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Jay Stevens

@jaystevens.me

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Now: Engineer @ Respawn - Apex Legends Prior: Battlefield Mobile, Star Wars FPS, <redacted> Long Ago: Skipper/Tiki Bird Wrangler @ Disneyland Views are my own, blah blah blah. Big fan of model trains, tiki bars, and general electronic doohickeys. He/him

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · Oct 19

Hey there hi there ho there - we're doing intros?

I'm Jay. Long ago I was a Jungle Cruise skipper at Disneyland. Today I'm a gamedev at Respawn Entertainment.

I have 3 cats - Togepi, Moo, and Mothman.

My hobbies are various tech-y things, working on my tiki bar, and my N-Scale model railroad!

3 cats watching birds on TV. There is a black cat, a white cat, and a grey cat. All 3 birds are very interested in the television.

2 model railroad tracks traveling on the inside of a temple. There is lava coming up from the ground and a statue with a glowing jewel on top of its head.

Me back when I worked as a Jungle Cruise skipper! I'm 6 feet tall, white skin with black hair, and I'm holding a microphone while working at the Jungle Cruise. I was 22 or 23 when this photo was taken.

Me laying down stomach-first on a box while dressed in my Jungle Cruise outfit. My glasses are askew. The box says "this end up" and has an arrow pointing upward.

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 12h

Honestly I'd almost say it's worth checking out if only because wow I have never seen a show this bad before.

It is impressive to be this bad in 2025; you have to really try

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 12h

It's 3D animated but so inconsistent with its animation.

There's no impact frames half the time. Sometimes a model gets rotated around its root without any bone animation, or they play a sequence at double speed for no reason.
The voice acting is completely flat and the script is all over the place

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 12h

My fiance isn't feeling well which means she controls the remote - and I get to suffer through her choice of shows to watch.

We're watching the 2025 Winx Club reboot on Netflix. This is without a doubt the WORST show I've ever seen. It's impressive how bad it is, like watching a train wreck

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"

One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.

Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 20h

You mean "Remind me in 3 days"

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 20h

GSC are too high, Sun/Moon too low... but yeah, other than that I think this is a pretty good list

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 21h

It's a meme. A pretty old one, too.

This is my favorite version of it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fD...

The real LGBT agenda

YouTube video by ZimoNitrome

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

I guess the washing machine might make it even more difficult since soap counts as "residue which will 100% cause a short" if there were any suds still on the board

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

In English - I'm hopeful, but unless you IMMEDIATELY put them in the bag without attempting to turn them on first I doubt the trick will work.

Not gonna rule it out but as a rule of thumb if you're going to try it, make sure you don't apply power to the electronics until it's 1000% dry

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

So the rice trick works because it evaporates the water on the circuitboard. As long as there's no residue/minerals causing a short between 2 chips on the board, you'll be fine...

...UNLESS the chips were already damaged by a short, which could've happened if you apply power while they're wet

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

Specifically, this Mothman

A slightly blurry picture of a grey and white kitty named Mothman. He is sitting out on the catio. He is mostly grey with a white bib. He is sitting in a loaf. It is raining behind him

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

Old Reddit let moderators customize the CSS of their subreddits.

If you go to old.reddit.com (which most long-time Reddit users do as it has fewer ads etc. and can be customized with the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension) then you still see the old CSS.

So he's just looking at old Reddit

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 1d

I blame Google. Their monopoly really killed it.

The fact that they went out of their way to cripple YouTube and even Google Search really hurt adoption.

We almost broke up Microsoft for less. One company should not own so many products

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Matt Desmond @disneyscoopguy.bsky.social · 1d

For my 1000th ride on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure the cast members surprised me by getting permission for five of my favorite cast members to ride with me, and they also made me this really sweet banner congratulating me! A core memory day for sure and I’m so grateful to them! ❤️🥹

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 2d

Didn't they push out David Hogg because he talked about doing this? But it's fine when they do it

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 2d

Mastodon is this same drama shattered into 11,000 pieces.

Tiny little forum mods with their own little fiefdoms that defederate you from your friends because they disagree with some rando's views on veganism or whatever

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 2d

Lest we forget that he is ALSO a corpo stooge who is in the pocket of Sam Altman et al and doesn't give a single shit who is hurt by them:
bsky.app/profile/crim...

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 2d

In addition to what's stated below, this bill also would've stopped healthcare providers from discriminating based on gender identity (CA hospitals are dropping trans patients).

Why? Well, according to Newsom - cost, of course! His go-to lie (as demonstrated above)

bsky.app/profile/erin...

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Jay Stevens @jaystevens.me · 2d

Isn't this conceptually similar to ammo in shooters?

E.g. You can only carry so much ammo for your rifle, so you bring a pistol that can carry a lot more ammo. Each area only has so much ammo that can be dropped, and clearing the area gives you an ammo cache for more

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