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Emil Rieux
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Game Design Director, Combat Medic, Camus Enjoyer | Embracer’d, looking for work
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euthyphro.bsky.social
I’m bringing back #SaturdayWithCamus because I have decided it would bring me great joy, in this time of plague and fascism, to put Camus novels into the hands of underserved teens.
Many fedgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down. The essential thing was to save the greatest possible number of persons from dying and being doomed to unending separation. And to do this there was only one resource: to fight the plague. There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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xavierck.com
I should've added alt text to this before
STOP USING NORMAL MAPS • SMOOTH SURFACES SHOULD NOT HAVE DETAIL • YEARS OF VIDEO GAMES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for LYING ABOUT SURFACE DETAIL Wanted to have higher detail for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "cutscenes" • "Yes, please give me a normalized tangent. Please give me a perturbed surface normal" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK wat what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the calculators & abacus we built for them (This is REAL Math, done by REAL graphics programmers): [images of various shapes model, normal mapped, and rendered, a sphere with the normal, tangent, and bitangent displayed, some sort of complex math equations] ????? ??????? ????????????????? "Hello I would like [diagram of light hitting a surface and bouncing off according to the reflection vector] texture please" They have played us for absolute fools
October 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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katbaumann.bsky.social
Day 263: Depression Carousel (great band name, btw)

Always time for anatomy practice, and I’ve been taking a lot of inspiration from the poses provided by @adorkastock.com lately— couldn’t resist doing something with this pack of poses

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A single-panel comic drawn in pen with minimal crosshatch shading. The top caption says "Feeling pretty good this morning, drew a depression carousel anyway." In the panel we see a person sitting on their knees with their head tilted back and looking upward; the figure is repeated in a circle for a total of 8 figures all sitting back-to-back in a circle, on top of a carousel. This pose references 3 stock photos from the Adorkastock account and website, from their "Depression pack." Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (9-20-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
"Sorry, there's just no money for new projects" "we have to lay off hundreds of people to cut costs" "that show/game/studio has been canceled and closed due to lack of profits"
Director, Gen Al for Games Los Angeles, CA (On-site) ...your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your c the market range. The range for this role is $430,000 - $840,000.
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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doomcube.bsky.social
Sometimes it seems we're really building a future that nobody wants, but we're doing it anyway because a few people want to be richer.
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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awkwardgamedev.bsky.social
Ahhh!! We’ve launched!! Our game is out now!! 🎉🎉🎉 Super proud of our team & all their hard work!! 💖

store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/out-...

#outoftime #gamedev #RogueLike #indiegame @playoutoftime.bsky.social
Out of Time | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store
Download and play Out of Time at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!
store.epicgames.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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volts.wtf
The thing is, I just really fucking hate bullies, and what's getting me down is that I thought other people did too.
September 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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awkwardgamedev.bsky.social
Our game is streaming on Twitch! Take a peek! ✨👀✨ www.twitch.tv/playoutoftime

#gamedev #indiegame #rogueLike #outoftime #twitch
@playoutoftime.bsky.social
playoutoftime - Twitch
Out of Time - Living in a Modern Era
www.twitch.tv
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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awkwardgamedev.bsky.social
Yessss! Demo was perfection! Fell in love with the art style a while back but finally playing the demo, I’m in love with the game too! 😍

Congrats!! Can’t wait for full release! 💖

If you enjoy cozy, warm, whimsically playful games, PLUS a sweet story, then this game is for you! Also, THE ART! 😍😍😍
juliaprokhorova.bsky.social Julia 🦊Woodo🐸 - warm game @juliaprokhorova.bsky.social · Aug 7
Demo is out in couple of hours and I can’t do anything except worrying, but I have to. 😄
See you after release! 😘
August 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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soli-international.bsky.social
Anti-repression groups from different parts of the world create a solidarity network - Solidarity International
Our cooperation will strengthen our movements locally & help groups & collectives get international support

Check this and get in touch
solidarity.international

#solidarityinternational
Black bird is escaping a cage with the help of a turtel. Surrounded by letters: Solidarity International
August 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed
August 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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awkwardgamedev.bsky.social
👾 Wanted to share this article about the game! Showcases some great screenshots and insightful info on our development journey! Share, Read, Enjoy and Thank you! 💖 gamesbeat.com/manticore-ga...

