Andy Vatter

after 16 years of multi-free-lancing constantly juggling multiple gigs i have come to a period in my life where

1) several projects are winding down at the same time

2) i realize how much more tiring it is to have to gear shift between multiple jobs compared to just having 1

anyway hire meeee

Watch King of the Hill with ads because the Malibu Rum ad features Len and it puts you back in the correct era. You practically expect the show to be preempted by MLB

John made every character model in an entire 3d action game. John is amazingly good and amazingly chill. Hire John.

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Senior Narrative Designer - Turtle Rock - US, Irvine, CA - US (onsite, hybrid, remote in US)

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I’ve watched many of the classic sitcom sequel-boots in recent years, and they range in quality from enjoyable (Night Court) to Frasier.

But 4 episodes in, King of the Hill is the best, and it’s not close.

It feels like the Hills and Arlen kept existing and we just missed a few seasons.

Learned that parts of Norway were forgotten during the Black Plague (everyone died) and only rediscoveted way later-sometimes more than a hundred years later.

So if you want a colonialism-free discovery game -here is a possibile setting!

My last three Gundam posters. I am so thankful I get to make these. Currently working on a new one!

always always physical, entirely on the cart/disc, unless the developer can't swing physical, which i get.

what i'm NOT doing is going to a store to buy a digital game. it didn't even occur to me that that was a thing.

what if tetris was a girl

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative “This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative “Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative “Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot “I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

Saw this on tumblr and couldn't agree more.

To reiterate:

* Mastercard maintains a set of "Standards" for adult content
* Those "Standards" are not publicly available whatsoever
* The "Standards" for adult content are *separate* from applicable law
* Therefore, Mastercard does in fact have restrictions on the sale of adult content

I was just thinking about how dumb it is every new stadium and arena gets named after some shitty faceless company with an even shittier name - Battle Arena Toshinden would make an *excellent* name for a sports/concert venue.

(Oriental music)

One of these days I'm gonna have the words Occidental music on the bottom of a screen, and it'll be a jug band playing over two guys fishing with string in a river

wow, high on life and a skateboarding game this month.

weirdly prepares you for high on life 2 (which will also be available day one on xbox game pass).

every week I am forced to see another version of the wettest man in existence confidently post some insane figure of X billion in Y days that GTA *will* hit also btw what’s the “PC market” and people treat it like these cut-rate powerpoint peddlers are like Grima Wormtongue in Strauss’ ear. stop it

for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"

me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

"One of my favorite things about Star Trek is a fact I just made up."

I have very few people who I genuinely considered heroic for the creative fields, but Kevin MacLeod was one of them. To learn that the "free varied music for whatever you want it for" guy stopped composing and started prompt engineering AI slop for almost a year is the most depressing twist.

Currently on the phone with Visa

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

(cont)

(this is the correct angle to play, you'll waste waaaay more of their time this way and piss them off waaay worse)

Might be time to surface these videos again. We made a bunch of animations for Audible. Here's the behind-the-scenes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJVB...

All of the finished videos are midway down this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The compositing was all done by @andyvatter.bsky.social !

history is written by whoever says the name best

Advice for people calling Visa & MasterCard to complain about their censorship of sexual content ⬇️

The tldr is call at least twice on different days and keep them on the phone for longer.

So, WFM guy here, I crunch call center numbers all day and advise management on performance and staffing requirements. Here are some concrete goals to keep in mind with any sort of calling campaign: 🧵

i get all manner of deliveries from these stuck in my head, all the time, to say nothing of the way gutzon borglum pronounces his own name

i handled all the tracking and compositing for this and all of the other promos! tons and tons of fun.

“Is it this easy to manipulate payment processors into the culture wars?” is the fucking line

Mastercard and Visa won’t lose anything by seeming to put the foot down on something, but they will if their shareholders think they look like silly out of touch rubes who will fall for anything.