josien
jopilatje.bsky.social
josien
@jopilatje.bsky.social
technical artist at wonderment by design. unicorn sorceress.
... trying to find al the people i followed elsewhere, i guess.
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free speech =/= you have to give every crackpot unlimited amounts of attention.

free speech = you will not be arrested for saying negative things about your government.

While the crackpots who demand attention are having a great time of it right now, actual free speech IS increasingly endangered.
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Another blog post

Still a scrapping of an old thread
Fire FX breakdown 🔥 made in Unity for a cancelled project

charlesboury.fr/articles/fir... #vfx #gamedev #madeinunity
Fire FX Breakdown
Multi-level fire FX breakdown in unity
charlesboury.fr
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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On that note, let's also *dive* in another favorite subject of mine:

💧 Water shaders 💧

Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 on the tech-art behind our water visuals in HERDLING:
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Some more glitchy effect showoff~
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I mirror this view, with one caveat: it will -not- necessarily find an audience and it won't necessarily be a success, but if you made it because you want them to exist, at least you have the reward of having pulled these never-made things screaming out of the sea of ideas into reality.
Make games for yourself and for your friends. Make things because they don't exist and you want to see them in the world, because you have an itch you need to scratch. Art made with love and passion and quirkiness will find an audience who appreciates that love and passion and quirkiness.
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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For my first ever artfight attack, I attacked my friend
@jopilatje.bsky.social 's OC buddington!~

#pixelart #artfight
July 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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De bijstand is geen potje waar je even in graait als het spannend wordt. Het is een vangnet voor mensen die anders vallen.
En onderzoek laat keer op keer zien: dat vangnet is al te laag. Je kunt er eigelijk niet normaal van leven. Laten we kiezen voor solidariteit – niet voor afbraak.
VVD kijkt naar bijstand om defensie-uitgaven te betalen
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De VVD kijkt naar de bijstand om de hogere defensie-uitgaven te betalen die nodig zijn om de nieuwe NAVO-norm te halen. Dat heeft partijleider Dilan Yeşilgöz dinsdag gezegd. "Wij vind...
nieuws.nl
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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1/2 Most of the time, the use of over the top words like "terrifying" just makes the author look like a crank, but in this case, it could very well be justified. Memory of what was written was virtually nonexistent and brain connectivity collapsed by 47%. Read the thread.

x.com/itsalexvacca...
June 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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1000 windows from around the world. All here www.andrevicentegoncalves.com/photography-...
June 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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bobacupcake.neocities.org/shader-basics made a page on my website for me to reference when im writing shader tutorials.. threw a bunch of mini tutorials for different effects i use pretty commonly on here. if you catch any mistakes or anything thats a bit too confusingly worded please lmk !!
shader basics
shader basics to cross reference for other shader tutorials
bobacupcake.neocities.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🤩 The MIRI instrument on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a dying star’s display in unprecedented detail.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

🔭 🧪
April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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i just published...
"Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail."
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/mak...
about sustainable alternatives to existing in the game industry, and the positive impact of failure.
#GameDev
Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail. – The Candybox Blog
www.nathalielawhead.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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It's been a while since I've done this, and the world is bleak - so we can all use a little art & creativity.

What is everyone creating nowadays? Games, art, music, video, writing, anything - whether it is early, almost done, or just shipped. Feel free to include trailers, images, links - whatever.
March 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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@droqen.bsky.social yo, i finally got enough of that essay written that i can share!!! hope there's a bunch of new ideas in here for ya and something to spark a new direction, but was fun to write and im glad to get it all in one place anyway. <3

dreamfeel.notion.site/essay-on-mec...
essay on mechanics, llaura | Notion
https://bsky.app/profile/dreamfeel.bsky.social
dreamfeel.notion.site
March 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Playing Maple again in Dungeons & Dragons after 1.5 years of not playing her was an absolute delight. 😄

A huge thanks to my DM, @jopilatje.bsky.social for always creating great sessions. ✨
February 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM