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build engineer: @romerogames.bsky.social, prev: @webeharebrained.bsky.social

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victoriascott.bsky.social
anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...
Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men
Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...
www.thestranger.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
meet me at the monk’s fishing cottage in an hour if you want an ass kissing
A picture showing the ruins of a fishing cottage on a river in Cong, Ireland.
July 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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theavclubgames.bsky.social
From 1958’s oscilloscope-based Tennis for Two to the latest Top Spin, tennis video games have long given us space to go balls out with the pros. To celebrate the last week of Wimbledon, Dia Lacina takes us through some of her all-time favorites. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
Seven (Plus One) Classic Tennis Games for the Last Seven Days of Wimbledon - Endless Mode
To celebrate the last week of Wimbledon, Dia Lacina takes us on a journey through some of her all-time favorites tennis video games.
www.endlessmode.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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romerogames.bsky.social
Update (July 7, 2025)
We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight. • The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled. • Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information. • As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio. • Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team. • We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities. We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able. Romero Games
July 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
Seeing the outpouring of support, and the hustle by the team to try and plug any holes and get the water out of our boat, is just inspiring. I’m thankful that I get to work with such amazing people, and be surrounded by such incredible community
July 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
The team was a dream to work with, and Brenda and John have handled this with such kindness. I’m so thankful that I got to be a part of RG

I was remote, but we relocated to Ireland from Washington for this job less than a month ago.

Id love to hear if anyone has any leads on build engineer work.
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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romerogames.bsky.social
In Galway for Film Fleadh? Catch the premiere of GAME ON on Sun, July 13, a documentary by Theresa Loong spotlighting game designer and CEO Brenda Romero.

🎟️ Tickets: www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/game...

#filmfleadh #gaming
June 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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keithfitzgerald.bsky.social
Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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katbamkapow.bsky.social
i'm teaching a critical AI class this autumn & am looking for accessible readings/assignment ideas. just got emotional hearing eddy burback describe basic analysis of a photo in this video bc i'm genuinely heartbroken abt the loss of information i didn't think we'd lose: youtu.be/IZ4HOCld5nY?...
"So when you're looking for a photo of a real time in history, you should not be using AI. Here's a photo of Little Italy in 1974 taken by Eddie Hausner for "The New York Times." There is so much information to learn just from one photo of the past. Just on a surface level, you can see how someone worked, what the fashion in the area was like at the time, items that stores were selling, what graphic design and signs looked like at the time, building architecture, hell, even what awnings looked like for all my awning-heads out there. Real information about a real moment in time with real people captured by a talented photographer. This is not Little Italy in 1954. This is just the vibe a computer thought Little Italy was like." photo described in the transcript text of little italy taken by eddie hausner for the new york times. a black and white photo of a street corner in little italy. eddy burback in front of an image from the meta AI commercial where someone generates an image of little italy in 1954. the subtitle reads "this is not little italy in 1954"
June 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky
lavos, the main antagonist from the 1995 rpg chrono trigger
June 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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headfallsoff.com
iris always flirting with noctis and trying to drag him out his shell but he doesn't care because he only feels truly understood by his aim girlfriend.............. that is the true teenage representation
June 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
We’ve finally made it over to Ireland, and are all settled in :)
A russian blue cat sitting in a window sill A grassy field with cows laying down in the distance Two cows, one cream colored and one orange-brown A view over the waters of lough rea
June 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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katbamkapow.bsky.social
every day i turn the dial a little bit in one of a few given directions, usually kicking back and forth between “believing that a better world is possible” and “praying for the downfall of my enemies”
June 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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headfallsoff.com
gurren lagann is wrong. you should not believe in yourself. get it twisted
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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sifsweetman.bsky.social
The Gull Knights of The Water Tower.

#FriendsAtTheTable #Perpetua
A mountaintop cylinder of water is filled with orange fish, harassed by seabirds and guarded by anthropomorphic gulls in armour.
March 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
discord server is starting a jrpg bookclub with bounties on first to finish games. guess i’m finally gonna beat xenogears
March 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
new sizzle reel got posted in our work slack and it has me soooo hype for our game 👀👀👀
March 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
I forgot how hard it is to wait between new f@tt episodes when you’re all caught up 🫠
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
Speculation, but I'm really curious if the federation told Hoshoryu he needed to sit this one out after giving away so many gold stars 👀
March 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
the way ura keeps landing on other rikishi this basho.. I just Know some of his fans are fujoing out
Ura landing on Ichiyamamoto when he was thrown out of the ring. Ura has his hands on Ichiyamamoto’s shoulders, and Ichiyamamoto has his hands on Ura’s waist. Ura landing on Onosato when he was thrown out of the ring. Ura is on all fours, with his lower half on Onosato’s lap.
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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nicolecarpenter.bsky.social
the prytania media/crop circle/possibility space saga continues... annie and jeff strain have filed a lawsuit against netease for defamation and unfair trade practices. they allege netease spread rumors about financial fraud at prytania, which led to its demise:

www.polygon.com/gaming/53894...
Game publisher blames NetEase leaks for implosion in $900M lawsuit
“Ultimately, Prytania Media itself had to be shut down”
www.polygon.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
I am, once again, thinking about Survival Kids (1999)
The box art for Survival Kids for the Gameboy Color. It features a black-haired girl, with a monkey riding on her head, in a jungle scene A screenshot of Survival Kids for the Gameboy Color. It features a girl on a beach scene. The text box reads “Wait! Where is everyone? Where’s Dad?!” A screenshot of Survival Kids for the Gameboy Color. It features a bit drawing a bow and arrow, preparing to shoot at a fox. A screenshot of Survival Kids for the Gameboy Color. It features a boy on a beach. Logs have been laid out to spell SOS. A text box reads “Yuki [There! It’s done!”
March 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
sophia-valentine.bsky.social
As far as character portraits go, the city elf from dragon age origins sets the bar so high. She’s truly the blueprint.
The character portait for “City Elf” from the game Dragon Age: Origins. It portrays a blonde elf woman holding a dagger, wearing a white dress covered in blood, and a blue flower crown. her teeth are bared in a fierce expression.
March 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM