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they/them • GILDED LEAVES • STL • composer/sound designer (derogatory) • 🔈 for ValiDate, Seasonspree, That Which Faith Demands, & BREAK THE GAME • austinmwav.com
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Austin Miller | GILDED LEAVES @austinmwav.com · Nov 10
welcome new followers. my name is Austin and I do ✨audio✨

you may have heard my work in ValiDate, Seasonspree, That Which Faith Demands or BREAK THE GAME

I’m currently looking for work, so if you have any audio needs hit me up!
Validate cover Seasonspree cover That Which Faith Demands cover BREAK THE GAME poster
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brunodias.bsky.social
I'm wrapping up a major contract this month, so: hire me! I'm a writer/narrative designer/systems designer with a decade of industry experience and a lot of experience taming the complexity of intricate systems. Let me build your storylet system or write disquieting prose for you!
Mask of the Rose Pathologic 3: Quarantine Skin Deep Neo Cab
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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nessathewriter.bsky.social
hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work.

I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult!

Updated portfolio is live on my new site:
www.nessacannon.com
NESSA CANNON
Experienced game writer and narrative designer available for commissions, assignments, and contract work.
www.nessacannon.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
"you should quit your job in solidarity" is one of those quintessentially american political arguments in that it focuses on pointless, performative individualism over any form of useful collective action, just like the american political system
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
austinmwav.com
did some studio cleanup for the new year
a computer with a DAW on it a laptop and extra monitor with godot running a series of guitars, dragon ball statues and a laptop running a torrent downloaded on a stand the whole room from a corner angle
January 5, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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natclayton.bsky.social
y'ever think about how the plot of this film from 40+ years ago is about a guy trying to get properly accredited for working on space invaders. it'd be crazy if that was still relevant to games today.
natclayton.bsky.social nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 3d
(we saw last year's new Tron Remastering, which goes kinda crazy for fans of jeff bridges being a weird little scamp)
January 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
One thing I keep thinking about is the Rubio interview towards the start of last year. Whether he actually believes this fully or if it’s rhetorical positioning, it’s an argument that lays the groundwork for this and possibly future acts of global banditry.

(www.state.gov/secretary-ma...)
QUESTION: America first. SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, and that’s the way the world has always worked. The way the world has always worked is that the Chinese will do what’s in the best interests of China, the Russians will do what’s in the best interest of Russia, the Chileans are going to do what’s in the best interest of Chile, and the United States needs to do what’s in the best interest of the United States. Where our interests align, that’s where you have partnerships and alliances; where our differences are not aligned, that is where the job of diplomacy is to prevent conflict while still furthering our national interests and understanding they’re going to further theirs. And that’s been lost. And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem. And there are terrible things happening in the world. There are. And then there are things that are terrible that impact our national interest directly, and we need to prioritize those again. So it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet. We face that now with China and to some extent Russia, and then you have rogue states like Iran and North Korea you have to deal with. So now more than ever we need to remember that foreign policy should always be about furthering the national interest of the United States and doing so, to the extent possible, avoiding war and armed conflict, which we have seen two times in the last century be very costly. They’re celebrating the 80th anniversary this year of the end of the Second World War. That – I think if you look at the scale and scope of destruction and loss of life that occurred, it would be far worse if we had a global conflict now. It may end life on the planet. And it sounds like hyperbole, but that’s – you have multiple countries now who have the capability to end life on Earth. And so we need to really work hard to avoid armed conflict as much as possible, but never at the expense of our national interest. So that’s the tricky balance. So I think returning us to that, now you can have a framework by which you analyze not just diplomacy but foreign aid and who we would line up with and the return of pragmatism. And that’s not an abandonment of our principles. I’m not a fan or a giddy supporter of some horrifying human rights violator somewhere in the world. By the same token, diplomacy has always required us and foreign policy has always required us to work in the national interest, sometimes in cooperation with people who we wouldn’t invite over for dinner or people who we wouldn’t necessarily ever want to be led by. And so that’s a balance, but it’s the sort of pragmatic and mature balance we have to have in foreign policy.
January 4, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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garyalexander.bsky.social
99-0 confirmation
chickentendielife.bsky.social chickentendielife.bsky.social @chickentendielife.bsky.social · 3d
The funniest line to me in the article
January 4, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
i just started playing through this year's quake brutalist jam and i am, of course, agonizing over graphics settings. some folks probably made their contributions with 8 bit off, but i've always played vanilla and i'd miss the chromatic play along ramps...
the intro area, a flat organic plain with a low barrier cliff around it and an undercut vertical pillar of a building in the center. this screenshot uses full color depth. a screenshot of the same area with 8 bit color. this is most noticeable in the clouds, which have severe green and pink banding.
January 4, 2026 at 4:39 AM
austinmwav.com
new year, new additions to my collection
OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE by MICHAEL AZERRAD & ABSOLUTELY ON MUSIC: CONVERSATIONS WITH SEIJI OZAWA by HARUKI MURAKAMI
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets.

Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d
BREAKING: Venezuela’s government has accused the US of launching attacks on civilian and military installations across several states, rejecting what it described as a "military aggression," according to an official statement.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p3fqh2
January 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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lena.fyi
that's me!

come check out 10 of my favorite games from this year... plus 9 bonus ones, and one sentence about 26 others......... there's a lot of games in here. come see, come see...
January 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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austinmwav.com
[*multiplayer zombie game bark*] Keep your wits about you, I can hear a Cummer.
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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lena.fyi
new year new music!

【of the Devil Episode 2 ~ Courtroom Clash!】

is now available on Bandcamp~

featuring my 2 new tracks from the episode!

radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
of the Devil Episode 2 ~ Courtroom Clash!, by Lena Raine
2 track album
radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
austinmwav.com
happy birthday to all the horses in the northern hemisphere
January 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM
austinmwav.com
ohhhhhhh I’m sorry but imo that is a real big stretch lmao
January 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
austinmwav.com
they put Bone Tomahawk on Shudder, which happens to be the most racist movie I have seen in my entire life. Birth of a Nation levels of racism. everyone involved should be put inside a contraption.
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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dimosar.bsky.social
I only celebrate one year: the Human year.
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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brendanmcleod.com
(using a health item when the game’s fiction has established the health items are a Capri-Sun-style packet manufactured by a company called Dick’s) suckin dicks!
January 1, 2026 at 3:05 AM
austinmwav.com
[*multiplayer zombie game bark*] Keep your wits about you, I can hear a Cummer.
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 AM
austinmwav.com
if this is true then why do these AI placeholders keep slipping through the cracks
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
austinmwav.com
my insurance won’t cover a vasectomy so instead I’m going to sit on a heated blanket on high till my nuts are boiled. doctors don’t want you to know that’s an option.
December 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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meghna.bsky.social
Storynexus is shutting down soon and Josh is doing heroic work preserving Samsara - my game of courtly intrigue, opium-fuelled poetry and dream-walking set in Bengal in 1757, at the dawn of the British Raj. You can play along + even vote on options!
joshgrams.bsky.social Joshua Grams @joshgrams.bsky.social · 8d
For a little preservation effort, EJ is doing a commented playthrough of Yoon Ha Lee's Winterstrike, and I've started one for @meghna.bsky.social's Samsara:

intfiction.org/t/lets-play-...

intfiction.org/t/lets-play-...

#InteractiveFiction
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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spacetwinks.bsky.social
proud to announce the first morality system in a video game entirely driven by kantian ethics. as predicted and intended, everyone hates it
July 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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weirdtakoyaki.bsky.social
Perfect Blue
December 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM