Tony Synersteel
@synersteelcco.bsky.social
Just got back from the cemetery
Plenty room for hoes
Plenty room for hoes
Pinned
Steam Winter Sale is in 2 days, and Valley of Shadow is gonna be 25% off!
Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
#puzzlegame #indiegame #gaming
Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
#puzzlegame #indiegame #gaming
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Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Doing non-video game stuff is important for gamedevs, so our heads don't implode.
-Go for a hike
-Grow some plants
-Watch a documentary
-Read some books
-Go to a gig
-Do some DIY
-Bake bread
-Talk shit with friends*
*The best
-Go for a hike
-Grow some plants
-Watch a documentary
-Read some books
-Go to a gig
-Do some DIY
-Bake bread
-Talk shit with friends*
*The best
August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Doing non-video game stuff is important for gamedevs, so our heads don't implode.
-Go for a hike
-Grow some plants
-Watch a documentary
-Read some books
-Go to a gig
-Do some DIY
-Bake bread
-Talk shit with friends*
*The best
-Go for a hike
-Grow some plants
-Watch a documentary
-Read some books
-Go to a gig
-Do some DIY
-Bake bread
-Talk shit with friends*
*The best
Maybe learn what they mean so you don't sound like an absolute tool.
This is Fox News pre-2005 complaining about anti-creationist/pro-evolution responses to the Christian zealots in public schools.
The world progresses. Progress with it, loser.
This is Fox News pre-2005 complaining about anti-creationist/pro-evolution responses to the Christian zealots in public schools.
The world progresses. Progress with it, loser.
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Maybe learn what they mean so you don't sound like an absolute tool.
This is Fox News pre-2005 complaining about anti-creationist/pro-evolution responses to the Christian zealots in public schools.
The world progresses. Progress with it, loser.
This is Fox News pre-2005 complaining about anti-creationist/pro-evolution responses to the Christian zealots in public schools.
The world progresses. Progress with it, loser.
We shouldn't be connected to the internet for more than an hour a day. It should be a network of hyper-esoteric knowledge and social circles, and facilitate our meeting others and joining events in real-life.
Not glued to scrolling-apps 24 hours every day.
Not glued to scrolling-apps 24 hours every day.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
August 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We shouldn't be connected to the internet for more than an hour a day. It should be a network of hyper-esoteric knowledge and social circles, and facilitate our meeting others and joining events in real-life.
Not glued to scrolling-apps 24 hours every day.
Not glued to scrolling-apps 24 hours every day.
Being raised Catholic (and becoming an apostate) helped me circumvent thus error. Power transcends capital both spatially and temporally. Power is thousands of years old. It invented enslavement. It invented feudalism. It invented capitalism. It moves through and reinvents itself.
One of the tenets of my own personal socialism is that capital will always work in its own interests, and seeing that assumption fail in such a spectacularly illogical direction is breaking my brain in a way I just did not anticipate. I simply don't know how to adjust my priors for this.
this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.
we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.
we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.
August 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Being raised Catholic (and becoming an apostate) helped me circumvent thus error. Power transcends capital both spatially and temporally. Power is thousands of years old. It invented enslavement. It invented feudalism. It invented capitalism. It moves through and reinvents itself.
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Resist
Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self
Resist by maintaining Love of the Self
Resist by fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure
Resist with acts of Radical Kindness
Focus on the Path to Better Times
Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self
Resist by maintaining Love of the Self
Resist by fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure
Resist with acts of Radical Kindness
Focus on the Path to Better Times
November 7, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Resist
Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self
Resist by maintaining Love of the Self
Resist by fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure
Resist with acts of Radical Kindness
Focus on the Path to Better Times
Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self
Resist by maintaining Love of the Self
Resist by fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure
Resist with acts of Radical Kindness
Focus on the Path to Better Times
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In case you're missed the story:
Workers at the TCGPlayer Syracuse Authentication Center unionized and in response eBay/TCGPlayer fired all the staff
They're calling for people to boycott TCGPlayer and eBay! Don't cross the picket line!!!
