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Brian A

@bjaudette.bsky.social

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Game designer. Writer. Music geek. Punk. Take it or leave it ... do both if you choose. My posts and reposts represent my own thoughts and opinions and no one else's.

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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.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3h

Re: Portland. I lived there is ‘85-‘86. As anybody from that time can tell you there was a lot more trouble to get into around town and I was often part of the trouble. So, when my band played Pioneer Courthouse a couple years back, after the show I walked EVERYWHERE downtown.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 11h

As a game designer, I can confirm that no one _ever_ looks up.

Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 12h

Damn. With the Cubs out, that's my two teams, so ... go Blue Jays! Because a Canadian World Series win is sure to piss off Trump.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 19h

“Comparative Calm or ‘Hellscape’? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator”

No, it fucking doesn’t! It literally does not! You can look and see which of those narratives more closely approaches the truth. You can collect facts and build a narrative of your own that reflects reality!

Photo of the Mew York Times national edition for October 11, 2025. Headline: “Comparative Calm or ‘Hellscape’? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator.” Subhead: “Trump and Allies Amplify Influencers Eager to Conform Their Views on City.” Accompanied by a tight-angle photo looking up at Kristi Noem and ICE agents on a roof that shows nothing of the city around them.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

You can only have so many tech billionaire supervillains before someone dresses up as their favourite animal to conceal their identity as they try to help people.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 1d

We had found a bug where (when telling a vehicle to "teleport" on a path) they didn't actually disappear from one location and reappear in another, but instead just crossed the distance as fast as they could, in a straight line, regardless of obstacles. We ended up finding a different solution.

Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 1d

At this point in development the player was always at the head of the convoy so I decided to turn my camera around after loading a checkpoint to see if I noticed anything odd. That's when I saw it: an entire column of tanks flying at ludicrous speed up the road at me.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 1d

Originally this meant spawning the tanks in at the beginning of the level each time and telling them to "teleport" to the correct location along the path. We'd keep getting bugs though where tanks would show up damaged, on fire, even upside down! It didn't make sense.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 1d

As promised: in the tank mission for the single player campaign, we had to make sure the convoy stayed with the player as they progressed, but also that they would be in position if you reloaded a checkpoint.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

I'll have to check the highlights. I missed it because the Cubs game started and with the Red Sox out, we're fully a Cubs house at the moment.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

And this is me "standing on the edge of the Hoover Dam" listening to "Hoover Dam" by Sugar ... way back before I turned gray.

Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

While I've seen Bob play Copper Blue live before it _is_ a perfect album and any chance to hear it live again is welcome.
www.brooklynvegan.com/is-bob-mould...

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

John Carpenter's Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 2d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Bram Stoker's Dracula

Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 2d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter’s Cars

Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

You just had to invoke the Dodgers didn't you? Haven't they been in enough NLCS' this century already?

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 2d

Dear every fucking reporter

Trump is not cracking down on the left

Trump is making up lies to attack America

We don't need to hear from 10 citizens who have never been to Portland, give their opinion on the state of Portland - we need objective truth about what is happening you spineless fucks

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

If you only read one book this year about alien invasion and life or death academic research, make it this one!

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 2d

This is nice. Tell your friends and remind your enemies.

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Brian A @bjaudette.bsky.social · 2d

"Being better" doesn't require concession and capitulation ... doesn't require passivity and compliance ... doesn't preclude active resistance.