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PEEL IT BACK 2025
NORTH AMERICAN LEG
NIGHT ONE • OAKLAND, CA

“AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE”

Only just now thinking of the “Lion King” as a horrid tangle of lions knotted by the tail.

Screen grab from Rogue One. They've landed miles from their destination and are having to walk.

Screen grab from Foundation. They've landed miles from their destination and are having to walk.

One of main bugbears in sci fi is that they always park their spaceship SO FAR from where they're going. Just park closer!

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

Something to maybe bookmark for the future, US folks.

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screenshot of a bluesky post, unposted. A round icon then the text "Ozzy on his way to the underworld: "Charon!!!" "

didn't post this incredible joke (that only sort of works) yesterday as despite it being innoffensive it felt 'too soon'. But now it feels slightly too late and I missed whatever the sweet spot was.

South Park holy sh*t

Luigi Mangione

The OceanGate submarine

Orcas

Chris Martin

The four horsemen of CEO fear:

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Yes please!

Do we still need stories about an aspirational immigrant who's so devoted to his adopted country that he regularly puts himself in danger to help even those who fear and distrust him, and who's primary antagonist is an egotistical tech billionaire?

Yes, fucking obviously. You numpties.

3D model of the Great Sphinx of Giza in a Maya window, sitting in place, next to the same model with rigged articulations standing up and looking ridiculous with its tiny head and huge legs.

That time I rigged the sphinx to see what it'd look like standing up

Peter Falk as Columbo, looking quizzically at someone off camera.

"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."

Oscar the Grouch, a green scraggly muppet, gets really excited looking at a bug. The caption says "Everyone shut up I'm experiencing WORM", the bug is sparkling, and his eyes are glowing.

Me when I go outside

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Little Nightmares 3 (including free copy of LN1 Enhanced Edition) courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway ends July 1, 6 PM PT.

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With video game prices rising, AI is a critical tool for developers and gamers alike. By seeing which games use AI, gamers can save money by not buying those games. @TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social

important life hack for video games

Pronouncing quiche like Nietzsche because God is Dead and quiche killed him

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Exactly.

"Your safe word was not accepted for security reasons. Please use a safe word you haven't used before."

Concurrently terrifying and erotic

Goodnight

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youtu.be/x--N03NO130?... Only Monsters Play God…

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry

“Then die”

this is the way

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Monster Train 2 courtesy of @bigfangames.com. Giveaway ends on May 27th, 6 PM PT

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My "FUCK AI" talk from @amazefest.bsky.social is not properly cut out yet, but if you can watch it on the stream recap.

In the talk I do a little deep-dive about how AI really works in a way that you don't need an engineering degree to understand. Check it out!

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