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Daniel Aaron
@lavakondo.bsky.social
CTO, Creative Director, UI/UX Designer. Massive fan of the Colorado Avalanche, Dota 2, Smash Melee, and any and all forms of arts. Big advocate of positive masculinity and foster care. #GoAvsGo #LGBTSafe #VoteBlue #HasanabiHead
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People will be like “keep politics out of gaming” and then play Final Fantasy 7
January 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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January 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Empathy
January 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’
‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week
www.independent.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
CEO: What if we leveraged the cup with AI on the blockchain?
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Writing: Wait you shot the cinematic so he’s holding a pitcher instead of a cup? Great now I have to rewrite an entire level of gameplay VO.
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Character artist: Get the fuck outta here with your prop modeling Jira task.
November 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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to all the replies and quotes saying "but don't people know gravity"—

this entire job is built on "but don't people know"
Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
November 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM
After being deeply disappointed in some recent lists I'd seen, I made my own Top 10 Athletes of all time list. IMO, 1-4 are not contestable. #Top10Athletes #NHL #NBA #Golf #MLB
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Does anyone else have a hard time not getting swayed by current font trends? I know that I have branding guidelines to work within, and I begrudgingly will, but Inter by @rsms.me is calling me on every UI/UX project I work on like the Green Goblin mask. #Fonts #Inter #UIDesign
November 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
One of the hardest switch-ups I've ever had to make was moving from designing websites for B2B tech startups, to then designing B2C small business websites. All of the great inspiration I can take from stripe.com or clerk.com just doesn't translate for mom and pop shops. #UIDesign #UXDesign
November 24, 2024 at 11:03 PM