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I help people make games (DevPods.gg). GameDev since 97. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor. Formerly IGDA LA, IndieCade, Extra Credits. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 170k podcast DL. Vegan 23yr. Mask😷 he/him

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Aug 1

btw if you or someone you know is a beginner/intermediate gamedev having trouble finding friendly teammates we connect people in a flexible process to finish long-term projects together, freeware jam vibes but 2-6 month schedules. no genAI art etc, the whole purpose is for people to learn and collab

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h

lot of young people similarly think that like in old shows we just memorized directions to drive places before gps, not realizing as with phone numbers the way we all did it at that time was completely randomly until it worked. this is one of the factors when we refer to how time used to move slower

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 18h

lot of the stuff going on, in my opinion? bad

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 8h

I arranged them in that order 🙈

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

this marc jacobs suit looks like ninja turtles

select your turtle interface arcade game graphics ordered orange mike / purple donetello / blue Leonardo / red raphael, same order as suit colore. i slightly adjusted saturation to slightly better match the suit shades.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

my friend on season 2 episode 6/7ish of twin peaks: is this the season finale

a man in a suit and tie is talking to two other men in suits and ties .

Alt: michael scott in a suit and tie is talking to packer he says buckle up it's gonna be a bumpy one! behind him kevin observes with a neutral expression.

media.tenor.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

check this out! 💤🥔👇🏼

Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 12h

Pupdate from DC: sleepy potato

A pudgy white French bulldog sleeps all curled up on a brown leather couch with his head resting on a pillow. He's sleeping pretty hard.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

I've had courses on Udemy for 10+ years, talk with a few of the top instructors, don't know this for sure but my guess from how that ecosystem works is I suspect many instructors try to boost their course signups with reddit posts and replies framed as students, enough their filter assumes it's spam

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this idea, but it seems like a cool way to open an electronic song

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

my desktop pc speakers when I was about to get a text message in 2002

Jeff Penny @jeffpennyaudio.bsky.social · 14h

It's just one of those nights where mysterious messages of unknown origins are repeating themselves to you through your speakers.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

when your friend staying over wants white noise to sleep but all you've got is that cheap seattle spring rain they got sick of hearing years ago

Guy taking off headphones disgusted meme.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

but when we'd finally work up the courage to first call our crush their parent would answer the house landline which, at least as I remember it, caused us to die

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

because when it comes to the correct mix of background noises in arcades there are absolutely such people: arcade.hofle.com

or when it comes to k-mart store tapes it's me, I'm those people

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

among people who are into white noise rain recordings are there aficionados / connoisseurs who can discern and care about like an yes this was recorded in Colorado September or Minnesota May, a classic 2015 Finland July hail

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

I'm mostly being silly, but when I've lived in areas with extreme traffic (LA, SF, Atlanta, more recently Boston) I've tended to use gps even for some drives I've done plenty of times if it's over 20 minutes since depending on what time I left etc a different route might meaningfully take less time

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

this is also why all information propagation was so slow, mailing things like opinion letters for the newspaper was a gd nightmare sending it to random addresses and having to constantly send things back that we received if they weren't intended for us. this was the main innovation that e-mail fixed

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

if you have time to get 15 tickets at the skeeball machine I could really use one of those little parachute green army men

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h

this morning i nearly made the same edit to some politicians then decided no this must be limited to animals only 🙅🏼‍♂️

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h

we'll see who gets served!

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 16h

is this anything

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

big budget movies featuring jared leto in the starring role for half our lifetime

Arrested development meme, 3 panels. Tobias and Lindsay are talking while sitting on a bed.
Panel 1 she asks: "Well, did it work for those people?"

Panel 2 he responds: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..."

Panel 3 he continues: "But it might work for us."

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 18h

a well crafted trash post is like a layered puzzle, I say, rationalizing posts made after I should have gone to sleep

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 18h

u guys I just saw a flyer for the regional all valley dance tournament the team that takes first place wins enough money to out bribe the people currently in control of the US government we've gotta work on our moves I'll talk to coach about if we can use the gym before it's decorated for homecoming

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 18h

I'd go so far as to say confidently that I am, on the whole, in general, on average at least, against it

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 18h

lot of the stuff going on, in my opinion? bad

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