Sam Seltzer-Johnston
@sbseltzer.net
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Freelance #GameDev Sr Engineer at Exis Interactive NPC systems for Dragonhold: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510330/Dragonhold/ Co-developed ExoCorps: exocorpsgame.com/steam He/Him 😷 sbseltzer.net
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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yoyoyollie.bsky.social
Dogfighting around massive bloody pillars, dont ask why (it was a cool idea ok)

(wishlist the game in pinned)
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #DeliveryMustComplete
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syntheticthrone.bsky.social
Testing a mount + rider boss for my Pikmin and Monster Hunter-inspired action game, MOULDER.

The Night Mare and a very unfortunate faun (voiced by @bobilka.bsky.social).

#Moulder #Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #Pikmin #ULTRAKILL #MonsterHunter #Soulslike #screenshotsaturday
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ironspike.bsky.social
This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.
bloomberg.com
Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.
Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them
In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.
bloom.bg
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gregpak.net
2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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adamkeiper.com
You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
sbseltzer.net
What are the sources for all the blue colored states? Are there links somewhere?
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ofvick.bsky.social
Anyways, with MMWR riffed out, this map seems relevant moreso than ever before
althistorian.bsky.social
Updating the health alliance map because there are people who want Nevada to join the WCHA. Additionally it seems Alabama should be classified as a plot in Nurgle's Garden.
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mikerose.bsky.social
We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿
Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.
sbseltzer.net
*adds to spider locomotion reference footage*
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
1½ minutes worth of Brown Creeper lad, creeping 🥹

I'd seen a grand total of one (1) adult male Attidops cinctipes before this afternoon, in which I lost count at a dozen 🤎
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober
sbseltzer.net
Is this slowed down or is that realtime? It's surprisingly smooth!
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈

This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers."

We hope to see you there! #QGCon
Flyer that reads: "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers" with QGCon and UVW-CWA logos at the bottom.
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jyns3n.bsky.social
I think he spotted me 👀

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#unreal #unrealengine #unrealengine5 #ue5
#metahuman #screenshot #halloween #horror
#horrorgame #horrorgames #gamedev #indiedev
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cookiesophie.bsky.social
Been working on slope rotation and speed today. Honestly its so jank that it would make a Sonic Retro user rip their hair out, but Sega also published a multi million dollar game with similar physics so all is fair I suppose

#BladeFerret #UE5 #IndieDev #PSX
sbseltzer.net
I think this general technique of rasterizing text to a texture is pretty standard practice when you need dynamic text in 3D space, even before UE5. How easy it is to do really depends on the engine features though.
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altwatcher.bsky.social
Thanks for reading, and for the kind words! It's a very weird, very niche rabbit hole that I can't seem to escape, and I'm glad to be able to pull a few others in after me.
bjkeefe.bsky.social
I want to point you to a truly laudable body of work by @altwatcher.bsky.social, that documents @altnps.bsky.social's ongoing plagiarism. Links in comments.

h/t @ladymolson.com
sbseltzer.net
That slight perf improvement on C/C++ compile times is absolutely worth it for me. No question. Not sure how much better it is for other languages, but compiled languages generally seem to have better build perf on DevDrive partitions.