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Andrew Carl

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He/They, #GameDev Senior Systems Designer at Respawn. Prev work: Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Destiny 2 THPS 1+2 at Vicarious Visions, Diablo IV at Blizzard. Views are my own

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The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

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08.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

07.10.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 461    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 17

these guys want -- indeed feel entitled to -- cultural hegemony but don't have a popular culture to offer anyone outside of podcasts where dumb guys complain. they're hoping AI will make one for them but i got bad news

06.10.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1247    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as β€œinsurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

07.10.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4932    πŸ” 1808    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 69

For all the people who think Newsom is really killing it: yeah, you might want to rethink that.

06.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

06.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8888    πŸ” 2605    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

I think Bluesky could still be saved. Won't be, but could. They should hire me as Head of Comms. I could fix her (Jay)

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04.10.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 362    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 14

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

04.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7492    πŸ” 2702    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 0

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No?

Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

04.10.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1871    πŸ” 257    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 7

If I recall correctly, a lot of rich assholes made a significant amount of money off snatching up the assets & land of interned Japanese Americans on the cheap while they were in the camps.

04.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Shh, he still thinks they go to a "farm upstate" where they can frolic & wave in the breeze with all the other good flags

04.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a screenshot of a steam review for expedition 33 which praises the game endlessly but gives it a negative rating as a joke

a screenshot of a steam review for expedition 33 which praises the game endlessly but gives it a negative rating as a joke

steams algorithm looks at the big thumbs up or thumbs down, not the actual words in your review. on my hands and knees begging people to stop doing this it literally only ever harms your favorite developers

03.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

"What if the main character from Watch Dogs was also an absolute freak for Anthony Masters"

03.10.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

03.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10106    πŸ” 1645    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 78

I'm admittedly very tired but I read this post several times and I feel like I'm going insane.

03.10.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1741    πŸ” 228    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 5

Hey all, my husband @kevinonthelam.bsky.social found out that he’s going to be laid off next month. πŸ₯ΊHe’s a Staff Character Animator who has been working on The Outer Worlds 2. We’d greatly appreciate any leads that you have, because times are expensive and we have two little boys. πŸ™ Thank you!

02.10.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Been talking about this trend for years when it comes to games spending. Why are there premium gamepads, $149 collector's editions, Pro consoles and general rising prices? Because the price-insensitive, affluent players are the ones doing more of the spending as everyone else shifts more to f2p.

02.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
A blue square promotional template for GCAP that shows a woman with pale skin and open brown hair in a black shirt smiling at the camera. To her left is the title β€œUnsaved Progress Will Be Lost: Why the Game Industry Forgot How to Make Video Games and How to Fix It”, along with text beneath it in different fonts that say: Institutional Knowledge!!!!!, Has the game industry lost its mind??, Layoffs/Bureaucracy/Burnout/You Name It We Got It!, and Let’s get into it! The session is on Tuesday at 9:40am on October 7, 2025.

A blue square promotional template for GCAP that shows a woman with pale skin and open brown hair in a black shirt smiling at the camera. To her left is the title β€œUnsaved Progress Will Be Lost: Why the Game Industry Forgot How to Make Video Games and How to Fix It”, along with text beneath it in different fonts that say: Institutional Knowledge!!!!!, Has the game industry lost its mind??, Layoffs/Bureaucracy/Burnout/You Name It We Got It!, and Let’s get into it! The session is on Tuesday at 9:40am on October 7, 2025.

Hi, folks! If you’re going to be at Melbourne Games Week here’s a heads up on where to find me.

First up, I’m thrilled to be keynoting at GCAP on Tuesday the 7th at 9:40am with a title that’s too long:

02.10.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about β€œinfighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

02.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6127    πŸ” 1219    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 199
A purple Tshirt mockup that says, "I went to GDC and got Long COVID but still don't have funding for my indie studio"

A purple Tshirt mockup that says, "I went to GDC and got Long COVID but still don't have funding for my indie studio"

Industry Events Have COVID Protections Challenge failed

02.10.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Look, having 42% of a game's data be total fuckin' nonsense that cannot be interpreted by the engine OR the developers is probably fine.

01.10.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever I use spreadsheets to track/edit data & balance for multi-million dollar games I definitely do it because I don't want to be very accurate. Close enough is good enough, especially when using it to export data to a game engine. Feeding it improperly formatted data never causes massive issues

01.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A gas explosion happened in the Bronx THIS MORNING, my man. Gas appliances need to be installed by experts, not superintendents.

01.10.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

been struggling with how to articulate this for a while now, but it's a big part of what's going on now. i don't want to marinate in my own resentments, and certainly not in theirs. i don't want to work through someone else's daddy or mommy issues. it stinks!

01.10.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 842    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

Yeah, it's it's arm. Right?

...Right?

01.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Is he holding part of Black Ant?

01.10.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Still a few days left for our Alpha playtest!!

If you wanna give the game a try and help us out with some feedback so that we can make the game even better, we'd really appreciate it!!

Please consider tagging anyone who you think would be interested in a Roguelike Fighting Game :)

Thank you!

01.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

bill burr is doing what they hoped this event would achieve by spreading the word look how fine and normal this place is for a rich straight white man willing to accept money on the simple condition that he just be very careful to not joke about any of the wrong people or he'll die in foreign prison

30.09.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

I think I'll need to wait & see it play out a bit before I call the founder of Trump Steaks a scam artist.

01.10.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 50023    πŸ” 15673    πŸ’¬ 681    πŸ“Œ 724

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