@playoutoftime.bsky.social

#outoftime #indiegames #RogueLike #gamedev
Manticore Games unveils Out of Time multiplayer roguelike
Manticore unveiled its Out of Time fast-action multiplayer roguelike game, launching as an exclusive for the Epic Games Store on September 25.
gamesbeat.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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tomscud.bsky.social
here ya go
Mr. Rogers looking out a window with a word balloon: "Yes ... ha ha ha ... YES!"
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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darkqueengame.bsky.social
We like to describe our game as INSIDE, but instead of a boy, you play as a knight with an axe.

And you have magic abilities.

And you can throw your axe.

And there are boss fights.

And…

🤔

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegames #unity #steam #DarkQueenOfSamobor
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It
Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?
www.thegamer.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
This site is gold:

mamdanitimes.com
Fake headline in NYT font: Full Transcript: Mamdani Told Waitress 'You Too' After She Said 'Enjoy Your Meal'
July 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
I’m just going to say it again

We all have to live in America together. Stop trying to out-dark the darkness by venting cruel at others

The lesson isn’t that anyone deserves cruelty

The lesson is the way out is compassion, knowledge, understanding — showing that cruelty is as weak as it is hollow
July 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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zeddary.bsky.social
This is what 'Trump doing a Sicario' was always gonna look like.
patdennis.bsky.social Pat Dennis 🐍 @patdennis.bsky.social · Jun 30
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
June 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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combatcavscout.bsky.social
I simply do not want to be “allies” with a country willing to do things like this. I want my country to stand up against the kind of people who do things like this.
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 24
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
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June 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
I keep seeing takes blaming the US government for "abandoning" the veteran who killed his three daughters.

Don't do that shit.

That man had agency. He had a safe place and person to leave his children with. Instead he took them into the woods and slowly, methodically killed them. Pure evil shit.
June 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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unormal.bsky.social
they should do like a real housewives but with a family of vulcans or cardassians
June 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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maxnichols.bsky.social
Good read. This concept has wide applications for design

www.frogtoss.com/labs/human-c...
Human-computer Experiences are Thresholded, Not Linear
Many human-computer experiences are based on qualities that are challenging to achieve: cool, light, fast to boot, responsive. It is important to know when to invest in optimizations that deliver t...
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May 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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andytouch.bsky.social
Many years ago when working at Unity, a co-worker & I mapped out a 1 day optimization workshop.

Attendees would be given a small already-built game that intentionally ran terribly. Over the next 8 hours we would cover analysis tools and then addressing performance issues in Graphics, Scripting etc.
May 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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edzitron.com
My latest piece goes out either Monday or Tuesday next week, it's called "The Era of the Business Idiot." I believe our society is in the thrall of middle management, and it's turned our economy into a series of symbolic gestures between people that don't really know what's going on.
Wheresyoured.at
But that's not what a manager does, right? Management isn't work, it's about thinking really hard and telling people what to do. It's about making the calls. It's about "managing people," and that can mean just about anything, but often means "who do I take credit from or pass blame to, because modern management has been stripped of all meaning other than continually reinforcing power structures for the next manager up. This system creates products for these people, because these people are more often than not the ones in power - they are your boss, your boss' boss, and their boss too. Big companies build products sold by specious executives or managers to other specious executives, and thus the products themselves stop resembling things that solve problems so much as they resemble a solution. After all, the person buying it - at least at the scale of a public company - isn't necessarily the recipient of the final product, so they too are trained (and selected) to make cals based on vibes. I believe the scale of this problem is society-wide, and it is, at its core, a destruction of what it means to be a leader, and a valorization of selfishness, isolationist thinking, turning labor into a faceless resource, which naturally leads to seeing customers in an equally faceless way, their problems generalized, their pain points parts of a powerpoint rather than anything that your company earnestly tries to solve or even really thinks about. People - be they the ones you're paying or paying you - become numbers. We have created - and elevated - an entirely new class of person, the nebulous "manager," and told decades-worth of children that that's what they should aspire to, that the next step from doing a job is for us to tell other people to do a job, until we're able to one day tell those people how to do their job, each rung on the corporate ladder further distancing ourselves from anything that interacts with reality. The real breaking point is fairly simple: the higher…
May 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM