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ari velazquez 🌯

@arivelazquez.com

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technical designer @ riffraff.games ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa https://arivelazquez.com ◦ discord: @roxaloxa

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · Oct 18

hi new folk, i'm ari! 10 years in gamedev on shit you haven't heard of and one you definitely have, nowadays i'm a technical designer mainly in unreal and doing contract work and a hundred side projects.

one of my fave side things:

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · Sep 22

life's been in the way of shareable work but here's the last thing i was jamming on: recreating Ys Origin in unreal so i can use it as a mechanical base for making my own game on top of it. would really love to come back to this

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 37m

ahhhh there’s the dread that creeps in during every games conference i attend

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 3h

cringe

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 10h

jobs. travel. friends. wife.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 21h

"if you account for inflation, game prices used to be m-"

silence. "accounting for inflation" is for economists and/or perverts and I will do no such thing.

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 21h

kingpin at crown

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 22h

fucks me up that it was 20 years ago when i was obsessed with DDR and going to arcades to play it every weekend

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 1d

almost died playing DDR tonight on account of being nearly 40 years old

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 23h

overheard a guy on the train say that he “doesn’t take advice well” and idk whether to be impressed at self awareness or otherwise horrified

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 1d

almost died playing DDR tonight on account of being nearly 40 years old

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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zoraal ja's psychoanalyst @zoraalja.bsky.social · 1d

remember this phenomenal fucking post

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 1d

my coworkers!!

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

the Gang

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 1d

icon

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 2d

If you're looking for retro textures I can really recommend @strideh.bsky.social's work! They offer three free packs and a premium one. They look really sharp, have a true Quake-feeling, can be used in commercial projects and were made without use of AI!

strideh.itch.io

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a visa for me 😎

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

[starts emanating an aura toward MCEC to get people to come hang out and have a beer at boat builders]

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

immediately got on a train going back lol

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

emotion weather

carly rae jepsen’s “emotion” album playing

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

this is what video games are about

*string of curse words*

hehehehehe i’m the greatest warrior thats ever lived

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

this is what video games are about

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

new runback dropped

merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

they should make a soulslike game where you play a guy who can revive after death but every time you come back as a baby and have to go through like 18 years of monotonous bullshit before you're allowed to try the dungeon boss again

ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

obviously linkedin is the only bluesky replacement

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

before this is read wrong on purpose, i’m not telling anyone to go to masto as a bsky replacement. it has other much bigger issues that stop it from being what people want. but people _should_ probably learn to want something different anyway

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

“i had an awful experience on this niche instance and that’s why i’m sticking to bluesky” ok buddy

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ari velazquez 🌯 @arivelazquez.com · 2d

i just don’t understand people who complain about mastodon instances being at the whims of their admins when we’re literally suffering the whims of the admins here after suffering the whims of the admins on twitter. i don’t care to defend masto but at least you can migrate a profile to somewhere new

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