if it's bisexual visibility day, then why isn't anyone handing me a celebratory little snack right now?? i see biphobia has reared it's ugly head once again

solidarity between game developers? pretty good, but that's old news. the hot new shit is solidarity between sound designers and vfx artists because we're both at the very end of the game development pipeline. us kabooses gotta watch out for each other, because no one else will 😤

i think i'm finally going to play through every Metal Gear Solid game

writing up a list of personal and professional goals for my impending post-contract life. and uh-oh: my professional goals keep getting all over my personal goals! and my personal goals? keep spilling into my professional goals. whatta mess

recording bass guitar videos is hard because it's one thing to get a solid recording of a difficult bassline. but getting a solid recording of a difficult bassline while maintaining a normal facial expression is something else entirely

i joined the lovely hosts of The Silent Discographer last night to talk about the R.E.M. record 'Monster,' and defend it with my life if need be 🧡⚔️🧡 very happy the episode didn't get eaten by computer demons. looking forward to its eventual release!

dame development is real

guy outside of los chilakillers called me a cunt, which is not very cool of him. but then he also called me a cosmic vampire, and that's kind of cool, so who can say if this was a bad interaction or not

In Metal Gear Solid (1998), when fighting the Hind D helicopter, you're advised to keep track of its location by listening to the stereo panning. But if you've set "Sound" to "Monaural" in the Options menu, you get this exclusive addition. . .

listening to this mix and shaking my head the whole time so the sailor moon action figures in my studio know i disagree with it

game development? beat it, kid. guys like us, we only get outta bed in the mornin for Dame Development hachachachacha [starts doing the charleston]

me: making art is difficult. criticism is harsh and cruel. doctor: treatment is simple, stay away from your worst critics. go spend time by yourself me, bursting into tears: but doctor,

i'm not much of a breakfast person until i have a jar of homemade pesto i need to get through

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grocery store sushi gets a pretty bad rap, but i'll defend HEB sushi with my life

i really need to brush up on my Spanish, but i'm terrified that i'll mix up my languages and say "はい" instead of "si" to someone and then have to throw myself into traffic out of embarrassment

I think trans people are cool and I wish we lived in a society where they could relax and live their lives without the most uncool people on the planet constantly getting up in their business, just my two cents

having a very nice morning :)

hey I forgot to mention it, but I beat Skin Deep and I really enjoyed it. it was the first immersive sim I've played since Arkane Austin shut down, and getting into weird scrapes brought about by it's interlocking systems was good for my brain and also my heart. very fun game. go play it.

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must sometimes be incredibly weird to live in the world you spent your life advocating for

the worst thing about watching such a good and smart anime is that I'm gonna be ruined for other anime for a while. ohhhh, is your shounen protagonist the strongest but also the weakest? should we call Takaya Noriko?? get outta my face

The reason I care about accurately crediting team size is because the actual headcounts behind Silksong or E33 are still very impressive! But they involve a lot of contract labor and support studios that need to be highlighted, celebrated, and advocated for. These games aren't possible otherwise

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

i don't disagree with anything in this thread, but it's worth mentioning that these memes are usually posted in response to some natural disaster w/ significant fatalities happening in the south and a bunch of northerners posting "well they got what they deserved." i feel that this context is useful

hey what's up i'm at the beach with some friends

The Star: hope, renewal, healing 🌟 a card theme from Divinuet, my upcoming interactive tarot music experience

you ever think about how cute Kirby is and then start crying

occasionally I'll see/hear folks saying that there just shouldn't be any game studios in Texas at all considering how hostile the state is to marginalized folks. and yeah, the hostility is awful! but there *are* marginalized game devs living in Texas on purpose, and uh I'd like for us to have jobs

spent my weekend binging all of 'Orb: On The Movements Of The Earth,' an anime historical drama that takes place in 15th-century Poland and focuses on a cast of characters studying and debating heliocentrism, the theory that the earth revolves around the sun as opposed to the other way around

tonight I'm seeing a screening of Cabaret at the Paramount with some friends. I sure hope there aren't any uncomfortable parallels between the film and the reality of living in the US right now! I plan to settle into my seat as the lights dim and take a biiiiiiiiiiig sip of water and

did my part by lighting a candle and putting some crystals around it

knock it off y'all, you're gonna get my hopes up

crazy how they never made another L.A. Noire. and I'm talking in terms of either a direct sequel or a spiritual successor. super weird that we got *one* game that was Like That, and then never again

now recording...

i love my local coffee shop

hey. are you planning on making dinner for your friends and you want to make something fancy, but not too high effort? short ribs, my dudes. sear + braise them the day before, put the whole pot in the fridge overnight, reheat before your friends show up. they taste better on day two.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

Hey there. I see you’re interested in food. Well, watch out, because every food tastes different. Just because one food tastes good, that doesn’t mean a different food will taste good too. Well, that’s all. I think you’re ready to start your food journey. Come back if you need that info again.

looking at my reflection in the mirror and repeatedly stating "blue cheese crumbles are an ingredient, *not* a snack"

rescuing some precious cargo from my parent's home today

gonna need everyone to be cool and normal while my lemon-thyme-honey possets set in the fridge

recorded another DJ mix last night. less house, more rowdy bass music this time, which is why i'm posting it on a sunday morning of course www.mixcloud.com/DJ_Maff/set-...

I was there but I didnt run. I curled up on the couch and covered my eyes like the soldier I am.

i was around 7 when i reached Queen Gohma for the first time in Ocarina Of Time. when the camera zoomed in on her eye, i ran out of the room screaming and my parents had to turn off the N64 for me lmao

one thing you really have to be careful of online is not letting your experiences with annoying people online drive your politics for real material issues. the internet is real but also your phone is a portal to a world that doesn’t fucking exist

thinkin about games

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