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joe tirado
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Seattle based Creative Lead on Astroneer at System Era Softworks. Solving visual problems since 2010. Co-Founder at LatinosInGaming. Probably making something. 🇵🇷🇨🇴
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staymighty.bsky.social
got to make another lil trailer thingy, the Astroneer train don't stop
astroneergame.systemera.net Astroneer (NEW GAME: STARSEEKER) @astroneergame.systemera.net · 28d
The ASTRONEER: Megatech DLC has a release date!

Automate shipping things between planets, grow plants in the Biodome, get creative on the Orbital Platform and much much more.

Out November 20th 🛠️🚀
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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starseekergame.systemera.net
The wait is over. Learn all about what it takes to be a member of the crew during next week's STARSEEKER Direct gameplay reveal livestream. 🚀📺

📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
September 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
staymighty.bsky.social
just got finished with a lil @latinxingaming.bsky.social community panel at @gdocexpo.com!! Was super cute using the platform to engage with everyone digitally in the space <3
September 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The EXO F.A.R.M LTE returns with brand new rewards!!! Complete this year's event by making lots of S.O.U.P to unlock the "Poison Apple" cosmetic set! 🍎 💀 🍏
September 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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So excited to bring this idea back to PAX.
starseekergame.systemera.net STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions @starseekergame.systemera.net · Aug 28
Coming to PAX West? Stop by booth 1613 and play STARSEEKER to get a personalized EXO Dynamics ID Card! 🚀🪪
August 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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astroneergame.systemera.net
Introducing ASTRONEER: Megatech ⚙️

A major free update and brand new paid DLC coming in November!

🏗️ Build large scale Megastructure projects
💾 All content playable in existing saves
🔧 Free Basebuilding update with interplanetary delivery system

Wishlist now!
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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latinxingaming.bsky.social
🎉 The Latinx in Gaming 2025 Grants are officially OPEN! 🎮

Apply between August 5 – August 31

Whether you're a content creator, streamer, student, gaming professional, or involved in any gaming-related field—this grant is for you.Let us support your journey in the gaming industry!
August 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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victoriatran.bsky.social
✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨

"Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭

Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces!

Shares appreciated. AHH!!

Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book
Holding up my book "Mastering Community Management: Chaos, Compassion, and Connection in Games". Picture of me in between shelves of books, holding up my book.
July 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The people: "We voted overwhelmingly in support of a candidate that spoke to us"

Bill Ackman: "I will literally spend hundreds of millions of dollars to support someone else that I handpick"

This is full on mask off behavior, they literally don't care about what voters ACTUALLY voted for
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 26
1. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is trying to recruit a write-in candidate to run against Zohran Mamdani.

This would only help Mamdani as it would take votes away from Eric Adams.
Bill Ackman & M @BillAckman I awoke this morning gravely concerned about New York City. I thought "What has NYC become that an avowed socialist who has supported defunding the police, whose solution to lowering food prices is city-owned supermarkets, who doesn't understand that freezing rents will only reduce the supply of housing, who has no experience managing an organization --let alone a city with a $100+ billion budget and a $2 trillion economy -- and who believes chants for 'Globalizing the Intifada' are acceptable, wins the Democratic Primary. After speaking to those who supported @ZohranKMamdani, I believe that he won the primary largely not due to his policies, but rather because he is a superb politician who ran a remarkable and inspiring campaign. He is intelligent and articulate. He is young and charming, and he successfully played down incriminating @X posts and statements from his past, pitching a joyful campaign of unity. And he won because the competition was very weak. His best competitor sat back and did not run a real campaign, relying on name recognition, early favorable polling and keeping a low profile to make it through. Not a strategy that I have ever seen work, but so be it. The Democratic primary voter is clearly tired of the Democratic politics of the past and its aging and over-the-hill leadership - Who isn't? [As a case in point, how embarrassing is it to watch aging Dems fall in line with their tweets of support for Mamdani, as they desperately try to defend their seats from the far left?] And therefore, without any real competition, Zohran and his attractive personal qualities and campaign skills magically make him the candidate of the future. The problem, however, is that his policies would be disastrous for NYC. Socialism has no place in the economic capital of our country. The ability for NYC to offer services for the poor and needy, let alone the average New Yorker, is entirely dependent on NYC being a business-friendly environment and a place where wealthy residents are willing to spend 183 days and assume the associated tax burden. Unfortunately, both have already started making arrangements for the exits. Mamdani is right that much about NYC is broken. The City has gotten much less safe while the cost of living here has become increasingly unattainable for many. We pay more for less. Unfortunately, his headline campaign promises of frozen rents and cheaper food from city-owned markets, among others, are certain to fail. A mayor who disrespects the NYPD and has called for their defunding will get less effective policing, and Bratton's 'broken window theory' will operate in reverse. A mayor who condones hate speech will incentivize more hate speech and violence. Words matter, and yes, they can inspire people to kill as we have recently tragically seen in our country and around the world. New York City under Mamdani is about to become much more dangerous and economically unviable. Unlike our Federal government, NYC cannot print money, and this Federal Government won't bail NYC out if things go bad. In fact, Mamdani would be a windfall for the Republican Party as NY becomes another failed major city run by Democrats alongside Seattle, Chicago, LA, and SF et al as Senator Fetterman so eloquently stated today, "I'd describe it as Christmas in July for the GOP." So why did I become optimistic later this morning? The answer is that NYC has woken up in the last 24 hours. The substantial majority of NYC residents understand that socialism is a failed system, that rent freezes will destroy our housing base and shrink the affordable housing supply while killing new construction, and that an anti-capitalist Mayor will destroy jobs and cause businesses and wealthy taxpayers that have enabled NYC to balance the budget to move elsewhere. If 100 or so of the highest taxpayers in my industry chose to spend 183 days elsewhere, it could reduce NY state and city tax revenues by ~$5-10 billion or more, and that's just my industry. Think Ken Griffin leaving Chicago for Miami on steroids. The good news is that there are other charismatic, intelligent, articulate, handsome, charming, young yet more experienced and, importantly, more centrist politicians who are New York residents eligible for office. There are also extremely talented members of the NY business community who could be superb mayors, Bloomberg being the reference standard from the past. And the setup is extremely attractive for a run for mayor. There are only 132 days until the election, which means the commitment of time to run is de minimis. This will be the most closely watched mayoral election in NYC in decades, perhaps ever, which, particularly in the social media and podcast era creates the opportunity for a new candidate to garner immediate name recognition, enormous media interest, and the visibility needed to get elected. Importantly, there are hundreds of million of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani that can be put together overnight (believe me, I am in the text strings and the WhatsApp groups) so that a great alternative candidate won't spend any time raising funds. So, if the right candidate would raise his or her hand tomorrow, the funds will pour in. I am sure that Mike Bloomberg will share his how-to-win-the-mayoralty IP and deliver his entire election apparatus and system to the aspiring candidate so that the candidate can focus all of his or her energy on the campaign.
June 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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astroneergame.systemera.net
Heard y'all were waiting for us. The Elevated Update is here!

🎚️ Stacked Platforms
🖨️ Print Filters
🔋 Large Battery
🪲 Assorted bugfixes
White text in the top right corner reads "Astroneer: Elevated Update." An overhead view of a small Astroneer base on Glacio, prominently featuring the new Stacked Platforms in the foreground. The Large Stacked Platform stretches high into the air to accommodate the Large Printer in action on the lower platform. An Astroneer decked out in the Diamond Set stands atop its highest point, waving to the camera. In the background, among other important pieces of the base, is an Extra Large Curved Platform housing two of the new Large Batteries, with an Oxygenator sandwiched between them. There is a white System Era logo in the bottom left corner of the image.
June 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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thinking about Etika today
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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went to joshua tree with my best bud and made this dum lil video
June 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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astroneergame.systemera.net
happy birthday to all gay people 🎉
June 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
staymighty.bsky.social
midwest pope so this house is now the vatican
May 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
staymighty.bsky.social
my body is 60% shrimp chips rn
May 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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the dogwoods are blooming
A photo of the coolest mini cooper parked beneath a beautiful dogwood tree in full bloom that has both pink and white blooms
April 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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starseekergame.systemera.net
amogus in starseeker confirmed @amongus.innersloth.com
a screenshot of an X post where the official Among Us account suggests we add their characters to starseeker with an unbelievably bad drawing of what appears to be an among us crewmate over a starseeker suit a marketing screenshot from the starseeker space station that includes several expertly drawn in Among Us crewmates interacting with the starseeker crew
April 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
staymighty.bsky.social
directed/produced this lil' video thing with help of from the amazing team at the studio. Still reeling that it was shown during the Switch 2 showcase (well kinda since 1M people missed it when it cut out live in NA 🙃) but grateful and excited nonetheless!!!
starseekergame.systemera.net STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions @starseekergame.systemera.net · Apr 2
Introducing STARSEEKER, a brand new game from the developers of ASTRONEER.

STARSEEKER is all about the joy of discovery and the camaraderie that emerges from an evolving, cooperative experience. We hope you'll enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it... sometime in 2026.
April 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Thoughts from my flight to GDC:

Gamedev people really do unironically wear fedoras still huh
March 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I forgot to say, I will be at GDC for the beginning of the week (Mon-Wed) if ya wanna hang! My schedule is already tight somehow 🙃 but yeah lets get snacks 😎
March 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
staymighty.bsky.social
Excited to read but also because I got to design the cover! Was a fun lil' project to help bring @victoriatran.bsky.social's energy to the visuals 😈🤪😇

GO PRE-ORDER
victoriatran.bsky.social Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social · Mar 5
✨ PRE-ORDER MY BOOK ✨

My book Mastering Community Management is finally ready!!!
➡️ Learn how to create long-term, sustainable, and intentional game spaces online
➡️ Pre to post-launch community guide
➡️ Case studies, engagement, and infrastructure tips

Shares appreciated. ❤️
www.victoriatran.com/book
Mastering Community Management Book — Victoria Tran
Learn how to do community management for video games right. This book covers the fundamental concepts of designing an online community from the core basics of what it is, and then the journey from pre...
www.victoriatran.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🌲🪓🎄🌄
December 3, 2024 at 10:40 PM
staymighty.bsky.social
Made some empanadas to spoil the @systemera.net team for the holiday pot luck

abuelita’s recipe
November 22, 2024 at 9:16 PM
staymighty.bsky.social
This is the energy I bring to the party
astroneergame.systemera.net Astroneer (NEW GAME: STARSEEKER) @astroneergame.systemera.net · Nov 13
One more sleep 'til Glitchwalkers. Here's our very serious development moodboard. Seeya tomorrow 🚀 🩷
A collage of several memes. From top left, clockwise. A cockatoo leaning into an open doorway, captioned, "Y'all mind if I scream." A placeholder image of the Glitchwalkers DLC notification in Astroneer. Instead of the Glitchwalkers art, there's a screenshot of a Bigfoot profile pic moving across a green landscape, labelled "S.E.S. Marc." A Heathcliff panel featuring an orange cat with a pink helmet and yellow flag, which have been edited to say "Astro." Two birds in a tree look down at him disapprovingly, saying, "That bothers me." The Glitchwalkers message of the day in Astroneer, using a placeholder image. It's a doodle of a cat as an Astroneer, and has "expansion" mispelt as "Ekspantion," with the letter 'O' being stylized as a cat paw. A red flag hanging on a wall with white text that reads, "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."
November 13, 2024 at 6:10 AM
staymighty.bsky.social
Born to sew things, forced to make content online
November 10, 2024 at 12:36 AM