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Interactive + Entertainment. Emmy Winner. Found in CA marine layers.
New Thing In Progress
Prev @: Apple, Lucasfilm, Imagineering / Disney.
GDC Advisory Board Emeritus

Here to amplify others. Random shouts re: games, music, tv/film + sport, dystopia...
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"Hmmm... Should it be, 'Well, I sure didn't have this on my Bingo car-' .... Nah, nah. Um..."

#unity #UnrealEngine #gameDev #indieDev #gameDevelopment #fortnite
Frame from Ghostbusters Movie where Venkman explains why he should let Ghostbusters out of jail to the Mayor, "...Human sacrifice; dogs and cats, living together; mass hysteria!" The image and quote have been tweaked: Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games and Matt Bromberg, CEO of Unity have been smashed into the background, behind Bill Murray.
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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@valvesoftware.com gon' make me lose my mind.

Look at the cool hardware comin'!

I mean, the headset... meh. Over it, BUT love the continued innovation there. Of all the VR Headsets I've worn / used: Valve is best. Not even close.

#SteamMachine😍 Oof! Take My💰!

#hardware #gamedev #console #VR
Graphic announcing 4 new pieces of gaming hardware coming from Valve / Steam. It says: Coming in 2026 The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026. Icons are shown for the for pieces of hardware: Steam Deck (not new), Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame. Powered by Steam, optimized for gaming in any form. And just like Steam Deck, all are designed to help players get even more out of their Steam Library. Steam Controller is a console controller. Steam Machine is a new, small PC/console hybrid that runs your Steam Library and can perform PC tasks. Steam Frame is their next generation of VR Headset - wireless, focused on streaming first, allows you to play immersive VR native titles OR non-VR titles as well.
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
Get out there and vote!

#Vote #CrossYourFingers #YouNeedAnEscapePlan
#RunForYourLife
#PrimaryEVERYONE
#TermLimits
#ElectionDay
Picture of a SoCal Gentleman’s chest, with an “I VOTED” sticker slapped on to improve the aesthetics
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Original image is really off-model. Before we commission, can we give the artist some notes?

Quick edit attached. 😂

Also, we need the “gold” to look less realistic - it should look more like spray painted gold than real gold leaf.
An edit of the previously posted image which depicts a golden statue of The Dumper in Chief. Image has been edited - quickly - to be more representative of his proportions. It is still far too flattering a representation of garbage mouth McDonny. I think the ankles are just about right though.
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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New @gameinformer.com just dropped in my IRL mail box! 🎁
🎉👾🎮♥️

#gamedev #videogames #indiegames #indiegamedev
Cover for number 3 / issue 371 of Game Informer Magazine - freshly unwrapped and held in my trembling with excitement hand! 🎮🖤
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Hey #LIGHTBOX 2025!
Badge for Lightbox 2025 Sunday admission
October 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
Only lies detected🤬

Bill translation:

"The lawsuits from customers & fines are super expensive!

We're also being forced to upgrade & maintain all the infrastructure.

Why should we have to pay for all that stuff? Here, customer: you pay!

K? Thx. Bye!"

#SoCalEdison #ConsumerFraud #socalFires
Screenshot of Notice from Southern California Edison. Text in screenshot is: "Understanding Updates to Your Bill You may soon notice updates to your electricity bill. We're here to help you understand these updates and the reasons behind them, as well as solutions to help manage costs. What to Expect 1 Beginning Oct. 1, 2025, residential electric rates will increase by approximately 13% to support investments in the safety, reliability and security of the electric grid. This update will begin on your October bill and the bills that follow."
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
Okay… you lost me when you had a feature with dead-eyed creepy Mr. Beast.

Where have you seen that smile before…?

Well, if you had kids: you recognize the very same “smile.”

It’s the one they make as they look you in the eye while loadin’ up their diaper.
Picture of Mr. Beast, with a creepy and forced smile. Can we call this a smile, really? We see teeth, but oof, there is nothing happy about this. Nothing warm. Nothing joyful. Money clearly cannot buy the expression of happiness.
September 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Disappointed... never surprised.

The Apple Music desktop app 🙈

Over and over again

#AppleMusic #streamingMusic #spotify
Screenshot from the very clunky, buggy, neglected, and frustrating-to-use Apple Music desktop app. It's showing a super-helpful (not) error message that says, "Something went wrong. Please try again later." and a "retry" button is underneath. They should just link direct to the meme / YouTube clip of the IT Guys, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
July 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
Oh, that's... Really.... so.... exciting....

