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Ian Maclure

@fearian.bsky.social

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🎇 Freelance VFX artist: Availability from Oct ☁️ Recently shipped LOST SKIES ☁️ ☄️ Indie developing something cool under www.meteorspark.games moniker soon 👀

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 2d

It's that or a £3 bottle with a flimsy lid NOTHING IN BETWEEN

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 2d

Subscription model for sure. I know a lot of people have been switching lately, and I bet they feel confident enough to start going for Adobe's business model.

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 2d

USB cables obviously another, you just have to rely on buying Anker or Ugreen forever. But that's technology! Plastic bottles are ubiquitous! It shouldn't be hard to find an inexpensive one that survives a year of dishwasher use.

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 2d

My least favourite thing to purchase now is something that I know by all rights should be cheap, but I want one that's not shit, or overpriced dropshipper crap.

Example: A simple protein shaker bottle that won't deteriorate in the dishwasher. The idea of even looking on amazon for one exhausts me.

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 2d

I think I can be generous here and read it as 'People like the world and writing of Portal, and Valve could make a successful puzzle game ala portal without the portal mechanic specifically.'
I certainly wouldn't say you can make Portal *without* a hook! Thats just some YT clickbait.

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 3d

*are _so_ visible

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that the daily spikes are visible on Balatro's graph gives an indication of how crazy well it has done lol.

That's a phenomenon usually seen on AAA releases and live service games.

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 7d

And now I think I'm going to mentally find and replace "AI" with "activated charcoal" on product listings.

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 7d

I was trying to explain to a non-techy person why AI is in the marketing of every product.
"you know how for a while every health or beauty product contained 'Activated Charcoal'?..."

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 7d

This was the point where I thought I might not have the energy for silksong, but the amount that the game opens up after this boss was a breath of fresh air.

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 8d

How do you bake your curl noise textures? Substance?

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 8d

Studies show stormtroopers presence may deter crime! Maybe using the military on its civilian population is good, actually?
Unrelated news, emperor palpatine enters his 20th year in office today-

Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 10d

My daughter has brought 'why' to Astrobot.
As in: "Why is there lava? Why is that an octopus? Why is it spikes there? Why is that rolling?" Etc.
To which I can only ever reply "Because it makes the game hard/fun" - and suddenly I'm doing the Difficulty In Games discourse with a 3yr old.

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 10d

This is the only fair answer to someone making a post like that.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 11d

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Watt 🔜 AX C5 @onemegawatt.bsky.social · 11d

My finished FFTactics piece, just in time for the The Ivalice Chronicle release. Excited to pour another 100 hours into this masterpiece all over again!!

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Ian Maclure @fearian.bsky.social · 10d

I'm enjoying that a code editor would give spelling mistakes in the form of a human readable error log.