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Milo Minderbinder

@stmilo.bsky.social

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(he/him) Professional gamedev/musician, previously Senior Music Analyst on Rocksmith+ (Ubisoft Osaka), BGM/Audio/VO for indies. Australian in Japan. My posts barely even reflect my own opinions. 日本語はまあまあ. Trans rights, BLM, sovereignty was never ceded.

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Seems as though I've actually found work, so I've updated my profile pic. It's my elbow, in Famitsu Magazine. If you zoom in you can tell I'm flexing

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2h

Having said that: I do honestly feel this is really useful experience esp. as I'm once again brushing up on modern graphics pipelines and shaders etc...

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3h

It's nice to not feel like this kind of thing is wasted on me. Even though I couldn't afford this even like 5 years ago I would have felt that way if I could have afforded it. Slowwwwly coming out of hand-to-mouth mindset

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3h

Didn't make it in time for Beast Feast but really enjoying the model so it's all good. Sorely tempted to just leave the top half of the rider's head off, seems cool to me that way. Kind of ending up with a demon pig accidentally but that's stimulating to follow the thread on

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 1d

honestly? feels like this when you finally get good at the graze mechanic in a shmup that has one...

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 1d

This is like a great lost e e cummings poem

Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s every single Arnold Schwarzenegger line from The Terminator. Literally, this is all he says in the entire movie.

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jay spooko @jpco.io · 1d

Suppose you could modify your dog’s brain so that he could do improv comedy. Would he still be your dog? Would you be obligated to attend his shows?

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

I will NOT buy an airbrush. How dare you suggest something that would make my life easier

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

There's simply never enough time. But you know, kinda happy with how it's going at least.

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

work work. (Very early WIP but we'll see how it shakes out for Beast Feast tomorrow)

Strangely coloured boar model, in disarray

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

oh Goodness Gracious Me,,,

katydidposting 𓆧 @0rthoptera.bsky.social · 7d

holy crunches

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

For daytime people

Ａ．Ｄｅｇｅｎ　Ａｒｔ @adegenart.bsky.social · 2d

Working on it

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

imagine you undergo some kind of magickal initiation, come out of it realizing "oh, all things are ultimately connected" like it's something special, then meet somebody who 'knows' exactly in which proportions everything is or isn't connected to everything else. sucks the fun right outta the thing

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 2d

寿限無　寿限無　ラロひれ　鷺池テロ　乳桃

Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · Aug 24

Don't talk to me before I have my morning Rarohire Rochi Terochichimomo.

An ice latte using Japanese hiragana and katakana characters' shapes to spell "Soul of Coffee" which actually reads "Rarohire Rochi Terochichimomo."

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no 'solution' to the fact that you ultimately just have to have eyes on every part of anything you send out there for consumption. It's only a problem in the first place if you've 'optimised' away all the actual facts of what you're making or producing

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

(Excluding PCG etc. of course, you folks do your thing)

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

Anything that starts with a noise seed can't be relied upon for real development work IMO. I'm sorry but that's my personal opinion. It'll cave on you just when you need it most, guaranteed.

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

Re: further discourse on 'AI' in game development lately: yes, animating lip flaps manually is tedious. But you know what's more tedious? Having to watch every lip flap looking out for mistakes, because you've discovered too late that you actually DO need to check the AI's output...

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 3d

Of the many problems with this phenomenally stupid argument is that "good information" has been available to anyone who wants to access it for a solid 25 years now, and we are getting collectively dumber at finding, understanding, critiquing, and communicating info and arguments.

AI can't fix that/

Department of 🐸™ @porcupunk.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of years from now they're gonna find changes in human brains from this stuff. I hope when they do they can figure out why it made us all assholes

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

I can't stress enough how much I dislike modern social networks. Watching my father endlessly browse other people's lives on Facebook before he eventually tapped out of his own, really turned something around for me.

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

And now my grandad, who knew the most about computers of anybody I ever met, is no longer able to even send emails or edit Wikipedia like he used to do every day, due to COVID-induced dementia. They lived in a rural town and just assumed they were safe. Not so.

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

I'm supposed to be sleeping, but instead I'm thinking about my grandad - who worked at IBM, literally wrote a book about human-computer interaction and was a committed Wikipedian - and how he couldn't even conceive that computers helped spread false surety about COVID. Just didn't have the toolkit.

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

incredibly galling that there are some people i have met/worked with in the industry that i would actually like to talk to, but am (roughly speaking) exactly close enough to them that the only appropriate way to start talking to them would involve opening linkedin again. no bueno

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

i don't know whether playing this specific game had anything to do with it, but i like to think that people see an open seat next to me and immediately think "thank god, i can let my freak flag fly too"

Milo Minderbinder @stmilo.bsky.social · 3d

you've got to enjoy the real shit in public when you can, honestly. i don't give a shit if anybody sees me playing Immortal Defense on the train, or even if i am the only person ever to do so