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Game Designer/Artist | LD @ TNM | Designer/artist @ Valve | Lead Designer @ Double Fine | Lead Designer @ 3DO | Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Portal2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact 26 years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47
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Bibi and Trump are both instinctively incapable of *not* betraying an ally, which creates an odd circle.

Ah. Israel attacking Iran. Fabulous.

I've hired this cat to stare at you.

Nancy, obeying in advance. So sad.

I just saw this as a basic requirement in a job req: "Has shipped games across a variety of platforms on time and on budget" I've worked on ~17 games, and just 1 could be considered "on time and on budget." Not coincidentally, it's also the worst game I ever worked on. Not a viable requirement.

Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

Deadline is Monday for this! At the bottom of the job posting there is a "To Apply" section. Follow those instructions to apply and not have to deal with LinkedIn! Any questions about it feel free to DM

My five year old got gassed at a soccer game tonight.

Awesome news! I'm going to have all the free time in the world to work on personal projects after this Friday! More awesome news! I'm available for freelance and full time work starting next Monday! Even more awesome news! I updated my portfolio yesterday! www.xavierck.com

Ellen L. Ripley fighting the alien in something like a big mech. Alien's wrecked.

Flipping through a 1982 TV Guide and can you believe the nerve they had of having some unknown guy named @stephenking.bsky.social write an article about the best horror movies on video?

Well, it looks like I've successfully learned just enough about face rigging to meet the needs of my demo level. 🥂

A terrifying escalation:

Hey all, I am looking for 3D Enviro/Prop/Level Design work July onward. Prev work: Bears in Space - Directed, level design, 3D art The Forgotten City - Lead Art, Level Design Hand of Fate 2 - Prop/Environment Art Worked with UQ on VR projects. DM if you have an opening! Thanks! #gamedev

my fav elevator

Why does this chord progression feel both audacious and inevitable? It's some circle of fifths sorcery, isn't it? youtu.be/HZgkkXBeUN4?...

"Museums are very popular in Europe. Europeans spend two to four hours a day at museums, especially art museums. That’s why Europeans are more sophisticated than Americans. By the time they leave high school, they’ve spent over ten thousand hours looking at oil paintings."

Wait, THIS is Grenada? The place the US invaded in '83? Fuckin' Reagan.

Alina Habba has created something called a "Special Prosecutions Division" to charge Donald Trump's political enemies. (This press release tells a third or fourth mutually inconsistent story about what happened at Delaney Hall.) www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/c...

Thank you to @garyalexander.bsky.social for directing my attention to this game that will 100% ruin my life if it comes out

Kodiak, Alaska: When Alaska isn't remote enough so you also need to live on an island.

I was excited to go to a reptile expo in Redmond for Father's Day weekend. Turns out it's in Redmond, 𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑛.

Anyone playing Dune: Awakening?

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-95

📢 #SteamNextFest indie signal boost! If you're taking part, drop your game* in the replies to be reposted to 28k+ people 👍🏻 *No games using Gen AI pls.

I’m a little surprised to hear that people update iOS on their phones. It NEVER pays off. It’s always worse.

I feel like we need a The Purge day for “open secrets.”

We have reached a tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, which includes some of the largest video game companies in the world, and we are hopeful that our video game strike will be suspended in the coming days. #SagAftraStrong ow.ly/wZzx50W6Lwv

unaccountable masses of shades and shadows

Something definitely happened to make Linux installation harder in the last 10 to 15 years. Maybe because drive space is so cheap now? Lots of people saying “don’t try to install on a Windows drive, just add a new drive.” (Not so easy on a laptop.)