AJ Smith
@cosmicrooibos.bsky.social
Producer and professional documentation goblin up to absolutely no good. Studio lead for Tropical Heat Studios: Frankenfur!, LoveTap!; AP for Five Nights at Freddy's SB DLC.
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I'M OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!! 🎉 I've got a light workload at the moment, which means my turnarounds are super fast!
Feel free to ping me through anything in the bottom left corner! Throwing a rock with a note through my window will also suffice.
Feel free to ping me through anything in the bottom left corner! Throwing a rock with a note through my window will also suffice.
May 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'M OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!! 🎉 I've got a light workload at the moment, which means my turnarounds are super fast!
Feel free to ping me through anything in the bottom left corner! Throwing a rock with a note through my window will also suffice.
Feel free to ping me through anything in the bottom left corner! Throwing a rock with a note through my window will also suffice.
I can't believe this has to be said but if you see a woman working at GameStop just leave her the fuck alone and do not:
1. Make a fun game out of trying to figure out her deadname;
2. Badger her for her phone number four times before figuring out that no means no.
1. Make a fun game out of trying to figure out her deadname;
2. Badger her for her phone number four times before figuring out that no means no.
April 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I can't believe this has to be said but if you see a woman working at GameStop just leave her the fuck alone and do not:
1. Make a fun game out of trying to figure out her deadname;
2. Badger her for her phone number four times before figuring out that no means no.
1. Make a fun game out of trying to figure out her deadname;
2. Badger her for her phone number four times before figuring out that no means no.
We were the man then, dog.
i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
April 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
We were the man then, dog.
For GDC, I was on the West Coast for the first time ever, in San Francisco -- a city with a reputation that speaks for itself.
I went on the BART as a frail white woman, of average size, by herself, and the scariest thing was the noise the yellow line makes when it's in the tunnels.
Skill issue.
I went on the BART as a frail white woman, of average size, by herself, and the scariest thing was the noise the yellow line makes when it's in the tunnels.
Skill issue.
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
For GDC, I was on the West Coast for the first time ever, in San Francisco -- a city with a reputation that speaks for itself.
I went on the BART as a frail white woman, of average size, by herself, and the scariest thing was the noise the yellow line makes when it's in the tunnels.
Skill issue.
I went on the BART as a frail white woman, of average size, by herself, and the scariest thing was the noise the yellow line makes when it's in the tunnels.
Skill issue.
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Just because I'm a hypocrite, doesn’t mean I'm WRONG
April 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Just because I'm a hypocrite, doesn’t mean I'm WRONG
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PSA:
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
January 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
PSA:
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
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GDC is a reminder that all my peers are some combination of hot smart creative unhinged neurodiverse theater kid goblins creating magic and fantasy using tools made from duct tape and dollar store staples.
March 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
GDC is a reminder that all my peers are some combination of hot smart creative unhinged neurodiverse theater kid goblins creating magic and fantasy using tools made from duct tape and dollar store staples.
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@alexaray.bsky.social said that writers need to be weirder and thirstier and who am i to ignore her advice
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@alexaray.bsky.social said that writers need to be weirder and thirstier and who am i to ignore her advice
This is #whatagamedevlookslike, and you should definitely find a person who looks like this and ask he or she for help. Either at GDC or not, your preference.
March 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is #whatagamedevlookslike, and you should definitely find a person who looks like this and ask he or she for help. Either at GDC or not, your preference.
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For anyone attending @lonestarfurcon.bsky.social this weekend, @cosmicrooibos.bsky.social and I will be running a couple Frankenfur-flavored panels and a demo + free play space on Friday! Super excited to be a part of the con's very first year and hope to see you there! 🦊⚡️
February 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
For anyone attending @lonestarfurcon.bsky.social this weekend, @cosmicrooibos.bsky.social and I will be running a couple Frankenfur-flavored panels and a demo + free play space on Friday! Super excited to be a part of the con's very first year and hope to see you there! 🦊⚡️
I think the most fascinating thing about E-Loon Mus/k brazenly trying to usher in a cyberpunk age is that he seems to forget that in all cyberpunk media, the system is the antagonist.
He fancies himself Case, but he is actually Tessier-Ashpool with an addiction to social media.
He fancies himself Case, but he is actually Tessier-Ashpool with an addiction to social media.
