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DuckTapeAl (it/its)
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Spreadsheet jockey. Eternally a decade behind on games. Systems designer on ESO, opinions are my own.
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brandon.insertcredit.com
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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notgodzilla.bsky.social
i'm so cooked i forgot the word "open world" and was trying to describe the kind of game i wanted to play while couch rotting and i said "you know...the kind of game where i can just wander and do side quests and ignore the main story for a while...wanderslop"
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
people are going “well tech companies don’t deserve trust”. I’m not saying to trust them! fuck them! I’m saying “you need to be able to evaluate if something is even *technically possible* & most places are failing at helping you do that”. not a surprising missing of the point but doesn’t bode well.
catacalypto.bsky.social Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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antlervel.vet
Here’s the coming-out letter I shared with my friends and family on Facebook eight years ago. Maybe something in there will resonate for you. True story at the end there.
On this day 8 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 20, 2017 • 8y Hello friends, tamily, and loved ones! I wrote you a letter here, but I don't want to bury the lede, since this might go a little long: I'm transgender, and I'm starting my transition to living lite as a woman soon. Here's my letter to you. A few years ago my now ex-fiancee and I were visiting my family for Christmas. One night I couldn't sleep and took some of my dad's Ambien. Ambien makes me act pretty goofy, makes me suggestible, and then makes me forget all about it after I fall asleep. As we were falling asleep she asked me to tell her a secret, and I immediately and matter-of-factly said "Sometimes I want to be a girl." I had never articulated that complete thought before, not in my head, and certainly not out loud. Years later, she didn't remember that moment. I shouldn't have remembered it. But I did. I had always thought that there was something different about me that was difficult to place. In the absence of an explanation, I simply wrote it off as feeling "weird" due to anxiety or depression. But after saying "I want to be a girl" out loud, it became harder and harder to think of that feeling as nebulous or undefined. In the last few months, I started thinking about questions I had about myselt that I had been able to handwave away when I considered them as isolated or individual. When I put them all together, as part of a pattern, a consistent answer started to form. Why did I never identify with male characters in media? Why did I always play as female characters in video games? Why were friendships with women so easy for me, and male friendships so hard? Why did I slip into a softer, more feminine cadence when alone with women I was comfortable with? Why did I always prefer slimmer, more form-fitting clothes? Why did my beard make me feel uncomfortable, even knowing it made me more attractive to a lot of women? What was that weird phantom limb feeling I got when I saw myself shirtless? What was that weird, nonsexual feeling I had when I saw that happy brunette in a cute dress on the poster at the thrift store? Why had I fallen in love with lesbians so many times? Why had I unconsciously formed a worldwide network of trans woman friends? Why did I have dreams about being a woman, or being in a woman's body, or dressing as a woman and getting complimented on how great I looked, sometimes as often as twice a month? Why was my favorite Sailor Moon character growing up the TALL BLONDE LESBIAN? I mean, that one's a little on the nose, isn't it? But it wasn't until I used FaceApp to see what I'd look like "as a girl", that | really understood. I felt like I finally saw something in the "mirror" I could identify with. When had any trans girl in history had the opportunity to see something like that, without already being on hormones? What a miracle, even if it's just an algorithm. I couldn't get that image out of my head. I'd read phrases like "If you wish you were a girl, you probably are one" and they hadn't really registered until then. So. Some of you might have questions, and rest assured, uh, I also have questions. I know a lot from seeing my trans friends live their lives in transition, and there will inevitably be commonalities, but this is my own life, and my own unique self. The most important thing I want to say is this: no matter what, I am still the same person you know. The things that you love about me will not change. I Will still be sweet and kind and funny and tell really bad jokes. I'll just...probably be a lot hotter. And yes, I still like women. (Isn't it weird that nothing about my desires has changed, but I'm gay now? That's weird, right?) I hope I can count on your support and love. If I can't, this is a free pass: you don't have to be in my life starting today. I don't say this to be dramatic, just pragmatic. I believe working through this will make me a happier, fuller person (literally, I'm going to fill out), but it won't be without challenges, and if you can't reconcile your ideology with the realities of my life and identity, I don't need that additional challenge. But, if you're just having trouble tackling this, if you've never really had a trans friend or loved one before, you can talk to me and we can figure it out together. As for pronouns and names -- I'II be going by Stella Michelle Sacco, and my pronouns are she/her. Yes, Stella was my late cat's name, but it was also the name of my drummer in Rock Band, which...actually, I don't know which is dorkier. Anyway, I'll be changing my Facebook name soon. One last thing. I recently asked my mom what she would have named me if she knew I was a girl when I was born. She said the doctor had told her that I was a boy months before, thanks to ultrasounds, and so she had never considered any female names. But there was one thing she wanted to share. When she went into labor with me, the nurses checked my vitals and prepared my station. When she asked why they had set up a pink blanket for me, they look confused and said that they had checked my heart, and my rapid heartbeat had indicated I was a girl. Thank you for reading all of this. I love you.
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
Denise Gough looking at a phone like wtf
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
video game narratives come in two kinds: cold unsparing randomness, and button you press to hit yourself. Pathologic? hit-yourself. Fallen London? hit-yourself. Unfair Flips? unsparing randomness. In spite of literally giving you the option to hit yourself, Disco Elysium is unsparing randomness.
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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adothenlunch.bsky.social
Excited to get to share a trailer for the game I'm working on!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pD...
Marvel’s Wolverine - Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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September 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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degrassi.bsky.social
she's in the hospital for a second day. she has severe anemia and needed a blood transfusion. they suspect this is being caused either by cancer or an autoimmune disorder. anything helps <3
degrassi.bsky.social elliot degrassi @degrassi.bsky.social · Sep 8
hi my cat's really sick and i'm back at the ER with her, anything helps <3 gofund.me/36d53aa90
September 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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superdillin.bsky.social
There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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samrosemod.bsky.social
Create NSFW art

Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime

Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art

This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like

Always resist oppression
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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adothenlunch.bsky.social
I get to change my title today, because I got a promotion!
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, with my title updated from UI/UX Lead to Senior UI/UX Lead | UI/UX Manager
June 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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adothenlunch.bsky.social
It's Pride Month.
Find a corner in which to be a real, true force, and keep at it against this disgusting effort to erase people.
💛🤍💜🖤
June 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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degrassi.bsky.social
absolute funniest message u can possibly see in a public discord server has got to be “hey why can’t i react to your message?”
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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planetx.bsky.social
I may be Tom Bombapilled.

There's something charming about our heroes meeting a nature spirit, and having him be a longwinded old stoner. Tom Bombadil is the song the Middle Earth sings, because it is, at its heart, a very silly place.
May 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Wedding cake made to look like some of our favorite books, with cake toppers my better half made herself of me as a Roman senator and her as a medieval lady (plus a Companion Cube; we played a lot of Portal).
A wedding cake shaped as a stack of books, with Roman and medieval cake toppers.
May 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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lowrhoufo.bsky.social
I found the most incredible graph on the other site
April 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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guillecummings.com
I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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adothenlunch.bsky.social
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Hi! I'm Mary (they/them), and I'm a UI/UX Lead at Insomniac.

I've been doing this 18 years. Currently on Wolverine, previously on Avowed, FUSER, DCVR, Rock Band 4, LOTRO, BioShock Infinite, and more. I want to empower my team and make cool stuff.
I have short dark, graying hair, brown eyes and glasses. I'm wearing an Insomniac t shirt and a black hoodie.
March 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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adothenlunch.bsky.social
Words I said are in a book! And I get to see them alongside the advice of some incredible UI/UX folks!

Awesome work by @bunnyballball.bsky.social 👏
The cover of The Pocket Mentor for Video Game UX UI, by Simon Brewer A section of advice for new UI/UX Designers from Mary Yovina
March 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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b0tster.yeag.gay
March 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
Twitter post by InternetHippo from 01/30/2024. A picture of Bentham's Panopticon with the caption: Hey y'all! Just a reminder that we're back to mandatory in-office work as of Monday. We've fully renovated the space and we think you'll love it!
February 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM