Jane Ng
@janeng.com
Director of Operations @ Gardens 🌳. Used to build game worlds and now building a game studio. Prev on Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
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Jane Ng
@janeng.com
· Nov 19
Hello! I've been a #gamedev for 20+ yrs. I was a Environment Artist for much of it but now I am the Operations Director at @gardens.dev. Prev I was Visual Director at Possibility Space, and worked on various cool stuff like Alyx at Valve. I'm probably most known for my env art work on Firewatch.
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burning down the world’s rainforests so we can lie worse about what an $8 lipstick might look like on a pair of actual human lips. phenomenal, wow
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
burning down the world’s rainforests so we can lie worse about what an $8 lipstick might look like on a pair of actual human lips. phenomenal, wow
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
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WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
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One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big
April 28, 2023 at 2:34 PM
One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big
jfc can you all stop shoving AI into everything just like how I don't need fucking AI in my toilet paper I don't need it in a lot of other things I just need the TO WORK RELIABLY. My GOD I just had enough of it, apparently, this past minute.
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
jfc can you all stop shoving AI into everything just like how I don't need fucking AI in my toilet paper I don't need it in a lot of other things I just need the TO WORK RELIABLY. My GOD I just had enough of it, apparently, this past minute.
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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Part 7 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Chantilly Castle wrought iron railing
Chantilly Castle wrought iron railing
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Part 7 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Chantilly Castle wrought iron railing
Chantilly Castle wrought iron railing
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3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
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You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
yesss French Onion soup is back on the menu at Le Pichet www.lepichetseattle.com
LE PICHET
www.lepichetseattle.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
yesss French Onion soup is back on the menu at Le Pichet www.lepichetseattle.com
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Hi! this is a reminder to people who would like to be considered for an award for the AIAS narrative award for their game, especially if it is a deep, hours long, reactive RPG with branching!!!!! please allow us time to play your game and submit it here: www.interactive.org/awards/29th_...
29th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Submissions Now Open
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the video game industry’s professional trade organization, representing over 30,000 development and creative members, has opened submissions for the ...
www.interactive.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Hi! this is a reminder to people who would like to be considered for an award for the AIAS narrative award for their game, especially if it is a deep, hours long, reactive RPG with branching!!!!! please allow us time to play your game and submit it here: www.interactive.org/awards/29th_...
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
![Screenshot of a tweet:
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
That is quite a shift
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
That is quite a shift
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
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Over 11 years in the making, undoubtedly the most accomplished, polished management sim I've ever played and it just launched! Congratulations @greenheartgames.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Over 11 years in the making, undoubtedly the most accomplished, polished management sim I've ever played and it just launched! Congratulations @greenheartgames.bsky.social
Nice to have a good news day from dawn to dusk
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nice to have a good news day from dawn to dusk
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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Would you believe me if I told you that what anime & manga fans like are drawings
Sony Pictures Steps Up Plans for More Live-Action Anime and Manga Movies
Sony Pictures Steps Up Plans for More Live-Action Anime and Manga Movies
The global anime craze isn’t slowing down anytime soon, and Sony Pictures wants in on the action in a big way. During the Tokyo International Film Festival, Shebnem Askin , head of Sony Pictures International...
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Would you believe me if I told you that what anime & manga fans like are drawings
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I do not care for the noises they make
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I do not care for the noises they make
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Happy Hallowmas to all who observe
October 31, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Happy Hallowmas to all who observe