Brian A
@bjaudette.bsky.social
Game designer. Writer. Music geek. Punk. He/Him.
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Brian A
@bjaudette.bsky.social
· Dec 5
As promised, what follows is an unofficial behind the scenes/director’s commentary thread for the “Isle of the Gods” mission in Dragon Age: The Veilguard for #dragonageday Some #veilguardspoilers will follow, so Beware.
Post a banger that is not in English.
youtu.be/ZHqVkVzyQnA?...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Post a banger that is not in English.
youtu.be/ZHqVkVzyQnA?...
youtu.be/ZHqVkVzyQnA?...
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One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
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In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
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A libertarian city on the moon for elite perverts? Wait, wait, wait! I've played Bioshock. I know how this ends.
Reality: Mars sucks. No one can live there.
Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either.
More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.
Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either.
More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.
February 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
A libertarian city on the moon for elite perverts? Wait, wait, wait! I've played Bioshock. I know how this ends.
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Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.
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This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
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IMO a big thing to worry about is Trumpy lone-wolves "working towards the Führer".
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
1) I agree that Trump's people aren't capable or clever enough to "steal the midterms".
2) I think they are brazen and witless enough to TRY to do it in an utterly hamfisted way that ends in real violence.
2) I think they are brazen and witless enough to TRY to do it in an utterly hamfisted way that ends in real violence.
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
IMO a big thing to worry about is Trumpy lone-wolves "working towards the Führer".
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).
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game devs: We published a game
studios: :)
game devs: But it hasn't made a billion dollars in less than a month
studios: >:(
studios: :)
game devs: But it hasn't made a billion dollars in less than a month
studios: >:(
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
game devs: We published a game
studios: :)
game devs: But it hasn't made a billion dollars in less than a month
studios: >:(
studios: :)
game devs: But it hasn't made a billion dollars in less than a month
studios: >:(
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The far-right hates liberalism in part because liberalism empowered women socially, politically, and economically, and so made them less dependent on settling for a mediocre man to provide for them. So they want to destroy liberalism to return women to a state of powerlessness and dependence.
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
The far-right hates liberalism in part because liberalism empowered women socially, politically, and economically, and so made them less dependent on settling for a mediocre man to provide for them. So they want to destroy liberalism to return women to a state of powerlessness and dependence.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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If only there was an allegory for how we shouldn't abuse technology to make things ill-advisedly, like bringing back things from the past, but not quite correctly.
Yeah I’m afraid I’m gonna have to veto that Xfinity Jurassic Park ad.
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
If only there was an allegory for how we shouldn't abuse technology to make things ill-advisedly, like bringing back things from the past, but not quite correctly.
Ring! We'll help you find your lost dog the same way Batman finds the Joker at the end of The Dark Knight, except we won't dismantle the network afterwards. We'll probably just use it to help fascists.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Ring! We'll help you find your lost dog the same way Batman finds the Joker at the end of The Dark Knight, except we won't dismantle the network afterwards. We'll probably just use it to help fascists.
There's a US Olympic figure skater who's been nicknamed "Quad God" for being able to land a quad axel, but the filthy-minded Mass Effect fan that I am can only think of this as the title of some Krogan porn.
February 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
There's a US Olympic figure skater who's been nicknamed "Quad God" for being able to land a quad axel, but the filthy-minded Mass Effect fan that I am can only think of this as the title of some Krogan porn.
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Primary every Democrat who won’t fight to abolish ICE.
Every one.
Every one.
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Primary every Democrat who won’t fight to abolish ICE.
Every one.
Every one.
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Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry.
The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?
The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?
Angela, the pussy hats weren't very effective. Knitting is cool, especially if you put resistance messages in it, but it's not resistance. It's performative. It's only actually effective if you're a spy and putting messages in or something. Otherwise it's a hobby, and the pussy hats were just silly.
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry.
The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?
The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
nbcnews.to
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso, according to the local Democratic member of Congress.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
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1,000 reskeets and it's totally made up, that's a photo from Los Angeles, stop sharing this disinfo-spreader
February 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
1,000 reskeets and it's totally made up, that's a photo from Los Angeles, stop sharing this disinfo-spreader
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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🖤🙏🖤
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🖤🙏🖤
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LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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RIP to one of the greatest Fred Smiths (and all the ones I know are pretty great)
Television - See No Evil
Television - See No Evil
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February 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM
RIP to one of the greatest Fred Smiths (and all the ones I know are pretty great)