🧢 blake
@blakedove.bsky.social
heads up: socials aren't really where i'm spending personal energy; there's too much shit to do - i'll get back to my digital answering machines when convenient
- games mkt and comms professional
- adhd meatsuit pilot
- built like a brick shithouse
- games mkt and comms professional
- adhd meatsuit pilot
- built like a brick shithouse
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🧢 blake
@blakedove.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I'm Blake! 👋
- posting about 🏋️🎮🎥🛻 🤠
- marketing, comms, and other stuff @ironwood.bsky.social
- 🎙️podcast host & guest (dm me!)
- 📸 IG: oddhound
- professional creative available for hire
Currently working on pacificdrivegame.com!
- posting about 🏋️🎮🎥🛻 🤠
- marketing, comms, and other stuff @ironwood.bsky.social
- 🎙️podcast host & guest (dm me!)
- 📸 IG: oddhound
- professional creative available for hire
Currently working on pacificdrivegame.com!
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A closer look at the Redline Rift shirt, now available for preorder as part of our official Pacific Drive collection.
www.fangamer.com/collections/...
www.fangamer.com/collections/...
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A closer look at the Redline Rift shirt, now available for preorder as part of our official Pacific Drive collection.
www.fangamer.com/collections/...
www.fangamer.com/collections/...
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Important Friendly Dumpster plush features: 1. Two moving lids; 2. magnetic heart and tire accessories; 3. discoloration carefully applied to every surface, including the bottom.
Part of our new Pacific Drive collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
Part of our new Pacific Drive collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Important Friendly Dumpster plush features: 1. Two moving lids; 2. magnetic heart and tire accessories; 3. discoloration carefully applied to every surface, including the bottom.
Part of our new Pacific Drive collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
Part of our new Pacific Drive collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
quarterly check in to say, whew - still busy
October 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
quarterly check in to say, whew - still busy
Staying 'disconnected' has made me more creative, more willing to make stuff, and i find the follow through faster so if y'all need me leave a message and I'll get back to you when I can 🤠
June 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Staying 'disconnected' has made me more creative, more willing to make stuff, and i find the follow through faster so if y'all need me leave a message and I'll get back to you when I can 🤠
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
where are all these top down twin stick shooter/fighters coming from I've seen like 20 in the last two days
June 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
where are all these top down twin stick shooter/fighters coming from I've seen like 20 in the last two days
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It just felt totally insensitive and tone deaf to the massive amount of layoffs lately.
It’s 100% going to be the new exec talking point of “well we don’t need to hire more people if X game only had 20 people!”
I have friends who have been job hunting for over a year now. It’s brutal out there.
It’s 100% going to be the new exec talking point of “well we don’t need to hire more people if X game only had 20 people!”
I have friends who have been job hunting for over a year now. It’s brutal out there.
This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh?
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
June 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It just felt totally insensitive and tone deaf to the massive amount of layoffs lately.
It’s 100% going to be the new exec talking point of “well we don’t need to hire more people if X game only had 20 people!”
I have friends who have been job hunting for over a year now. It’s brutal out there.
It’s 100% going to be the new exec talking point of “well we don’t need to hire more people if X game only had 20 people!”
I have friends who have been job hunting for over a year now. It’s brutal out there.
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folks are being weird as hell about team size! interrogate that!
Lean isn't bad, but it's not inherently good. The conversation around team size is getting weird and the poster boy for this weekend is suddenly a huge part of the problem.
vgbees.com/if-you-dont-...
vgbees.com/if-you-dont-...
If You Don't Count Everyone Else, All Devs Are Solo Devs - VGBees
Recently the games industry has started talking more openly about the unsustainable nature of corporate AAA development structures. That conversation, in one way or another,...
vgbees.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
folks are being weird as hell about team size! interrogate that!
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hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha
is it a rule that the tuesday after memorial day has to be insane or what
May 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
is it a rule that the tuesday after memorial day has to be insane or what
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extra funny because I almost spent money on the virtual race car setup instead of the real life project sitting in my garage and went waitaminute.jpg
once I unpack from this move it's over for everybody (gonna be a garage gremlin)
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
extra funny because I almost spent money on the virtual race car setup instead of the real life project sitting in my garage and went waitaminute.jpg
once I unpack from this move it's over for everybody (gonna be a garage gremlin)
May 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
once I unpack from this move it's over for everybody (gonna be a garage gremlin)
moving sucks but it sucks less when it's across the street and into a mirror version of the same insanely good townhouse (except slightly bigger and better)
May 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
moving sucks but it sucks less when it's across the street and into a mirror version of the same insanely good townhouse (except slightly bigger and better)
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
www.bbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
what if this is what papa john was talking about
May 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
what if this is what papa john was talking about
no thoughts just build computer
May 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
no thoughts just build computer
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video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group
so much of Seattle is performative
April 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
so much of Seattle is performative
when's the next time jd vance and elon can have playdate just curious
April 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
when's the next time jd vance and elon can have playdate just curious
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Using generative AI is a quick way to tell everyone:
- You don't want to pay the right skilled people
- You lack appreciation for creativity
- You think your consumers are stupid
- You don't want to pay the right skilled people
- You lack appreciation for creativity
- You think your consumers are stupid
April 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Using generative AI is a quick way to tell everyone:
- You don't want to pay the right skilled people
- You lack appreciation for creativity
- You think your consumers are stupid
- You don't want to pay the right skilled people
- You lack appreciation for creativity
- You think your consumers are stupid
can someone go to chicken express in my memory I miss southern fast food so much
April 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
can someone go to chicken express in my memory I miss southern fast food so much
saw Sinners last night and I stand on the fact that Ryan Coogler cannot miss
April 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
saw Sinners last night and I stand on the fact that Ryan Coogler cannot miss