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Philip Drobar
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Indie Gamedev (CHESTNUT GROVE, #GRIDHACK, #COGITO Godot template) at @thresholdanomaly.com
VFX Editor (Spiderman NWH, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, etc.)
https://www.philipdrobar.com/

he/him, Austrian 🇦🇹 in Canada 🇨🇦
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · May 21
I'm still chipping away at GRIDHACK, a sci-fi RPG where hacking = fighting Picross battles.

I've been working on this one for a long time. Reposts are greatly appreciated. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3053870/...

#GameDev #IndieGame #Picross #Nonogram #Puzzle #SciFi #LowPoly
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luxeengine.com
We’ve updated the @luxeengine.com website to include an additional section about our philosophy and standards!

Generative “AI” is not welcome in our game engine or community, their current incarnation is not compatible with our ethics, standards or goals. We don’t compromise and don’t need to ✨
A screenshot of the luxe game engine website stating: No Gen "Al" We reject the current version of generative tools for code and art. They are not welcome in our engine, or our community as they are not compatible with our ethics, standards or goals. We focus on human centered creativity and empowerment. (Like this art, by Gabriele Pala)
January 11, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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joewintergreen.com
sometimes someone in my discord is is so self-hating, stating as fact such nasty shit, that they become hostile to any kindness at all. "i'm shit and if you say I'm not you're lying to me" type shit. you have to change your outlook before your helplessness becomes real in a way you don't expect
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
Hello from Northsky! 🎇
January 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM
January 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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jeleynai.bsky.social
"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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glassbottommeg.bsky.social
I got the coolest gift from @rosanthwyn.online so now I gotta show it to y'all so you can be jealous about how you don't got no SAMUS BIRD ART

This is now canon

Samus has a cockatiel
Digital art, printed and framed, of Samus chastising a cockatiel who's snoozing on her arm cannon
January 11, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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wildrumpus.bsky.social
I am only 3 slots away from hitting my goal! I have to get this filled by the end of today so please share!
wildrumpus.bsky.social Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 11d
Hey everyone, I am opening a handful of commission slots to cover my rent this month. Get a cute custom model from me for 100$ USD! examples of recent commissions below, DM me if you are interested!

(please share!)

#b3d #Blender3d #gamedev
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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johannesecker.com
Took a while until I found time to read this short piece by @tante.cc on the topic of AI Creation vs. Human Making

Recommended reading!
Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not s...
tante.cc
January 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
Olson never misses.
Screenshot of the latest Folding ideas video. Subtitles read: "Christian Zionists are trying to do the End of Evangelion."
January 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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philipdrobar.northsky.social
🎉 Happy to announce that #COGITO - our #Godot 4 first person template is now updated to 1.1.5 with lots of polishes, bug fixes and features like the spatial prompt UI and full localization.

💾 Godot Asset Store: store-beta.godotengine.org/asset/philip...

#MadeWithGodot #GodotEngine #MadeWithCogito
Cogito - Godot Asset Store
Cogito is a fully-featured Immersive First Person Template Project for Godot 4
store-beta.godotengine.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
Forget doors - how many #gamedevs does it take to change a lightbulb?
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
🎉 Happy to announce that #COGITO - our #Godot 4 first person template is now updated to 1.1.5 with lots of polishes, bug fixes and features like the spatial prompt UI and full localization.

💾 Godot Asset Store: store-beta.godotengine.org/asset/philip...

#MadeWithGodot #GodotEngine #MadeWithCogito
Cogito - Godot Asset Store
Cogito is a fully-featured Immersive First Person Template Project for Godot 4
store-beta.godotengine.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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gord.games
All difficulty options are really accessibility options.
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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adriaan.games
friends! acquaintances! help!

i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.

know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty!

hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...
Job opening: game designer @ Hidden Folks
We're looking for a game designer in the Netherlands to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.
hiddenfolks.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
broke: Cereal is a soup.
woke: A donut is a door.
angeloslh.bsky.social Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ Time Zone Era @angeloslh.bsky.social · 4d
What I am proposing is the important part of a door is the hole and the object that fills the hole can be anything

My snake room has curtains instead of wooden doors
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
#Godot experts: Is there a tutorial or documentation how to set up Animation Clip-agnostic AnimationTrees or controllers?

Looking for something that works similar to how EmeraldAI in Unity works in terms of animations.
January 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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elbi.bsky.social
They want you to see this and unionize less. You may be next, etc etc, the fear.
But the lesson must be: Unionize MORE. One team, one department, one studio protected? Shut down. *Every* studio protected? They can't shut them all down (without trashing the shareholder value, their only KPI).
January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
If you need a reason not to enlist, there's many.
Avatar luulapants 1d If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military: The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend. The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do. The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder. The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying. The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying. The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying. The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying. Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order. The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you. If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today. You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them. The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career. Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources. Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job. Veterans' benefits suck these days. Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones. The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer. The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting. A lot can change in four years.
January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
Halt And Catch Fire
redoubters.bsky.social Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 5d
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:

What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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jmcelroy.bsky.social
The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors
risingaction.bsky.social Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 5d
This is harm. Time for serious people to get serious about it.
socialmedialab.ca Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 5d
"Grok Is Generating About ‘One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute’. Regulators around the world are looking into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot began ‘undressing’ celebrities and underage children at the request of users." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
January 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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philipdrobar.northsky.social
When you go for a walk in the PNW, it can turn into Twin Peaks at a moments notice.
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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glassrevolver.bsky.social
when sacro rises 👁️
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Animation about being forced to fit in

From: Dogmatism (2022), dir. Lei Xiao, Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts
January 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
This, the Microslop CEO, etc: all that whining proves that the bullying works!

Keep calling out the slop apologists!

No pity for the ones begging to be fed gruel at the cost of their fellow humans!
steinmakesgames.bsky.social Stein Makes Games - Wishlist Dig Dig Boom @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 5d
Just got a phone push notification because the admin of #gamedev group @everyone-pinged 93.000 people to tell them "AI Slop" is a hateful phrase not protected by "freedom of speech" ...
Heads up @everyone, I know some of you are fond of the term “AI Slop”. Grow up. Keep it to yourself or do it in another forum where they allow people to crap all over each-other. Not looking to support your elitist attitudes on other people’s posts, which aren’t going to help you when you’re unemployed and begging for work, which will happen very soon. Things have changed and there are more tools to leverage our domain expertise. Deal with it! It’s not going back, as much as you may not like it. Grieve and move on. Or do yourself a favor and gain proficiency over the magic; become Mickey in Fantasia. There may end up being a pocket of consumers who prefer “organic”, but I imagine more hybrid solutions. Find out where your particular talents can be leveraged and get positioned to your advantage. Protesting the train coming and shaking your fist while sneering isn’t going to stop it. Fair warning issued. We don’t tolerate attacks on others, and freedom of speech isn’t going to help you be a jerk.
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
philipdrobar.northsky.social
When you go for a walk in the PNW, it can turn into Twin Peaks at a moments notice.
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM