Midas de Laat
@leveldesign.bsky.social
D&D-obsessed | Boyfriend | Doggo Dad | Level Designer working on THE FINALS
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Why yes, I would love to sign up for your little blue/yellow/gold fucky-smucky-card, so I can board early and be the first to sit in a warm plane for 30 more minutes - that sounds like an amazing deal.
Please take all my purchasing data, I'm sure you'll secure it well.
#AirlinesBeLike #Privacy
Please take all my purchasing data, I'm sure you'll secure it well.
#AirlinesBeLike #Privacy
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why yes, I would love to sign up for your little blue/yellow/gold fucky-smucky-card, so I can board early and be the first to sit in a warm plane for 30 more minutes - that sounds like an amazing deal.
Please take all my purchasing data, I'm sure you'll secure it well.
#AirlinesBeLike #Privacy
Please take all my purchasing data, I'm sure you'll secure it well.
#AirlinesBeLike #Privacy
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November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today I learned submarines have windows 😄 This one is making a pitstop in #Stockholm for the weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Today I learned submarines have windows 😄 This one is making a pitstop in #Stockholm for the weekend.
Gee, I wonder what the DM who hurriedly dubbed the D&D Multiverse “The Great Wheel" had for dinner that evening... It even has the little plastic stand that keeps the box from sagging 🍕😂
#D&D #dungeonmaster #ttrpg #multiverse
#D&D #dungeonmaster #ttrpg #multiverse
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Gee, I wonder what the DM who hurriedly dubbed the D&D Multiverse “The Great Wheel" had for dinner that evening... It even has the little plastic stand that keeps the box from sagging 🍕😂
#D&D #dungeonmaster #ttrpg #multiverse
#D&D #dungeonmaster #ttrpg #multiverse
We’ve just launched Arc Raiders! 🚀
A massive collaborative effort by an insanely talented team here at Embark - so proud!!
Special shout-out to my lovely @hypathie.bsky.social and her crew for creating such an evocative and approachable UI ❤️
#Arc #Raiders
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeJ...
A massive collaborative effort by an insanely talented team here at Embark - so proud!!
Special shout-out to my lovely @hypathie.bsky.social and her crew for creating such an evocative and approachable UI ❤️
#Arc #Raiders
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeJ...
Launch Trailer | ARC Raiders
YouTube video by ARC Raiders
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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We’ve just launched Arc Raiders! 🚀
A massive collaborative effort by an insanely talented team here at Embark - so proud!!
Special shout-out to my lovely @hypathie.bsky.social and her crew for creating such an evocative and approachable UI ❤️
#Arc #Raiders
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeJ...
A massive collaborative effort by an insanely talented team here at Embark - so proud!!
Special shout-out to my lovely @hypathie.bsky.social and her crew for creating such an evocative and approachable UI ❤️
#Arc #Raiders
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeJ...
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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In the Nordics, reliance on US email (and the wider stack behind it) is now a strategic risk.
💡 Highlights: DK 89% • FI 92% • IS 97% • NO 96% • SE 91%
⚠️ Risks: AI training, foreign legal reach, geopolitical pressure.
📊 https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch#denmark
💡 Highlights: DK 89% • FI 92% • IS 97% • NO 96% • SE 91%
⚠️ Risks: AI training, foreign legal reach, geopolitical pressure.
📊 https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch#denmark
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In the Nordics, reliance on US email (and the wider stack behind it) is now a strategic risk.
💡 Highlights: DK 89% • FI 92% • IS 97% • NO 96% • SE 91%
⚠️ Risks: AI training, foreign legal reach, geopolitical pressure.
📊 https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch#denmark
💡 Highlights: DK 89% • FI 92% • IS 97% • NO 96% • SE 91%
⚠️ Risks: AI training, foreign legal reach, geopolitical pressure.
📊 https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch#denmark
Visited the Barbican Centre in London over the weekend - strong #LevelDesign ✨vibes✨.
Uploaded some ref images - hope it inspires 😊
🔗 midas.blog/barbican
#reference #blocktober
Uploaded some ref images - hope it inspires 😊
🔗 midas.blog/barbican
#reference #blocktober
Level Design Reference – Barbican Centre (London, UK) – Midas' Blog
midas.blog
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Visited the Barbican Centre in London over the weekend - strong #LevelDesign ✨vibes✨.
Uploaded some ref images - hope it inspires 😊
🔗 midas.blog/barbican
#reference #blocktober
Uploaded some ref images - hope it inspires 😊
🔗 midas.blog/barbican
#reference #blocktober
#DREM was as perfect a fever dream we could've shared. First time seeing the @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social live - definitely not the last 😂
Thanks for the bellyaching evening of laughs and answering my question during the Q&A ☺️❤️
Thanks for the bellyaching evening of laughs and answering my question during the Q&A ☺️❤️
October 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#DREM was as perfect a fever dream we could've shared. First time seeing the @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social live - definitely not the last 😂
Thanks for the bellyaching evening of laughs and answering my question during the Q&A ☺️❤️
Thanks for the bellyaching evening of laughs and answering my question during the Q&A ☺️❤️
So glad we are kicking these off - and would you believe it: our #leveldesign blog actually has before-and-after sliders! We're in the big leagues now. 🥳
#THEFINALS #Iteration #blocktober #gamedev
www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/a...
#THEFINALS #Iteration #blocktober #gamedev
www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/a...
Arena Updates: A Deep Dive! — THE FINALS
www.reachthefinals.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So glad we are kicking these off - and would you believe it: our #leveldesign blog actually has before-and-after sliders! We're in the big leagues now. 🥳
#THEFINALS #Iteration #blocktober #gamedev
www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/a...
#THEFINALS #Iteration #blocktober #gamedev
www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/a...
Last week, for the first time ever, we lost a player character in our D&D campaign. It took me by surprise how real & serious it felt.
Genuinely a milestone that gave us all ✨the feels✨ - and yet another reason to love this fantastic hobby ❤️.
#DND #D&D #characterdeath #hobby
Genuinely a milestone that gave us all ✨the feels✨ - and yet another reason to love this fantastic hobby ❤️.
#DND #D&D #characterdeath #hobby
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Last week, for the first time ever, we lost a player character in our D&D campaign. It took me by surprise how real & serious it felt.
Genuinely a milestone that gave us all ✨the feels✨ - and yet another reason to love this fantastic hobby ❤️.
#DND #D&D #characterdeath #hobby
Genuinely a milestone that gave us all ✨the feels✨ - and yet another reason to love this fantastic hobby ❤️.
#DND #D&D #characterdeath #hobby
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We're releasing a dev vlog today introducing our fans to 'dynamism', the design philosophy that drove the making of THE FINALS. We hope it gives those interested some insight into what it takes to make an crazy multiplayer sandbox FPS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...
MAKING THE FINALS | Creating a Dynamism Shooter
YouTube video by THE FINALS
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September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We're releasing a dev vlog today introducing our fans to 'dynamism', the design philosophy that drove the making of THE FINALS. We hope it gives those interested some insight into what it takes to make an crazy multiplayer sandbox FPS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...
Today, I turn 30 🥳 Going to have a lovely BBQ to celebrate. Grateful to be surrounded by a loving family, my beautiful fiancée, great friends and our goofy doggo Azula.
Life is pretty good :) 🌄
#birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57a...
Life is pretty good :) 🌄
#birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57a...
30
YouTube video by Bo Burnham - Topic
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August 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today, I turn 30 🥳 Going to have a lovely BBQ to celebrate. Grateful to be surrounded by a loving family, my beautiful fiancée, great friends and our goofy doggo Azula.
Life is pretty good :) 🌄
#birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57a...
Life is pretty good :) 🌄
#birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57a...
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Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location.
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
August 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location.
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.
Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵
1/5
Level Design word of the Day: "Sticky-outy-bit"
- The bit that sticks out
#LevelDesign #Gamedev #ProfessionalLanguage
- The bit that sticks out
#LevelDesign #Gamedev #ProfessionalLanguage
August 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Level Design word of the Day: "Sticky-outy-bit"
- The bit that sticks out
#LevelDesign #Gamedev #ProfessionalLanguage
- The bit that sticks out
#LevelDesign #Gamedev #ProfessionalLanguage
Aaah!! OST of Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth just dropped 🥰 open.spotify.com/album/7oKztA...
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth
Jeremy Zuckerman · Album · 2025 · 24 songs
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July 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Aaah!! OST of Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth just dropped 🥰 open.spotify.com/album/7oKztA...
✏️ Wrote up a short guide on how to make cheap DIY initiative trackers midas.blog/dnd-diy-init...
#D&D #DIY #DND #TTRPG #GM #DM
#D&D #DIY #DND #TTRPG #GM #DM
D&D DIY – Initiative Tracker – Midas' Blog
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July 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Rock gnomes were expert inventors and tinkers.
They also managed to use their keen intelligence to turn something as generally unexciting as work into a fun and enjoyable expenditure of their time and energy.
#dnd #forgottenrealms #Realmslore
forgottenrealms.fand...
They also managed to use their keen intelligence to turn something as generally unexciting as work into a fun and enjoyable expenditure of their time and energy.
#dnd #forgottenrealms #Realmslore
forgottenrealms.fand...
July 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Rock gnomes were expert inventors and tinkers.
They also managed to use their keen intelligence to turn something as generally unexciting as work into a fun and enjoyable expenditure of their time and energy.
#dnd #forgottenrealms #Realmslore
forgottenrealms.fand...
They also managed to use their keen intelligence to turn something as generally unexciting as work into a fun and enjoyable expenditure of their time and energy.
#dnd #forgottenrealms #Realmslore
forgottenrealms.fand...
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The curse of averages. They’re the best way to use data to hide the dynamics of a system, the exact thing you want data to help you find.
“Historically, no one lived past age 35”
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.
A demography myth that won't die
jenndowd.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The curse of averages. They’re the best way to use data to hide the dynamics of a system, the exact thing you want data to help you find.
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Really proud to again get to show off some of the Character and Weapon customisation I got to work on for THE FINALS Season 6! @reachthefinals.com
youtu.be/7mY-fCTB8cI?...
youtu.be/7mY-fCTB8cI?...
THE FINALS - Season 6 - Weapon Skins & Character Customisation
YouTube video by Matthijs Verkuijlen
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June 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Really proud to again get to show off some of the Character and Weapon customisation I got to work on for THE FINALS Season 6! @reachthefinals.com
youtu.be/7mY-fCTB8cI?...
youtu.be/7mY-fCTB8cI?...
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I’ve been in the industry 20 years this year, and in that whole time this is the classic problem that keeps on giving. The vast majority of industry leaders don’t understand system dynamics, don’t understand non-linear relationships and often don’t understand where ‘good’ comes from. Their….
I'm trying to comment on this without being hyperbolic.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
June 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’ve been in the industry 20 years this year, and in that whole time this is the classic problem that keeps on giving. The vast majority of industry leaders don’t understand system dynamics, don’t understand non-linear relationships and often don’t understand where ‘good’ comes from. Their….
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This feels like a pretty fair assessment: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
www.bbc.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This feels like a pretty fair assessment: www.bbc.com/news/article...