By "exciting" I mean "useless"

Hope shareholders & Wall St are impressed. Make the number go up, even if value of the actual product does not.

Cool how I don't even get to say NOPE.

Zero imagination. Just FOMO and Pattern-Matching.

#slack #AIslop
Notification Banner from Slack that says, "Coming Soon: AI will be turned on for your organization starting July 17th 2025. Learn more." AI slop also should refer to the slop of AI as a feature that has no opt-out for the user.
July 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The entire song is GUITAR FREE. It's meandering, introspective, navel gazing. (I love me some U2, btw).

wTaF is this song doing on the list?

Then, reader, buckle your non-sequitur musical seatbelt:
Cut to CRAZY TRAIN, which clearly does fit the pillars of the playlist! 🤘

Fire the DJ
#payola2.0
Screenshot of ALL GUITARS, Apple Music Rock playlist and the promotional blurb on Apple Music. The description for the channel is: "Roughly a century after someone first thought of plugging a guitar into the mains, shaping head-nodding riffs around a big, sing-along chorus remains a very potent way to make life-affirming music. Home to some of today's most rousing rock and indie anthems, this playlist is your perfect pre- and post-gig soundtrack-songs you'll love air-guitaring to in your bedroom, chanting along with at festivals, and belting out with your friends as you find your way home from a big night out. They're tunes to make memories to, firing up nostalgia for good times with every play. You won't just find current classics here—there are plenty of tracks by rock and alternative's fastest-rising stars too. So dig in and find your next favorite guitar heroes. Our editors regularly refresh this playlist. If you hear something you like, add it to your library." -------------- And I submit to you that "the editors" are not really paying attention AT ALL to their own mission statement when they include a song like Bono's "The Showman" which has zero guitars "plugged into the mains." and zero pulse as well
July 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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John Walker from #Kotaku has entered the chat.
Screenshot of Kotaku news snippet: Image below headline is a close-up of Mario and he has dollar signs in his eyes. Nintendo’s Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million Units In 4 Days, Likely The Biggest Console Launch Of All Time We already knew the Nintendo Switch 2 was going to sell well. Demand has been feisty, and pre-orders sold out extraordinarily quickly. Nintendo now reports that it was even more popular than had been expected, selling 3.5 million consoles in the first four days. For context, the original Switch took a month to sell 2.75 million units. Article by John Walker @ Kotaku.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
😂 AI is great at writing jokes. The simulation would like to know if you are real.

Please lick the screen to confirm you are alive.

#AI #Cloudflare #Character.AI #Humanity

PS: I know AI didn't write a joke here.
screenshot of verification step - DRIPPING with Irony - as you navigate to Character.AI, a site that creates fake humans, a cloudflare page is served requiring you to "Verify you are human by completing the action below."
June 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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R.I.P. Brian Wilson.

Enjoy your endless summer.

#beachboys #musicalLegend #surfinUSA #music #vinyl
June 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
The death-spiral of stupid will be broadcast on every channel.

Thank goodness the Switch 2 arrived yesterday so I can put something worth watching on my television.

#nintendo #switch2 #trump #musk #politics
An image of Elon Musk on the left and Donald Trump on the right. Separated by a lightning bolt in crimson red. Underneath is a graphic caption that says FAFO (fuck around and find out) under Musk; TACO (Trumpy always chickens out) under Trump. Subtitle says, "An inescapable big baby battle!" One unelected "leader" and one shamefully elected leader - both outrageous affronts to humanity and democracy are jammed together like trash in a compactor: Elon Musk is shown in a pose that clearly demonstrates his lack of judgement, seriousness, empathy and understanding - the Sieg Heil moment. Trump is shown in all to familiar pose: yelling into a microphone, fists clenched, corpulent and orange, stupid and loud, perpetually free from integrity or value.
June 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
aasheim.bsky.social
Oh... nothing. Just went to the Routledge Publishing website to check on a pre-order for a cool new book and see this in the TOP SELLERS LIST. 👀🤯

Yeah, totally normal. Everything's fiiiiiine.

