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"Level 0" Luke Rideout
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Project Director at Beamdog making MythForce, Enhanced Editions of Baldur’s Gate & others | Production on Avowed & The Outer Worlds 2 | Previously many other RPGs | Classic animation & '80s pop culture enthusiast | Cat dad | Level 0 NPC | JP, EN
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I was away for 3 days and Maruko barely acknowledged me after I got home. A pigeon landed on my balcony this morning and it’s the most interesting thing that’s ever happened.
Maruko, a torbie cat looks through a window at a pigeon that is resting on the balcony outside. Her body language imfers that she is ready to pounce at any moment given the chance.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Dinner with some coworkers. My drink is on fire. Honestly a lot of our food tonight was set on fire at our table.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Snowed in Edmonton yesterday and getting a little chilly, so we’re doing Caturday right.
Maruko, a torbie cat, is curled up with her back to the camera between a pair of human legs in red plaid pajama pants. Her back leg is extended and resting on the ankle of the right foot. Both cat and human are underneath a soft, white blanket with a cat pattern.
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Happy lazy, cozy Caturday from Maruko and me.
A small torbie cAt is curled up on a gray couch cushion with a white towel folded behind her. Her tail curls up around her haunch, and her rear leg is extended slightly out beyond her face. She has a peaceful sleeping face.
November 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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A promotional image for the Lucasarts 3D adventure game “Grim Fandango”. It shows the protagonist, Manny Calavera, a skeletal travel agent turned casino owner (in the depicted act of the game) with other characters surrounding him in a film noir movie poster style. The text reads: “One WOMAN’s stolen Destiny!” “One Travel agent’s ultimate commission …his very SOUL!” “Face Heart Stopping DANGER in a well tailored TUXEDO!” “Mingle with over 50 BIZARRE CHARACTERS!” “Race across 90 exptic locales…” “…in stunning 3D!” “An epic tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION in the LAND of the DEAD!”
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Caturday demonstration of Maruko’s Shrimp Mode.
A stripey small torbie cat, laying in a fluffy off-white kitty hammock. She is curled up in a ball but with one rear leg sticking out straight. The shape os reminiscent of a cooked shrimp.
October 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Happy Caturday
A torbie cat sits on a fluffy white towel folded on a gray couch. She looks into the area below the camera. She sits with one rear lef toward the camera, showing off her black and pink toe beans.
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy
A promotional photo from the movie “Alien” a Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley is in a jumpsuit holding one of Jonesy the orange tabby cat’s cat actors in her arms.
September 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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LOAF
A cute torbie cat lays on a gray blanket, looking off to the side of the frame. She is in a loaf configuration, neither front nor back legs visible. She has a round gold-colored tag with her name written in hangul on it.
August 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Game devs post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

Been a while since we had one of these.

First was the Xiaolin Showdown arena brawler, as part-time QA.

Most recently, I had the honor of helping the Obsidian team ship Avowed as a producer.
Box art for the Konami-published arena brawler based on the cartoon series “Xiaolin Showdown” portraying 4 cartoon characters in red martial arts clothing below a stylized logo. Key art for Obsidian’s “Avowed”, depicting a skeletal human form with fungal growths reminiscent of organs, wearing a tattered red cloak and carrying a sword.
August 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Quality time after another busy week
A brown torbie cat lays in the crook of a leg in jeans, her chin resting on the calf, looking off into the distance. She has a sushi-themed collar.
August 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Happy Caturday, y’all. Enjoying couch snuggles after a very busy week.
Small cat legs and feet stick out from under a white blanket with a cat motif. The cat feet are up against a human leg in jeans.
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Happy Caturday
A closeup of a torbie cat’s face. The close angle accentuates the roundness of her fuzzy cheeks
June 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Happy 4th birthday to my bratty little princess.
A small torbie cat lays on a couch cushion. Her eyes are open, and she looks relaxed. The camera angle and her pose makes it difficult to tell which way should be “up”
May 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Gamer
A small torbie cat sits primly on the arm of a couch, in front of an Xbox controller. The camera angle makes her expression look stern.
May 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Comfy
A young torbie cat cuddled up by the arm of a grey sofa. Only her head is visible, her body from the neck down covered by a fluffy white blanket with a cat pattern on it. She looks very content.
May 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Have some cat loaf for #Caturday
Maruko, a small torbie cat, sits in a perfect loaf pose, all legs completely hidden under her body. Her head is turned to one side. She is laying on a gray duvet cover with a pattern of connected parallel and perpendicular black lines.
May 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Alberta’s a conservative shit show but I’m at least glad my riding and Strathcona have a lick of sense.

Ideologically I’m more NDP but voted strategically and looks like it paid off - inasmuch as a tiny pair of blips in a sea of blue make a difference.

Shoutout to Calgary Confederation as well.
A voting results map from the Edmonton municipal area of central Alberta, Canada. Every riding is Conservative party Blue, except for the highlighted Edmonton Centre, which is Liberal party red, and the neighboring Strathcona riding, which is NDP party orange. The lower part of the image shows the Edmonton Centre candidates, with Liberal candidate Eleanor Olszewski winning with 44.3% of the vote, while the Con candidate has 37.9%, and NDP 15.5%
April 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Sparrows hanging out in Toronto Pearson airport.
April 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Worked on a PSP game back in the day called Bakumatsu Ishinden. Pictured here: Okita Souji and Okada Izou.
Screenshot from バクマツ⭐️維新伝 (Bakumatsu Ishinden), there is a crying pink-haired child in the uniform of the Shinsengumi, and a woman with an eyepatch and flared red hair. The characters represent Okita Souji, renowned “strongest fighter of the shinsengumi” and Okada Izou, one of the most deadly assassins of the Edo period. Okita is saying “ぐすん・・・ぐすん・・・ひ〜ちゃんの・・・ばか・・・” (*crying* Hii-chan, that idiot)
April 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Darkest Dungeon 2 truly is bullshit, isn’t it? Got to the final boss of my “denial” run and it was literally impossible to beat. My melee damage dealers did 0 damage on any attack and it used “denial of reach” every round without fail so I had literally no way to win. 33 rounds, punished for trying.
A screenshot from Darkest Dungeon 2 illustrating a literally impossible boss fight, as all of the character’s available abilities are licked out permanently and the only option is to “Pass” which builds stress until the character melts down and loses all remaining HP.
March 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Slightly early Caturday post. Maruko has claimed this Rexall bag as her kitchen zabuton. It was all scrunched up and I might want to use it for groceries eventually so we compromised. She still owns it, but she let me fold it back into shape.
A small torbie cat sits in loaf mode on a teal canvas grocery bag. The bag is folded, but a little beat up.
February 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Happy new year, all.
あけおめ！
A photo of Maruko, a torbie cat, with her chin resting on the arm of an armchair, with a rumpled blanket, looking off-frame into the middle distance.
January 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Happy holidays from Maruko and me! Hope your last few days of 2024 are lovely and may you get some rest and relaxation.
Maruko, a small torbie cat, sits with her front and back paws splayed forward, with a sleepy expression, on an armchair.
December 25, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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So what I'm taking home from my Steam Replay this year is that I game slightly more than the average person. To be fair, it's at least sort of part of my job, but these medians are rank amateur numbers. Who only plays 4 games in a year?
A screenshot from Luke's Steam Replay 2024 showing his gaming stats compared to the global Steam player median. The numbers are: 395 achievements vs the median of 13 160 games played vs the median of 4 Longest consecutive streak of gaming at 64 days vs the median of 6
December 19, 2024 at 1:41 AM