Brian A
@bjaudette.bsky.social
Game designer. Writer. Music geek. Punk.
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My posts and reposts represent my own thoughts and opinions and no one else's.
Take it or leave it ... do both if you choose.
My posts and reposts represent my own thoughts and opinions and no one else's.
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Brian A
@bjaudette.bsky.social
· Dec 5
As promised, what follows is an unofficial behind the scenes/director’s commentary thread for the “Isle of the Gods” mission in Dragon Age: The Veilguard for #dragonageday Some #veilguardspoilers will follow, so Beware.
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Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
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Pretty much the same as I already do, but in a better, less feral society.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Pretty much the same as I already do, but in a better, less feral society.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.
Old standards, modern classics, and a few relevant outliers, my Christmas mix has it all and I'm always open to suggestions.
link.deezer.com/s/31JKedFJGL...
link.deezer.com/s/31JKedFJGL...
Christmas
Audeez
link.deezer.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Old standards, modern classics, and a few relevant outliers, my Christmas mix has it all and I'm always open to suggestions.
link.deezer.com/s/31JKedFJGL...
link.deezer.com/s/31JKedFJGL...
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Bill of Rights Town Hall
Help create the future of the games industry!
Workers across the games industry are coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights — a shared set of principles to set a standard for fair trea...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
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Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
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WRITERS! Want to troubleshoot, level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice or come back from burnout?
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
Coaching for Writers
Want to troubleshoot a sticky project? Level up your work or learn to tell stories in a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? Establish …
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
WRITERS! Want to troubleshoot, level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice or come back from burnout?
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
I have openings for coaching clients! Drop a line to jay.edidin(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject COACHING QUERY for a free consultation!
I'm curious how a boss and/or gauntlet health bar would change Silksong. I feel like so much of my frustration derives from not knowing whether I'm 1 hit or 10 from killing a boss when I die.
Conversely, imagine Dark Souls without the health bars.
Conversely, imagine Dark Souls without the health bars.
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm curious how a boss and/or gauntlet health bar would change Silksong. I feel like so much of my frustration derives from not knowing whether I'm 1 hit or 10 from killing a boss when I die.
Conversely, imagine Dark Souls without the health bars.
Conversely, imagine Dark Souls without the health bars.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended:
Frank Turner
Coheed & Cambria
KMFDM
Failure
Counting Crows
Frank Turner
Coheed & Cambria
KMFDM
Failure
Counting Crows
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended:
Iron Maiden
Backstreet Boys
3 Inches of Blood
Primus
Blink 182
Iron Maiden
Backstreet Boys
3 Inches of Blood
Primus
Blink 182
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended:
Nine Inch Nails
Florence + The Machine
Robyn
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds
Spice Girls
Nine Inch Nails
Florence + The Machine
Robyn
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds
Spice Girls
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've attended:
Frank Turner
Coheed & Cambria
KMFDM
Failure
Counting Crows
Frank Turner
Coheed & Cambria
KMFDM
Failure
Counting Crows
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Tony: Hey Dave. Check it out. I added a button to the login page.
Dave: Oh yeah?
Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"?
Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do?
Tony: literally nothing
Dave: Oh yeah?
Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"?
Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do?
Tony: literally nothing
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Tony: Hey Dave. Check it out. I added a button to the login page.
Dave: Oh yeah?
Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"?
Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do?
Tony: literally nothing
Dave: Oh yeah?
Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"?
Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do?
Tony: literally nothing
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November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
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Just dropped this elsewhere, so boosting, since the illegal-orders discussion is back in the news: there's some great GI Rights Hotline postcards and leaflets for printing and distributing, but here's one with the absolute basic message and phone number as a label template.
I've seen a bunch of people sharing leaflet and postcard-sized versions of the GI Rights Hotline info, but I haven't seen any templates designed for label printing, so 30 seconds with the Avery template maker made the simplest possible version with the absolute basics (to be seen from a distance).
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just dropped this elsewhere, so boosting, since the illegal-orders discussion is back in the news: there's some great GI Rights Hotline postcards and leaflets for printing and distributing, but here's one with the absolute basic message and phone number as a label template.
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Any headline that ends in a question mark used to be answerable with "No."
Any question headline that starts with "Why?" can these days be answered with "NOBODY'S GOT ANY FUCKING MONEY!!"
("Why aren't millennials buying houses? Why are pubs closing? Why aren't people having kids?" etc)
Any question headline that starts with "Why?" can these days be answered with "NOBODY'S GOT ANY FUCKING MONEY!!"
("Why aren't millennials buying houses? Why are pubs closing? Why aren't people having kids?" etc)
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Any headline that ends in a question mark used to be answerable with "No."
Any question headline that starts with "Why?" can these days be answered with "NOBODY'S GOT ANY FUCKING MONEY!!"
("Why aren't millennials buying houses? Why are pubs closing? Why aren't people having kids?" etc)
Any question headline that starts with "Why?" can these days be answered with "NOBODY'S GOT ANY FUCKING MONEY!!"
("Why aren't millennials buying houses? Why are pubs closing? Why aren't people having kids?" etc)
Excellent read, but I question its veracity as it doesn't mention Magic: The Gathering once.
"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Excellent read, but I question its veracity as it doesn't mention Magic: The Gathering once.