January 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I think the most fascinating thing about E-Loon Mus/k brazenly trying to usher in a cyberpunk age is that he seems to forget that in all cyberpunk media, the system is the antagonist.
He fancies himself Case, but he is actually Tessier-Ashpool with an addiction to social media.
He fancies himself Case, but he is actually Tessier-Ashpool with an addiction to social media.
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The biggest waste of money I’ve seen in video game development, across many years and studios (not my current one - one of the reasons I wanted to work there), wasn’t on graphics. It was abruptly being told to throw out months or years of work bc one executive decided they didn’t like something.
December 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
The biggest waste of money I’ve seen in video game development, across many years and studios (not my current one - one of the reasons I wanted to work there), wasn’t on graphics. It was abruptly being told to throw out months or years of work bc one executive decided they didn’t like something.
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Game Producers be like
I am tired of meetings about planning let’s have some meetings about doing
December 10, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Game Producers be like
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The background art from Batman: The Animated Series taking absolutely zero prisoners.
November 28, 2024 at 10:32 AM
The background art from Batman: The Animated Series taking absolutely zero prisoners.
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
November 24, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
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A fun experiment for people who like to rage against reviewers to try is to take games you've already decided you're going to play and go on media blackout. Play the whole thing and write down your thoughts without seeing what anybody else has to say. Then check to see if your opinion is popular.
November 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
A fun experiment for people who like to rage against reviewers to try is to take games you've already decided you're going to play and go on media blackout. Play the whole thing and write down your thoughts without seeing what anybody else has to say. Then check to see if your opinion is popular.
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Games producer: I'll cut some Jira tickets for whiteboxing one cup that is half empty and another one that is half full, then we'll do some A/B playtests and make a development plan for the one that tests better.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Games producer: I'll cut some Jira tickets for whiteboxing one cup that is half empty and another one that is half full, then we'll do some A/B playtests and make a development plan for the one that tests better.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Voice actor: The CUP is half empty.
The cup IS half empty…
The cup is HALF empty…
Oh, sorry.
The cup is half FULL.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Voice actor: The CUP is half empty.
The cup IS half empty…
The cup is HALF empty…
Oh, sorry.
The cup is half FULL.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Horror Writer: The water in the cup is still. Your reflection cast on its surface.
There is a shift.
You stare up from the cup. A giant mockery of your face stares back.
It smiles as it lifts the cup. And carries it to the sink.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Horror Writer: The water in the cup is still. Your reflection cast on its surface.
There is a shift.
You stare up from the cup. A giant mockery of your face stares back.
It smiles as it lifts the cup. And carries it to the sink.
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Games producer: I'll cut some Jira tickets for whiteboxing one cup that is half empty and another one that is half full, then we'll do some A/B playtests and make a development plan for the one that tests better.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Games producer: I'll cut some Jira tickets for whiteboxing one cup that is half empty and another one that is half full, then we'll do some A/B playtests and make a development plan for the one that tests better.
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Saying that elden ring should have an easy mode in a room full of men just to feel something
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Saying that elden ring should have an easy mode in a room full of men just to feel something
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I think this could heal the partisan divide
November 23, 2024 at 3:17 AM
I think this could heal the partisan divide
Every time I had to look up a word on Xitter it was an epithet I hadn't seen before. First word I had to look up from a Bluesky post and it gets added to my vocabulary.
just paid for the fastest possible shipping on an item for the first time in my entire life and it felt sybaritic.
November 22, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Every time I had to look up a word on Xitter it was an epithet I hadn't seen before. First word I had to look up from a Bluesky post and it gets added to my vocabulary.
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prepare for hot girl summer by closing your
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\( (> girl
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💻) )> JIRA tickets
/ \
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<) )/ hot
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\( (> girl
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November 20, 2024 at 3:55 AM
prepare for hot girl summer by closing your
(•_•)
<) )/ hot
/ \
(•_•)
\( (> girl
/ \
(•_•)
💻) )> JIRA tickets
/ \
(•_•)
<) )/ hot
/ \
(•_•)
\( (> girl
/ \
(•_•)
💻) )> JIRA tickets
/ \
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i'm not trapped in here with me, ME'M trapped in here with I
October 29, 2023 at 1:37 AM
i'm not trapped in here with me, ME'M trapped in here with I