12 years is one helluva run for any game.

Okay yeah Mixtape was pretty great.

Game dev job posting alert! I'm looking for a principal level engineer who likes rendering but doesn't just want to work on rendering for the rest of their life. job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/... More info about Gravity Well on the link below:

✨ New Engineering Opportunity! ✨ Do you like solving tough architectural core engine problems and tracking down tricky bugs? Are you a subject matter expert who likes to branch out into all areas of code? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

In Marathon last night, got into a team fight where a player on the other team used prox chat with an impressive Trump impression to demand an end to hostilities, a ceasefire, etc. He never actually stopped shooting at us, mind, just demanded a ceasefire. 10/10, no notes. (We won the fight, btw)

Was rewatching the Marathon runner shell trailers and realized that Recon is dead or dies in each of them. Recon's own trailer hasn't come out, yet. I wonder if she'll survive it. 🤔

Grats to my friends @bungie.net on Marathon’s launch!

"Jungian Shadow" sounds like a name for a band that opens before "Attack and Dethrone God"

Something you get used to seeing when you live in LA is seeing places get used for films. Anyway, looks like the FlyAway bus terminal in Van Nuys might cameo as the entrance to Central City Airport in something DC related?

Love when I get e-mails desperate for reviews of some mundane product I've bought that start with something like "Chad, there's still time!" Like the Childlike Empress needs me to give an HDMI cable 5 stars to save Fantasia.

Fucking hell. My condolences to his family.

Need y’all to slow down and appreciate the vibes of this cat I saw sunbathing in Gyochon

Safe to assume that the Venn diagram of people who are eating the propaganda up and the people who say games "shouldn't be political" is a single perfect circle.

Can’t help but remember Kutaragi comparing the PS3 pricing to getting dinner at a nice restaurant… www.gamesindustry.biz/ps3-is-proba...

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Hot damn, "You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line" is the kind of articulation I wish I was capable of.

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾 If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you! Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

Update on this: two fractures! Yaaaaaay. 😑

@alexabkim.bsky.social to me: “Chad I’m gonna need you to stop 40’ing so hard.” Me: “I’m gonna 40’s ✨even harder✨ now. (My dumb 43 year old ass just rolled my ankle so hard there was a popping noise)

Yeah he is 100% right.

I think it was Del Walker that rightly said that AI art makes brands look cheap.

Always good to see women capably climbing the corporate ladder. 🫠

I guess @chadarmstrong.bsky.social keeps up with this app and has told you we go camping a lot, and have rats again. In fact, here's Neeps on my desk right now. I hope everyone is taking care of themselves, hydrated and staying cool.

My new managers Whisky and Tattie making sure I stay productive

"Finally"

We ended up canceling our campsite reservation due to a strict “no fire” policy that included propane stoves, and found a nearby cabin. We still made samgyeopsal. We’re gonna be ok.

Haboob! At the Orgy Dome

The squirrels are melting again

8.7 magnitude (!) earthquake off Kamchatka triggers tsunami warning for the Aleutian islands and tsunami watches down the Pacific coast www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Are the most experts in the room with us right now?

A Conversation that has Happened More than Once: Alexa’s Family Member: <in Korean> “Isn’t Chad cold? The weather is windy/snowy/etc” Alexa: “Oh, he’s fine. He grew up in Alaska.” <in English> “Chad, show them the picture” The picture, of me fishing during my second trip to Korea, in the winter:

Saw this at a (pretty fantastic) Mexican restaurant in a small town here in Cali. The more I look at it, the more confused I get.

Hey chat what kind of squirrel is this at the squirrel table

If you’re the type of person to rage quit in Nightreign if you die once during the day phase, I hope your shoes always have rocks in them.

How many calories is a data center

When they shut down the Star Wars FPS, we got to see this game up close and talk to their dev team, because they could take on some of our folks. What they were building was ambitious and special and I was legitimately excited to play it someday, even if they'd only done 1/4 of what they planned.

Is your wife normal or is she so into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 that she made goulash, kolaches and chamomile brew (chamomile-infused red wine) that went viral on Reddit and was reposted on Insta by the official kcd2 account? PS it was all delicious

Respawn friends - CDPR is hiring: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

For Respawn friends (or future friends!) that may have been impacted by this, Epic has a bunch of openings across many disciplines www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/c...

unfortunately regular reminder that if you were affected by these layoffs and are a producer (up to senior) or junior artist i am more than happy to help with your resume.

Well, this is awkward but… I was just mass-downsized at Respawn. These things happen and my time with Apex has been a top to bottom blast, my favorite job I’ve ever had. It’s been a true joy to write Sparrow, I’ll continue to be insufferable about him for weeks to come. #apexlegends #apexsparrow

This little table is by far my best impulse buy ever.

This post belongs in the Louvre.

Hot DAMN that is a great take on the Compiler.

After seven and a half years at Respawn, my time at EA is ending. Today is my last day! If there's any Apex fans that follow me here, thanks for playing our game. And for Star Wars fans, I'm sorry we weren't able to show you what we were working on with the FPS. The team was very proud of our work.

If anybody needs me today: Oh well.

It's a cute commercial but I can't help but think of Steve Cutts' "Happiness" while I watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZ...

Did you hear that? That rumbling through the Earth was made by thousands of environment artists muttering "Hell yeah" under their breath.

My wife: “There’s a saying in Korea, 도둑이 제 발 저리다. ‘A thief’s foot tingles.’ It refers to when someone who is guilty of something tells on themself. Is there a saying like that in English?” Me, an intellectual: “He who smelt it, dealt it.”

This is how it should be done. Or just leave them in the credits. Either way, removing people from credits after their years of work is an awful practice.