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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · Aug 21

alright i know it's not silksong but i've been told I'm allowed to announce a crazy cool thing i've been working on for the past couple months and that's basically silksong. to me.

i wrote some guest charts for unbeatable !!!!!

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know if this is new, because I wasn't really scrolling through the last few Next Fests too deeply, but god you have to sift through a *lot* of AI thumbnails

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 3h

extremely fucking funny to play something that at once feels a part of the modern moment of "super hard asset store physics platformers" while also painting explicit reference to 1950s French filmmaking

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 3h

It's definitely pretty roughly put together, but there's an honest to god Wages of Fear-like in the Next Fest right now and it honestly kinda works??

store.steampowered.com/app/3759140/...

Nitroglycerine! on Steam

A challenging arcade simulator of transporting dangerous cargo on heavy trucks along a complex and unpredictable route. A short but extendable adventure.

store.steampowered.com

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 5h

oh then we should talk sometime this week.

nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 6h

THAT'S WAKO IZUMI

CITY Panels @city-panels.bsky.social · 6h

Volume 2 Page 82
#CITY #KeiichiArawi

A panel from Volume 2 Page 82 of the manga CITY by Keiichi Arawi.

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 6h

More Tron ‘82 explorations. Did these as warmups before starting the work day, but I’m starting to think it’ll turn into a mini side project

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mirna @neo.yokohama · Nov 25

racing jrpg concept art

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 7h

good post

nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 7h

i'm a master of subversion

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Wren @fauxwren.bsky.social · 7h

many of you

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 8h

have to decide pretty soonish if I'm going back to Scotland over the holidays before it gets crazy expensive, and kinda just wishing this place had a Circles equivalent so I could check if local pals here had plans without having to send like 20 dms.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 9h

its a pretty neat season imo

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 9h

I love autumn - the chill breeze, the warm colours, the wild construction tape in bloom...

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sumi @manjunii.bsky.social · 15h

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 11h

we talk so much about how ass vancouver theatre audiences are, but hearing a full crowd break out at the stupid in-joke commercial was a genuine moment of connection. those are OUR people.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11h

vancouver planning in the 21st century is developers and the city patting themselves on the back for a sustainable mixed-used community that pays homage to the industrial past while using modern best practices where a two bedroom condo costs a million dollars and there are no schools

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11h

cool, awesome, inspiring, just one question where are the schools or buses or community centres

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やまやま @mountain-mountain.bsky.social · 13h

All achievements unlocked !! - A Highland Song #AHighlandSong

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 14h

mini metro come to life

Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

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WWW.UNBEATABLEGAMEWISHLIST.NOW @dcellgames.com · 14h

"five years ago I wrote on a website that UNBEATABLE was gonna be the sickest game of whatever year it comes out. that's still true, except getting to write a bunch of sick charts now means I get to be cool by proxy"

- @natclayton.bsky.social, charter

nat clayton drawn in UNBEATABLE's style, holding a piece of paper saying "CHARTS FOR SONGS"

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CITY Panels @city-panels.bsky.social · 18h

Volume 4 Page 8
#CITY #KeiichiArawi

A panel from Volume 4 Page 8 of the manga CITY by Keiichi Arawi.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 1d

they should give awards to the crowds at Nirvanna and Kniv3s Out for correctly hooting and hollering at the iconic, nay legendary, viff rolex ad.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 1d

Just left our third film of the day, which means calling a wrap on my first week at Vancouver International Film Festival!

Put a review of everything I watched up on this list - some new All Time Faves, a bunch of interesting mids, and fortunately only a *few* whiffs.

That's Movies!

VIFF 2025

A list of 13 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025), Last Night in Taipei (2025), Kokuho (2025), Resurrection (2025) and 3670 (2025).

letterboxd.com

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BOO! DooPerson @boodoo.co · 1d

Friends? 🥺

two small brown birds (male/female song sparrow) stand on nearby branches of interweaving shrubs/reeds that create a tangled and chaotic scene

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 1d

dude the amount of scam phonecalls I've gotten from ontario numbers aimed at scaring chinese-speaking migrants into handing over personal details has gotten Extremely Silly in the last 2 weeks.

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 2d

i didn't play the first one, but the Industria demo feeling very "SOMA/Amnesia but with more player agency and fewer outright scares" is *interesting* in a way I'm very curious about, even if I'm not all the way there with it yet.

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