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Alex Bertram-Powell

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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 · 22m

Attrition-Based Ball

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

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 · 1h

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

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

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 · 1h

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

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

@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 · 4h

Me when jai alai

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 4h

baseballs good but I like jai alai more

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tttlllrrr @tttlllrrr.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 18h

“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 · 21h

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 · 15h

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

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

*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 · 16h

(no reposts, if you would)

Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 16h

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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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 16h

Which is to say it's just Daily Life, and the happiness is palpable and realistic. And that's an odd stage of the old grief journey, realising you really aren't dragging it around anymore. You're in Normal, which is not always an appreciative state, but you thought you'd never see it again.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 16h

Because right now I'm stressed and tired in really normal ways. Toddler has just worked out he can scream at a really grating pitch, but neither of us is very rested. I'm grounded enough that I don't need to weigh extremes to cope. Not living balanced between almighty emotional stakes anymore.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 16h

I think at this stage I would want to just affirm that grief does have an end and there's a life beyond it. And I don't mean the post-grief gratitude for the gift of each day, I mean the post-that banality where actually you're fine enough to indulge in a little standard irritable ungratefulness.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 16h

It's baby loss awareness week and mental health day and I guess talking would be appropriate. We went through an unusual and unexpected managed MC a couple of years before Toddler came along and to say it devastated us would be putting it mildly. I genuinely felt like the sadness would never leave.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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

❤️❤️❤️

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

(I'm just thinking my thoughts here, my current gig is fantastic)

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

"Ideas guy" but actually good at things

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

I feel like I'm a medium decent writer but a great worldbuilder. Really good at coming up with The Situation. I can do also art and I'm nice. I'm sure there's a niche role on a cool small team there somehow

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

Coin Your Own Acronym

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 19h

The Mobile Olympics