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One of the dogs threw up a whole-ass sock this morning.... when? how?! 😑 Luckily, she seems okay for now, but this is the dog who beat cancer; the idea that she might be taken out by a sock

I'll reserve full judgement until I see more, but I'm so tired of remake = realistic. Zelda as a franchise is suppose to experiment and push art style conventions. But it feels like a lot (not all!) Nintendo games have been doing muddy uninspired realistic textures vs a strong art direction lately

Spirit Crossing, the game I've been working on alongside the amazing folks at @spryfox.bsky.social , is now available for free playtesting on Steam!! It's been a long time coming and I'd love for you to check it out! 🌞 Please consider giving it a try! store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

PLAY NOW: Spirit Crossing is a cooperative life-sim MMO from the makers of Cozy Grove. Explore islands with unique daily minigames, decorate your home, rave with spirits (and tiny bears), and build villages together. Join the playtest on Steam today! #WholesomeDirect2026

Kind of wish there was a semi-regular Seattle-area animator meetup. Kind of similar to the energy of AnimX, but not locked to something like GDC. The Perk Up game dev meetups down in LA seem like a good model Anyways, I know there's a bunch of us up here, and it'd be nice to hang

Yeahhh one big element of the horrendous job market in games is that pay is plummeting across the board. I was super fortunate to make $205k/year as a senior tech designer at Epic. I'm currently waiting to hear back from multiple contract Sr Tech Design roles I've applied for that pay $90-110k

In just 17 years, Seattle went from not having light rail to having the most ridden system in the nation. We’ve proven how leadership & investment can change a city and people’s lives for the better

It’s just a damn shame so many are now lost and locked out of what they once did. It’s even more of a shame that those that had ambitions of entering this industry will never step foot in it and have to move on. Yes, there will be indie devs but it won’t be for a long while. Everyone is exhausted.

Been dealing with some GI stuff for the past year, so it's only natural that I found myself in the big fiber aisle with all the olds right when Costco opened this morning. Was just there, reading the nutrition info, while screaming inside that I had arrived; I the olds now

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Hey there 👋 I'm just another animator looking for work, but, over the last few months of looking, I've noticed that, despite so many animators being out of work that a lot of job postings have either been up for a long time or reposted. There's always so many factors with this sort of thing, but-

stop generating crap you look stupid! 🐟

I'm one of those 'the mountain is out people,' but I also fear the mountain

My dog, Two, passed away last Sunday. I was there for her first breath in this world, and I was there for her last. She was only 12; cancer stole her from me too soon. She was my baby, and I am heartbroken

So Mixtape was a beauty of a game, a treat to watch

Woke up to the news that my pet insurance is essentially going to triple my premiums... you know pet insurance, where you infamously can't switch insurers because of pre-existing conditions. And guess what, one of my dogs has cancer as a pre-existing condition 🙃

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

Came across an old personal animation from 2022 where I tried my hand at first-person full body, since I had never done it before, using a Samus rig

Been doing some file management cleanup and came across a bunch of old animation tests from various job interviews from several (5+) years back now. These were done under various time constraints, but completed fairly quickly I won't say who each one was for, but figured it'd be worth sharing 🧵

Thirty seven successful orbits around the sun today

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Went on a road trip up the west coast the other month, and I am now finally going through and posting my spoils from my many visitor center raids

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

Happy re-entry day everyone

I'm begging the "it's a distraction" crew to understand that Trump is just bad and evil at lots of things at the same time. www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Enjoying this game dev to NASA pipeline moment that we're all experiencing together live right now

If the world makes it out of this, and is no longer beholden to the whims of a mad man, it's time to start pushing again for disarmament Unfortunately, no one is going to convince anyone to pack it in all at once, but a little bit at a time, steadily over time, is possible

Spectacular images taken by the Artemis II crew of earthset and the eclipse. Just incredible. NASA posts them here and it’s free to access: images.nasa.gov

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Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

I know ALL of the best video game animation released in 2025, and now you can too #animation #gamedev

This is so, so well-articulated.

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

Like a lot of people, I've had NASA's Artemis II stream playing in the background today, and I cannot stop thinking about HIM

Favorite shots from today’s brilliant launch! History in the making!

What a fucking shot holy shit

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

if you care about video games you should also care about securing full rights and safety for the trans community, because nearly every game development team that i am aware of has at least one trans person in a critical, load-bearing position. the industry would collapse without trans folks.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I've lived in WA for five years now, but this is still me every time the mountain is out

Been dealing with some pretty hard life stuff lately, but yesterday I got to go on an adventure to look at flowers, so that's pretty good

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

“Movie studios and streamers were quick to sic their legal teams on Sora, and unions such as SAG-AFTRA were aghast at the uncompensated appropriation of their members’ voices and likenesses in slews of viral videos created by anyone who could use Sora 2.“