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Dan Jordan

@danjordan.bsky.social

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Engineer · Game dev · Musician · Writer · Wiseass · Formerly at Red 5 Studios and Disruptor Beam · Creator of Urban Flight, a custom campaign for L4D2 that's so old that it's actually embarrassing that I put it in my bio.

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · Nov 15

Work dumber not harder

A 3D environment featuring a wolf head mounted for display above a fireplace.

Surprise! I didn't bother making a separate asset for just the head. The rest of the wolf's body is actually squished up real good like an accordion and hidden inside the fireplace wall.

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 11h

I bet getting launched like that feels real good

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 16h

And there's some men out there who are like "I could take one"

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 14h

this is a weird lookin' game of golf

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 14h

I personally believe everyone involved in this should be ritualistically sacrificed

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 14h

who has two thumbs and recorded an entire song's worth of vocals with a noisy mic?

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 14h

if you burn a flag, riots happen
everyone knows this

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 21h

what towering peaks

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 21h

no it's definitely all been a mistake

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 1d

the superbowl? you mean Chicken Wing Time?

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 1d

the tommy gun is objectively the coolest gun

Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Take a sick day

Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 2d

If You Were Ford CEO For One Day, What Would You Do?

What would you do if you were Ford's chief executive for a day?

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Dan Jordan @danjordan.bsky.social · 1d

they just don't make movies about boss babies anymore

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