Jason Meaden
@jasonmeaden.com
Engineer living that game dev life. Huge geek. Formerly Bungie, Wizards of the Coast, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He/They
www.jasonmeaden.com
www.jasonmeaden.com
No internet for our family for the next year, apparently
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
No internet for our family for the next year, apparently
Reposted by Jason Meaden
magic: the gathering arena players are like
December 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
magic: the gathering arena players are like
Reposted by Jason Meaden
gave myself 40 heart attacks making this 🌙 🐍
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
gave myself 40 heart attacks making this 🌙 🐍
Reposted by Jason Meaden
I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
I’m excited to see what he does, but my secret hope is he manages to sneak at least one episode written Darin Morgan and/or Vince Gilligan in there somewhere.
The reboot is his next project, coming before Black Panther 3
I want to believe in Ryan Coogler's X-Files revival
The reboot is his next project, coming before Black Panther 3
www.polygon.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’m excited to see what he does, but my secret hope is he manages to sneak at least one episode written Darin Morgan and/or Vince Gilligan in there somewhere.
This interview is fantastic, and proposes an amazing idea: dump indie as a descriptor and bring back calling things underground instead.
With Cameron Crowe’s new memoir, The Uncool, now on bookshelves, the Almost Famous writer-director takes Brian Formo on a tour of his filmmaking career, from the lasting legacy of Jerry Maguire quotes to his favorite cinematic needle drops. Read the full story on Journal here: boxd.it/2TU
I’m With the Band: Almost Famous filmmaker Cameron Crowe on forging a career by meshing music with movies • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With Cameron Crowe’s new memoir, The Uncool, now on bookshelves, the Almost Famous writer-director takes Brian Formo on a tour of his filmmaking career, from the lasting legacy of Jerry Maguire quotes...
boxd.it
December 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This interview is fantastic, and proposes an amazing idea: dump indie as a descriptor and bring back calling things underground instead.
Received a head-nod from Joe Manganiello while washing my hands in a WotC bathroom
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Received a head-nod from Joe Manganiello while washing my hands in a WotC bathroom
This should absolutely be a thing, even if it’s just an emote
Bungie should let you switch your lightsaber pose in combat (to quickfang hunter animation) if they detect you want to aura farm
December 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This should absolutely be a thing, even if it’s just an emote
Reposted by Jason Meaden
I wrote my dissertation on the history of hardboiled fiction and I’m really getting a kick out of the reversal of rian johnson bringing christie cosy cat mysteries back to America as a rebuke on US libertarianism
December 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I wrote my dissertation on the history of hardboiled fiction and I’m really getting a kick out of the reversal of rian johnson bringing christie cosy cat mysteries back to America as a rebuke on US libertarianism
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Want to feel ancient?
Their oldest kid is 15 now.
Their oldest kid is 15 now.
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Want to feel ancient?
Their oldest kid is 15 now.
Their oldest kid is 15 now.
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Gonna wait for the final episode to drop before I gather my thoughts on Stranger Things season 5, but I will say this: BIG fan of everything to do with the fate of the BMW. I kinda wish they had pulled that cord earlier in the series.
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Gonna wait for the final episode to drop before I gather my thoughts on Stranger Things season 5, but I will say this: BIG fan of everything to do with the fate of the BMW. I kinda wish they had pulled that cord earlier in the series.
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Hire Jason! He has great taste in games and understands asset production pipelines extremely well and is fabulous to work with.
A partial list of games I kept playing or thinking about!
Blue Prince
Expedition 33
Silksong
Citizen Sleeper 2
I also enjoyed my time with Avowed more than I expected, and replayed 1000xResist when it came out on Game Pass because that game rules.
(Also I am definitely a game dev looking for work)
Blue Prince
Expedition 33
Silksong
Citizen Sleeper 2
I also enjoyed my time with Avowed more than I expected, and replayed 1000xResist when it came out on Game Pass because that game rules.
(Also I am definitely a game dev looking for work)
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hire Jason! He has great taste in games and understands asset production pipelines extremely well and is fabulous to work with.
Facebook comments are generally a cesspool, but this one, on a story about the success of James Gunn’s DC films, delighted me
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Facebook comments are generally a cesspool, but this one, on a story about the success of James Gunn’s DC films, delighted me
“Wanna come over and play on my computer? I have Doom”
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“Wanna come over and play on my computer? I have Doom”
We got the kid Slime Rancher 2 digitally for Christmas. I drew a (terrible) cover so they’d have something to unwrap.
“Why didn’t you use AI?”
Great question, glad you asked - because the making it is the fun part. I also knew my artist kid would find this cover hilarious.
“Why didn’t you use AI?”
Great question, glad you asked - because the making it is the fun part. I also knew my artist kid would find this cover hilarious.
December 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We got the kid Slime Rancher 2 digitally for Christmas. I drew a (terrible) cover so they’d have something to unwrap.
“Why didn’t you use AI?”
Great question, glad you asked - because the making it is the fun part. I also knew my artist kid would find this cover hilarious.
“Why didn’t you use AI?”
Great question, glad you asked - because the making it is the fun part. I also knew my artist kid would find this cover hilarious.
When I was a kid my grandmother started a xmas tradition of “Santa” coming to visit every year (adults would take turns being Santa). All the children have grown, and Oma has passed, but we’ve kept up the tradition. This year, my 10 year old nephew wanted to be Santa. He nailed it.
December 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
When I was a kid my grandmother started a xmas tradition of “Santa” coming to visit every year (adults would take turns being Santa). All the children have grown, and Oma has passed, but we’ve kept up the tradition. This year, my 10 year old nephew wanted to be Santa. He nailed it.
Holiday break plans:
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Holiday break plans:
Reposted by Jason Meaden
People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
“Subtext is for cowards” is an amazing and accurate way to sum up Zack Snyder’s oeuvre.
Here's the space portal crossed by a long ship from the first shot of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon (2023).
It's like the filmmaker was saying: "Subtext is for cowards." 😂
It's like the filmmaker was saying: "Subtext is for cowards." 😂
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“Subtext is for cowards” is an amazing and accurate way to sum up Zack Snyder’s oeuvre.
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
Absolutely gutting.
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Absolutely gutting.
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
Reposted by Jason Meaden
Bagel is obviously a huge part of my special Night Thoughts. She passed between recording and air, & Hulu was kind enough to let us add a dedication to her at the end, to include her in all the marketing (bottom left of poster) & give her an actual credit on the special.
Bagel forever and ever.
Bagel forever and ever.
December 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bagel is obviously a huge part of my special Night Thoughts. She passed between recording and air, & Hulu was kind enough to let us add a dedication to her at the end, to include her in all the marketing (bottom left of poster) & give her an actual credit on the special.
Bagel forever and ever.
Bagel forever and ever.