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Ryan McDiarmid

@ryanmcdiarmid.com

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Narrative + Game Designer, Writer, Visual Artist. He/Him. Vancouver, BC. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Prev: Sky of Tides, Goodbye Volcano High, Hardspace: Shipbreaker

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 6d

My expectations given the state of the industry rn are below water, but as always I’m indebted to everyone who shares or has shared this. More info in replies, open to non-games work.

Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 6d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14h

competing songs about travis and justin's dicks and it's NOT the mcelroys

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 14h

my early prediction for 2026 is that katy perry writes a sexually explicit song about justin trudeau

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 16h

a close up of a man 's face with white skin

Alt: Data trying not to smile

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 16h

Trigger needed to fill out their supporting cast in Little Witch Academia and really went “what if she was just Üter?”

Jasminka Antonenko from Little Witch Academia

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 19h

epic biceps arm clasp agreement meme one side labeled all of us other guy labeled donald trump message in middle over hands indicating agreement about this says donald trump is not going to heaven.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 19h

1. Describe the subject in a normal manner.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Easy: Failure] — Silver hair. Big boobs. Short skirt. They’re just like one of your Seolite pictotropes.

Jerna Van Vooren @jernacious.itch.io · 20h

With the font and the dark background, it somehow reminds me of a Disco Elysium text box.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 21h

ok if this weren't $1700 I'd rock it, though.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

I... what

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it's daniel @dkmode.bsky.social · 6d

Ryan is a true jack-of-all-trades, in that he can do basically anything. Have seen him totally thrive in programming, design and writing. Approaches all tasks with curiosity and expertise. A ridiculously powerful asset on any team!

Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 6d

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22h

Close up of a black cat’s wide sleepy face. His eyes are open to a squint, and there is a fireplace channel on the tv in the background

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

Sometime when you’re not sapped I wanna catch up and hear all about it

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

The ending sequence is genuinely hilarious, even when it gets gross at the end.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

We watched Weapons finally last night and while I understand where people’s problems with it are coming from it was simply too much fun for me not to have enjoyed it. The combination of weird, funny, gruesome just works for me. I’ll take Cregger over Perkins any day I think.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

lmfao

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

Thank you!

Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

Thank you!

Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 23h

Caitlin gifted me a great shirt as an early anniversary present (8 years since we started dating this Wednesday, wtf)

Man on a white hallway standing in front of a white door, taking a selfie in a mirror. He is wearing black pants and desaturated blue shirt with a line drawing of a moogle on it. The line drawing has highlights colored in yellow.

The same man taking a selfie of his back, which has another drawing on it where the moogle is sitting and you can see its buttcrack

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Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping air clean is one of the highest impact easiest actions you can take if you have any control over a physical space

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · Aug 22

Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft may very well be a significant issue.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Plan for a world of post-COVID immune effects

These changes are small, but across tens of millions of people, they add up.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 1d

Happy birthday!

Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 1d

Yeah.

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heh heh heh

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

dewey it’s a psp. you don’t want none of that shit.

i hear it has terrible battery life

it lasts ALL DAY

there’s probably no games anyway

with ps1 games there are over five thousand

there’s no way i can watch pirated movies on it

you can upload any media files that you want

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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 1d

I know I can't beat the peak aesthetics of Mega Man Legends, but I'm doing the best I can!

(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those unaware! Coming out... eventually)

#gamedev #lowpoly

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

world cup of garbage strikes is gonna be awesome

sponsored youtu.be thing from ABC Vancouver

Zero means zero: 0% property tax increase in Vancouver for 2026

then all their silly clown in a row

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1d

what a social scene, they both have so many amusing anecdotes about doing blackface or killing a nun

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 1d

And here I am on a weekend vacation with my family which means I'm much closer than ever to an ocean to walk into

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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