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maya 🧜

@lightningfused.bsky.social

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hi, i'm maya! • they/them • game producer looking for work • icon by fuzzmeffa • opinions are my own 🌺

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maya 🧜 @lightningfused.bsky.social · Sep 4

I got laid off from Firaxis today. I helped ship Marvel's Midnight Suns DLC and Civilization VII, and would love to talk to you about mid level Producer roles.

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 3h

i've had this video saved to my computer since like 2019 and the guy who made it's accounts all seem to have been deleted so repost time babyyyy

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maya 🧜 @lightningfused.bsky.social · 6h

this is so immature! i wanted to be so excited for a new maryland studio -- there are so few, and this completely made me lose my faith

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 8h

so, uh, I guess the studio responded to this by replacing their website art!

(not gonna lie, I'm torn between "lol, lmao" and "hm, that's a bit of an immature response from a professional game studio")

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that shows their social media icons replaced with intentionally bad MS Paint-style art

A screenshot of the Sackbird website which used to have an AI-generated skyline of Baltimore, and now has an intentionally shitty bunch of brown boxes labelled as "Fort McHenry" and "Sackbird Studios" in Comic Sans. It has clearly been drawn in MS Paint in about 5 minutes

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Friday Night @fridayyakuza.bsky.social · 13h

Friday at last…

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maya 🧜 @lightningfused.bsky.social · 1d

i love portland, and i wish everyone protesting a very stay safe and put a bird on it 🐥

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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maya 🧜 @lightningfused.bsky.social · 1d

i can't get over daniella's materials 🥺 did you know you can hire her? and your game can also have yummy materials??

Daniella Zeman 📼 VIDEOHOLE DEMO OUT ON STEAM @noodleverse.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta keep showing these off because I’m proud of them!

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Daniella Zeman 📼 VIDEOHOLE DEMO OUT ON STEAM @noodleverse.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta keep showing these off because I’m proud of them!

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 1d

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

Two big red cats circle a terrified hog encased in ice. The cat's tails are flames and melt the ice partially, exposing some pig butt and giving it a singe. "Uh-oh Step-Pig, I'm Stuck...!" ok I made the joke for you so you don't have to. Hot ham smoke emits from the pig and spells "BECOME AN" and melted ice on the bottom spells "ICE-FREE ZONE"

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d

Former Zenimax Online Studios staff launch employee-owned Sackbird Studios in wake of Microsoft layoffs

www.eurogamer.net/former-zenim...

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

Spending any amount of time on LinkedIn feels like it's about as bad for your brain as doing inhalants with none of the benefits

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 3d

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John R'lyeh, where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 18d

*taps sign*

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

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maya 🧜 @lightningfused.bsky.social · 2d

seeing an awful lot of xmas ads considering it's not even halloween 🤨

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 @lamantia.bsky.social · 3d

Never hit save image so fast.

Frankenstein's creature checking himself out in a full-length mirror wearing a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and stilettos, word bubble reads "¡Bel...lo!"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people complain about how the 90’s Like a Dragon anime had like 15 episodes of domestic Okinawa Kiryu filler in Season 3 while they were waiting for the manga to catch up, but it’s worth sticking it out so you’ll appreciate the Saejima stuff in Season 4 better 🖊️🦑

90’s anime style screenshot redraw of the scene after the Majima boss fight in Yakuza 4 where Saejima and Majima sit on the ground and look at each other

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 3d

Boosting again, please share! Still looking for writing work-- full time or contract, i'm incredibly adaptable and eager to learn and grow ✍️

Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

emmkid.info

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emmkid.info

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 4d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.