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.
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A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
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It’s always good to remember when you read an article or see a post about how a brilliant CEO single-handedly turned an ailing company around and made it successful that it’s a lie and that’s literally never how or why that actually happened.
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It’s always good to remember when you read an article or see a post about how a brilliant CEO single-handedly turned an ailing company around and made it successful that it’s a lie and that’s literally never how or why that actually happened.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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this is so good even if getting me to hang out IRL is usually harder than standing in the corner of a circular room
need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night
February 15, 2026 at 6:58 PM
this is so good even if getting me to hang out IRL is usually harder than standing in the corner of a circular room
Zelda (our Corgi pup) got into some trash this morning and later on, regurgitate the lot of it. Based on the amount she expelled, I have to assume that Corgis are related to Flerken.
a cat sits on a desk in front of a name plate that says n. fury
ALT: a cat sits on a desk in front of a name plate that says n. fury
media.tenor.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Zelda (our Corgi pup) got into some trash this morning and later on, regurgitate the lot of it. Based on the amount she expelled, I have to assume that Corgis are related to Flerken.
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All it takes is one financial tragedy. Without the social safety net, you just fall right through. I've see physical and mental breakdowns that took people out of work for two years. You go from middle class illusions of stability to desperate poverty shockingly fast in this country.
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
All it takes is one financial tragedy. Without the social safety net, you just fall right through. I've see physical and mental breakdowns that took people out of work for two years. You go from middle class illusions of stability to desperate poverty shockingly fast in this country.
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Oh this is painfully real
the AuDHD urge to put additional context in parentheses in texts so others know there’s more than one thought happening at the same time
February 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Oh this is painfully real
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
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This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
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Not the uniform(s) of the 70s/80s, but the overarching distrust, the creations of symbols of it, the alternate modes of all coms. And the general fuck offness.
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Not the uniform(s) of the 70s/80s, but the overarching distrust, the creations of symbols of it, the alternate modes of all coms. And the general fuck offness.
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The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
i think what a lot of people never seem to realize is that a lot of people's vision of an "epic dream game" isn't actually very deep and comes down to scale and/or having a lot of features, whereas by embracing limitations you can be pushed in a far more radical direction.
rpgmaker definitely isn't the right tool for everyone, but I think using opinionated pre-baked tools to make some games would be very instructive to a lot of folks setting out to make their epic custom dream game. they're a much lower-stakes way to learn important lessons like "how to tell a story"
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
This is a real man.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 11:31 PM
This is a real man.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Cocaine is better
With a small bit of poo
Violets are blue
Cocaine is better
With a small bit of poo
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Cocaine is better
With a small bit of poo
Violets are blue
Cocaine is better
With a small bit of poo
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We all need to switch back to landlines like The Matrix so the machines can't track us.
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:22 AM
We all need to switch back to landlines like The Matrix so the machines can't track us.
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Drop in and see what UVW is up to; learn about unions and labor! We're live at twitch.tv/uvw_cwa!
UVW_CWA - Twitch
United Videogame Workers, the first industry-wide direct-join union for NA video game workers! We are Local 9433 of Communication Workers of America, and we're here to answer YOUR questions about unio...
twitch.tv
February 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Drop in and see what UVW is up to; learn about unions and labor! We're live at twitch.tv/uvw_cwa!
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They should have sent a poet.
I don't want to own Dragon Age: Origins truck. Dragon Age: Origins truck should roam free across Central Europe.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.
February 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
They should have sent a poet.
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INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
February 13, 2026 at 11:17 PM
INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
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If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me.
I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels.
Please learn, prepare, and get ready.
I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels.
Please learn, prepare, and get ready.
The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there.
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me.
I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels.
Please learn, prepare, and get ready.
I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels.
Please learn, prepare, and get ready.
Every game worker, but especially those working remotely should be paying attention to and supporting this strike.
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Every game worker, but especially those working remotely should be paying attention to and supporting this strike.
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At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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Fun news! We're looking for a narrative designer to join our team. Help us work on Star Wars Jedi! ✨ jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...
Narrative Designer (Star Wars Jedi)
jobs.ea.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Fun news! We're looking for a narrative designer to join our team. Help us work on Star Wars Jedi! ✨ jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...
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A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick