ritchie
@ritchie.bsky.social
Recovering academic.
I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
Pinned
Earthencloak - The Glistening Mist Betwixt (2025) (Fantasy Synth)
YouTube video by The Dungeon Synth Archives
www.youtube.com
Work Jam for January 2nd 2026 - "Gnome Legends of Enchantment and Herbalism" by Earthencloak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSf...
Reposted by ritchie
I feel like most movies made in the 80s were "night movies." 90s movies were "day movies." and of course, all movies from the 2000s onward take place inside of the computer.
January 8, 2026 at 6:01 AM
I feel like most movies made in the 80s were "night movies." 90s movies were "day movies." and of course, all movies from the 2000s onward take place inside of the computer.
Reposted by ritchie
Reposted by ritchie
TVs in 2026 are like this one displays more colors than the actual known universe and for some reason it's waterproof and costs $137,000 or this 65" 4K TV is $1 but it will spy on your family until the end of time like Annabelle and it requires a blood sacrifice as two-factor authentication.
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 AM
TVs in 2026 are like this one displays more colors than the actual known universe and for some reason it's waterproof and costs $137,000 or this 65" 4K TV is $1 but it will spy on your family until the end of time like Annabelle and it requires a blood sacrifice as two-factor authentication.
Reposted by ritchie
i have to mute replies to this post. i was a noncitizen for most of my life and i can understand feeling triggered by the repeat references to renee good's citizenship status.
but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻♀️
but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻♀️
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
January 8, 2026 at 6:16 AM
i have to mute replies to this post. i was a noncitizen for most of my life and i can understand feeling triggered by the repeat references to renee good's citizenship status.
but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻♀️
but people attacking me for being insufficiently woke on immigration is, well, triggering a lot of repressed anxiety 🤷🏻♀️
Reposted by ritchie
🍖 MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU 🥩 For a limited time only, only at participating locations.
Script and voice acting by @nabilsamandari.bsky.social
Animatic by Nicolas Petelski
#indieanimation #lotr #animatic #webseries #goblins #darkfantasy #2Danimation
Script and voice acting by @nabilsamandari.bsky.social
Animatic by Nicolas Petelski
#indieanimation #lotr #animatic #webseries #goblins #darkfantasy #2Danimation
January 2, 2026 at 8:57 PM
🍖 MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU 🥩 For a limited time only, only at participating locations.
Script and voice acting by @nabilsamandari.bsky.social
Animatic by Nicolas Petelski
#indieanimation #lotr #animatic #webseries #goblins #darkfantasy #2Danimation
Script and voice acting by @nabilsamandari.bsky.social
Animatic by Nicolas Petelski
#indieanimation #lotr #animatic #webseries #goblins #darkfantasy #2Danimation
Reposted by ritchie
Reposted by ritchie
roguelike movement question:
some games let you move freely along diagonals, and others restrict it when going in or out of corridors. what are your feelings about these options?
(i'd also love to hear any out of the box opinions- nonsquare grid fetishists, you are welcome here.)
some games let you move freely along diagonals, and others restrict it when going in or out of corridors. what are your feelings about these options?
(i'd also love to hear any out of the box opinions- nonsquare grid fetishists, you are welcome here.)
January 8, 2026 at 5:47 AM
roguelike movement question:
some games let you move freely along diagonals, and others restrict it when going in or out of corridors. what are your feelings about these options?
(i'd also love to hear any out of the box opinions- nonsquare grid fetishists, you are welcome here.)
some games let you move freely along diagonals, and others restrict it when going in or out of corridors. what are your feelings about these options?
(i'd also love to hear any out of the box opinions- nonsquare grid fetishists, you are welcome here.)
Reposted by ritchie
The state of the art in robotics is amazing and also it takes like 10 minutes to for it to load a dishwasher and it’s marginally better than a coin flip on whether it will break any dishes in the process.
Artificial intelligence will help millions of people in ways that do not appear in traditional economic statistics, says OpenAI’s chief economist ft.trib.al/toxh1Gq
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The state of the art in robotics is amazing and also it takes like 10 minutes to for it to load a dishwasher and it’s marginally better than a coin flip on whether it will break any dishes in the process.
