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Alex Bertram-Powell

@alexbpart.bsky.social

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Videogames Artperson. Roman Sands RE:Build, Sonalethe, Dreamsettler. Current doings: @dunderbeckgame.com character art🌭🦄 Organ in ANTA, technical drawings for Forgotten Futures by Gotye. He/Him http://AlexBPart.com

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hey newcomers :) I'm Alex, a videogames artist from Bristol, based in Hamburg, specialising in 3D environment work and 2D illustration.

Current and recent work includes Roman Sands RE:Build and Dreamsettler.

I also play synths in my band ANTA.

I'm always up for talking to new folks!

A 3D scene of a Luthier's workshop, modelled and rendered in Blender. There are lots of half built instruments and both natural and electric light.

A 3D model of a shop with a wooden balcony extrusion. There are lots of goods for sale on the ground in front.

Screenshot of the bar scene in Roman Sands RE:Build. A circular art deco-style bar and various lanterns and chairs are bathed in purple light. Scene designed and directed by @spacecatt.bsky.social

A render of a Bandstand environment, modelled and rendered in Blender. It has an oxidized copper roof and is surrounded by a redbrick wall, with yellow birch trees surrounding.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1h

Generally pride myself on being able to distinguish the urgency of my child's cries by their tone but lately his "I'm in genuine pain" cry is more or less indistinct from his "the bath mat has proven to be ineffective as a hat" cry

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1h

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · Nov 5

Is he called Nate538 because he's both 5 and 38

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 2h

Me: ok take your spoon and put a dollop of yoghurt on your plate

Toddler: papa have dollop?

Me: I might do, yeah

Toddler: papa like dollop

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · Aug 15

AI guys: the clue box will render skill obsolete

Clue box: the phrase "apples and oranges" refers to Colonel Apples, inventor of the orange

AI guys: of course it did that, tools are nothing without skill

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 15h

Me dressed up in my nice clothes cleaning toddler vomit off the pavement at 7pm on a Saturday.

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 20h

In Germany, though

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 20h

Nope, I've been in Germany this whole time

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21h

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 21h

Hooray never having to play Flea Dodge again

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 21h

Hooray never having to play Flea Dodge again

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 23h

Attrition-Based Ball

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 23h

Just say he's 30. Say he has the heart and lungs and dick and balls of a 30 year old. Say he looks 30. Say he looks 25. Say he's 25. You will impress the exact same people just as much, or possibly more

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

When capital connects a hose from its ass to its mouth and everyone claps, you have a crash on the way. I don't even know how to buy stocks but this isn't hard

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

With respect to bankers and financial analysts the rest of us clocked a crash was coming when literally every institution on earth joined in with the same act of obvious securities fraud at the exact same time

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

It's somewhat funny, when you can make up any number you want, to choose the median heart attack age

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

Sure we fucked up human driving since forever and have no will to do better. But I bet we're going to nail a completely new kind of transit using the same infrastructure and machinery

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

@olivia.science your last repost (Brandolini's law) is ChatGPT generated - figured that isn't intentional on your part

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

Me when jai alai

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

baseballs good but I like jai alai more

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tttlllrrr @tttlllrrr.bsky.social · 12d

Would you like me to work on your project? I've got a bit less paid work than expected lined up for October & the rest of 2025. Drop me a line if you're interested!

- Music composition / production / mixing
- Sound Effects / Foley for games or video
- UE5 Metasounds
- Cover Art

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 1d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

If I may reiterate [a minimally distinct copy of me erupts from my carcass] as "I" was saying,

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

*liking some posts on my timeline*

Ah that's enough, I don't want to be a nuisance

*these are all by different people, only you can see that you're liking many posts*

Ah yeah. Still, though

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

(no reposts, if you would)

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 1d

So this is part check-in and part affirmation that grief really, actually, does *end* end.

I'm worried that what I'm describing here isn't super helpful to others, but if you're going through it, I've been there and I always have time to talk to you about what you're experiencing now.

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