Zach Hazard Vaupen
@emo-sludge.com
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🕸️ https://emo-sludge.com Freelance illustrator and hideous game designer available for work. (he/him) TTRPG | COMICS | VIDEO GAMES | ALBUM ART | MOVIE POSTERS | WHATEVER
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emo-sludge.com
Hello Bluesky! 👺

I’m Zach Hazard Vaupen. Illustrator for hire, game designer, and comic maker.

You’ve probably seen my work on Mothership and Liminal Horror.

I also co-founded @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social

Check out my work and get in contact for any type of project at my website emo-sludge.com
Witch in the woods Fungal deer Evil pizzeria Android destruction
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partyinthefront.bsky.social
Stuff from imaginary projects that may never leave the drawer
emo-sludge.com
Probably the best instant noodles imho (tho best flavor goes to indomie). I also sometimes like to get special with it and mix the sauce and powder packets with an egg and some mayo before adding the noodles and some hot water because it gives it a nice creaminess.
emo-sludge.com
Lots of good things have happened in my life because of *people*. I’m not giving social media any credit just because the people happened to be on there at the time.
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This is question has about the same amount of substance as “Has anything great happened in your life at the mall?”
conradhackett.bsky.social
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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It’s so good and especially good with a sinus infection
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jesthehuman.itch.io
Hey gang, I have an update - I have decided to accept games that can be found on itchio IF they have not be included in an itchio charity bundle before. If you have a game that fits this description, please submit your game! 🖤
jesthehuman.itch.io
The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst...

All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉
Submission form for Games against Genocide
Hello all! Thank you so much for your interest in joining the Games against Genocide charity bundle via Tiltify! Please read all of the following before deciding to join the bundle. By submitting ...
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emo-sludge.com
Ah thanks! And yeah! I even tried to figure out actionscript at some point but I was too young and dumb to wrap my head around it haha. I still think about old flash games I played on newgrounds in the early 00’s tho.
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ok it took a lot of scrolling but i guess he uses chatgpt in the new movie or whatever it is, but also I could only find 2 posts in 100 that were about that and not just chatgpt in general. god this site is turning to slop so fast.
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why is "Donatello" trending, but when I click on it to see what it's about its all articles about ChatGPT?
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yeah he's going to be eating those words because doctors are way more likely to be actually replaced in the long run (disturbingly enough)
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Thanks for writing this! Great insights. I also started in macromedia flash haha. Animation was too hard. Video games seemed impossible. So I ended up making comics for many years and then moved to TTRPGs. Now I’m finally making video games and my first will be on the playdate!
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You can get one. I feel like it would make me barf, but I’ve watched some videos and some people enjoy working that way.
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neongrey.bsky.social
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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Yeah I’m thinking at best it’s going to become a web based software with a premium subscription and a free limited version.
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All they have to do is say “we can’t tell you what it is yet but it’s not AI or a subscription” but they won’t, which makes everyone think that’s it lol.
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Same, but honestly if they stop supporting the software I already own for whatever the new announcement is, I’m probably going to just go back to pirating Adobe because affinity never actually caught up and there’s no reason to use a subpar product if it’s going to have the same issues.
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Yeah exactly. I’m so turned off by this that even if it’s a really positive announcement I’m still going to be mad that they made me feel this way for a month.
emo-sludge.com
Yep that’s exactly why this is so distressing
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The fact that they won’t deny that it’s AI or subscription related also doesn’t help
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I honestly want to switch away from the software already without even knowing how they’re going to fuck it up with whatever they’re announcing at the end of the month.

The way they respond to concerns with “just wait 😉” is so off-putting and condescending. Like ok fuck you too then?
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I can’t think of a worse PR campaign than whatever Affinity is doing right now. Sure, make all your users extremely anxious for a full month. That will certainly work in your favor.
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funland.itch.io
"The reality is that the world has always been in a constant state of conflict."

We spoke with @wtheknife.bsky.social about SET YOURSELF ON FIRE, teenage kicks amid the creep of war and lovers in a dangerous time.

MORE IN FUNLAND 3 funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “I don’t know my characters entirely. They are their own people and have their own complexities that are hidden from me, even as an author." - DENHOP
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.