Francis Kirkpatrick

@frakirk.bsky.social

Co-founder of @LiquidStatic.bsky.social I'm a game designer with a lot of tech art experience and a software engineering degree, so uuhhh I'm a technical designer I guess? Living in Aotearoa. He/him

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Hah ha get rekt ol musky and altman! Filling my "cyborg crab art" search results with ai slop only makes me MORE motivated to find the perfect art for my custom magic cards! 🕳️🤖🤛💨😤

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Decks with 20 cards: Minimalist. Elegant. Exemplary. 35 cards: Not particularly optimised, but versatile while still being reliable... 50 cards: Hark! The Lord ought strike me down for my avarice! 125 cards: Far too much isn't even *close* to enough.

A screenshot of my opening hand against the final boss in a run of Slay the Spire 2. 
My deck has 125 cards in it, and my hand has 5 Mind Blasts, which are guaranteed to be drawn first and deal damage equal to the size of my draw pile. 
The boss has 400 health, so I won in my first turn with a Mind Blast to spare.That classic image of a cat staring  pensively at an enormous pile of hot dogs.

Can someone make an "extraction metroidvania" for me please? I wanna play Silksong with my Arc Raiders friends. Also if that isn't trendy enough already, I'm comfortable with adding friend-slop elements 💰📈✨🤔

Me, reading math stuff on Wikipedia to learn about collision detection: "Woah all these cool sci-fi words like Hyperplane and Disjoint Convex Set are kinda intimidating, the people who come up with this jargon must be super smart..." *I nervously click through more pages of big brain math stuff*

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for "Closed Set" featuring the sentence: 
"Sets that are both open and closed are called clopen sets."

Today's dumb pun that evolved into an intrusive thought: (Because with all the balloons it's not so heavy, get it?) (Also, stories about intergenerational friendships and critiques of masculinity are great for all ages)

A poster of the Pixer film UP, poorly edited to have the characters of Robert Eggers' film The Lighthouse plastered on top.

The extremely clever joke is that "light" can mean either bright or not-heavy, so the house in Up is technically a "light house".

Also funny how both films are about two men of different generations/cultures, their struggles to cooperate and achieve mutual understanding, and the thrilling situations brought about by their unconventional house.