@trigrows
Sr. Combat Designer @ Giant Skull working on a single-player action adventure game in the D&D universe!!! // previously combat designer on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Marvel's Wolverine https://linktr.ee/trigrows
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Matt Johnson (left) and Jay McCarrol in Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie.
Like the min-maxing of that, for some reason, put me in a headspace that was so primed for the editing process of filmmaking, where you realize that so much of moviemaking, after you've shot it, really is gamified. You're dealing with the footage you've shot, the seconds you have in a shot, how you're cutting from this thing to this other thing. It's not like this is a conscious act that I'm taking, but it feels like a game, and it feels like a game you can win when you're editing your own stuff.
I think just having that approach to it allowed me, especially at a young age, to become totally lost in the process of post-production and editing and re-editing and rewriting things and redoing it, and redoing it, and redoing it in the same way you would a video game and viewing filmmaking like you would view playing a game where it's like, yes - you die. But then you come back, and you get to play the level again, and you can die again, and then get a little bit farther, and a little bit farther. And that iterative process got drilled into me by playing these games where the difficulty was way beyond my ability to play them. That helped me to view filmmaking as that same exact thing, where if you go in and do it and it doesn't work? That doesn't mean you stop and put the controller down, or that you go, "Okay, well, that's as good as I can do. So I'm just going to deliver this." It's like playing Dark Souls. The fun of it is trying to do it again, and again, and again, and again until you really have it right.
Nirvanna The Band The Movie, BlackBerry, and the upcoming Magic: The Gathering movie director, Matt Johnson, explains how growing up with video games prepared him for the iterative process of making and editing movies. gameinformer.com/interview/20...
Watch this.
19 minutes and $12 to get meds at a public Chinese hospital. Without insurance.
As we slash Medicaid to start unnecessary wars and cut taxes for the rich. 🇺🇸
We should all be so much angrier than we are. It doesn’t have to be this way. #MedicareForAllNOW
An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.
The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.
(📸 Middle East Observer)
This Anthropic and Pentagon standoff is not getting enough attention. Anthropic is prepared to walk away from a $200M contract because they’re concerned about how the Pentagon wants to use their tech for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. We are at a dangerous intersection.
Marvel's Wolverine
Insomniac has finally announced the release date for Marvel's Wolverine: September 15. gameinformer.com/2026/02/24/m...
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Recent Sony game studio acquisitions
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
When they make movies about this in the future they will tone down the cruelty of ICE and border patrol, like Spielberg did with Goeth in Schindler's List, because no one will believe they were actually this monstrous.
Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed
youtu.be/KmasyRrWowc
Minnesota still needs your attention
BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
What a moment.
Together...
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is $10.49 on US PSN buff.ly/8wsBZ5I
Steam $8.39 buff.ly/ckEnhGK
have said this a lot and will continue to say it regularly: doomscrolling creates hopelessness which creates helplessness, actually getting out there volunteering or just connecting with neighbors gives confidence and hope and purpose. it is really as simple as that.
Fascism is here 🇺🇸
techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
Now you too can play a slowed down version of a game from 20 years ago with no actual level design or enemies and all it costs is a complete collapse of the world economy, biosphere, education system, and multiple entire creative industries.
"I'm speechless."
Here's a thank you letter from VEAP for everybody who donated to our ICE Out Charity Stream with @giantbomb.bsky.social!
You can still donate, help us cross $275,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
We're soooo close to hitting $270,000 for our ICE Out charity drive with @giantbomb.bsky.social, let's push it over the line for the grand finale. Thank you for protecting the people of Minneapolis! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
"Everything we do is legal, ethical, and moral."
Don't believe ICE and their lies, please help share what's happening in Minneapolis. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
I spent the weekend trying to process what's happening in my city of Minneapolis, Minnesota by creating this video. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
