ari velazquez 🌯
@arivelazquez.com
technical designer @sleightofhand.game ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
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ari velazquez 🌯
@arivelazquez.com
· Oct 18
life's been in the way of shareable work but here's the last thing i was jamming on: recreating Ys Origin in unreal so i can use it as a mechanical base for making my own game on top of it. would really love to come back to this
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5
hi new folk, i'm ari! 10 years in gamedev on shit you haven't heard of and one you definitely have, nowadays i'm a technical designer mainly in unreal and doing contract work and a hundred side projects.
one of my fave side things:
one of my fave side things:
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What the $@?! is a "skins game"?!
High stakes, big bet golf gamblin'...IN SPACE!
Wishlist now on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4378840/...
[ #gaming #indiegames #sports ]
High stakes, big bet golf gamblin'...IN SPACE!
Wishlist now on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4378840/...
[ #gaming #indiegames #sports ]
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
What the $@?! is a "skins game"?!
High stakes, big bet golf gamblin'...IN SPACE!
Wishlist now on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4378840/...
[ #gaming #indiegames #sports ]
High stakes, big bet golf gamblin'...IN SPACE!
Wishlist now on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4378840/...
[ #gaming #indiegames #sports ]
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Got a neat gift from a friend! Having way too much fun changing up this little dude’s face and hands. The dragon is held in place by magnets!
February 1, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Got a neat gift from a friend! Having way too much fun changing up this little dude’s face and hands. The dragon is held in place by magnets!
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COOL BOARDERS
UEP SYSTEMS 1997
PLAYSTATION
UEP SYSTEMS 1997
PLAYSTATION
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
COOL BOARDERS
UEP SYSTEMS 1997
PLAYSTATION
UEP SYSTEMS 1997
PLAYSTATION
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we may require your government ID, legal name, and full address, but we delete that information as soon as we verify your age! (three weeks pass) hey so our servers got hacked and you guys are not gonna believe what happened to your government IDs, legal names, and full addresses that we deleted
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
we may require your government ID, legal name, and full address, but we delete that information as soon as we verify your age! (three weeks pass) hey so our servers got hacked and you guys are not gonna believe what happened to your government IDs, legal names, and full addresses that we deleted
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
australia has already had this and there are countless articles and studies about how worthless it is. no politicians actually want to do any real work about safeguarding minors online, they just like the shiny tech that maybe makes them poll better with parents who don't know better
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
discord.com/press-releas...
discord.com/press-releas...
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
australia has already had this and there are countless articles and studies about how worthless it is. no politicians actually want to do any real work about safeguarding minors online, they just like the shiny tech that maybe makes them poll better with parents who don't know better
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Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
TIME Magazine Reveals Special Edition Pokémon 30th Anniversary Covers.
TIME Magazine Reveals Special Edition Pokémon 30th Anniversary Covers
Ho-oh my
www.nintendolife.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
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I wrote about silksong
this just kinda ends when I run outta stuff to say, so I might go back and add to it, but I said what was in my heart and you can read what's there
www.grouvee.com/user/Innuend...
this just kinda ends when I run outta stuff to say, so I might go back and add to it, but I said what was in my heart and you can read what's there
www.grouvee.com/user/Innuend...
InnuendoStudios's Review of Hollow Knight: Silksong
I need to say more about silksong than "peam." I'm too old for "peam," but "peam" is really funny. I cannot stop reading/watching things about silksong (the best, bar none, is kayin's "[silksong...
www.grouvee.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I wrote about silksong
this just kinda ends when I run outta stuff to say, so I might go back and add to it, but I said what was in my heart and you can read what's there
www.grouvee.com/user/Innuend...
this just kinda ends when I run outta stuff to say, so I might go back and add to it, but I said what was in my heart and you can read what's there
www.grouvee.com/user/Innuend...
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So many folks who thought Born in the USA was a pro-America song are suddenly worried about not understanding lyrics.
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
So many folks who thought Born in the USA was a pro-America song are suddenly worried about not understanding lyrics.
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It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes
open source be like
"why hasn't someone made a docker for this with configurable settings? seems so obvious but i gotta build my own instead"
"you could make yours public when you're done"
"fuck no i don't wanna maintain that shit"
"why hasn't someone made a docker for this with configurable settings? seems so obvious but i gotta build my own instead"
"you could make yours public when you're done"
"fuck no i don't wanna maintain that shit"
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
open source be like
"why hasn't someone made a docker for this with configurable settings? seems so obvious but i gotta build my own instead"
"you could make yours public when you're done"
"fuck no i don't wanna maintain that shit"
"why hasn't someone made a docker for this with configurable settings? seems so obvious but i gotta build my own instead"
"you could make yours public when you're done"
"fuck no i don't wanna maintain that shit"
reddit tech help dot jpg
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
reddit tech help dot jpg
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Australia, being brainwashed by cops & a spineless Federal Government.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by NSW police.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by NSW police.
Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Australia, being brainwashed by cops & a spineless Federal Government.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by NSW police.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by NSW police.
bad bunny’s halftime show ruled. lady gaga felt out of place but salsa die with a smile was fun. very heartwarming to see ricky martin given such a prominent solo for one of bb’s more obvious protest songs. fantastic set design and execution. love it all
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
bad bunny’s halftime show ruled. lady gaga felt out of place but salsa die with a smile was fun. very heartwarming to see ricky martin given such a prominent solo for one of bb’s more obvious protest songs. fantastic set design and execution. love it all
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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"[H]e applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. Pride in your heritage is protest. Being unapologetic about it all is radical."
Me on Bad Bunny's beautiful joyous halftime show and why it is legible to everyone, no matter what language(s) you speak
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Wasn’t What Conservatives Feared. It Was Something Else Entirely.
The Puerto Rican superstar’s halftime show was pure joy.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
"[H]e applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. Pride in your heritage is protest. Being unapologetic about it all is radical."
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when gmad puts out the call for these i feel like she tends to attach a pretty average showcase, so i want to make it clear that her range is massive. here are some minor examples of her work picked basically at random. i cannot overstate what an insane bargain you're getting here
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
when gmad puts out the call for these i feel like she tends to attach a pretty average showcase, so i want to make it clear that her range is massive. here are some minor examples of her work picked basically at random. i cannot overstate what an insane bargain you're getting here
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god bless benito for triggering the “are they talking about me in a language i can’t understand” fear activation response in all the country’s worst people
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
god bless benito for triggering the “are they talking about me in a language i can’t understand” fear activation response in all the country’s worst people
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"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
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“Thank you for your payment” go to hell
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
“Thank you for your payment” go to hell
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Remember how there was like one super bowl with a million crypto ads and then all of a sudden the bottom fell out of the market? Just thinking of that for no particular reason
THIS IS GONNA BE THE AI SUPER BOWL ISN'T IT.
FUCK CODEX FUCK OPENAI FUCK SAM ALTMAN FUCK EVERY STUPID WITLESS BITCH WHO USES THAT BULLSHIT FOR IDIOT ASSHOLES.
FUCK CODEX FUCK OPENAI FUCK SAM ALTMAN FUCK EVERY STUPID WITLESS BITCH WHO USES THAT BULLSHIT FOR IDIOT ASSHOLES.
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Remember how there was like one super bowl with a million crypto ads and then all of a sudden the bottom fell out of the market? Just thinking of that for no particular reason
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check it out, 3D model commissions for VRChat and any game you want! go to gmadcomms.carrd.co for more info and DM me if interested! #lowpoly #3dart #commissions #vrchat
February 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
check it out, 3D model commissions for VRChat and any game you want! go to gmadcomms.carrd.co for more info and DM me if interested! #lowpoly #3dart #commissions #vrchat
spent a large chunk of the day learning more than i wanted to about docker so i could get a perforce server container running on my unraid server but i think i fuckin got it
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
spent a large chunk of the day learning more than i wanted to about docker so i could get a perforce server container running on my unraid server but i think i fuckin got it
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i really feel like anyone can accomplish anything, overcome any hardship, if accompanied by good lighting and a banger soundtrack
February 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
i really feel like anyone can accomplish anything, overcome any hardship, if accompanied by good lighting and a banger soundtrack
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"Take your console to the houses of friends who don't have one, and get them hooked on Saturn."
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 AM
"Take your console to the houses of friends who don't have one, and get them hooked on Saturn."