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Jasper Stocker
@jasperstocker.com
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Procedurally Generated Developer
PlayStation One Obsessive
Occasional Mini Painter
Player of Bass Guitars
Edinburgh, Scotland

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macleodholdfast.bsky.social
Hey so, today is my last day at Crystal Dynamics apparently. I joined the company in 2018 to work on Marvel's Avengers and it's been the longest (and best) job I've ever had. It now means I'm looking for work, so if you know of any senior writer/narrative designer positions please send them my way.
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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racheledini.bsky.social
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
michaelwarburton.bsky.social Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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@uk-resistant.bsky.social have you seen this?
brandon.insertcredit.com Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 3d
Really nice test of a low poly Ridge Racer running in full 3D on the GBA. From Gustavo Valiente's RR project: gvaliente.itch.io/rr-project
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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eta-expanse.bsky.social
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Yard sign on someone's patio that reads, in all caps, "We believe the legal thriller Michael Clayton starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Tom Wilkinson is a vastly underrated cinematic masterpiece and easily one of the best films of the 21st century."
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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tonygowland.bsky.social
Now you can touch our game! (on PS5)
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
Into the Restless Ruins box art
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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molleindustria.org
Lovely introduction to game design, distilling decades of thinking by Raph and many others.

I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
Drawing attention to this petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Add intersex to the Equality Act as a protected characteristic
We want the government to make sex variations a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.
petition.parliament.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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arondurkin.bsky.social
“Just one week before, the Union had reached ~200 members taking us over the 10% threshold required to seek recognition and begin engaging in collective bargaining.”
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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drnereide.bsky.social
In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot:

- the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy)
- the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps
- the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122...

🔭 🧪 #sciart

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Look at this night, it seems hand-painted. In front of everything is Superga, illuminated as if someone had turned on only the hottest bulbs: the dome and the golden columns; the lights outline arches and balconies as if the church were breathing softly. Thirty kilometers away, Monviso appears like a giant of gray-blue rock like the sky. And right towards the summit, there's a thin, ivory-colored crescent moon. It's so bright you can see the entire circle: the dark part is illuminated by that terrestrial reflection called "da Vinci light." The photo is a long, 30-second expanse: the silence is palpable. Imagine the cold stone, the Alpine wind, the scent of distant snow.
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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aurahack.ca
made a car. learned a lot ! mostly some bad practises that i know how to fix next time i model anything lol

next step: model race queen ascari >:3
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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cozycubegames.bsky.social
What's this? ovo)

VR Games Showcase is back next Thursday, Nov. 13! Be sure to tune in for a ✨ brand new ✨ penguin-y trailer!

See you there, noot noot! 🐧

#indiegames #vr #cozygames
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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shallowthinking.bsky.social
I've been digging through older works to see if I have anything presentable that mighty be useful to others. I did make some textures for various add-on maps for Quake 3 and some of them are nice enough that people working on retro-styled stuff might find them helpful. So these will be forthcoming.
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
ZOOM conference call users. When asked a question you are not prepared for, open your mouth and then 'freeze. Your colleagues will simply assume you have a bad network connection. Wait until the agenda has moved on to another topic before 'unfreezing' yourself. Make sure you are not sitting with your back to a window when doing this, in case a vehicle drives past while you are 'frozen' Don, Newbury
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social
🚨 Thief VR launches December 4 🚨

💰 First Thief game in 11+ years
⚔️ Full single-player stealth campaign
🥽 Coming to Quest, PS VR2 & PC

3+ minutes of Meta Quest 3 gameplay here: buff.ly/tewffwr
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
I think a danger with social media is to thoroughly mix your sense of agency & consequential powerlessness with the catastrophic goings on in the world. It strikes me that the inverse of this phenomenon is to shift your focus to the incremental and enormously meaningful good you can do where you are
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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ibogost.com
Venn diagram
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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object01.bsky.social
This is a pretty big hobby milestone for me-- a real corridor & chamber solution that works with PCG partitions. Now I can experiment with more interesting generators for the corridors and chambers themselves, and interior/exterior features.

#PCGEx #procgen #UnrealEngine #dungeoncrawler
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Screenshot of the landing page of the above link, showing the total letters sent sitting at over 6800
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
jasperstocker.com
Who out there knows what we're dressing up as this year for Halloween? (no reading alt text!)
A stylised photo of me and my family dressed up as characters from One Punch Man
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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sanho.bsky.social
Read this classic quote by my friend the late journalist Dan Baum:
On 27 October 1970, the administration of president Richard Nixon passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their "war on drugs". According to journalist Dan Baum writing in Harper's Magazine, a Nixon adviser, John Ehrlichman, later admitted to him in an interview: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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elierlick.bsky.social
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM