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Troy

@troysnoise.bsky.social

Episcopalian, socialist, dad. I like trains, bicycles, video games, and sharing. In a former life I did sound design for video games, but now I have a dumb email job with health insurance. Don't tell my boss when you see that I'm not working. Living in WA

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Then I remembered it was a quick outline of how I wanted to order the layers of a scrolling background in one of my game projects

04.03.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Found this nature poem in an old text file on my computer. I thought it was neat, but I don't read much poetry, so I was trying to remember where I found and why I had bothered to save it.

blue sky and clouds
mountains horizon
closer clouds
far trees
close pine trees
ground

04.03.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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03.03.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
Sonic The Hedgehog

Sonic The Hedgehog

The original Japanese manual for 'Sonic The Hedgehog' has cute images on how to take care, or not take care, of your carts.

This image is for telling you to take a break from gaming every once in a while, and has both the sketch & colored version of it.

24.02.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine and cat

Enough is enough in Sojourners magazine and cat

An excerpt from the first chapter of our forthcoming book was in Sojourners this month!

You can read it online!

sojo.net/magazine/mar...

24.02.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

21.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 13545    πŸ” 4571    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 745
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So proud I get to help @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social create this incredibly important historical game, despite the powers that be in the games industry insisting that Palestinians can not be allowed to tell their story.

23.02.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 639    πŸ” 325    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Oh there’s also this fun 5.25” floppy organizer

22.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 576    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 15
A Walgreens sign says, "Heros work here. We have ice"

A Walgreens sign says, "Heros work here. We have ice"

Scrolling through some of my old photos and remembering America's "essential workers" era

21.02.2026 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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if you look at Shrek...

20.02.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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We've done it. We've just hit the release button on our biggest game yet...

DEMON TIDES IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! AHHHHH!

An open world platforming adventure full of mysteries, challenges and a ton of customization! Express yourself through the movement and explore the oceans!

19.02.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3354    πŸ” 1171    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 67

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

18.02.2026 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8458    πŸ” 1953    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 39
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'Games Where a Person in Front of a Greenscreen Talks Directly to You' a list of games by MichaelKlamerus | Backloggd Does not count games filmed on sets and the actor must be looking directly at the player and talking to them

sorry I don't have time for discourse. I'm doing important work here
backloggd.com/u/MichaelKla...

12.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 353    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 17

If you ever want me to take a listen to some audio stuff (and aren't on a time crunch), lmk! In my past life I worked in audio for video games and would enjoy poking at esoteric audio things.

12.02.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seattle Organizer’s Location Unknown as ICE Prepares to Deport Him Undocumented-led mutual aid group Super Familia has launched a letter-writing campaign demanding Washington elected officials intervene on behalf of community organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres, who...

NEW: No one has heard from Seattle organizer Frank Gabriel Yzaze Yegres since Friday when he said he would be deported this weekend. ICE lookup system says he's in custody, but won't say where. Advocates demand WA congressional delegation step in
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

10.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Firewatch is great. I should play it again soon

10.02.2026 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

09.02.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3016    πŸ” 341    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 89

suffer like G did??

06.02.2026 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They don't fire me, because I put so many things in the American AI sack. But they tell me to not put things in the Chinese AI sack ever again.

06.02.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, my work finds out about this and they are not happy. They're super mad, going off about national security and foreign actors and shit. So then I'm in trouble, and they make me take all the stuff out of the Chinese AI sack, and put it in the "American AI" sack that they hand me.

06.02.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The best thing is that this was represented in my dream as me dragging around a giant dumb sack labelled "Chinese AI." My job was to stuff random things into this big cartoon sack, and then "AI" does something to it. Like, in the sack. The sack is the AI thing

06.02.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Last nigt I dreamed that work made me use AI, but they didn't care what and gave no oversight. So I used Chinese AI models, with a spiteful "they won't like this" kind of attitude.

06.02.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

running around a cool city is basically why i want to play Pokemon, sounds awesome

06.02.2026 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No no, you're good in my book πŸ˜†

05.02.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me, a guy who grew up in the American south, but now lives in the PNW: "I'm glad I don't live there anymore. It's kind of terrible"

Some other guy who never lived in the south: "Yeah, I wouldn't want to live there either."

Me: "I'll kick your ass, the south is great how dare you"

05.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

smh that James didn't also call out podcasters

James 3:1
"Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will face stricter judgment."

3: 5-6
"How great a forest is set ablaze by a such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire."

04.02.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i am now also mad, is this ragebait

04.02.2026 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Werner Herzog on the future of film school, critical connectivity, and PokΓ©mon Go β€œUnfortunately, film school is not going to go completely extinct. I wish it would.”

My kid and also Werner Herzog, on learning about "video games"

"When two persons in search of a PokΓ©mon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder?… Do they bite each other’s hands? Do they punch each other?"

www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12...

02.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol

He did find my copy of Rampage on the N64, which clearly has monsters. But I said no, because he's still learning about no hitting and not to throw toys πŸ˜…

We played Mario 64 and Yoshi's Island. That did involve a moment of "I don't want Mario! I don't want Bowser!" But then it was a lot of fun

02.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

started introducing my oldest kid to video games. we played a Time Attack mode in a racing game.

"Is there an attack?"
"No, um, that's just what they called it."
"Is there a monster? Is there a monster that attacks you??"
"No, monster. You just drive really fast"
"I want to play one with monsters!"

02.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0