Reposted by ritchie
Reposted by ritchie
she’s lying, obviously. we can see the video with our own eyes. but it’s so interesting that they’re suddenly so willing to believe a car is a deadly weapon when they ignored the 100 documented instances of right wingers hitting protesters with their cars in 2020.
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
she’s lying, obviously. we can see the video with our own eyes. but it’s so interesting that they’re suddenly so willing to believe a car is a deadly weapon when they ignored the 100 documented instances of right wingers hitting protesters with their cars in 2020.
Reposted by ritchie
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
Reposted by ritchie
Geraldo Rivera on the ICE shooting: "She didn’t want to hit anybody. She didn't want to run over anybody. To pretend that that was a possibility, given the fact -- I mean, do you believe me or do you believe your lying eyes? Are your lying eyes telling you something that you know is not true?"
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Geraldo Rivera on the ICE shooting: "She didn’t want to hit anybody. She didn't want to run over anybody. To pretend that that was a possibility, given the fact -- I mean, do you believe me or do you believe your lying eyes? Are your lying eyes telling you something that you know is not true?"
Reposted by ritchie
look at the American media class, dawg
January 7, 2026 at 11:19 PM
look at the American media class, dawg
Reposted by ritchie
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
Reposted by ritchie
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Reposted by ritchie
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
Reposted by ritchie
From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 AM
From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C
Reposted by ritchie
Finally got around to trying my hand (pun) at something akin to ivy generation and I'm already having way too much fun even with just the gizmo lines 👀
This is definitely something I'm going to overuse, and I *will* use it for evil
#gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity
This is definitely something I'm going to overuse, and I *will* use it for evil
#gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Finally got around to trying my hand (pun) at something akin to ivy generation and I'm already having way too much fun even with just the gizmo lines 👀
This is definitely something I'm going to overuse, and I *will* use it for evil
#gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity
This is definitely something I'm going to overuse, and I *will* use it for evil
#gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity
Reposted by ritchie
Happy birthday to the University of Glasgow, founded in this city because Pope Nicholas V had heard good things about the weather and the food.
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Happy birthday to the University of Glasgow, founded in this city because Pope Nicholas V had heard good things about the weather and the food.
Reposted by ritchie
my childhood friend died at 31. my grandmother died. my city's hospital was overflowing and its staff so badly traumatized they started quitting en masse.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
January 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
my childhood friend died at 31. my grandmother died. my city's hospital was overflowing and its staff so badly traumatized they started quitting en masse.
Reposted by ritchie
i spent my entire comics career thinking i was slow as mud for taking 2-3 years to finish each book, until my french editor called me "fast" and when i asked what he meant by that he said that on average french artists are taking 5-10 years to finish a book
I wish I'd thought sooner to explain to tradpub editors that illustrating a graphic novel is not like writing a prose novel or illustrating a picture book, a 250-page GN is actually like illustrating eight picture books.
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 AM
i spent my entire comics career thinking i was slow as mud for taking 2-3 years to finish each book, until my french editor called me "fast" and when i asked what he meant by that he said that on average french artists are taking 5-10 years to finish a book
Reposted by ritchie
posting pictures and videos of yourself online is opening your attack surface to a nihilistic person that wants to see you in a swastika bikini
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 PM
posting pictures and videos of yourself online is opening your attack surface to a nihilistic person that wants to see you in a swastika bikini
Reposted by ritchie
oh i had this realization once
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
oh i had this realization once
高橋留美子様、
ぜひ Bluesky（bluesky.com） に公式アカウントを開設していただけたら嬉しいです。
世界中のファンが心待ちにしています。
ぜひ Bluesky（bluesky.com） に公式アカウントを開設していただけたら嬉しいです。
世界中のファンが心待ちにしています。
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
高橋留美子様、
ぜひ Bluesky（bluesky.com） に公式アカウントを開設していただけたら嬉しいです。
世界中のファンが心待ちにしています。
ぜひ Bluesky（bluesky.com） に公式アカウントを開設していただけたら嬉しいです。
世界中のファンが心待ちにしています。