Testing a drag idea but didnt feel like going out so now im just playing games looking like a goth twink 3DS is part of the look

Coming back to work after a long vacation

I started eating cream cheese bagels as an alternative to sweets but now im just eating an absolutely concerning amount of bagels

Someone from my university asked me if I had any advice for new students and apparently "bribery works on professors" was not what they were looking for

I think "performative" is our new word losing all meaning.

Elderly eastern European man on the train next to me who spent entire 20+ hour ride watching jeopardy and ai generated videos of wolves

Today marks 4 years at Squanch and its been rad Its still insane looking back at how I ended up here from one very bold tweet. When the ABK acquisition was announced I was a little fed up and posted this which led to meeting my now close friend @andyvatter.bsky.social who gave a great pitch

I randomly checked ebay and somehow found a collectible ive been chasing since I was a kid available for like $10

Thank you DJI for maintaining the lost art of sending cool stickers with your gear

In retrospect I think 2 weeks of solo travel was a little too much time for self reflection

Today's project: learning how to play the Neopets TCG

Im absurdly grateful that ive somehow managed to accomplish a lot of my long shot career goals very early. So now ive decided to pivot to my true holy grail and spam this to Microsoft

I NYC, Moynihan Train Hall had this slide show of emergency tips but out of context its just good advice in general these days

GEE MINNESOTA HOW COME YOUR MOM LETS YOU HAVE THREE FALSE SPRINGS

I was burnt out so I just spent 2 weeks traveling around the entire US mostly on the Amtrak with a couple flights to make up for lost time It was rad highly recommend. I planned to work on a side project but I ended up mostly just talking to people and checking out the views

Im so bad at networking I had several people at PAX try to talk about work stuff and im just like "sorry im on vacation"

My 2 weeks of travel summarized - Seattle has good Pho - LA too hot - Texas too big - NOLA is the friendliest place - NYC really does have the best pizza - Boston has a really weird relationship with crosswalks

At PAX I had a good talk with a guy who asked point blank why I want to continue working in games with everything going on And I realized for me as someone who started in 2020 fresh out of college theres now this weird sense of responsibility to try and help make things less terrible in the future

Heading back home today. Besides the food poisoning this was a great PAX - Met many coworkers, devs, and fans - Saw probably the best keynote ever from Xalavier - Played so so so many phenomenal demos Shits bad right now but its always wholesome going to events like this for a morale boost

In America you can buy burger from vending machine

Lol I am ending PAX day 1 with food poisoning gg dont trust the food trucks this is awful

Packing is going to tough because I am an idiot that needed these two

Neopets 4 lyfe

Im so sorry to the handful of fans and friends ive ran into that had to listen to me talk stupidly fast. Im running on no sleep and redbull is giving out free drinks

One issue with going to PAX at the end of my backpacking trip is that its day 1 and im already extremely sore from all the stuff I did prior

11 days, 5 hotels, 4 train rides, and one flight later I have finally arrived in Boston for PAX East This was an unhinged adventure. Friends/mutuals hit me up if you're around. This is purely a vacation not here in any official game dev capacity

Meeting @andyvatter.bsky.social 's dog but only using the .6 zoom

This year at PAX I will be cosplaying as a loot goblin If you see me feel free to beat me up and take all my shit

JFK hate aside I do absolutely love this city

I swear to god I always think JFK cant be as bad as I remember and then I fly in and its actually significantly worse

Oh boy did I jinx this.....

Ice losers spotted at nola airport

In the last week I have experienced - blizzard in MN - record breaking heat wave in LA - train collision in TX And I still have NYC and PAX to go This has been the most insane travel experience ever

Update: my train hit a car and now im sitting in the middle of nowhere Texas

Traveling on the Amtrak from LA to NOLA and I've had to repeatedly explain to this European woman since yesterday "yes we're still in Texas"

Paying a stupid amount of money for this fancy seat so I can play bloons in comfort while going across Texas

At a price tag of about 70 million, building an entire fuckin' theme park expansion is ironically less than it costs to make most AAA games nowadays.

Rate my gaming setup

Yeah this is beautiful. I grew up in the airline industry flying constantly so for this trip I really wanted to take my time seeing every part of the country

This is so goddamn nice Ive been traveling coach for 70+ hours so I caved and upgraded to a room on the LA - NOLA trip

"How did that person guess where I work" My laptop:

Im so sorry for all California drivers what is this

Found out someone I went to high school with is running for congress but I was a producer on the talking gun game so I think we're about equal

I think we should hide pokemon cards like Easter eggs around department stores so that kids can actually find them

Ive been craving this burrito for the last decade

Skill issue. I've shown an example of my successful pitching style

After working on games for literally 6 years straight I am having the time off my life living out this train backpacking fantasy

First long train ride completed Onto my next to LA

I am having way too much fun watching the seagulls outside my hotel room

Maybe this was the perfect burnout recovery trip