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Clifton B is working on [TBA]
@cliftonb.bsky.social
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Designs games with time mechanics || Organizes Demospree || Throws One Drop yo-yos || He/they || Prefers humans to robots || Trying to read more

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Skee-Lo's "I Wish" album cover
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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The worst part is when they don't give options for these things anymore. You know the code for the old style exists; someone just decided not to let you access it anymore.

My phone is to let me choose all sorts of clock styles, even an analogue monstrosity. Now these are my only two options.
A screenshot of my clock widget's settings, considering of precisely two options: with a rounded rectangle background and…without a rounded rectangle background
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Now I'm in the print edition of Willamette Week! So that's weird.
A page from the current edition of Willamette Week, showing a bunch of comics drawn by local artists. For some reason the image of me yo-yoing is the largest comic on the page.
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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If you ever feel like making a fairly basic house with a small basement, let me know? The one I came up with is pretty awful.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The cover art for the Ryo Koike side of Promise Mascot Agency's soundtrack, showing Michi in the driver's seat of his incredibly versatile and indestructible kei truck and Pinky☆ riding in the back as always
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Here's a screenshot of a phishing DM I just received from what appears to be an official Bluesky account. Be careful, friends!
A DM that starts with "We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended" and goes on from there. There's a shortened link in the message that will most certainly lead to a phishing site.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Game industry surveys are fun! 💀
GDC survey question: "Given recent payment processor issues and state/country age verification policies, what do you expect the impact to be on the game development environment?" My answer: "When they learn how easy it is to squeeze one category of creator out of the market, they'll keep trying with more and more titles and studios until all that's left is a copy of Wisdom Tree's Bible Adventures with the wrapper still on the box."
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Question: "From your perspective, what is responsible for the rise in layoffs in the game industry?" My answer: "AI, greedy suits, directors who don't think humans are important to the creative process, money, capitalism, corporations treating people like garbage, executives who expect employees to starve to death to increase profit margins and would burn every last player's house down to collect the change between their couch cushions, this idea that we can outsource every single decision to a bank of GPUs and charge $80 for whatever they churn out"
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Well this certainly won't be another tool for scammers to use on their victims. No more driving to the nearest Target for Google Play cards; now you can send your life savings directly to the senior refund manager.
Screenshot of an email from Google about digital gift cards: We’ve made changes to Google Play that will expand what is available for you to purchase beyond apps, games, subscriptions, and in-app items. You’ll notice some updates when you’re browsing on Play. Starting today, you’ll be able to purchase digital gift cards from Google Play for brands across retail, dining, travel, entertainment, and more. These digital gift cards can be redeemed at the brand’s retail location or website.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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That silly GAP logo from back in the day with the blue gradient square but now it says MSNow
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Oh hey! I think this is exactly what I was whining about last night! See the red lines at the bottom of each clip? Pretty sure that's the parts that are currently in the timeline. Hooray!!

Still would be nice to see this in the previewer, but this is close enough.
A bunch of video thumbnails in my media bin, with red underlines that look like YouTube's progress meter, but not fully from left to right. Some have more than one outline, so they've got multiple clips included.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Guess who wrote it: paid writer or engineer who needed to populate the text field with literally anything?

Today's entry: "Assertion failed, Start month is required."
A screenshot of a form with the error message "Assertion failed, Start month is required."
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Oh hey, I found it! It's a silly Halloween thing that's enabled by default. Just click User Settings, type Sound in the search bar, then click Notifications. This dropdown's at the top.
Discord Sounds dropdown that says Discord Default, because I changed it from Halloween a moment ago
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This isn't a difficult thing to do. A friend of mine just closed his account, and he's even been looking for work. Nothing's stopping you from kicking LinkedIn to the curb as well.

In fact, what if we had one day where everyone canceled their accounts at the same time? LinkedOut Day or something?
A screenshot of the confirmation screen when you close your LinkedIn account. It says the account's closed, but it'll take a few weeks for the profile to disappear from search engines.
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Just noticed a couple instances of symmetry a block from where I've been living for almost 15 years
An upward shot between two identical single-story rectangular buildings A shot of a stairway going through a closed gate with identical buildings (different from the ones in the first shot) and a tall apartment building in the background, which has a column of dark balconies right down the middle, and columns of green windows on either side.
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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What? They're puttin' DEI in the pickles now??
A photo of Sweet Baby pickles on a grocery store shelf
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Hey @riley.sbug.games can I claim writing credits for this one?
A few tweets from July of 2024: Riley shows off the low-poly mode in Isopod, where your bug becomes a little PS1-era chunk of polygons. I reply "If this mode isn't called Roly-Low-Poly I'm unwishlisting," to which he replies, "It is now!" A hint on the Steam forums showing how to unlock Roly Lo-Poly (close enough to my spelling)
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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"Yeah, we talked for a bit and he gave me his card"
Photo of a hotel room covered in blood (all over the walls, a small cupboard with a lamp and a TV, etc) with the caption "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent."
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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They're not interested in your answers.

They're interested in what you look like.

These one-sided non-conversations are a legitimized excuse to legally screen candidates based on skin color, fashion choices, mannerisms and apparent disabilities.
A snippet from a job description, requiring a link to a video answering two questions: "Why are you a great fit for this role?" (which is why we have cover letters) and "Tell us about your favorite book" (which is great question for a dating profile).
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Anyone need access to a Columbia employee store to warm up for the winter? I just found a neat trick:

Go to www.columbia.com/careers/ and apply for any job. The auto reply will include a pass for you and 3 others, good for 60 days from the application date.

Works in all 8 locations!
A map showing markers where all the Columbia Sportswear employee stores are located: Portland, Richmond CA, Union City, West Covina, Carlsbad, Henderson KY, Shepherdsville, and London Ontario
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Not my home but I know my way around 🙂‍↕️
An overhead shot of Myst island
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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"AI games are going to be amazing"
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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I've got two big things I'll feel horrible about if I can't change them: I need folders to open a new window when double-clicked, unless I hold Ctrl, and I can't have all my windows nested into one taskbar icon. Those are two defaults I always have to change in Windows.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Well look at me, all drawn up by one of Portland's local celebrity artists
A black and white sketch of me playing yo-yo from last weekend's meetup. I've got my typical spiky hair and I'm wearing a face mask of course, and I'm pretty sure the guy took some liberties with the size of my forehead. I'm about halfway through a double-or-nothing, with my eyes fixed on the throw so it doesn't get away from me. The words "Lloyd Center Mall at 12:27pm" are near the top, and "Portland, Oregon, K #2,010, 10-22-25" at the bottom.
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Playing around with macro lenses and One Drop yo-yos
A close-up of the center of a red One Drop Par Avion A close-up of the center of a pink One Drop Eclipse A close-up of the center of a red One Drop Yelets, with Energy Dome hubs A close-up of the center of a red One Drop Perspective—the more square half, not the round half
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM