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Justin Smith

@odd-dimensions.bsky.social

Sr. Unity + C# game developer with 20+ years of XP. website: https://odd-dimensions.com LFW, freelance and consulting, DMs open. #solodev #indiegame ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/talljustinsmith

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Arielle Danan ⚔️@huggablehipster.bsky.social · 6h ago

"The underlying story of Edward and the struggles he faces mentally are vastly more interesting than the swollen Assassins Creed formula that still has me in exhaustion from Valhalla." huggablehipster.wixsite.com/huggablehips...

Gold Over Purpose, an Adventure over Meaning: Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Review

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, originally released in 2013, and is thought by many to be one of the best Assassin's Creed games. While there was nothing inherently “unlikable” about Black Flag, it was ...

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United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 8h ago

If you work for any studio of any size, your loyalty should never lie with a company. Instead, your loyalty and solidarity should always be with your fellow worker! We deserve better than this! YOU deserve better than this! PLAYERS deserve better than this!

James B. Jones@jamesbjones.com · 8h ago

If you work for a AAA studio and somehow haven't had it click yet, let this be yet another reminder that you owe no loyalty to any studio - as they will absolutely not be loyal to you. This sucks. My condolences to those impacted.

Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 6h ago

if you want to see if a company has any solidarity with workers, start talking to your coworkers about their salaries at the office and see how it goes.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 8h ago

If you work for any studio of any size, your loyalty should never lie with a company. Instead, your loyalty and solidarity should always be with your fellow worker! We deserve better than this! YOU deserve better than this! PLAYERS deserve better than this!

Justin Smith@odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 5h ago

As someone who currently uses government(ish) software built in 1996 for a related field: it has its problems, the UI/UX is by far the worst. But it is relatively stable and functional. Not fast. And don't try to edit more than 6 records at a time. But within known limitations, it's solid enough.

Katherine the Sixth@luigithirty.bsky.social · 7h ago

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 11h ago

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

A swirling, complex view of yellow–orange–brown wisp-like features. The dark shape in the middle is a superposed outline of the island of Ireland to show scale.
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 15h ago

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

2/2 The close-ups of my wildfire embroidery. I tried to get a glowing effect with the fire and embers with colours I chose. I cut up my favourite cardigan for the rough charred ground as it was the only fabric I had with the right colour and texture but its not needed in this heat anyway...

A zoomed-in embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool. Embers glow in the trees.A zoomed-in embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool. Embers glow in the trees.Bild
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 16h ago

“The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing… The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest” #WyrdWednesday

From Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, by John Gregorson Campbell (1900) The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing, and when tillage in common existed, instances were known of a ridge being left unshorn (no person would claim it) because of it being behind the rest. The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest. Much emulation and amusement arose from the fear of this old woman; and from it arose the expression, “Better is a mercy-leap in harvest than a sheaf additional” (’As fearr leum-iochd a’s t’ fhogaradh na sguab a bharrachd). The cum-iochd, or mercy-leap, is where a rocky mound or a soft spot, where no corn grows, occurs in a ridge. Its occurrence was a great help to the shearing being done. The first done made a doll of some blades of corn, which was called the ‘old wife,’ and sent it to his nearest neighbour. He in turn, when ready, passed it to another still less expeditious, and the person it last remained with had the ‘old woman’ to keep for that year. The old wife was known in Skye as the Cripple Goat (a Ghobhar Bhacach). The fear of the Cailleach in harvest made a man in Saor-bheinn, in the Ross of Mull, who farmed his land in common with another, rise and shear his corn by moonlight. In the morning he found it was his neighbour’s corn he had cut.
Caleb Dume@thacalebdume.bsky.social · 16h ago

If you use AI to write your story or your music, you’re a loser. I don’t have time for anything you’ve presented because you didn’t have time to actually work at being creative. If that makes me an asshole, I’ll be that. It’s not the first time I’ve been called an asshole, and it won’t be the last.

Jörg Tittel@newjorg.bsky.social · yesterday

Mark my words: EA will be PIF & Friends’ vehicle to mass acquire everyone and everything in the game industry - including some of the biggest remaining players - not because it makes financial sense, but because it’ll give them total political control over mainstream culture and discourse.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 3d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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