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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 20h

I know an awful lot of it came from stock packs, but those packs are really deliberately designed and you often wonder just where the hell that sound comes from.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah I've thought about that a bit, and I don't quite know how to put it. Like as fidelity has gone up and things sound more real and rooted in the world, they've also started sounding less memorable. It's really good sound work, but something fanciful and deliberately designed can hit much better.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 20h

I know most devs, smartly, would never actually want to try it in a modern game, but I LOVE old game soundtracks and SFX being compressed to 96 or 128 kbps. It's like picking up audio transmissions from another plane of existence. Shit's spiritual to me.

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Possessor Fessor 🎃 Ni No Kuni @professorfessor.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to own System Shock 2 but aren’t interested in the Nightdive remake, act now because it’s about to be delisted as a standalone product.

www.rpgsite.net/news/18648-s...

System Shock 2 (1999) is being delisted on October 10 for PC for standalone purchases | RPG Site

It will be included with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster going forward for new and existing owners.

www.rpgsite.net

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 2d

I totally missed the sale but I'm buying it full price because of these pics

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 2d

who'd have thought that supporting the people who make your favourite music, tv shows, books, movies, videogames, jewelry, costumes, paintings, sculpture, etc ... would pay off?

who'd have thought they were valuable members of society all this time??

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

That's NES yeah? I'd actually love to try something much more retro than even Quake someday.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly hate having a 'product', but a guy's gotta eat. That's why I want to keep the rules as basic as possible - just credit and don't resell my stuff. Make and sell anything you want with 'em!

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Just FYI I have updated the wording on one licensing rule on my assets based on feedback from @kenney.nl. It's the same rule, it should just worded more clearly that you can sell a product made with the help of my textures, just please don't sell the textures themselves as a product. Legalese... 🙃

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

I was trying to be clear about reselling them as asset packs, you can absolutely use them in sold, commercial games. I will work on making that clearer.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

That is what I mean, you can use them in your game, just not resell them as it's own texture package. If anyone has a suggestion how I could make that more clear please tell me.

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 6d

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

I very briefly used the first model Dall-E to fuck around when it was first becoming a thing, I get the initial fascination, but as I've come to even a basic understand of the technology, I've completely, and very easily, washed my hands of it. I've never touched ChatGPT or MidJourney or whatever.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

This reads like a defense of them as tools 'just misused', but I fundamentally despise them.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Not entirely sure what your point here is but I think you’re preaching to the wrong choir.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap, thank you!

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Wait what, damn. I have episode 3 sitting on my drive for a rainy day. It was always a bizarre mod by Doom 3 standards but it was absurdly high quality and personal, so that's a real kick in the crotch.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that'd be a challenge, very organic textures. Might not be very colourful but you could do some disgustingly pretty things.

Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

A cool theme. I'd try and go all in on intricate ornamental and water motifs and get away from more rigid square shapes.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

I try to be a happy-go-lucky kinda guy these days but seeing people feverishly try to defend the use of AI in art and modding communities specifically because they're "here to stay" pushes my fuckin' buttons. Have a backbone.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Have a new Quake pack: High Seas! A cleaned up and hugely expanded version of the pirate themed textures I made for my old Remix Jam map I Shot The Albatross.

strideh.itch.io/stridehs-hig...

Strideh's High Seas Textures by Strideh

Pirate banners, old stone forts and sandy Caribbean shores.

strideh.itch.io

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

That being said I still have another very WIP Quake pack I gotta get out at some point. 🙃

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

I need to test myself and try some vastly different themes in future packs, I think. I like working with palettes, but I'm also pretty tired of Quake's at the moment, so something much different there too...

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

And of course, you can get the Quake WAD here:

www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

Strideh's High Seas Textures

A massively expanded and cleaned up version of the textures I created for I Shot The Albatross. No longer just galleon textures! There 300+ pirate flavoured textures including beaten iron, scuffed woo...

www.slipseer.com

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