Damon
@damonreece.com
they/them -📍Adelaide, South Australia
Writing award-winning and critically beloved games since 2012: Eternal Strands, Necrobarista, Hacknet Labyrinths, and many more.
https://damonreece.com
Writing award-winning and critically beloved games since 2012: Eternal Strands, Necrobarista, Hacknet Labyrinths, and many more.
https://damonreece.com
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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Fifty years ago today, me and my two stalwarts were re-traying packets of plutonium-infested stream samples from the Maralinga tests while we listened, hushed, to the dusty old transistor seven telling the minute-by-minute tale of the CIA and the British conducting their coup. We felt finished.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Fifty years ago today, me and my two stalwarts were re-traying packets of plutonium-infested stream samples from the Maralinga tests while we listened, hushed, to the dusty old transistor seven telling the minute-by-minute tale of the CIA and the British conducting their coup. We felt finished.
unedited footage of a bee
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
unedited footage of a bee
Many of you
D693
Man transformed
to ass plays the lyre.
Man transformed
to ass plays the lyre.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Many of you
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[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy
in the year 2025 we ought to all be trying our very best to cultivate peace inside of our heads, since it's certainly not coming from without. free yourself
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
in the year 2025 we ought to all be trying our very best to cultivate peace inside of our heads, since it's certainly not coming from without. free yourself
F1 stewards gotta be pulling scraps of paper out of a hat at this point, absolutely no sense to their decisionmaking
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
F1 stewards gotta be pulling scraps of paper out of a hat at this point, absolutely no sense to their decisionmaking
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Finally got around to migrating all the DevBlogs from cohost (rip).
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Finally got around to migrating all the DevBlogs from cohost (rip).
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
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How to wash Chiitan🫧
ちぃたん☆のシャワーシーン大公開ですっ☆
ちぃたん☆のシャワーシーン大公開ですっ☆
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
How to wash Chiitan🫧
ちぃたん☆のシャワーシーン大公開ですっ☆
ちぃたん☆のシャワーシーン大公開ですっ☆
intentionally muddying the water by conflating procedural generation with genAI is turd behaviour!
Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.
They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
intentionally muddying the water by conflating procedural generation with genAI is turd behaviour!
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Tribute to Metroid Prime games, my fave saga.
See you dec. 4!!
See you dec. 4!!
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Tribute to Metroid Prime games, my fave saga.
See you dec. 4!!
See you dec. 4!!
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It's really telling that upper leadership has looked at a literal world-leading level of lqa quality and seen it as a cost center to be automated down rather than something that distinguishes it from the rest of the competition
It cannot be stressed enough that many of SE's own competitors don't invest nearly as much in their LQA process and it shows. Many times, LQA is limited purely to technical checks, if that, and I've had games come out where I wasn't allowed to be involved in LQA and the difference is pronounced.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It's really telling that upper leadership has looked at a literal world-leading level of lqa quality and seen it as a cost center to be automated down rather than something that distinguishes it from the rest of the competition
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Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.
You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.
Square Enix wants 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027, in partnership with the University of Tokyo's Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory. https://bit.ly/4qKdyQR
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.
same energy as my favourite spam email of all time, which arrived this week
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
same energy as my favourite spam email of all time, which arrived this week
life moves so fast and so often the way the river flows does not feel all that great
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
life moves so fast and so often the way the river flows does not feel all that great
today’s “my lobster is too buttery” problem is that the wattlebirds are singing their beautiful lilting springtime songs to each other so insistently that I’m having trouble concentrating on my work
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
today’s “my lobster is too buttery” problem is that the wattlebirds are singing their beautiful lilting springtime songs to each other so insistently that I’m having trouble concentrating on my work
they pokemon legged it to the polls to z a new guy win. is this anything. I’m on four hours of sleep so you have to be nice to me
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
they pokemon legged it to the polls to z a new guy win. is this anything. I’m on four hours of sleep so you have to be nice to me
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a Metroid Prime 4 trailer dropped two hours ago and not a SINGLE person pinged me to let me know... feeling BETRAYED and OUTRAGED......... repost if you agree
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
a Metroid Prime 4 trailer dropped two hours ago and not a SINGLE person pinged me to let me know... feeling BETRAYED and OUTRAGED......... repost if you agree
Hugely enjoying Z-A. It's got the sauce. Every character in this is completely deranged or has severe depression
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Hugely enjoying Z-A. It's got the sauce. Every character in this is completely deranged or has severe depression
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🌌 Firmament 🌙
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0
- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!
Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0
- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!
Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
🌌 Firmament 🌙
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0
- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!
Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0
- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!
Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...