on October 2!

People are more than numbers. Games are made by teams. Id has been decimated, and they're just the latest in thousands of others. Remember when MS bought Activision and lied to the FTC that they wouldn't do this kind of thing? We need actual consequences for the ones who caused that damage.

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social

When Microsoft lays off veteran developers like Johnmichael, it's the decimation of a studio itself. This cycle of acquiring and discarding studios will continue unless we speak up. #SaveGameWorkers and tell Microsoft to end these unnecessary layoffs NOW: shorturl.at/5ruBE

More of the same shit Funny because yesterday I read an article talking about how much of a failure Amazon's AI has been. futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.comAmazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained FailureAmazon is gutting its AI labs and funneling its resources into a new project headed by a noted AI robotics guru.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Tired. But here we are again. Change your settings.

Fabio Santana@fabiosantana79.bsky.social

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

Remember when MS bought Activision/Blizzard and there were hundreds of articles talking about how it would be great for everyone, actually? And that we all needed to shut up about it? Yeah this is exactly what people worried about. Another dark day in what feels endless.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Xbox will lay off 3200 workers and cut four studios loose aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-j...

Bungie with huge layoffs today. The tragedy of the game industry continues. You'd think given the volume of layoffs for the past few years, that people just don't play games anymore. Thats simply not true. Execs just demand more unreasonable amounts of profit.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

Bungie is laying off a significant number of people today. Exact number isn't clear yet, but employees are being informed this morning.

Love to see these quotes being said on live television. A lot of us have been saying it, but here it is on a major network. Extra bonus that it comes from the currently most successful horror movie debut director: Kane Parsons, with Backrooms.

Genel Jumalon 🍉@geneljumalon.bsky.social

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

A few weeks ago I got hit with a similar hack to all these. Screenshot attached. It was from a dev discord account I interviewed with 4 years ago. As I just got a ton of devs now following me (thanks!) this is your warning: DO NOT download any demo unless you speak to the person directly to confirm.

Bmaster4114@bmaster4114.bsky.social

I WANT TO STRESS this is NOT the only game they have 'made' they use HUNDREDS of stolen assets from real games and even AI generated assets for these scams! SO don't just be warry of the FOX be warry about ALL games sent in discord servers and DMs! Virus Scanners are also NOT RELIABLE!

If you have a Creative Cloud subscription, they created "Creative Cloud Pro" for AI usage- more expensive than standard- and added you automatically. check your subscriptions immediately. And even after you catch it, it's massively obscured on how to fix it. So I made a guide. Should be illegal

Hack update: -Discord accounts and affected servers all frozen (pending recovery) -gmail account frozen, google refusing to return the email because the hacker changed my birthday to reflect "child" status" even though they have determined the email was hacked. -computer reformatted. back to it.

As a follow-up from yesterday: if anyone here knows somebody at @discord.com , I need to speak to an actual human. The help bot will not provide any help, and multiple people have now been compromised with multiple servers having to go down because of it. Long shot, but worth a try!

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@discord.com : I have mountains of proof from both myself and these others who were hacked, that we own our accounts. All you need to do is let me speak to a human. It could be over in 30 seconds. Instead it's been 2 days and thousands of people are being compromised

As a follow-up from yesterday: if anyone here knows somebody at @discord.com , I need to speak to an actual human. The help bot will not provide any help, and multiple people have now been compromised with multiple servers having to go down because of it. Long shot, but worth a try!

ATTENTION: my discord was hacked (they were posing as an indie Dev and had an entire fake website full of fake videos, go figure). If we're friends on there, please don't accept any links from my name asking you to help test a game. As if I needed more reasons to hate AI.

Grip XR's demo is now out, you can check it out for free! store.steampowered.com/app/4475750/... Kickstarter in a few weeks, but this is what they made *without* that. It's already on it's way. Share it with anyone who wants some old school arcade intense racing with a brand new creative twist!

store.steampowered.comGRIP XR on SteamGRIP XR is a blazingly fast futuristic combat racing game with rocket-powered, flippable vehicles. Use unique movement tech and powerful weapons and abilities to beat your opponents. Sequel to GRIP, a...

Nate Horsfall reposted

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

Instantly this new CEO makes his mark as being an instant reviled POS. What a way to start. Can't go a day anymore without some insane money hoarding move from the billionaire (Epstien) class. So sickening.

Karla Ortiz 🔜 LBX@kortizart.bsky.social

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

It may feel futile but you should contact any republican offices today and demand they do something to stop Trump and his genocidal threats against Iran. Phones should be going non stop. Offices should have thousands of people in front of them. If ever there was a time to be loud, it's now.