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Alanna Smith

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🧬 Co-Founder, Lore + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca 📜 Archivist + Caretaker of dnacreative.notion.site/codex ✨ Notion Seller (my Notions could kill a dragon) 📺 Co-Creator, Former Producer/Editor of #FutureOfPlay Direct ⚔️ Semi-retired #cosplay lady 🖤🤍💜

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤

Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬

📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all
💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible
🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!)
dnacreative.notion.site/codex

DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library

DNA CODEX is a free digital GameDev Library built and maintained by DnA Creative - a curated and community supported digital archive for game development resources.

dnacreative.notion.site

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 4h

We can't let Andrew get too rich cause this just sounds like how Pacific Rim starts 😂

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 15h

Alas I'm more of a temp tattoo person 😂 but these are lovely!

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!!

I'm Nic, a queer tattooer in Toronto, ON. I specialize in illustrative tattoos of characters ✨ I love working with black ink & textured fills

Portfolio: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic
Flash book: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic-flash-drop
Booking form: forms.gle/PHNRSoBPPrvw...

Tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on light skin

Tattoo of a celestial woman with a sun face and starry hair on dark skin.

A dragon tattoo on a shoulderblade on light skin

Three tattoos of snapshots of characters, collected on a thigh. Light skin and black and grey inks, with a pop of red.

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 22h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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🎀Frae's Fortunes🎀 Stuck In Timeloop @fraesfortunes.bsky.social · 21h

💖Hello again, #PortfolioDay💖

🎀Frae's Fortunes🎀 Stuck In Timeloop @fraesfortunes.bsky.social · Apr 8

💖Hello, #PortfolioDay💖

I'm Frances! An illustrator, character designer and visual development artist with experience in the game industry + more!

I am LOOKING FOR WORK and super available!✨Feel free to reach out!
💌 [email protected]
🎨 fortunaillustration.com
🌴 FraesFortunes.carrd.co

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 19h

Is GDC sponsored by the Minecraft movie now or something?

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 1d

Now why would y'all repost this

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 1d

Thank youuuu yeah it's from the unit above me so cost shouldn't fall to me at least. They got it stopped but Imma need ceiling repair 😭

At least it was the bathroom. I had a kitchen leak at my old place and that just went EVERYWHERE. Craft room sounds WILD ugh my retroactive sympathies 🫠

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 2d

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

Oh okay at least YOU'RE cozy SEBASTIAN 🥲

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning and happy thanksgiving I guess 🫠

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 3d

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2d

So it’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and this is your reminder it is not “Canadian Thanksgiving.”

WE STARTED THANKSGIVING. Like most good things, Americans stole the idea off us.

It began in 1578 as a harvest celebration. It was an official holiday in 1879.

It remains a harvest celebration.

Thanksgiving in Canada

The first official, annual Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated on 6 November 1879. However, Indigenous peoples in Canada have a history of celebrating the fa...

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Comrat / Comms Closed @boonekeller1.bsky.social · 12d

the shittiest art you DO make is always better than the perfect art you never make

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

Most days I'm the opposite of an Idea Guy - I prefer to work on other folks' creative projects or engage in derivative works

But every like... 250 days or so I'm struck by my own original idea for something. Now here I am intrigued and mystified and whatnot. Dare I write it down...🤔

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

Gary this reaction image is WILD 🤣

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

The voices of the wind would never recommend me some linkedin-ass response that's for damn sure 😤

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 2d

Entities I would consult for advice before ChatGPT:
- Friends
- Sibling(s)
- Parent(s)
- Therapist
- Colleagues
- Extended family
- A psychic
- The spirits of the ancestors
- The voices of the wind whistling through the trees
- Reddit

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 4d

Many favourites for many reasons, but Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's first trailer still gets me in my feelings

🎶 Everything's gonna--🎵
🎵 --we gon be alright 🎶

🙅🏾‍♀️👑🖤
youtu.be/RlOB3UALvrQ?...

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