DuckTapeAl (it/its)

There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket

Create NSFW art

Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime

Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art

This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like

Always resist oppression

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, with my title updated from UI/UX Lead to Senior UI/UX Lead | UI/UX Manager

I get to change my title today, because I got a promotion!

It's Pride Month.
Find a corner in which to be a real, true force, and keep at it against this disgusting effort to erase people.
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absolute funniest message u can possibly see in a public discord server has got to be “hey why can’t i react to your message?”

I may be Tom Bombapilled.

There's something charming about our heroes meeting a nature spirit, and having him be a longwinded old stoner. Tom Bombadil is the song the Middle Earth sings, because it is, at its heart, a very silly place.

Wedding cake made to look like some of our favorite books, with cake toppers my better half made herself of me as a Roman senator and her as a medieval lady (plus a Companion Cube; we played a lot of Portal).

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

I have short dark, graying hair, brown eyes and glasses. I'm wearing an Insomniac t shirt and a black hoodie.

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Hi! I'm Mary (they/them), and I'm a UI/UX Lead at Insomniac.

I've been doing this 18 years. Currently on Wolverine, previously on Avowed, FUSER, DCVR, Rock Band 4, LOTRO, BioShock Infinite, and more. I want to empower my team and make cool stuff.

The cover of The Pocket Mentor for Video Game UX UI, by Simon Brewer

A section of advice for new UI/UX Designers from Mary Yovina

Words I said are in a book! And I get to see them alongside the advice of some incredible UI/UX folks!

Awesome work by @bunnyballball.bsky.social 👏

Twitter post by InternetHippo from 01/30/2024. A picture of Bentham's Panopticon with the caption: Hey y'all! Just a reminder that we're back to mandatory in-office work as of Monday. We've fully renovated the space and we think you'll love it!

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Call Me on My Cell Phone: The VR UI of 'Dance Central' Bringing Dance Central to Rift and Quest after a long history as a Kinect title came with a number of UX challenges. It meant designing a new way of interacting with the UI, and giving that UI a physi...

I just found out that my 2021 GDC talk about creating Dance Central (VR)'s virtual cell phone interface, Call Me on My Cell Phone, is now available for anyone to watch. (gdcvault.com/play/1027391...)

“I don’t like fahkin half of ya”

In the Leads section of the credits of Avowed, UX/UI Lead Mary Yovina.

Avowed credits mention 💙
Damn excited to experience this game

February 11, 2025: Welcome Possum Creek! We are thrilled to announce that Possum Creek, the award-winning independent game publisher, has joined Steve Jackson Games as an imprint. Based in Philadelphia, Possum Creek is best known for Wanderhome, a pastoral fantasy RPG about traveling animal-folk. Wanderhome has won numerous awards, including ENNIEs for Best Family-Friendly Game, Best Cover Art, and Best Interior Art. As an imprint, Possum Creek will still have full creative and editorial control over their titles. However, the Possum Creek team will also lend their talents to the SJ Games design and visual branding. Jay Dragon, Editorial Director at Possum Creek, will join our Board Of Directors and become our Lead Game Designer. Ruby Lavin will become our Art Director while retaining that position at Possum Creek. What does all of this mean? It means that Steve Jackson Games will keep bringing innovative, exciting, and fun games to the tabletop gaming community – and that we have even more talented people to help us in that mission. We can't wait to see what comes next!

i'm so excited to announce that Possum Creek and all our full-time employees have become an imprint at Steve Jackson Games!

This is a fantastic game, it made me Feel Things in a way few games do. And these are two great charities.

#blaseball

there are only 3 kinds of game producers. i will not explain

anyone up for some open rp at the bluesky quicksand

I love that blocking on here actually works it literally feels just like this

Characters from Destiny 2. A comic of an older meme format. The first panel shows Drifter mid-dance saying "Party rockers in the house tonight!!" to which Eris replies in the second panel "It's 'party rock is'." The two middle panels then show them exchanging a look, an ellipsis in a text bubble between them, and then the bottom panel shows them sharing an over-the-top kiss.

(2023) party rockers #Destiny2 #drifteris
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8: Sleep. As cliche as it is, I really do love just lying down in bed for a long time.

Mary was correct.

The full context here is "Discount Joe's Never Gonna Close Emporium: Going Out Of Business Sale!"

That is the _entire_ context. I can't stop laughing, it's been eight years.

Hey I just wanna stress something that is always true but in this presidency and political climate is double triple quadruple true: no matter your industry, never ever ever trust HR. Confide in them nothing. You’re not disabled, you’re not trans, whatever. They are beholden to their bosses. Not you.

7: Root Beer Floats. I've recently found that I can have Halo Top ice cream in sugarfree root beer and have a low-sugar root beer float that's still super tasty. Will the wonders ever cease.