Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
The BrikWars guy. Former Lego guy.
Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite Lego themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
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Concept designer and illustrator behind many of your favorite Lego themes and games, and somehow also the old Roblox logo. I know, I can't explain it either.
mikerayhawk.com
brikwars.com
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Mike Rayhawk
@mikerayhawk.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hi! I guess I need some kind of intro here. I'm a designer with a long history at LEGO and a bunch of digressions into tabletop and video games. I also made the original Roblox logo and BrikWars. Currently freelancing in illustration and whatever odd jobs strike my fancy.
www.mikerayhawk.com
www.mikerayhawk.com
I think there's room for nuance here. I spent decades at odds with a whole population of friends because their favorite author threw up every red flag for me. Reading his work felt like getting stuck in the head of a casually abusive sociopath.
Here's a thing that I despise: When someone is outed as an abuser, TERF, terrible human, and ppl start going "I never liked them anyway" "I never found them funny" "They never wrote good things to begin with" and seriously shut the hell up. All of that is just to position you are superior and (cont)
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think there's room for nuance here. I spent decades at odds with a whole population of friends because their favorite author threw up every red flag for me. Reading his work felt like getting stuck in the head of a casually abusive sociopath.
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
You think that's something, wait till you hear about the persons who were never on Twitter to begin with
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You think that's something, wait till you hear about the persons who were never on Twitter to begin with
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Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...
New game idea: Football Manager: Grade School.
Manage your team from age 6 up as they level up skills like paying attention, knowing which team they're on, not throwing tantrums, and remembering to show up to the game at all
I think this could be very funny
Manage your team from age 6 up as they level up skills like paying attention, knowing which team they're on, not throwing tantrums, and remembering to show up to the game at all
I think this could be very funny
November 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New game idea: Football Manager: Grade School.
Manage your team from age 6 up as they level up skills like paying attention, knowing which team they're on, not throwing tantrums, and remembering to show up to the game at all
I think this could be very funny
Manage your team from age 6 up as they level up skills like paying attention, knowing which team they're on, not throwing tantrums, and remembering to show up to the game at all
I think this could be very funny
The past month or so I've been hearing a lot of non-parents opine that we shouldn't try to insulate kids from sex and violence and whatever else because they need to know about that stuff.
Here's the thing:
Here's the thing:
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The past month or so I've been hearing a lot of non-parents opine that we shouldn't try to insulate kids from sex and violence and whatever else because they need to know about that stuff.
Here's the thing:
Here's the thing:
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I truly can't stress this enough: No one's art is good enough to justify them being miserable to work with. Almost everyone I've worked with has been wonderful, but the handful of folks that weren't brought the whole team down by being egotistical, sexist, condescending, etc.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I truly can't stress this enough: No one's art is good enough to justify them being miserable to work with. Almost everyone I've worked with has been wonderful, but the handful of folks that weren't brought the whole team down by being egotistical, sexist, condescending, etc.
This is a noble sentiment but I have no obligation to "the platform" or whatever purpose the discourse jockeys fantasize it's supposed to be serving
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a noble sentiment but I have no obligation to "the platform" or whatever purpose the discourse jockeys fantasize it's supposed to be serving
I've never been a fan of Connecticut, but I'll miss our little lake community if we move to Denmark.
For Halloween the neighbors up and down the street set up campfires in their driveways with full-sized candy for the kids and drinks for the parents.
For Halloween the neighbors up and down the street set up campfires in their driveways with full-sized candy for the kids and drinks for the parents.
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I've never been a fan of Connecticut, but I'll miss our little lake community if we move to Denmark.
For Halloween the neighbors up and down the street set up campfires in their driveways with full-sized candy for the kids and drinks for the parents.
For Halloween the neighbors up and down the street set up campfires in their driveways with full-sized candy for the kids and drinks for the parents.
In the space of 36 hours:
flew home from Europe
kid's school Halloween costume (Louis Pasteur)
kid's neighborhood Halloween costume (Optimus Prime)
kid's birthday party (climbing park and arcade)
kid's soccer game (we won)
daylight savings round 2 (US version)
flew home from Europe
kid's school Halloween costume (Louis Pasteur)
kid's neighborhood Halloween costume (Optimus Prime)
kid's birthday party (climbing park and arcade)
kid's soccer game (we won)
daylight savings round 2 (US version)
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
In the space of 36 hours:
flew home from Europe
kid's school Halloween costume (Louis Pasteur)
kid's neighborhood Halloween costume (Optimus Prime)
kid's birthday party (climbing park and arcade)
kid's soccer game (we won)
daylight savings round 2 (US version)
flew home from Europe
kid's school Halloween costume (Louis Pasteur)
kid's neighborhood Halloween costume (Optimus Prime)
kid's birthday party (climbing park and arcade)
kid's soccer game (we won)
daylight savings round 2 (US version)
It's not hard to believe Sauron had an obsessive labeling compulsion, and would bend his armies towards that purpose with great map-spanning earthworks.
What's unrealistic here is that the words are facing us, the readers, rather than his great ever-reading Eye atop the tower of Barad-dûr.
What's unrealistic here is that the words are facing us, the readers, rather than his great ever-reading Eye atop the tower of Barad-dûr.
The real problem with Mordor's geography is that the word MORDOR is written across it in giant letters. Not credible, Professor.
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's not hard to believe Sauron had an obsessive labeling compulsion, and would bend his armies towards that purpose with great map-spanning earthworks.
What's unrealistic here is that the words are facing us, the readers, rather than his great ever-reading Eye atop the tower of Barad-dûr.
What's unrealistic here is that the words are facing us, the readers, rather than his great ever-reading Eye atop the tower of Barad-dûr.
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A week from now I'm going to be at Metatopia. It'll be my 25th Double Exposure con, and my 8th or 9th Metatopia (I lose count). Here's some tips:
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A week from now I'm going to be at Metatopia. It'll be my 25th Double Exposure con, and my 8th or 9th Metatopia (I lose count). Here's some tips:
One of the other guys just caught this photo of the weather here today
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One of the other guys just caught this photo of the weather here today
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i don't want them to optimize caves of qud. i want them to go backwards. i want it to take eight minutes to load because it's computing how much a frog hates me
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
i don't want them to optimize caves of qud. i want them to go backwards. i want it to take eight minutes to load because it's computing how much a frog hates me
Arrived in Billund just in time for the daylight savings change. Glad to get that extra hour of sleep.
Enjoying getting to tell everyone interminable rambling stories about all the things that have changed since I was working here 20 years ago. Whether anyone else is enjoying this is debatable.
Enjoying getting to tell everyone interminable rambling stories about all the things that have changed since I was working here 20 years ago. Whether anyone else is enjoying this is debatable.
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Arrived in Billund just in time for the daylight savings change. Glad to get that extra hour of sleep.
Enjoying getting to tell everyone interminable rambling stories about all the things that have changed since I was working here 20 years ago. Whether anyone else is enjoying this is debatable.
Enjoying getting to tell everyone interminable rambling stories about all the things that have changed since I was working here 20 years ago. Whether anyone else is enjoying this is debatable.
Running into other LEGO people at the airport like
"Which part of LEGO did you work in?" every part
"You're from the US, which part?" every part
I never got to stay at any one place long enough to have a solid answer
"Which part of LEGO did you work in?" every part
"You're from the US, which part?" every part
I never got to stay at any one place long enough to have a solid answer
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Running into other LEGO people at the airport like
"Which part of LEGO did you work in?" every part
"You're from the US, which part?" every part
I never got to stay at any one place long enough to have a solid answer
"Which part of LEGO did you work in?" every part
"You're from the US, which part?" every part
I never got to stay at any one place long enough to have a solid answer
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You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
Europe, here I come
October 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Europe, here I come
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Ares kills a soldier
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ares kills a soldier
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Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat.
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat.
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
Parents on the playground posting up like the beacons of Gondor relaying updates on the locations of each other's kids
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Parents on the playground posting up like the beacons of Gondor relaying updates on the locations of each other's kids
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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Genuinely powerful words to live by.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Genuinely powerful words to live by.
No more thinking about what will fix me, only thinking about what will hyperfix me
A hyperfixation could fix me.
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
No more thinking about what will fix me, only thinking about what will hyperfix me