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Jake!

@spriteborne.bsky.social

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Game Designer, he/him SXSW Gaming Awards 2x nominee, IMB alumnus, industry panelist, showed off my game at the Smithsonian that one time Email: [email protected] www.Spriteborne.com www.Pickaxe.website #indiegamedev #gunpla

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 20m

Robots are autonomous

Mechs are piloted, humanoid vehicles

Cyborgs are augmented humans

Androids are artificial humans (and a sub category of robot)

Exo suits are piloted, but are extensions of the body and not enclosed vehicles

Drones are piloted, but remotely (with no internal pilot seat)

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 24m

“If you see this post a robot” and you’re all posting Gundams, none of which are robots. Kids these days, can’t even differentiate between a robot and a mech 👴🏻 If you’re gonna post gunpla for that meme, at least do a mobile doll or a Gundnode or something else autonomous

#gunpla #ガンプラ #plamo

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 26m

👹 build it twice, it’s immaculate

Seriously, though, it is hands-down my favorite build. I am getting this one, too, that’s how good it is

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 30m

Fun fact: Shiro’s EN VOA is also the voice of Seabook in F91, McGillis in IBO, and Banagher in Unicorn!

Both Shiro’s and Aina’s VOAs were extras in Akira, too

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 36m

Just wiggly air

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 15h

I mean to be fair there are spiders, Spiders, and SPIDERS and I do feel like black widows are the latter

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, I saw some stuff about that. Nobody’s sure what’s happening, but I thought pointing out that you can get suite 2 for free on iOS was noteworthy, especially when the main apps for desktop are unavailable now

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 1d

Affinity Designer, Publisher, and Photo seem to currently be free on iOS. As in the in-app purchase to fully unlock them is $0

Awkward “photo of my iPad using my phone” for quick evidence

May or may not be intentional. You should act fast if you’re interested

A photo of the Affinity Designer iOS App Store page highlighting the in app purchases section showing the “Designer 2 for iPad License” as being $0.00

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 1d

The Taco Bell Naked Chicken

Also wow, so many of these replies are Taco Bell

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder why they modulated it downwards. Normally you’d do that the minimize the vocal damage of belting high notes daily on tour, but in this case they’re *not* on tour and the range is so wide it makes those low notes tougher instead

Great performance either way, though. Just wondering aloud

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, then 10,000% yes

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 1d

Idk much about your game, but this is very cute

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I misunderstood what “mid cut on a runner” meant then

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 2d

Spent like two hours tonight learning about mechanical pencils and now I have FOUR on my Japan shopping list for next summer 😐

Apparently you can’t even buy the Uniball Kuru Toga Dive in the US anymore. It’s only secondhand now and the price is more than double the JP MSRP

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not supposed to cut pieces off the runner with Godhands. They’re for nub trimming

I use Tamiya-135 nippers to cut pieces out and Godhands to clean up nubs

Sucks to have a pair break, though. I’m sorry that happened

Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 2d

If you had a laser and some Cermark you could rectify both of those issues. Or maybe if you knew someone with a laser who could get Cermark 🤔

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Jake! @spriteborne.bsky.social · 2d

I have stared into this abyss and it was fascinating at first and then deeply unfun. You’re really getting into something like ArcGIS territory and at that point it’s not really a game, it’s a functional mapping program/simulator

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itamu : Mama's Sleeping Angels dev @itamu.bsky.social · 3d

Being a solo dev is funny like "yea i spent three full years of my life making this. i hope it keeps your attention for at least two hours"

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