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.chantal//RYAN

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:: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social ::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱 πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer πŸ‘‚ podcast: directional.show βœ‰οΈ chantal @ whalitfdotcom

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I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this πŸ˜‰

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 1594 πŸ” 434 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 24

viva pinata gets better the longer you put time into it! it gets layers of complication added. maybe worth a lil more time?

06.03.2026 07:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's for the best

05.03.2026 07:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sorry, that's classified

05.03.2026 07:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

later known as The Somerton Man

05.03.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i know some peopler prefer the "never bother/ask out a stranger" thing & that's totally valid

i actually do like the little social encounters & am a fan of the opportunity for the romance of seeing someone who seems totally intriguing & feeling if thats a doorway that can open

just make it snappy

05.03.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i am begging men that if you want to ask a random girl out please just DO IT and don't sit there "not staring" and being creepy and making her feel hyper-perceived for 40 minutes as she waits for you to go away

trust me she knows

shoot your shot & hit or miss & be on your way politely

05.03.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't seen it, but thank you for sharing! I'm going to watch this with my kid, who's as super interested in particle physics and similar strands as his nerdy mother.

05.03.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh, don't even get me started. reappearing items in impossible places is a fixture in my household. and i have also experienced duplication too many times to deny it's a real life phenomena that no one talks about

05.03.2026 06:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and one time, my brand new tub of butter

05.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of post from new scientist:

The standard model of cosmology is the astonishing result of decades of studying how the universe behaves. It works beautifully well, yet we know it is lacking. Now, we are in the aftermath of bombshell results from the largest ever map of the universe that suggest dark energy, one of the tenets of the standard model, does not act the way we thought. In this momentously exciting moment, some cosmologists are arguing we need to be prepared to throw out this standard model – but will the rest of the community ever be prepared to step into the unknown?

accompanying image says space: A CRISIS IN COOSMOLOGY MAY MEAN HIDDEN DIMENSIONS REALLY EXIST with a blue and green dimensional swirl pic

screenshot of post from new scientist: The standard model of cosmology is the astonishing result of decades of studying how the universe behaves. It works beautifully well, yet we know it is lacking. Now, we are in the aftermath of bombshell results from the largest ever map of the universe that suggest dark energy, one of the tenets of the standard model, does not act the way we thought. In this momentously exciting moment, some cosmologists are arguing we need to be prepared to throw out this standard model – but will the rest of the community ever be prepared to step into the unknown? accompanying image says space: A CRISIS IN COOSMOLOGY MAY MEAN HIDDEN DIMENSIONS REALLY EXIST with a blue and green dimensional swirl pic

i told u guys

this is where the pens and socks are. and my glasses and tv remote

05.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

gratitude journals are literally brainhacks for overriding bad mental health and depressive states and i hate that they've been rolled into "toxic positivity" mockery as completely as they have

they work even if you BARELY stick with them and people should use this 😭

05.03.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a purple shirt is asking what if we did the same thing .. Alt: a man in a purple shirt is asking what if we did the same thing ..
04.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RE9 hitting 5 million sales in 5 days is fucking amazing. Especially since I was told several years ago by an exec that single-player games were dead πŸ€”

04.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 6

dweebs wanna be nerds but they ain't got the chops

04.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

dweebs wanna be nerds but they ain't got the chops

04.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i appear to have a nerd/dweeb hierarchy

04.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like this has been an issue for coming up on a decade now... my theory is that usually the only people who were making software were the absolute nerds who learned programming for the love of it.

but people identified it as a $ job & there were lots of positions so it got filled with dweebs

04.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Four people are smiling in a selfie they have taken outdoors. Three men and one woman are all rather tall, white, and brown-to-auburn-haired. They are dressed up fancy in suits and jewellery, as if going to a Summer wedding (they were).

Four people are smiling in a selfie they have taken outdoors. Three men and one woman are all rather tall, white, and brown-to-auburn-haired. They are dressed up fancy in suits and jewellery, as if going to a Summer wedding (they were).

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04.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

that feeling when you have 2 gigabytes worth of hands

04.03.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

here we're seeing gambling addiction on a corporate level

03.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com

meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

03.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 796 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 14

you are wonderful and i adore you πŸ₯°

03.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In 2019, I created #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after I was stopped by security 3(!!) times while picking up my speaker badge. I’m a small Asian woman with pink hair, and I guess I didn’t visually meet their expectations of a speaker.

Ironically, I was at GDC to speak about inclusive studio cultures. 🫠

02.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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a man in a grey shirt says what if i was a robot and didn 't know it Alt: a man in a grey shirt lifts his hands and says what if i was a robot and didn 't know it

kind of disconcerting how often i need to click a button that declares "I am not a robot"

03.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is genuinely so good :) what a gem. i'm honoured to have contributed an article. pick it up, it's deeply worth your time if you work in the industry at all. this book is full of thoughts not just for writers but for people who create interactive dream|fiction spaces <3

03.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i a shegaythey will always interact with your stupid little posts about video games

do not recommend making a game tho

02.03.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

~*~*~~be a little freak~~*~*~

02.03.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

exquisite photos! you did so well! the colours are so beautiful too <3

02.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

solidarity, dude. "is it me attacking myself from the outside or me attacking myself from the inside? who can say!"

also coupled with the fun "is this a new concerning symptom of external disease or is this a new medication side effect?" game

02.03.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0