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Quality Engineer at Mojang Studios • BAFTA Connect • TGA Future Class • she/her • #SpaceGirls art by @maxbeech.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/n7memo

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Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · Oct 17

📌 I’m Melissa aka Memo!

🔸 currently works at Mojang Studios/Xbox
🔸 values a people-first, product-second culture
🔸 loves narrative-driven games like the upcoming Dragon Age
🔸 also loves TTRPGs and is in two nearly four-year-long campaigns
🔸 figuring out how to manage ADHD
🔸 cat lady 🐈‍⬛

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 2d

Six weeks prior to Halo: CE shipping, 16 player multiplayer over LAN was not functioning.

It took dedicated engineers and a lot of people in test undergoing intense crunch to save that feature.

The landscape of video games is owed in major part to test.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

I was so focused on the game I forgot to post my way through it until toward the last couple innings when I started to disassociate. God that was a nailbiter.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

FIVE HOURS. FIFTEEN INNINGS. MARINERS CLINCH IT AND PROGRESS CLOSER TO THE WORLD SERIES. HOLY SHIT. 👏 🎉 👏 🎉

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

WE GOT IT. 👏

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

14th inning?! This game has been going for four hours! No matter how this ends, no one can say the Mariners haven’t put up an amazing fight.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

This Mariners game is insane. 13th inning now, 2-2, lots of strikeouts and fouls. Seattle loves its drama!

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 4d

GORGEOUS. 💖 Congratulations to both of you!

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Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 6d

Minecraft is hiring for a fulltime technical program manager! This would be a position on the Realms client team, and it would mean you work with me every week! ✨ jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...

Technical Program Manager – Minecraft Realms Client in Redmond, Washington, United States | Program Management at Microsoft

Apply for Technical Program Manager – Minecraft Realms Client in Redmond, Washington, United States | Program Management at Microsoft

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Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 5d

Late-stage capitalism babyyyyyyy 😭

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 6d

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 6d

I barely cracked open most of the books I was supposed to read, yet I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and graduated cum laude. I participated in discussions, latched onto esoteric themes or patterns, and winged it. There’s an art to bullshitting that AI will never capture.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve never read The Merchant of Venice, but I wrote a paper about the dichotomy between Portia and Jessica’s approach to defying the law (and men) the day before it was due after my Shakespeare professor begged for “anything but R+J”. I got an A. Brains can do it better than AI. And it’s fulfilling!

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 6d

Minecraft is hiring for a fulltime technical program manager! This would be a position on the Realms client team, and it would mean you work with me every week! ✨ jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...

Technical Program Manager – Minecraft Realms Client in Redmond, Washington, United States | Program Management at Microsoft

Apply for Technical Program Manager – Minecraft Realms Client in Redmond, Washington, United States | Program Management at Microsoft

jobs.careers.microsoft.com

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 7d

Looks delicious! 😋 Those bamboo steamers are the best. I got one from work a couple years ago and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever gotten.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 7d

Blueberry in the pancake is okay, but blueberry ON the pancake is better. Same is true for almost anything added to a pancake, though chocolate is a notable exception.

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sasha e head @sievish.bsky.social · 8d

please help a game dev keep her beloved cat with her when she needs to relocate back home after a layoff!! <3 <3
gofund.me/ca7699dd5

Donate to Relocate Galette to the UK!, organized by Nicole Armstrong

Hello! Our names are Nikky and Jacob and we're raising money for our friend Sara who has … Nicole Armstrong needs your support for Relocate Galette to the UK!

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 8d

I have a cold, and it’s the kind where your chest feels like an abandoned beehive until you cough. The timing isn’t great, but it’s a helpful reminder for me to prioritize my health and not force myself to work through it. Also, going to bed early is nice actually?

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 8d

As someone who was very young when the dotcom bubble popped, I don’t have a meaningful metric to compare this to from personal experience, but: This seems bad! Not really sure what to do to prepare for it except cry.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 9d

I’ll take about seven orders of that, to go.

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 9d

A thread of largely good advice for folks as we get older. We have one preciously short life and deserve to live it safely and fully.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 10d

I believe in you, Mariners. 2025 will be the year you finally make it to the World Series. #GoMs🔱

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 10d

Seattle has a reputation for drama, don’t we? 😅

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 10d

Same, and tbh there are some days where my phone is close to dead by the time I get home. 😭

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 12d

Season one of The Sisters Grimm is streaming now on Apple TV+! We made this show for kids, but parents will enjoy it, too, because, like the books it’s based on, it’s smart and doesn’t talk down to anyone, which I’m really proud of. Watch it here and watch it a lot! apple.co/thesistersgrimm

Watch The Sisters Grimm - Apple TV+

One year after their parents’ mysterious disappearance, sisters Sabrina and Daphne move to a magical town where fairytales are real and secrets lurk b…

Melissa @n7memo.bsky.social · 11d

These are real?! Yikes on bikes.