#fascism #FascistsSuck #NazisSuck
Cover of a book that should not be a best-seller anywhere, but clearly, there's a reason (spelled: an abundance of SHITHEADS). Sorry. Book Title is "How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism" by Craig A. Johnson. On top of the contents - and the necessity for such a book being authored - being very dark, the cover photo is a teen boy, seated in darkness staring at the screen of one of the best & worst devices ever invented: the smart phone. Fascists: please take up swimming. Best place to learn / start is Cape Horn. Head out into waist deep water, face south, and off you go. It'll be fine. Enjoy.
May 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This is excellent news.

Now… I can save TWICE as much money and time. 👍 👍

#MichaelJackson #biopic
Picture of Michael Jackson (the later years, with all the plastic surgery, makeup, etc.) in sunglasses…looking of camera (probably at a little boy). Underneath is the headline, “Michael Jackson Biopic Pushed Back and May Be Two Movies” Subheading says, “The Michael Jackson biopic that’s been int the works for the past couple years, unsurprisingly, has hit another road block.”
May 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The only way this headline could be more dystopian, horrifying, and USELESS… would be for the sentence to end with “in partnership with Trump Administration.”

To be fair: it’s Altman, and this product that are the worthless & extravagant trifecta — not The Verge’s article
Thumbnail pic of Apple News Headline from THE VERGE (story by Alex Heath), title is: Sam Altman’s eye-scanning project launches cryptocurrency in the…” Headline title is too long to be resolved in the image and - reader - we should all be too horrified to know what the end of the sentence is. Do not click on that shit and fall down the rabbit hole that is really just a disgusting conflation of worthless ideas propped up by someone with too much money, very little imagination, and a profound lack of people around them to say, “No, this is a sewage. Actually, sewage has more utility. We should not make this.”
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you missed Independent Bookstore Day yesterday... Bookshop.org is still offering free shipping: all weekend.

Happy Indy Bookshop WEEKEND!

Support independent booksellers 💙📘

Picked up a couple books. Don't @ me. 😉

#IndieBookshop #BookSky #IndependentBookstoreDay
Picture of four book covers: all the books I purchased yesterday in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day. From left to right: The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, translation by Natasha Wimmer. The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World by Daisy Dunn. The Iliad by Homer, translation by Emily Watson.
April 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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But.... I can't "try again later"
You've got me on a timer.
It's expiring! 🤬
You have 4:39 to fix the problem. ⏳

#switch2
Error msg from Switch 2 purchase queue on Walmart.com. It says, "Unable to add to cart. Sorry! We are having a technical issue. We're working on fixing it. Please try again later."
April 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Apple News is so good at finding themes…showing you related stories.

#NFL #RetirePuhlease
Screengrab of Apple News: two headlines are adjacent. The first is about QB Aaron Rodgers. The second is entitled “How to spot a narcissist, according to science”
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Hmmm. Saving you trouble of clicking an article where they cared so much they couldn't proof-read the headline...? 🤫

#Coachella2025 #music

1. Go to YouTube
2. Search for Coachella
3. Get excited about live-streams for each stage!

Amazing variety of incredible performances starting at 4pm PST!
Snip of Apple News thumbnail for NEW YORK magazine article entitled, "How to STEAM [sic] Coachella 2025" Why we need an article about this, I don't know. Why the author and / or editor couldn't proofread the article headline is an even better question. Too bad they don't have an edit function. Oh, wait.... they do. Screenshot of YouTube's Coachella channel, with listing for each of the separate, six, streams of the live stages
April 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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BTW - dropping Dudamel + LA Phil on the slate is not something I had noticed before.

Props to the peeps at #GoldenVoice, who always curate an amazing bill.

@weezer.bsky.social sneaks in there, #edsheeran, #TravisScott, #MeganTheStallion, and more

#Coachella2025
#CoachellaFestival
#music
#concert
Image is for the Sunday stage times for each performer on weekend 1 of the Coachella 2025 Festival
April 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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1st Saturday Schedule for #CoachellaFest

Live streams on YouTube for EVERY perf + stage.

ALSO - FYI - in prev. yrs, stream for prior day has been available up until performances start.

So - if you missed it, scrub through Friday’s performances on Saturday while you wait for Sat fest to start.
Image of the First Saturday stage / performance time schedules for each stage at the Coachella Festival
April 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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#Coachella stage times for weekend 1 are out.

ICYMI - Coachella live stream on YouTube every year is a really incredible way to access a festival that can be really tricky to attend for many.

YT does a great job with streams for every stage. Amazing diversity of performers assembled. Get Ready!
Image shows the time slots for every performer on each of the 8 stages for the first Friday at Coachella Festival
April 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM