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Mike W

@gekido.bsky.social

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Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years... Current: Cloudhead, Instructor @ VFS In Vancouver

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · Oct 19

Intro! I'm a Metis Canadian living near Vancouver. I've help grow a half dozen studios over the years (Namco, DeNA, etc), founded 2 studios, worked at Unity for 7 years, and have shipped a few dozen games doing tech direction and producing. Cofounded Megacrush, building games, animation and previs!

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 36m

Don't "register" for protests!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 2h

Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 8h

Or a "CEO"

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 8h

Post your old work, keep posting it at every opportunity, share what you’re proud of and brings you joy. Don’t wait for a day that’s every 3 months. Your art is on a portfolio for a reason so never ever just focus on what’s new. Heck have I shown any new work in 6 months? Fuck no I’m tired.

Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 17h

#PortfolioDay is TOMORROW Tuesday, October 14th, it’s a wired day everyone acts like it’s a holiday when it’s just a day. Take part if you like or don’t it’s up to you, don’t hold your self back cos “got nothing new” that’s a unhealthy way to view your work post what your proud of.

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 12h

I'm gonna invent an app that consolidates the two channels you like from each of your discords into a single unified interface and shunts all the other channels into the shadow realm.

Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 12h

We do ALSO have a discord, but - I assume, like everyone else you're TOTALLY over MORE discords. I don't know if we could do a forum. Do people even do forums anymore?

But our discord is also a lot of us just being silly. It does get sneak peek screenshots though.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks! Good luck on your new adventure as well!

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah it's a slow slog, but one baby step at a time!

Thanks!

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 12h

So, think I mostly have the core coop loop for @dystopiapunk.bsky.social sorted now.

Just fleshing out some of the details that are stubbed in and it will almost be a game! 🤘

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 14h

Love this one

youtu.be/iNUq-JSXvS4?...

Tool - No Quarter (Salival) [Led Zeppelin Cover]

YouTube video by VividlyConquered

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 15h

Breakpoint came up in conversation again, so here we go...

Interestingly they added a whole new campaign basically! Very cool

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 15h

Or:

a man says " you were the chosen one " in front of a burning fire

ALT: a man says " you were the chosen one " in front of a burning fire

media.tenor.com

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 15h

“It's not entire neighbourhoods that are making noise complaints, but almost always individual property developers. Remarkably, rather than looking to penalize the minority seeking to shut down viable, often decades-old businesses for their own selfish gain, the city has chosen to blame the victim.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

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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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely absurd. Who's making games for them? Who's going to buy one? Both current consoles cost *more* than they did at launch just five years ago.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 22h

Are you going to put it up for sale?

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 22h

They got it handled! Phew, poor family that lost their house unfortunately.

Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

How many story points?

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 5d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

Neighbor just woke us up at 5:30am - apparently there's an out of control fire in the tree line that runs below our house. Super inaccessible terrain, can hear the action a few houses over and below.

Great, great...

What are "you" thankful for, on this lovely Thanksgiving Monday?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck

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daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · 1d

REALLY SEEMS LIKE CANADA CANT STOP PLATFORMING LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS

daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · 1d

CBC I don't think interviewing a nazi dude with multiple swastika tattoos is gonna get people to get on board with whatever it is you're trying to do here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uevo...

How Russia is recruiting civilians into its shadow war

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid 😮

blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯

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