there is only one more very-specific celebrity death i would find acceptable for this week. the rest of y'all, please hold onto that mortal coil reeeeaaaaal tight
Emily E. Meo
@emilyemeo.bsky.social
contract audio artist at EA. music maker at home. previously at Retro Studios and Arkane Austin. N2日本語でOK. she/her.
aw man, Peter Cullen. my first gig in games was on Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark, and it felt so crazy at the time to share a game credit with him, even if my role was a minor one. rest easy.
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
The story of Dolly giving Brigette Bandit a guitar is so cool: www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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okie (they/them)@okie.gay · 2d agoTexas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
man, i have probably the most shallow and casual familiarity with Dolly Parton's music but the news still hit me like a truck. i keep thinking about the Imagination Library and getting choked up
Welp it happened again, once again looking for my next role (full time, contract, or consultation). #opentowork
so it turns out my math here was a bit sloppy, but NOW i am roughly five months away from the end of my contract in late January! do YOU need a sound designer / game audio generalist on your team in late January? if so, let's chat!
Emily E. Meo@emilyemeo.bsky.social · last mo.i'll be back on the job market after my contract with EA ends in exactly five months! do YOU need to hire a sound designer and/or implementer and/or composer in five months? if so, let's talk about it.
Hey, great to see you! So stoked you invited me to your mysterious lab. Looking forward to walking behind you as you exposit all your cool projects! Just a minute though I gotta dip behind the security desk and read the messages on the terminal. Oh hold up these posters on the wall are readable too.
Friendly Reminder: 3DS, Vita and Switch all use a type of flash memory that needs an electrical charge every decade or so to keep the game data from corrupting. TLDR: Boot up all your games and make a save on them to help preserve them into the future!
today i have decided to violently transform into a sound designer who understands how Reaper subprojects work and uses them regularly. [my hands start shaking] ah, it's already begun! [the sound of tearing flesh is heard, i double over] augh it hurts but it'll be worth it for the efficiencyyy
i read this book twice in a row; once on it's own, and then again with the online bibliography open on my computer. what a book! and what a tremendous effort it took to make it
Emily E. Meo@emilyemeo.bsky.social · 6d ago'Charity and Sylvia,' by Tillie Walden. beautiful story, beautiful art, beautiful book. makes a great case for not living in the early 1800's. seems like a time period with some problems
so happy to see Black Pony Immersive spinning up. whatever they release, i will be first in line to buy it. and then i will annoy all of my friends and family into also buying it too.
Rhythm Heaven Groove. i come out the other side $250,000,000 richer, AND trained up to be eternally in the pocket. seems like a good deal to me.
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · last wk.You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
today's the first day of JLPT registration for all US test sites! if you intend to take the JLPT in December, make a registration plan *today.* my registration plan is to set approximately 1000 alarms for noon pdt
you either die a Rei, or you live long enough to become an Asuka
look, if i'm gonna get Gendo in a blind box, it's only Appropriate and Correct that i get the Gendo with a SOUND ONLY seele panel right behind him
we're still making our way through The Sopranos and my least favorite character finally got whacked. i'm on top of the world.
finally decided to troubleshoot a problem that had been costing me a couple of work hours a month, and it turns out that it actually took me only 15 minutes to fix once i really put my mind to it. there is a lesson here, and oh my god i sure hope it sticks!!
As is my custom, I climbed some more mountains this summer and wrote a little photoblog about it. And I only brought up the Grateful Dead where thematically relevant. postmaff.com/maff-colorad...
Maff Colorado 2026: Fire on the Mountains - Post Maff
Long distance runner, what you standing there for?
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There's an evolution to sound design audio where for the first few years one often targets absolute realism. Then suddenly you understand the actual target is making the unreal *feel* real. It's not just dumping audio physics into an engine. Mastery of anything is knowing exactly how to break rules.
Brenda Romero's beautiful 'Chasing Lilacs' is a personal history told through the lens of gaming: aftermath.site/chasing-lilacs/
every few years, i seriously consider buying a new car. this means that every few years i get mad that Honda discontinued the Fit. this also means that every few years i read new horror stories about terrible dealership experiences. my kingdom for a pleasant experience buying a cute red town car
been picking out gameplay clips for a new sound design reel this weekend. I'm sure everyone has a different strategy for this, but my method is to pick games that are 1) around 5 years old, and 2) made by studios full of audio designers i'm completely unaffiliated with.
oh thank god they finally added more Pizzicato Five records to Tidal!! everything from Romantique 96 on. my friends, go forth and spread the good word
happy Fields of Mistria day!! i've been playing on and off since the beginning of early access; the game started out great and keeps getting better
Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0@fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · 3w agoFields of Mistria 1.0 is here!✨ Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 1.0 is just the beginning. 🌱 Download on Steam: bit.ly/Mistria
when i was a kid, i found some Japanese-language Zelda manga at the LA Kinokuniya while on a trip, and i *begged* my parents to buy it for me even though i couldn't really read it. i poured over every page nonetheless. anyway, after 8 years of independent Japanese study i can read it now ✌️
