chris balser 🖤
@doomfunk.bsky.social
systems designer. artist. writer. doer of silly voices. salmiakki advocate. worked on ESO, Starfield, Diablo 4, Cyberpunk 2. having one very, very long blonde moment.
Xbox's 1,600 person "reset" didn't hit 14 layers of management. It hit devs who built the worlds you love. Faceless brands don't make games - people like Ben Carnow and his team do. #SaveGameWorkers and tell Microsoft to end these cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)
May May the Nard@maymaythenard.bsky.social · yesterdayPlease please please.. we need the Kiwi
had a daydream that a nu-metal syndicate like p-funk had formed, called slipkorn
in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
reflecting on having now finally seen Nolan's Odyssey, i am possessed by a bizarre thought as a fan of older adventure comics - i think pattinson would actually make a pretty good Conan. he's got the structure of nose, cheek, and jaw to suit the comic art. give him a bowl cut and let him grunt.
Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d agoBjörk in 1996, by Takashi Homma
Without serious public pushback, trillionaire corporations like Microsoft will continue to treat talented developers like Naomi Green as expendable. Help us break this unbalanced system and #SaveGameWorkers by telling Microsoft to end their cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
Welcoming Street Fighter's Yasmine to the small but notable clique of Filipino Fighting Game women. #streetfighter #tekken #soulcalibur #deadoralive
you should really read these books, especially if: - you like speculative fiction that is doing something really, really different - you like your magic to have rules but also need a kind of strict poesis - you think skeletons are cool
Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d agoWant a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)
downplay a book or movie: just one letter from the underground, that's all
Lynne@overquailified.bsky.social · 3d agoMiddling Expectations
User researchers like Elisabeth Whyte made sure players' voices were heard in your favorite Xbox games. On July 6th, Elisabeth and her entire team at Zenimax were laid off. Now, make your voice heard and #SaveGameWorkers by telling Microsoft to end their cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
the raspiest, most gravelly voice i ever heard just going "he's a blues man" in my ear at this exceptionally hard kk slider art
Panic Caption@captionpanic.bsky.social · 2y agoK.K. TV
like twenty years ago now, my spouse and our friends recognized that i have a real problem, an addict's response to doing research. i now know this is pretty common in people with adhd but it's SO strong w/me. anyway i find it very understandable that a fellow infomaniac would find AI compelling.
People are calling it "Crust Punk Wizardry 8" store.steampowered.com/app/4020690/...
FERAL BLOOD DOLL on Steam
Psychedelic gutter sludge CRPG for hot people. Nonlinear, interaction-rich psycho bad girl roleplay in a decaying postmodern megastructure. Fast-paced turn-based combat lets you eat cops, puke on feds...
store.steampowered.com
this game is great btw. one of my favorite things about it is ithaca is like the first place you go. see, odysseus? it's not hard!!
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 6d agoFollowing the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film on July 17, daily active users of Assassin's Creed Odyssey increased significantly across all platforms www.gamesindustry.biz/analyst-data...
On July 6th, Microsoft laid off 50% of id Software. Among these cuts were folks like John "Jebus" Roberts, a principal engine programmer on the id Tech engine. For 15 years, Jebus supported the games you love. #SaveGameWorkers by telling Microsoft to end their cycles of layoffs: shorturl.at/5ruBE
Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.
15 years at double fine comes to an end. It’s understandable since I’d been mostly dealing with MS and well… role closed. I hope they can survive.
i didn't really eat cheese as a kid and despite having tried to develop a taste for the funk as an adult many cheeses have a bouquet, aftertaste, or grit i find intolerable. I don't eat many cheeses, apologies. my fav cheese is leipäjuusto. buttery flavour, nice firm texture, extremely versatile.
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
The best translation of the name Odysseus would be Max Payne
this is the thing that's been driving me crazy about placing an extremely literate author and classicist against an extremely literate filmmaker, the comparison was never really about the merits of either work. it's a brazen attempt to drum up a sort of culture war event ex nihilo, and it sucks?
Dr Florence H R Scott@florencehrscott.bsky.social · last wk.Makes it sound like she’s leading an unprompted crusade against the film so that we all go ‘what a load of elitist gatekeeping’ when actually she was commissioned by a literary publication to give her opinion as a scholar for people who like to read that sort of thing
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Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.
