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🇮🇹🇪🇺🇦🇺 Senior LD/GD on Avatar FoP, former LD on StarWars Outlaws, GD on Mario+Rabbids Spark of Hope, former QA - Historical reenactor, love boardgames & ttrpgs. Occasional streamer
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Sounds about r..Ubisoft. Working with people in UK, Sweden, Italy and Romania. I guess we can all meet halfway there in Prague for that in person meeting?

🥺😭 Pepe Mujica, a great man. I wish there were a lot more of 'Mujicas' all around the globe. Probably one of my favourite heroes ♥️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

So.. things happened over the last few days. I guess I got my first implant this morning? 3 nails in one single finger, I guess that's a start! Next sunglasses a la Adam Jensen?

Well, apparently this happened a little while ago with very little fanfare, to the point I found out now (I knew it were coming but never got confirmed explicitly). I guess I'm deemed senior now? 😀 Although I'm currently working as game designer and not a level designer 😂

While very few here are Italians, happy Liberation Day ❤️As Porco Rosso teaches us, "Better a pig than a fascist". youtu.be/PJlAVidYtlM?... A song I share every year, about remembrance, about resistance, about history. Lyrics by Italian writer Italo Calvino, music played by Modena City Ramblers.

Modena, Italy. 22nd April 1945 vs today. The Historic Archive in Modena celebrates the 80th anniversary of freedom from the nazi-fascists. Down with the oppressor, always, whoever they may be. I can only hope this to happen as soon as possible for all conflicts around the world right now.

So we're getting Forza Kart? Did I misundertand that? Not following attentively as I'm getting my hair done.

My sweet potato of a cat, Nix, turned 2 years old today 🥰🥰 she got treats

Not much to add.

I want to hug the entire social media team ❤️‍🔥

So it begins. "Strategically" burning through my holidays as the mandatory RTO policy rolls out. First two months planned between my private life stuff, my GF visiting (long distance relationship) & my mom visiting from the other side of the world 🦘. Yeah, not going to work on the long run.

I always wanted to attend GDC, and would still love to but, it will be a big NO GO for me. Regardless of the price or even if I were offered full access for free. Fuck all of that. What's next? Jailing people for just mentioning "orange" akin to China being sensitive with Winnie the Pooh? 🚨

Back on a train. In office for a couple of days. 3h30 commute one way. Luckily I have friends with a spare couch. Starting from April I'm supposed to do this x3 a week due to mandatory RTO 😬 siiiigh.

Good news for once! There's a new negotiation between EUTELSAT and the Italian gov. Moving away from any potential deal with Elmo & Starlink; Instead, this should boost the EU project IRIS² as well 🥳 Finally someone is seeing some sense in sat comms (source in ITA) www.rainews.it/articoli/202...

It just dawned on me. Elmo is not going for a 30s haircut! He is embracing his Evil Corpo CEO nature, he just has to let his hair grow a little longer and he'll look just like Zorg from the Fifth Element! I'd say it's fitting.

So happy that Flow won an Oscar! :D

This is definitely how it feels. And in cases where they are not openly firing people (because national worker rights, etc.); it's all RTO policies to screw you over and new opportunities that aim at B2B contracts only. Really, it's all fucked.

It's hard times for many, in different ways. And few can spare savings, when they have any to begin with, but I do my little part. 46€ gained through me streaming on Twitch and the rest on me. I hope things will improve 🇺🇦🇪🇺

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

Soooo... uh. It seems like Google Maps was updated in Italy as well. Are they really going ahead with this joke? All the big clowns in tech are bending to the new(old) Tzar

Fucking hell..

Is it now standard to give multiple weeks to do a test for a game dev position? Back in 2019 they were either 2-3 days or a 7-day window (but required full time commitment). Seems like nowadays they take more into account personal time? or is just studios made of people that got burnout elsewhere?

Just finished Tactical Breach Wizards. Boy that was way better than I initially anticipated 😍 I loved the banter and sassiness. I totally did not expect the depth of each character either, light years away from the flat 2D "operatives" you often see in "tactical" games. It was good ❤

I love Swen 🥰 I don't know him personally, but I love that he speaks up for everyone ♥️ I truely wish we could all make more cool, deep, sad or whatever floats our boat type of games. Not because it will be successful but because it is meaningful. Whenever I head these speeches my passion bursts ❤️‍🔥

But why on a thursday? Sounds like I'll be catching up tomorrow. It's already way too late and I have work to do. Also still on the fence if I want to give it more views. Let me guess, the state of the industry will not be addressed in any meaningful way. I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

My mom used to be a punk in London in the late 70s/early 80s (The Clash, Ramones,etc.). My dad was a mix of international rock (still 70s/80s - Led Zeppelin), the Police, Jestofunk and Italian singer-songwriters. Myself on the other hand...

I did a smol part too on level design side! 🥰

Does this mean no mistakes were found/made? 👀🤣

It's 7:25, I've been on the train for 1h, +20min by car, still 2h to get to the office. Yeah nah. Mandatory RTO x3 weekly is not going to work. That's an avg of 7h travel per day I go back and forth, +9h in office (1h lunch break). It should amount to a 25% pay cut to cover travel expenses. Or..

Seems like the Elmo-clown wants to start his own game dev studio, mostly based on AI. If I were forced to choose, I'd rather be unemployed than to work there. www.polygon.com/news/486495/...

I never knew of those quotes from Umberto Eco and totally support them. I guess it partially makes me feel less guilty of my steam backlog. And yes, buy even just to support whenever possible ❤

Four games I've worked on:

I had not washed my car in a veeeery long time. Between doing reenactment (loading all sorts of things), ending up off road at times and mostly working from home, it might've been years 😐 it's so shiiinyyyy now 🥺 it feels like it's 10 years younger