it's nate!
@natescape.bsky.social
toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. ui+ux. they/them/any. currently: caves of qud
I love when youtube recs complaining about Jacob Collier come up, it's then that I know with absolute certainty that I can click "don't recommend channel" and continue my life with just that little bit more peace and bliss
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I love when youtube recs complaining about Jacob Collier come up, it's then that I know with absolute certainty that I can click "don't recommend channel" and continue my life with just that little bit more peace and bliss
After about 6 months of fiddle playing I understand the mechanics well enough that I can reliably practice with a metronome, which means it's gonna be over for y'all in another 6-18 months when my tone is good enough maybe
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
After about 6 months of fiddle playing I understand the mechanics well enough that I can reliably practice with a metronome, which means it's gonna be over for y'all in another 6-18 months when my tone is good enough maybe
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!
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GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣
Our alumni say it best!
🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."
✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
#GDC2026 #gamedev
Our alumni say it best!
🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."
✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
#GDC2026 #gamedev
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣
Our alumni say it best!
🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."
✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
#GDC2026 #gamedev
Our alumni say it best!
🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."
✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
#GDC2026 #gamedev
What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!
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i’ve been seeing too many people have difficulty sourcing my 1000xRESIST article ever since cohost collapsed and websites/podcasts are linking to the wayback archive page.
here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...
here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...
Mimidoshima
1000xRESIST is a game for a post-2019 Hong Kong protest generation of diaspora children that don't exist yet
mimidoshima.neocities.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
i’ve been seeing too many people have difficulty sourcing my 1000xRESIST article ever since cohost collapsed and websites/podcasts are linking to the wayback archive page.
here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...
here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
I totally sympathize, but if I ctrl+f a take on how students are checked out and don't find the word 'climate' then I know there's some distancing happening. I myself am only posting about it so I don't scream.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I totally sympathize, but if I ctrl+f a take on how students are checked out and don't find the word 'climate' then I know there's some distancing happening. I myself am only posting about it so I don't scream.
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This is what we log on for.
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is what we log on for.
I'm sorry I'm supposed to believe in the intelligence and vision of people who keep blowing up entire businesses whose products had become verbs
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I'm sorry I'm supposed to believe in the intelligence and vision of people who keep blowing up entire businesses whose products had become verbs
Can't believe I got through an entire turkey discourse season without seeing the word "spatchcock" even once
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Can't believe I got through an entire turkey discourse season without seeing the word "spatchcock" even once
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so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
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I forget who is chronicling images of scanners’ hands in digitized records, but I came across a beautiful one while looking through the Jefferson County WV County Records from 1844-1847
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I forget who is chronicling images of scanners’ hands in digitized records, but I came across a beautiful one while looking through the Jefferson County WV County Records from 1844-1847
Every day I appreciate more and more the anthropology professor I had at university who'd immediately stop anybody who started making a point about "society"
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every day I appreciate more and more the anthropology professor I had at university who'd immediately stop anybody who started making a point about "society"
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
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I'm deeply honored that I am once again nominated for the Best Journalism Award for GA Conf! Especially honored that the story chosen was my AbleGamers report, a difficult investigative piece. Feel free to vote below, as well as read the nominated story:
www.ign.com/articles/for...
www.ign.com/articles/for...
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm deeply honored that I am once again nominated for the Best Journalism Award for GA Conf! Especially honored that the story chosen was my AbleGamers report, a difficult investigative piece. Feel free to vote below, as well as read the nominated story:
www.ign.com/articles/for...
www.ign.com/articles/for...
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I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!
Games User Research Community | Shaping Gameplay With User Research
www.gamesur.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!
I'm perpetually annoyed that searching ideas returns results for products, and the various ways that brands colonize language, but page 1 of google results for 'samsara' is really an all-timer
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm perpetually annoyed that searching ideas returns results for products, and the various ways that brands colonize language, but page 1 of google results for 'samsara' is really an all-timer
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Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane
Support Blender today!!!
Support Blender today!!!
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane
Support Blender today!!!
Support Blender today!!!
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Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
Chicken and waffles! No, the other chicken and waffles.
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Chicken and waffles! No, the other chicken and waffles.
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
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so I think this is going to cost $500-$600
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
fml glasses broke
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
so I think this is going to cost $500-$600
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine