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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻

@angeloslh.bsky.social

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Freelance Concept/2D/UI artist - Total War Battles:Shogun/Rome II/Fable Fortune/The Bradwell Conspiracy/Voodoo Detective/Onlycans:Thirst Date UI Designer on Pacific Drive/Date Everything! Enquiries: [email protected] She/Her www.saford.art #Art

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · Oct 10

Hi! I'm a Freelance Concept/2D/UI Artist in the games industry.

I was the UI Designer for Pacific Drive, and did some early UI vis dev concepts and design for the upcoming game 'Date Everything!'

Poke me for projects big and small!

Portfolio: www.saford.art
Enquiries: [email protected]

#art

Sarah Ford Freelance Concept 2D UI
saford.art
saford@outlook.com

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 3m

I dunno the "big colleges" side of it but the "industry ready" thing is wild yeah, that's what people were expecting to get out of uni when I was there 20 years ago and they were so angry that they were being 'taught' out of date stuff

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 5m

( it's not something I'll halt my career to do, I just wonder sometimes if there's ways to think that I never learned because while I did go to uni, when you're in your early 20s your attitude always sucks lol )

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 7m

Oof 💀

Meanwhile im here like, dreaming of spending a couple of years doing nothing but study again, like there's so much more to learn and it sucks that we can't make a choice to get more education without that being a serious financial burden.

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 21m

The amount of people on my uni course who didn't get that and were angry that they weren't being 'taught' things 🫠

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 29m

Isn't the entire point of uni to put you in situations where you have to learn how to think for yourself, do research etc? It's not the same thing as being trained to do a specific task, it's learning a skillset that can apply across a lot of situations 💀

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 33m

I feel like it just, suddenly became winter this week, it's so freaking chilly

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Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 14d

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely wild that MS are sending me a message telling me to verify my age when my Xbox account is at least 20 years old.

The *email address* I use is like 28 years old lmao

Leave me ALOOONNNEE

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats on leaving it tho, it's sounded, not fun for a while

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 2h

Oh we are FUCKED fucked

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 4h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 2h

I literally leave the radio on for my snake in the other room and it's nice to wander in and hear something

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 12h

Makes sense, you gotta know what you like before you buy it ( most of the time, my habits this year have been based on recommendations from friends 😅 )

Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 13h

So are the payment providers going to block people from paying for chat gpt when it goes sexy orrrrr

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · 13h

I have a gamedev friend looking to commission an artist for some short-term contract work on a Tower Defense prototype.

Someone who can draw vehicles, character portraits and.. (you guessed it) towers!!

If your commissions are open, mind leaving your art and rates below? 🎨

#jobalert #artjobs

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 14h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 18h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 15h

I love this because it does absolutely nothing to explain to newcomers what GDC (or the "festival of gaming") is or why they should attend, while also deeply alienating anyone who has gone in the past who just wants a professional conference for networking.