It's insane that Wario's Gold Mine is in the Flower Cup. It's definitely a Star Cup-coded track

Wow. That was really bad

Finally got my act together and put together a portfolio site. Take a look if you want maxfreeman.carrd.co

New album Bumps in the Night is out RIGHT NOW! Have a happy Halloween tomorrow! Take care of each other 💚🎃 splattie.bandcamp.com/album/bumps-...

living wildfire; flames are one of my favorite things to draw/paint, and toned paper really brings bright colours forward a bunch

We’re entering the Second Encounter of the Serious Sam 2 Anniversary! A 450+ page Digital Art Book packed with concept art, enemies, levels, and unseen designs is out now! Celebrate with discounts & bundles on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4126860/...

"Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. [...] AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Man everyone I know is going through it. What the hell is going on

We're in a period right now where cheap shit looks expensive. All these fancy low-effort graphics. It's not about style, any style can be good, it's about effort and genuine care. Look for a soul in stuff. You know when it's not there, complain about that

In honour of the Halo Remake Reveal, here's my blog post about how doing these is cheap'n'nasty and a colossal point miss. tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate

Also let's stop calling them "worse looking" games, please -- they are artistic and technical choices that are not beholden to technology that lets you see pores. They are creative choices themselves.

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.

🥲 @leepetty.bsky.social wanted to make every frame look like a painting! We think the team succeeded, too~

View of the sea from the abandoned bathhouse.

Studying plants

Whenever an artist is really good I automatically subconsciously assume they are scary and mean

Playing Ocarina of Time again was interesting. Each of the dungeons (especially the adult ones) feels like it has a different person behind it with a different idea of what should constitute a level. Are we structured around a central room? How much key hunting? When do you get the item? It’s neat…

Stairs

Comm for the awesome @toiletdragon.bsky.social 💚🍄

Opening some limited color arts (One character only per image) $20 for bust, $30 for fullbody. All characters will contain 2-4 colors in a GBA esque style Any species! Please DM me if you would like one can be finished within a day or two will delete this when slots are full

Haven't meme'd em in a while #OCsky #artsky #OCs

Winner of the world's coolest silhouette competition @herobula.bsky.social

in case anyone wonders why i talk or write in the way i do, here's a card i just got from my mum, who talks like this

sci fi "don't make the world smaller in the sequel" challenge (impossible)

Annoyance

Commission for LaserFire

Artfight for @01laserfire01.bsky.social

You can actually do anything you want with music-- it's okay to have Baldi spanking it to Minecraft in your megamix before your key change-- it's beautiful

please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.

There are some days where I wonder what it would be like if I deleted all my social accounts, Discord and everything -- Would I do more with my time, would I get out more, if I didn't have the comfort of the internet to fall back to? As I've gotten older my world has shrunk and I really hate it

When my last job ended I didn’t suspect I’d still be looking for work 7 months later. I know I have so much more to offer in game dev, but at what point does trying to follow your ideal career path start holding your life back? I’m terrified that by now I need to ask myself what I’m even doing here

there are gonna need to be rehab centres for this, like, soon. i am being for real

Just watched Google Drive compress a 950 MB folder into a 951 MB zip archive

Salty dog. #antonblast

Punk rocker. #antonblast

Sign of the horns

New York City background art from "Fritz the Cat" (1972) by Ira Turek and Johnnie Vita #animationart #FritztheCat

WATCH OUT NOW SHE'S BREATHING FIRE SHE'S A DRAGON LADYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Toilet Dragon commission I made for @toiletdragon.bsky.social.

“I asked Grok” “I asked Chat GPT” Yeah well I asked the plants and the rocks and they said you’re a bitch

guys something's wrong with my plane

The game I've been leading at Double Fine got announced today! Coming in October this year!

a crash model me and @warpedformat.bsky.social are working on

that last part feels personal

Happy Pride to all my LGBTQIA+ chums!! I love you

Put up a bunch of unused songs I made for a Crash Bandicoot fan game in 2020-2021. These are fairly old and the mixing/production is a tad rough, but I’m still really proud of them so I've decided to preserve them as they were at the time. Hopefully someone out there finds these interesting lol