Jack | Strider

@striderau.bsky.social

NB | ASD | ADHD Sydney-based 3D artist, screenwriter, & hopeful storyteller Drifting through life with @ambientcosplay and our flock 🦜🦜

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

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had the opportunity to play Campaign Evolved over the weekend; For the most part, it was generally ok! Not a sprint hater but it doesn't really work here, everything is paced for slower movement. ADS on non-precision weapons (something that's been a feature since Halo 5) isn't something I vibe with

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I've read so many "hot takes" about accessibility in my ten-year career; this, though, takes the absolute cake. No, accessibility is not responsible for closing studios, wasting millions, or causing layoffs. Don't be like this guy.

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Richard Boisvert a Principal Technical Cinematic Artist who said: It's an unbelievable thing to see that menu narration is enabled by default in the new Halo game, a feature that caters to blind people. What Halo Studios / 343 is essentially saying is this:

"We need this option on by default because a blind person is incapable of navigating the menu to find and enable it. However, once enabled, they can play the game just fine."

This is the end-state of the inclusive and accessibility mafia. They cater so hard to the edge-case, that they actually make unreasonable defaults to the majority. Why don't they also enable the colorblind filters too? What's the difference?

It doesn't matter that you can "just turn it off" or that it's "no big deal". The fact that they went with that as the DEFAULT is insanity. It shows how warped the frame-of-mind and worldview is of these people. This shows, by proxy, the beurocratic bloat of AAA. 

These are the kinds of decisions and infrastructures that kill companies, waste millions, cause layoffs, and I am sick of seeing it. We are not in a gaming crash because of "greed", we are in a crash because of stupid shit like this.

#MARATHON WEAPON CONCEPT: Venerable Maxim 'Belt-fed rotary gatling gun. Sustained fire reduces weapon effectiveness.' "A relic of the past, this weapon and others like it were used by the first generation of battleroids deployed to Onicis 492, and strangely, found stored aboard the UESC Marathon.

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my tiktok algorithm feed changed today with zero input from my own preferences (i engaged with/searched for nothing the entire time) and now all i'm exposed to is white people openly saying racial slurs, nazis calling for the extermination of minorities, ai generated news content and so much more

Sam Neill spent some of his lockdown posting wholesome chats and duck-cuddling content from his home in New Zealand. These meant a lot to me during a pretty dark time. This drawing was inspired by one of his posts. Thanks for everything, Sam. Your amazing films and your humanity. Rest in peace.

A 2020 illustration of one of Sam Neill's lockdown quotes. It is drawn in the style of Animal Crossing, which was also a big warm hug at the time.

Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images created by Rachel Lense. She is no longer at NASA, NASA is no longer celebrating diversity, and that old image just made me sad. So I made a new one. patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/pride-...

The Pride Flag, but make it space | CosmoQuestX

Years ago, NASA put out a Progress Pride flag of space images. David Shiffman has a good article about it here, where he interviews the crea

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durandal when he's winning: they're gonna measure my dick in lightyears, little man. i'm teleporting you into the ninth circle of hell, there's a button down there i need you to press. ciao durandal when he's losing: listen man. we're gonna be ok. you're important to me

The modern corporate environment for video games (and frankly, too much other stuff) is having a hot new exec come in, look at the Golden Goose that reliably lays 1 golden egg per week, say, "I bet it has golden bones!", kill it, and then leave with an exit bonus for hitting quarterly goals.

Rebekah Valentine@duckvalentine.bsky.social · last mo.

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

anyway, got my hands on Sentinel and started making some alternate skins! took a while to clean up the texture detailing on his arms and legs but it was worth it in the end 🙌 image one is based on the OG Runner from the announcement trailer, image two is inspired by the mannequins on Outpost 🙂

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