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Michael Schenck

@mike.pixelatedramblings.com

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XR Developer | Unity and C# | Meta Quest Making Zotbox a VR sandbox inspired by Minecraft I like Fantasy, SciFi, Nature, Space, Art, Maps, Books, and RPGs https://pixelatedramblings.com

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Michael Schenck @mike.pixelatedramblings.com · Aug 14

Here are some basic water effects that I ported over from the original Lost Loot. Surface splashes and bubbles appear when the player or items move. There are also particles drifting in the water which are a little hard to see but look nice in VR. #vr #metaquest #unity3d #indiegame

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Tooley1998 @tooley1998.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder who lives here 🤔🍄🌳 #gamedev #indiedev #voxelgame #voxelart #voxel #procedural #UnrealEngine

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2d

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 2d

RIP to one of the greats. He illustrated pure excitement.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 2d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2d

They are available as stock art: 600DPI transparent background PNG files in black-and-white, line-art-only and sepia options.

The post can be purchased without subscription:

www.patreon.com/posts/stock-...

#stockart #ttrpg

sepia tone drawings of different light sources like candelabra, candles, torches, lanterns and lamps. a pen rests upon the page.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This Is Fascism

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 5d

Is this an accepted take?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 8d

The four drawings I did for D12 Expeditions, RPG zine by Double Crescent Productions.

#ttrpg #indierpg #zinerpg #art #b&wart

a composition with four black and white drawings: a dragon nesting a D12 die, a hand holding a D12 die, a hack of weapons with mace, hammer, sword, dagger, bow and shield, and a breastplate.

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David Petersen @mouseguard.bsky.social · 9d

Wind in the Willows is out today! Available from your local booksellers or through online retailers: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796673...

#WindInTheWillows @idwpublishing.com

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UploadVR @uploadvr.com · 20d

Valve launched Steam Link on Pico headsets and HTC Vive Focus Vision, making it easier to wirelessly stream SteamVR games from a PC.

Details here: www.uploadvr.com/valve-steam-...

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UploadVR @uploadvr.com · 7d

Valve's next headset has entered mass production and will ship this year, a Chinese analyst group claims, with an estimated run of 500,000 units in the first year:

www.uploadvr.com/valves-next-...

Valve's Next Headset Reportedly Enters Mass Production

Valve's next headset has entered mass production and will ship this year, a Chinese analyst group claims, with an estimated run of 500,000 units in the first year.

www.uploadvr.com

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 8d

Has anyone made a gif of him thrusting his hips at the ICE goons yet?

The Portland Protest Frog standing up to a group of weak fascist jackboots

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Aurumek (Simon Hintermann) @aurumek.bsky.social · 13d

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Michael Schenck @mike.pixelatedramblings.com · 13d

Here's the waste, fraud, and abuse!

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Tooley1998 @tooley1998.bsky.social · 15d

The Creative Mode Update for Lay of the Land is here & available now on Patreon/Kofi. It brings brings Creative Mode, New World Options, New Animals and more.

youtu.be/o-1cR8DpcHY

#gamedev #indiedev #voxelgame #voxelart #voxel #procedural #UnrealEngine

I’ve Added Creative Mode to my Voxel Game

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16d

Government shutdown, farmers needing to be bailed out, troops in the streets, country bitterly divided, revolving door of appointees, Putin getting coddled, constant chaos … must be another Trump term.

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Michael Schenck @mike.pixelatedramblings.com · 18d

Michael Abrash mentioned Hackers at his talk at OC2 now 10 years ago. This was a time when I felt that same kind of excitement about tech and the future. Everyone was building and sharing. Check out the end to see what I wrote and the picture of my friend's DK1 signed by both Palmer and Carmack!

Unite 2015 + Oculus Connect 2 - Pixelated Ramblings

I was very fortunate to be able to attend both Unite 15 and Oculus Connect 2. Unite was is Boston, and since I live there, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be a part of that. Unfortunately the ...

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