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Justin Oaksford

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he\him, also a Dad AD @ Spry Fox on Spirit Crossing #gameart #politics #seattle Black Trans Lives Matter

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · Oct 7

I apparently didn't do a landscape post yet so... Hello! 👋 I'm Justin, Art Director and Concept Artist at Spry Fox!

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 4h

My Heart Will Go On cover when

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 5h

Another valley scene! Fall means the return of cloud cover, and with that comes more interesting transitory lighting effects.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 8h

Hey now.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 8h

The only cardboard or equally fragile stuff I’ve seen is like, “my landlord did an illegal wall repair”.

Drywall isn’t perfect for sure but I am curious how much the standards or material science has changed.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 8h

I’m curious about this- everywhere I’ve ever lived has used gypsum and unless something was built illegally, I believe it should be using gypsum drywall or something equivalent.

You can definitely hammer through it but punching through it would probably break a knuckle?

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 11h

There is also a dynamic where an upscale luxury hotel from 1919 is now affordable housing, so a lot of people experience a type of ornamentation and aesthetic splendor and solidity and apply that baseline to modern affordable construction. (And here I’m not referring to residents but the neighbors)

Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 11h

But generally I am skeptical that “housing was always built better in the past”. Undoubtedly there are areas this might be clearly true, but I think it’s kind of a NIMBY sentiment and is not deployed by people fighting to improve building quality, but who are fighting building anything new.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 11h

I have also seen/heard of brand new 2023 built places with water damage before anyone has moved in

I suspect generally people experience bad craftsmanship in some new builds but the bad craftsmanship in old builds are torn down after a few decades, so folks tend to experience the “best” of the old

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 11h

I understand that in 1900 we clear cut old growth forest for wood so dense it doesn’t rot and lasts hundreds of years but those places are filled with asbestos, lead, failing pipes and bad insulation. I lived in a 1908 place with a new heat pump that couldn’t stay above 59 in winter.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder where the “older housing was built better” sentiment comes from. I’ve lived in places from the 1900s, the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and obvs 90’s, 00’s and 10’s and far and away the “best” ones have been the most recent 20 years

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 1d

Sending love and hope 💕

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Eric Billingsley @sparsegamedev.bsky.social · 1d

🌷Spring Falls is now available on Google Play!🌷

Erode the landscape, direct the flow of water, and bring wildflowers to life in this peaceful puzzle game

Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

#puzzle #android #indiegame

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2d

So cute!!!!

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2d

“Our transit infrastructure project budgets are out of control!”

“Maybe instead of deep bore tunnels that add 5-10 minutes to travel time and billions to cost we can just cut and cover?”

“And close lanes of car traffic?? haha good one. We only do that for highway expansions!”

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

I just can't get over the differences in scale between Ballard Link's Westlake Station as proposed and the original Westlake Station, off to the left.

Ballard Link's Westlake has two separate entrances underneath separate buildings, with one showing a long tunnel to get to the train guideway. They are at least five stories deeper than the original Westlake, which is tiny and only around 10-15% of the size

Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry this is hilarious. How bad of an incumbent do you have to be for optimism to be up and yet voters in an odd year primary still want to dump you?

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2d

my body is a machine that turns fewer polygons into a greater number of polygons for marginal visual benefit

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 2d

Me after spending the first half hour of waking by blasting my eyes with a stress laser:

oof didn’t sleep to good methinks

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 2d

'Cycling through the open-world design of Wheel World' by Chris Kerr www.gamedeveloper.com/design/cycli...

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 4d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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