James Kevich
@mrthigs.bsky.social
Visual Designer at Riot Games. Pixel artist. Probably some other things as well.
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James Kevich
@mrthigs.bsky.social
· Mar 17
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I am an animator and I like the pain
March 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I am an animator and I like the pain
Bought this bad boy to play some games I got in Japan… lord does this sound activate something in me
May 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Bought this bad boy to play some games I got in Japan… lord does this sound activate something in me
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Have you explored VGHF's digital archive of E3 Show Directories? You too can discover who exactly exhibited at E3 1996, while admiring the 'none more '90s' cover art: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/53778...
May 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Have you explored VGHF's digital archive of E3 Show Directories? You too can discover who exactly exhibited at E3 1996, while admiring the 'none more '90s' cover art: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/53778...
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We're approaching the end of all of this nonsense. Pieces like these are the kind of bullshit you saw at the end of the metaverse and crypto bubbles - Roose wrote them then, too.
Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.
Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We're approaching the end of all of this nonsense. Pieces like these are the kind of bullshit you saw at the end of the metaverse and crypto bubbles - Roose wrote them then, too.
Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.
Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.
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Lyuda says trans rights are human rights
April 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Lyuda says trans rights are human rights
Impulse purchased one of my fav games yesterday 🥰
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Impulse purchased one of my fav games yesterday 🥰
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From: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse
March 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
From: Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird (1987), dir. Toshio Hirata, Toei Doga/Madhouse
Little animation I made for practice a couple years ago. There was never really a goal with this so I can't really say if it's finished or not. Used my own hand for reference. #pixelart
March 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Little animation I made for practice a couple years ago. There was never really a goal with this so I can't really say if it's finished or not. Used my own hand for reference. #pixelart
March 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Scrolling the web is like pacing a hallway built by algorithms. But the web once felt like an attic filled with ornaments, spaces built by people, not predictive engines.
Maybe real joy isn’t in the scroll, but the hyperlinks we stopped clicking.
#blog #web #nostalgia
Maybe real joy isn’t in the scroll, but the hyperlinks we stopped clicking.
#blog #web #nostalgia
404: The Internet You Tried to Remember Still Exists
innerspiral.lol
March 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Scrolling the web is like pacing a hallway built by algorithms. But the web once felt like an attic filled with ornaments, spaces built by people, not predictive engines.
Maybe real joy isn’t in the scroll, but the hyperlinks we stopped clicking.
#blog #web #nostalgia
Maybe real joy isn’t in the scroll, but the hyperlinks we stopped clicking.
#blog #web #nostalgia
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The Kickstarter campaign for Isle of Reveries launches tomorrow, March 1, at 8 AM PSt / 4 PM GMT! Some reward tiers will have early bird discounts, and the ADVENTURER tier will include a special playtest for the forest-themed dungeon. Link below ⬇️ #gamedev #indiegame
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Kickstarter campaign for Isle of Reveries launches tomorrow, March 1, at 8 AM PSt / 4 PM GMT! Some reward tiers will have early bird discounts, and the ADVENTURER tier will include a special playtest for the forest-themed dungeon. Link below ⬇️ #gamedev #indiegame
Also it sucks so bad that nothing comes with a CD drive anymore. That’s like, the only good plastic
February 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Also it sucks so bad that nothing comes with a CD drive anymore. That’s like, the only good plastic
Everything should have more dials and knobs. We want to fidget! We want to twiddle! Let us not forget the lessons learned by the Bop-It and fidget spinner phenomena.
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe
Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.
www.theverge.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Everything should have more dials and knobs. We want to fidget! We want to twiddle! Let us not forget the lessons learned by the Bop-It and fidget spinner phenomena.
Still slightly WIP but wanted to let y’all know that I am back on my bullshit
February 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Still slightly WIP but wanted to let y’all know that I am back on my bullshit
He truly never got over PayPal…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday announced the launch of a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments services provided by Visa.
Elon Musk’s X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.
www.cnbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
He truly never got over PayPal…
This captures soo much about how I feel about the modern technological landscape. I used to enjoy logging on and actually engaging with people online, but nowadays it feels like I’m wading through an endless sea of ads and gotchas and things that may or may not be real. It’s become so joyless.
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM
This captures soo much about how I feel about the modern technological landscape. I used to enjoy logging on and actually engaging with people online, but nowadays it feels like I’m wading through an endless sea of ads and gotchas and things that may or may not be real. It’s become so joyless.
I never posted much on Twitter but the Hyrule Redrawn project was how I found a lot of great artists on there - these were the screens I worked on. Now I’m gonna work on finding y’all again
November 23, 2024 at 4:55 AM
I never posted much on Twitter but the Hyrule Redrawn project was how I found a lot of great artists on there - these were the screens I worked on. Now I’m gonna work on finding y’all again
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Every year around the rice harvest, art students in Japan’s Niigata prefecture, repurpose the crop’s leftover straw, or wara, into mammoth characters for the Wara Art Festival.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara...
October 5, 2023 at 12:41 PM
Every year around the rice harvest, art students in Japan’s Niigata prefecture, repurpose the crop’s leftover straw, or wara, into mammoth characters for the Wara Art Festival.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/wara...
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it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
September 27, 2023 at 8:32 PM
it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
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hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
September 27, 2023 at 2:56 AM
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave