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andrew-weldon.design
http://andrew-weldon.design/ 📍 West Seattle, WA 🎮 Senior Designer, Epic Games (Harmonix) 🎸 Fortnite Festival
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the level of contempt I feel for these people is shaving decades off of my life

As it should be, tbh

The Big Robot games are discounted now, again, because Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/developer/bi...

I think a worthwhile step for most game designs, is to ask "How does this design have the potential to be funny?" And then try to lean into that.

"We used AI for placeholder art" increasingly feels like such a cop-out man. Placeholder art just needs to fill a space. It is meant to be loudly temporary. It should be so obviously Not Meant For Release that it can't be missed.

If @bradlander.bsky.social endorsed Mamdani long ago, and you voted, or would have voted for, Lander, then… ? ? ? (But it’s never a request for an eloquent explanation. It’s meant to be a gotcha). Explanation, for those who need it, in next skeet.

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

Seems like this is where the “future of the Democratic party” conversations should start

This replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family last year was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday. The original vehicle was shot 335 times by Israeli forces.

*peeks at the PSG vs Inter Miami score*

HOME DUB.

Paulie Primetime ➡️ Jesús Ferreira Ferreira gives us the 1-0 lead! 🙌

45' + 1' GOOOOOALLLL SOUNDERS! FERREIRA! SEA 1 | ATX 0 #SEAvATX

Somebody’s gonna fix that leaning flamethrower tower before the Sounders score, right? 😬

Pride #tifo display by @weareecs.bsky.social at the Sounders vs Austin match in Seattle. Shooting for @sounderatheart.com

Hell yes…

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Eric Swallwell is gonna be PISSED about this one

I don’t disagree, but also: “Captain, I’m picking up another ship!”

You love to see it

Goes without saying that by ICE what we really mean is the Stephen Miller Domestic Terror All-Star Band. If you ever wondered "what would it be like if the government remade the 1870's Klan and gave them the military budget of France," this is the era for you

Mel Brooks is a pretty cool guy to share a birthday with 🎂

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Actual picture of me when anyone talks about means testing or work requirements for social programs.

OH SHIT

Seems not ideal!

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Imagine thinking that reading a summary from an algorithm that generates a combination of words statistically likely to *look like* a summary is in any way better than reading a summary written by a human who actually watched the show! What the fuck are we even doing here

This is legitimately one of my favorites - highly recommend

My hot take: visible concurrency numbers and the resulting fixation on them in building narratives have been utterly catastrophic to the games industry.

Video games should be allowed to fail. Video games should be allowed to do just okay. Video games should be allowed to not be instant hits but still find a core audience. And video game developers should not have to get laid off and start over every time they don’t make the next massive hit.

Some days you just want to punctuate all your sentences with the “ha-Ha-ha-ha-HAA” from Feel Good Inc.

Aside from the CEO pay, the median EA employee compensation going from $149k to $117k in a single year is shocking.

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