Reza Mahmud

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🚨 Studio Ghibli will open its first-ever official U.S. store on June 23, bringing the beloved Donguri Republic to Los Angeles for a limited-time run through December. Located at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, the store will feature over 400 officially licensed items, whimsical displays, and a giant Totoro bus stop inspired by My Neighbor Totoro.

TOP 4 IN EVO REGISTRATIONS THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP RIVALS 2 SATURDAY NIGHT LETS GOOOOO

MY TED TALK IS OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The link is in my bio to watch it. I hope you guys love it. Thank you all for bringing me here and thank you @TEDTalks for everything.

Watching @jynxzi break 400k ccv with 800k total in the LoL category with his streamer tournament brings me so much hope, exciting content can still get NA fans hyped, just need to find magic in moments like this 🎉

From dropping out of university, to pro gaming, to community college, to getting accepted to Stanford...I still don't believe it. PLEASE take this as a sign to chase your dreams. You are not too old, and you are not behind.

This is happening. Link to sign up in next post. Please RT and spread word. Let's DO THIS! #theguild #reuniond

mom, can we stop at dust 2? mom: we have dust 2 at home, honey ☺️ dust 2 at home: (any counter strike players? i made the csgo version of dust 2 in wow housing!)

@parthenaan @SeulgiVLR For testing obv you can look at online performance but bigger imo is introspectively reviewing how each feels. Does it feel fun or natural for them to do watch parties? Soloqueue? Info guides? Shorts? Meme videos? Finding what they enjoy / don't dread is huge for consistency

@parthenaan @SeulgiVLR Imo players getting into content creation (which is realistically the biggest lever they have to build their brand) would benefit from being approached similarly to a lot of creative endeavors. Commit to trying diff types of content for planned periods of time and test! (cont)

Should personal brand-building and content be an expectation for newer players? (let's say dedicating 1-2 hours per day on social media, streaming, uploading videos etc) I can see both sides of this argument but curious what people think.

.@G2Caps carried so many fights but honestly @SkewMond_09 pulling the trigger to all-in knight over baron takes diamond level nerves

Really excited to support and advocate for esports players across the ecosystem in the US 🥳

You always remember your first time. Think it applies for second time as well.

Was playing smash bros with my godson and his Dad tells him if he gets one stock off me then he doesn’t have to eat his vegetables. Slim I cooked him so bad he started crying, this is what I do this for. This is why I love the game. Gon head and eat them veggies son

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @CaseyNewton got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

@danfornace ROCK GOOD

Kragg may have been designed a decade ago but I’ll do it again.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung 🇰🇷 awarded T1 Faker 🇰🇷 the Cheongnyong Medal 🏅 The highest honor any South Korean athlete can receive It has mostly been awarded to Olympic gold medalists and multiple-time world champions

Concept Artist here, the "AI hate" directed at Larian Studio is 100% ignorant and bad faith virtue-signaling. Artists are NOT against AI usage as a tool, we're against Generative AI that was trained on real artworks and mass-produced "slops" that imitated our hard work and then marketed as our replacement. In pre-production, the art team would grab random pics off the internet and other games to create a general mood board for aesthetics and "vibe" that fit the art direction (There are more nuances than this, I'm describing this in the most simplified way possible) A mood board of a character may include several pictures of other videogames or anime shows, dozens of object with "texture references" for parts of their attire, multiple reference pictures of relevant objects such as animals or historical weapons or even other character artwork made for other games; ALL of which are randomly drawn from the internet and put together for the purpose of creating an overall aesthetic for a design that will become original in its own way inspired by its references and the artist's own creativity and originality to visualize it when they create the design by doing ART. Larian Studio mentioned using AI to streamline this process; an actively menial labor of "looking for relavant and cool pics on the internet" in essence. There is zero reason why AI speeding up this process is a bad thing; it is essentially the same as someone asking Grok for facts they could have spent a few hours reading through Wikipedia pages. None of the pictures grabbed by either the AI or the art team in this process are being exploited for any monetary gain since they're simply inspiration and visual direction, this has been standard practice in the industry for decades.

FLUTE GUY AT #TheGameAwards PLAYING THE FUCKING PVC PIPES NOW IS THERE NOTHING HE CAN'T DO?

Over 20 years of making platform fighters have led us to this moment.