Why485
@why485.bsky.social
Former modder turned gamedev. This is not a very serious account. Do not follow me here for gamedev hot takes or progressposting.
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Why485
@why485.bsky.social
· Dec 18
I've updated the social media chart. More people keep coming here and following me that I respect so it's been tough to figure out what to do with this account.
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thank you for playing Dreams and Deadlines and the new Overtime chapter. the next game will hopefully be a good time as well. i'm working hard for an announcement in january, hopefully. (this is the announcement of the announcement)
December 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
thank you for playing Dreams and Deadlines and the new Overtime chapter. the next game will hopefully be a good time as well. i'm working hard for an announcement in january, hopefully. (this is the announcement of the announcement)
2025 Games of the Year
Holy cow what a year. I don't think I've ever had this many games that I wanted to highlight, and even crazier, almost all of these games actually came out this year. As always, the rules here are only that I played it in 2025, release date doesn't matter. Big thread below!🧵
Holy cow what a year. I don't think I've ever had this many games that I wanted to highlight, and even crazier, almost all of these games actually came out this year. As always, the rules here are only that I played it in 2025, release date doesn't matter. Big thread below!🧵
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
2025 Games of the Year
Holy cow what a year. I don't think I've ever had this many games that I wanted to highlight, and even crazier, almost all of these games actually came out this year. As always, the rules here are only that I played it in 2025, release date doesn't matter. Big thread below!🧵
Holy cow what a year. I don't think I've ever had this many games that I wanted to highlight, and even crazier, almost all of these games actually came out this year. As always, the rules here are only that I played it in 2025, release date doesn't matter. Big thread below!🧵
Typically around this time I have some New Years week-long project, but I don't have any ideas burning a hole in my pocket right now. Except maybe like, StrikeLancer, but that's a bad idea.
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Typically around this time I have some New Years week-long project, but I don't have any ideas burning a hole in my pocket right now. Except maybe like, StrikeLancer, but that's a bad idea.
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I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
Here's your regular reminder to check out one of the coolest space sims ever made.
House of the Dying Sun continues to be 70% off for the Steam Winter Sale!
store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...
store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...
December 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Here's your regular reminder to check out one of the coolest space sims ever made.
![Lots & Lots of Jets and Planes
[As seen on TV]
>>From Kitty Hawk to the Space Shuttle!<<
Thunder in the Skies!
Lots & Lots of Trains
[As seen on TV]
>>See the World Most Amazing Railroads!<<
Smokin' Steam & Diesel](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlxofaoav5oaacdtqhk5coco/bafkreicn44ab3yqdshqverbsf66vs5iy6jpinoyqpwiottsqfokiuktsmq@jpeg)
I am getting kind of overwhelmed at how much new art is showing up on my timeline now. It's funny because I haven't followed any new accounts, this is just accounts that I guess have just been mostly inactive until now.
December 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I am getting kind of overwhelmed at how much new art is showing up on my timeline now. It's funny because I haven't followed any new accounts, this is just accounts that I guess have just been mostly inactive until now.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Man what a sudden and massive influx of great art.
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Man what a sudden and massive influx of great art.
M1 Tank Platoon inspired "style sketch" I did in a few hours this morning.
December 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
M1 Tank Platoon inspired "style sketch" I did in a few hours this morning.
The past couple days have been nothing but DCS and Derail Valley. I've combined both my vices into one super vice that ensures I become nothing more than a plane flying train driving potato.
December 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The past couple days have been nothing but DCS and Derail Valley. I've combined both my vices into one super vice that ensures I become nothing more than a plane flying train driving potato.
I'm sorry but I'm extremely annoying about seeing points and lines rendered correctly in pixel and retro styled games.
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm sorry but I'm extremely annoying about seeing points and lines rendered correctly in pixel and retro styled games.
I've still never seen a UFO.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I've still never seen a UFO.
Shout out to this guy who flew the stereotypical DCS A-10 loadout except he then actually cleaned up a whole airbase on his own and shot down a MiG-29 that took off to intercept him.
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Shout out to this guy who flew the stereotypical DCS A-10 loadout except he then actually cleaned up a whole airbase on his own and shot down a MiG-29 that took off to intercept him.
Watching The Game Awards last week, I kept joking that they should announce a Halo Remake, completely forgetting that they already did. Halo is so dead in terms of pop culture power that I have no idea what they could possibly do to revive it. It kinda does just seem like a relic of a bygone era.
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Watching The Game Awards last week, I kept joking that they should announce a Halo Remake, completely forgetting that they already did. Halo is so dead in terms of pop culture power that I have no idea what they could possibly do to revive it. It kinda does just seem like a relic of a bygone era.
Firefox just popped up with a survey full of questions that seem extremely relevant to the CEO's statements to just completely and utterly fuck up Firefox and Mozilla and a company. Some questions are so pointed, I almost think they're a honeypot to flag your survey to discard.
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Firefox just popped up with a survey full of questions that seem extremely relevant to the CEO's statements to just completely and utterly fuck up Firefox and Mozilla and a company. Some questions are so pointed, I almost think they're a honeypot to flag your survey to discard.
Checking the freezer just in case ice cream has magically appeared since I last looked.
December 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Checking the freezer just in case ice cream has magically appeared since I last looked.
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Car enthusiasts 🤝 Urbanists
"We must get these idiots off the road"
"We must get these idiots off the road"
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Car enthusiasts 🤝 Urbanists
"We must get these idiots off the road"
"We must get these idiots off the road"
Not looking forward to giant corporations opening Patreons.
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Not looking forward to giant corporations opening Patreons.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
So I won't add Derail Valley to my GOTY list because it already won last year even though I had Descent on like three of them before, but I'm just going to say that Derail Valley is proof to me that if Freelancer was released today I'd probably still be all over it and get totally obsessed with it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
So I won't add Derail Valley to my GOTY list because it already won last year even though I had Descent on like three of them before, but I'm just going to say that Derail Valley is proof to me that if Freelancer was released today I'd probably still be all over it and get totally obsessed with it.
Revisted this project this weekend to add stationary turrets as enemies and the code necessary for AI launched missiles.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Revisted this project this weekend to add stationary turrets as enemies and the code necessary for AI launched missiles.
I want lighting models that are less realistic and made by people who don't know anything about physics.
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I want lighting models that are less realistic and made by people who don't know anything about physics.
My favorite detail of the trailer is that the carrier looks a lot like a modernized Essex class with the kinda janky and especially angular angled deck. Even weirder (read: cooler), it's mix of old and new because it seems to still have the forward 5 inch deck guns.
December 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My favorite detail of the trailer is that the carrier looks a lot like a modernized Essex class with the kinda janky and especially angular angled deck. Even weirder (read: cooler), it's mix of old and new because it seems to still have the forward 5 inch deck guns.