Workers at the TCGPlayer Syracuse Authentication Center unionized and in response eBay/TCGPlayer fired all the staff
They're calling for people to boycott TCGPlayer and eBay! Don't cross the picket line!!!
May 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In case you're missed the story:
Workers at the TCGPlayer Syracuse Authentication Center unionized and in response eBay/TCGPlayer fired all the staff
They're calling for people to boycott TCGPlayer and eBay! Don't cross the picket line!!!
Workers at the TCGPlayer Syracuse Authentication Center unionized and in response eBay/TCGPlayer fired all the staff
They're calling for people to boycott TCGPlayer and eBay! Don't cross the picket line!!!
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It took my entire life to find myself here. Through the path of Innocence to the Garden of Experience.
Follow my journey.
store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
Follow my journey.
store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
May 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It took my entire life to find myself here. Through the path of Innocence to the Garden of Experience.
Follow my journey.
store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
Follow my journey.
store.steampowered.com/app/1414030/...
Remmick's money was likely Celtic coinage from 2nd century BC, evolved from earlier Macedonian/Greek drachmae and used in the empire of Alexander the Great.
Remmick is an ancient being. Alive during the early land Enclosures of the Middle Ages at least.
#sinners
Remmick is an ancient being. Alive during the early land Enclosures of the Middle Ages at least.
#sinners
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Remmick's money was likely Celtic coinage from 2nd century BC, evolved from earlier Macedonian/Greek drachmae and used in the empire of Alexander the Great.
Remmick is an ancient being. Alive during the early land Enclosures of the Middle Ages at least.
#sinners
Remmick is an ancient being. Alive during the early land Enclosures of the Middle Ages at least.
#sinners
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"the roman empire guys, it was like, the coolest, you know? they were so based" *goes on to describe how they changed 25 emperors in one weekend and spent the next 150 years in permanent civil war*
May 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"the roman empire guys, it was like, the coolest, you know? they were so based" *goes on to describe how they changed 25 emperors in one weekend and spent the next 150 years in permanent civil war*
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It's been nearly 10 years and it still feels like yesterday afternoon. Like I'm hurriedly packing my bags to drive across the state to get to the hospital in time.
Every year the month of May feels the same.
Every year the month of May feels the same.
April 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been nearly 10 years and it still feels like yesterday afternoon. Like I'm hurriedly packing my bags to drive across the state to get to the hospital in time.
Every year the month of May feels the same.
Every year the month of May feels the same.
Our hegemonic empire based on limitless global expansion has come to an end.
Our myth has ended. All future is devoured. All that is left for our mythos to promise is magic.
Our myth has ended. All future is devoured. All that is left for our mythos to promise is magic.
April 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Our hegemonic empire based on limitless global expansion has come to an end.
Our myth has ended. All future is devoured. All that is left for our mythos to promise is magic.
Our myth has ended. All future is devoured. All that is left for our mythos to promise is magic.
It kind-of starts here:
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-wo...
But like everything in the universe, it's a paradigm shift in a much longer historical arc.
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-wo...
But like everything in the universe, it's a paradigm shift in a much longer historical arc.
April 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It kind-of starts here:
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-wo...
But like everything in the universe, it's a paradigm shift in a much longer historical arc.
courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-wo...
But like everything in the universe, it's a paradigm shift in a much longer historical arc.
Time to Nationalize Meta.
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Time to Nationalize Meta.
Stop using Stock Market signals as evidence of *anything*. For example "Tesla stocks are PLUMMETING! People are DONE with Elon!"
If you say this, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Traders buy the dip. You're doing Market PR for the Market itself.
If you say this, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Traders buy the dip. You're doing Market PR for the Market itself.
March 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Stop using Stock Market signals as evidence of *anything*. For example "Tesla stocks are PLUMMETING! People are DONE with Elon!"
If you say this, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Traders buy the dip. You're doing Market PR for the Market itself.
If you say this, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Traders buy the dip. You're doing Market PR for the Market itself.
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no amount of success, merit, profitability, or talent will spare you.
you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.
you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.
February 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
no amount of success, merit, profitability, or talent will spare you.
you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.
you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.
The problem is Capitalism and the movements of Capital.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The problem is Capitalism and the movements of Capital.
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Here’s a WIP video of my latest in-engine design: an ancient Greek pool inspired by one of my favorite artists, César Manrique. When I visited Lanzarote last year, his work amazed me so much that I wanted to honor him by designing something in his style. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #projectheliada
February 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Here’s a WIP video of my latest in-engine design: an ancient Greek pool inspired by one of my favorite artists, César Manrique. When I visited Lanzarote last year, his work amazed me so much that I wanted to honor him by designing something in his style. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #projectheliada
Just as probably the most important point to make about online activism (particularly after the crackdown post-OWS in 2011): the search engines we currently use and our methods of information dissemination were partially constructed for intelligence gathering:
qz.com/1145669/goog...
qz.com/1145669/goog...
January 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just as probably the most important point to make about online activism (particularly after the crackdown post-OWS in 2011): the search engines we currently use and our methods of information dissemination were partially constructed for intelligence gathering:
qz.com/1145669/goog...
qz.com/1145669/goog...
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Game room setup continues, I can now do stupid shit like this...
Old Vs New
Old Vs New
January 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Game room setup continues, I can now do stupid shit like this...
Old Vs New
Old Vs New
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Hey #indiedev and #gamedev pals, just a reminder that I recently released a Sample CD containing 25 tracks inspired by iconic save room music from the survival horror genre. Professionally produced, mixed, and mastered. Check it out - theturtlebox.itch.io/survive-roya...
Survive - Royalty Free Save Room Collection by TurtleBox
theturtlebox.itch.io
January 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hey #indiedev and #gamedev pals, just a reminder that I recently released a Sample CD containing 25 tracks inspired by iconic save room music from the survival horror genre. Professionally produced, mixed, and mastered. Check it out - theturtlebox.itch.io/survive-roya...
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Alright, you convinced me!
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic charm of "El Pueblito", a sandbox adventure game that unfolds in the rural landscapes of 90s Michoacán, México.
You control a 10 year-old boy who is visiting family while his parents are taking a business trip to Japan.
#GameDev
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic charm of "El Pueblito", a sandbox adventure game that unfolds in the rural landscapes of 90s Michoacán, México.
You control a 10 year-old boy who is visiting family while his parents are taking a business trip to Japan.
#GameDev
January 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Alright, you convinced me!
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic charm of "El Pueblito", a sandbox adventure game that unfolds in the rural landscapes of 90s Michoacán, México.
You control a 10 year-old boy who is visiting family while his parents are taking a business trip to Japan.
#GameDev
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic charm of "El Pueblito", a sandbox adventure game that unfolds in the rural landscapes of 90s Michoacán, México.
You control a 10 year-old boy who is visiting family while his parents are taking a business trip to Japan.
#GameDev
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My best advice for game designers is to be interested in and curious about lots of things besides games, and to do lots of things besides play games. It makes you a richer person and a better artist.
This is also true of tabletop games.
constant advice I give to folks in this space is to consume more than just games / games media.
read books. watch/read about sports. listen to unfamiliar music. see a movie that isn't an established IP.
if your world only holds games, that's the only context you'll be able to see them in.
read books. watch/read about sports. listen to unfamiliar music. see a movie that isn't an established IP.
if your world only holds games, that's the only context you'll be able to see them in.
January 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My best advice for game designers is to be interested in and curious about lots of things besides games, and to do lots of things besides play games. It makes you a richer person and a better artist.