Joakim Bodin
@jb.ripley.se
👾 Dev @ Epic Games
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🎧 I can hear the deep rasp of your laughter, joyful
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jbripley
📍 🇺🇸 Seattle | 🇸🇪 Swede
📚 A virtue persists without payment or compensation
🎧 I can hear the deep rasp of your laughter, joyful
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jbripley
📍 🇺🇸 Seattle | 🇸🇪 Swede
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When you order “mild” spice level from a Szechuan restaurant and still struggle, no need for a DNS test to know you’re mostly Nordic ancestry.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When you order “mild” spice level from a Szechuan restaurant and still struggle, no need for a DNS test to know you’re mostly Nordic ancestry.
“I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
At the Zoo, drinking overpriced beer and watching concerts. As you do on Seattle summer evenings.
August 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
At the Zoo, drinking overpriced beer and watching concerts. As you do on Seattle summer evenings.
It’s 30C/86F outside at 7pm, ice cream for dinner is the only logical choice.
June 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It’s 30C/86F outside at 7pm, ice cream for dinner is the only logical choice.
I’m slowly getting assimilated to becoming an American… I’m putting ice in more and more of my drinks.
June 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’m slowly getting assimilated to becoming an American… I’m putting ice in more and more of my drinks.
Etoile is such a return to form for the Palladino’s. Razor sharp dialog, delivered at high speed, with excellent wit. Deep interesting characters, with great chemistry sells the whole thing.
May 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Etoile is such a return to form for the Palladino’s. Razor sharp dialog, delivered at high speed, with excellent wit. Deep interesting characters, with great chemistry sells the whole thing.
Parry, the bane of my existence in any video game.
Luckily Clair Obscur’s story mode makes even me have a decent success rate.
Luckily Clair Obscur’s story mode makes even me have a decent success rate.
April 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Parry, the bane of my existence in any video game.
Luckily Clair Obscur’s story mode makes even me have a decent success rate.
Luckily Clair Obscur’s story mode makes even me have a decent success rate.
How many Nuka Cola caps do reckon a Switch 2 will be?
April 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How many Nuka Cola caps do reckon a Switch 2 will be?
Politics make a lot more sense once you realize a lot of people don’t vote to make life better for everyone, but to explicitly make certain other people’s life worse.
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Politics make a lot more sense once you realize a lot of people don’t vote to make life better for everyone, but to explicitly make certain other people’s life worse.
Me: “Maybe this Nintendo direct will have some mention of Hollow Knight Silksong”
Nintendo newsletter:
Nintendo newsletter:
March 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Me: “Maybe this Nintendo direct will have some mention of Hollow Knight Silksong”
Nintendo newsletter:
Nintendo newsletter:
Volunteer park breakfast sandwich and interlaken park + arboretum walk makes for a good weekend morning.
Even though everyone drives like maniacs on all the surface streets between them.
Even though everyone drives like maniacs on all the surface streets between them.
February 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Volunteer park breakfast sandwich and interlaken park + arboretum walk makes for a good weekend morning.
Even though everyone drives like maniacs on all the surface streets between them.
Even though everyone drives like maniacs on all the surface streets between them.
I don’t know what it means, but I found it funny how the vibes differ between the two washing machines I’ve owned.
- LG/Asian - plays a happy little melody
- GE/US - beeps and shows END on the LCD
- LG/Asian - plays a happy little melody
- GE/US - beeps and shows END on the LCD
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I don’t know what it means, but I found it funny how the vibes differ between the two washing machines I’ve owned.
- LG/Asian - plays a happy little melody
- GE/US - beeps and shows END on the LCD
- LG/Asian - plays a happy little melody
- GE/US - beeps and shows END on the LCD
Like a frog needs a bicycle
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Like a frog needs a bicycle
QQ and LFG are two acronyms that my old brain is really having problems remapping depending on contexts.
LFG
Looking For Group
Let’s Fucking Go
QQ
Crying emoji
Quick Question
LFG
Looking For Group
Let’s Fucking Go
Crying emoji
Quick Question
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
QQ and LFG are two acronyms that my old brain is really having problems remapping depending on contexts.
LFG
Looking For Group
Let’s Fucking Go
QQ
Crying emoji
Quick Question
LFG
Looking For Group
Let’s Fucking Go
Crying emoji
Quick Question
Launched Threads for the first time in a while, and it now has the same problem I have with Instagram. Video being used instead of the medium it was made for (text / images).
If I want video, I’ll go to YouTube thankyouverymuch. Meta, stop your enshittification.
If I want video, I’ll go to YouTube thankyouverymuch. Meta, stop your enshittification.
February 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Launched Threads for the first time in a while, and it now has the same problem I have with Instagram. Video being used instead of the medium it was made for (text / images).
If I want video, I’ll go to YouTube thankyouverymuch. Meta, stop your enshittification.
If I want video, I’ll go to YouTube thankyouverymuch. Meta, stop your enshittification.
If you are reading this, post a gif from a game you love
Loved of every corner of this open world was cohesive world building, while still giving me silly little quests to complete.
Loved of every corner of this open world was cohesive world building, while still giving me silly little quests to complete.
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are reading this, post a gif from a game you love
Loved of every corner of this open world was cohesive world building, while still giving me silly little quests to complete.
Loved of every corner of this open world was cohesive world building, while still giving me silly little quests to complete.
One of my favourite expressive words in Swedish is “ordförråd”, which means vocabulary, but literally mean “word storage”.
You want to make all that clever talk with big fancy words? Make sure you have a lot of room in that head for word storage 😅
You want to make all that clever talk with big fancy words? Make sure you have a lot of room in that head for word storage 😅
January 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One of my favourite expressive words in Swedish is “ordförråd”, which means vocabulary, but literally mean “word storage”.
You want to make all that clever talk with big fancy words? Make sure you have a lot of room in that head for word storage 😅
You want to make all that clever talk with big fancy words? Make sure you have a lot of room in that head for word storage 😅
Can’t say I expected Wind and Truth to be a 1500 page dissertation in mental health and conquering your demons, but I liked it.
January 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Can’t say I expected Wind and Truth to be a 1500 page dissertation in mental health and conquering your demons, but I liked it.
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Call me elitist, but if you’re best of Radiohead playlist has Creep on it, I’ll be suspect of your music taste.
January 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Call me elitist, but if you’re best of Radiohead playlist has Creep on it, I’ll be suspect of your music taste.
Thinking about second breakfast, like a damn hobbit.
Thank you, jet lag.
Thank you, jet lag.
January 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thinking about second breakfast, like a damn hobbit.
Thank you, jet lag.
Thank you, jet lag.
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I looked through the lists here and they seem to cover the right people:
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December 31, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I looked through the lists here and they seem to cover the right people:
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The biggest waste of money I’ve seen in video game development, across many years and studios (not my current one - one of the reasons I wanted to work there), wasn’t on graphics. It was abruptly being told to throw out months or years of work bc one executive decided they didn’t like something.
December 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
The biggest waste of money I’ve seen in video game development, across many years and studios (not my current one - one of the reasons I wanted to work there), wasn’t on graphics. It was abruptly being told to throw out months or years of work bc one executive decided they didn’t like something.