Darcy Sandall
@darcysandall.bsky.social
Lead Audio Engineer @ Sledgehammer Games
Makes Call of Duty
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Makes Call of Duty
Opinions are my own
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Darcy Sandall
@darcysandall.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Hey all 👋
I'm Darcy, a software engineer currently working as Lead Audio Engineer at Sledgehammer Games on a little series called Call of Duty.
Previously I was a generalist programmer in indie spending way too much time in VR
I'm Darcy, a software engineer currently working as Lead Audio Engineer at Sledgehammer Games on a little series called Call of Duty.
Previously I was a generalist programmer in indie spending way too much time in VR
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Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
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An absolute sea of people has gathered at Flinders Street Station in Naarm/Melbourne this evening. Tens of thousands saying loud and clear:
HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊
HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊
February 9, 2026 at 7:39 AM
An absolute sea of people has gathered at Flinders Street Station in Naarm/Melbourne this evening. Tens of thousands saying loud and clear:
HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊
HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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February 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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Abolish ICE. Stop their funding. Call your reps until their ears bleed. Protest. Call for a general strike. Vote at the ballot box. Record everything, take them to court, and off to prison. And most of all, remember the dead. Thirty plus people perished in ICE’s hands over the last year.
January 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Abolish ICE. Stop their funding. Call your reps until their ears bleed. Protest. Call for a general strike. Vote at the ballot box. Record everything, take them to court, and off to prison. And most of all, remember the dead. Thirty plus people perished in ICE’s hands over the last year.
Why yes I am a dumbass who left their only pair of working headphones at the office and now has to scramble to figure an audio solution for their early morning meetings.
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Why yes I am a dumbass who left their only pair of working headphones at the office and now has to scramble to figure an audio solution for their early morning meetings.
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An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input.
Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026
Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...
Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026
Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...
Freeplay | 2026 Survey
An Update from Freeplay
www.freeplay.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 1:35 AM
An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input.
Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026
Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...
Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026
Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them”
except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid
except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them”
except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid
except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid
Well I guess I lied when I said "I'll do SXSW Sydney next year".
No more SXSW Sydney... I didn't really see the point of it... felt a bit like LinkedIn - the festival, and tickets were quite pricey
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Well I guess I lied when I said "I'll do SXSW Sydney next year".
The more I look at it the funnier it gets
January 11, 2026 at 2:25 AM
The more I look at it the funnier it gets
Painted over my mum's birthday card to try and make it look like the family dog and the result was... special
January 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Painted over my mum's birthday card to try and make it look like the family dog and the result was... special
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New jobs are posted on the website!
Attention Coders! We've got 2 new open positions for coders.
Engine/Core Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
UI Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
Come work with us at Gravity Well: gravitywell.games
Attention Coders! We've got 2 new open positions for coders.
Engine/Core Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
UI Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
Come work with us at Gravity Well: gravitywell.games
Engine/Core Engineer
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
New jobs are posted on the website!
Attention Coders! We've got 2 new open positions for coders.
Engine/Core Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
UI Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
Come work with us at Gravity Well: gravitywell.games
Attention Coders! We've got 2 new open positions for coders.
Engine/Core Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
UI Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...
Come work with us at Gravity Well: gravitywell.games
Can't say I miss going outside to smell the bushfire.
January 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Can't say I miss going outside to smell the bushfire.
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Another great GDC 2026 scholarship opportunity from our friends at @gamedevperkup.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
GameDev PerkUp GDC Scholarship Application
Deadline: Wednesday, January 28th @ 10pm PT
Decision Notification: First week of February
Recipients will receive:
• 1 GDC Festival Pass awarded
What’s NOT included:
• Airfare
• Lodging
Our goal is to...
docs.google.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Another great GDC 2026 scholarship opportunity from our friends at @gamedevperkup.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Either this is one hell of a coincidence or Rockstar has set a scary precedent.
Ubisoft has announced the closure of its Halifax studio, which had been working on mobile titles for Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed.
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut...
www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shut...
Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected
The studio is the latest to be hit by the company's ongoing cutbacks.
www.gamesindustry.biz
January 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Either this is one hell of a coincidence or Rockstar has set a scary precedent.
There are no words for how grateful I am not to be in my teens or early to mid 20s while this whole easily accessible deepfake-revenge-porn-shitshow is going down.
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
There are no words for how grateful I am not to be in my teens or early to mid 20s while this whole easily accessible deepfake-revenge-porn-shitshow is going down.
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I’ve had porn deepfakes made of me since long before genAI existed, and am (sadly) very unphased by it at this point, but I do strongly agree with this sentiment.
These men don’t do it to jerk off to - they do it as a means of ‘digital rape’. If anything, they jerk off to knowing you don’t consent.
These men don’t do it to jerk off to - they do it as a means of ‘digital rape’. If anything, they jerk off to knowing you don’t consent.
He was of course a MAGA guy. The posts on his account that weren’t replies with AI porn of other women were barely literate Trump support.
The underlying point of the fake genAI nudes in his posts was not so that he could jerk off. One can do that quietly. His point was: “we can do this any time.”
The underlying point of the fake genAI nudes in his posts was not so that he could jerk off. One can do that quietly. His point was: “we can do this any time.”
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I’ve had porn deepfakes made of me since long before genAI existed, and am (sadly) very unphased by it at this point, but I do strongly agree with this sentiment.
These men don’t do it to jerk off to - they do it as a means of ‘digital rape’. If anything, they jerk off to knowing you don’t consent.
These men don’t do it to jerk off to - they do it as a means of ‘digital rape’. If anything, they jerk off to knowing you don’t consent.
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NEW: At least 40 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians, local official says - NYT
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM
NEW: At least 40 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians, local official says - NYT
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Nothing is wilder than watching US pundits on many sides of the aisle argue about whether Trump got the right permissions to invade another nation, instead of, you know, whether any part of the US government should be allowed to once again invade a nation based on US preferences.
January 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Nothing is wilder than watching US pundits on many sides of the aisle argue about whether Trump got the right permissions to invade another nation, instead of, you know, whether any part of the US government should be allowed to once again invade a nation based on US preferences.
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
Couldn't do 26km for 2026 so I did half and went "good enough"
(13km is the longest I've run in like 5 years)
(13km is the longest I've run in like 5 years)
January 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Couldn't do 26km for 2026 so I did half and went "good enough"
(13km is the longest I've run in like 5 years)
(13km is the longest I've run in like 5 years)
Goodbye 2025, all things considered you were a pretty decent year
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Goodbye 2025, all things considered you were a pretty decent year
He tolerates me
December 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
He tolerates me