Kyle Kulyk 🕹️🍁

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So you're telling me Trump didn't get approval from Congress to strike Iran's facilities before and congress did nothing, and didn't get approval from Congress to kidnap Venezuela's head of state and Congress did nothing...and now he's starting war with Iran without Congress?
Get out of town!

And on top of all that, the past 2 days I've been in bed sick with a cold and so this weekend I have to catch up on marking my student's assignments before Monday. I don't even want to talk about the progress on my studio's projects. Can I retire yet?

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I just started playing Spiderman 2 and I'm loving it. I've hardly scratched the surface of Arc Raiders, I'm 3/4 of the way through Silent Hill 2, having a blast with Battlefield 6, I started Baldur's Gate 3 on the Christmas break, haven't even started Ghost of Yotei yet. AND NOW THIS! WHY!?

Sure are a lot of violations of international law and wars being started by the leader of the "Board of Peace." Was the title meant to be ironic but no one was let in on the joke ahead of time?

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Welp, there you go. The Conservative Party of Canada has learned nothing from it's many defeats this past decade and voted to double down on the awful. If somehow there's anyone with integrity still within the CPC, this is it. Get out. Head to the last lifeboat post haste.
#Cdnpoli

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

BOOOOO!!!

A six-panel comic titled "Wildlife Tracking Tips". In panel 1, the text says "A white-tailed deer traveled through here," and there are white-tailed deer prints in fresh snow. In panel 2, the text says "An American Red Squirrel came by," and the leap marks of a red squirrel are in the snow. In panel 3, the text says "A Snowshoe Hare passed through," and there are the distinctive fluffy-footed marks from a snowshoe hare jumping across the snow. n panel 4, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare found a sword," and one of the front paw marks in the track has been replaced with a long thin line running alongside the track. In panel 5, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare is dual wielding," and both front paw marks have been replaced with long thin lines. In panel 6, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare tamed a mount, vastly increasing its jumping distance. You should run," and the Snowshoe Hare trail runs into a deer track and disappears.

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

How on earth does this video do anything but prove that the ICE agent wasn't in danger and simply murdered Good? There's nothing here the shows she had intent to kill. That's ridiculous. Also, wtf, is he walking behind and in front of the car against all law enforcement training?

Ah. Boooo!

2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code.

Every developer can relate.

#solodev #indiedev #development

This was me in one eye, worse in the other, and then my pup chewed up an $800 pair of progressives and I had enough. Got lasik finally. I need regular readers now for close up and on the computer but other then that I'm pretty darn happy with the choice I made a few years ago. 👓

Jfc, what the hell is going on in the US?

Introduce yourself with 4 video games

Oh wait...wrong answers only...

Saw someone arguing Alberta spends too much on education. "We went from $6.5 billion to $9. That's not enough?"
$6.5 was in 2013. There's this thing called INFLATION!
Adjust and consider we've added roughly 140,000 students in that time (or 230 new schools worth)
Not an increase.
#ableg #abpoli

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Hey, UK and France. Canada here.
You wouldn't consider loaning us a few nuclear deterrents, would ya? I mean, we shouldn't need em and will give them right back if we don't require them, but just to be on the safe side. #AggressorState #Plutocracy #AmericanOligarchy

Sigh.

My Christmas vacation is now just a long weekend and I'm not ready. :(

Happy New Year from our family to yours! From Harley the #bulldog and Dutchess the amazing, three legged cat. :) #yeg

"Retro Textures 1" will be released on January 15th, it'll include 100 textures ✨ The package will be completely free to download, and use in any sort of project (attribution not required) #gamedev #gameassets

Here's a list of Canadian game studios for you to follow.

Unfortunately, it looks like the majority of Canadian developers don't have studio accounts on BS. 🤷🏼‍♂️

If a large corp like Ubi or Rockstar or whoever doesn't have a Canadian-specific account, I didn't include them.

go.bsky.app/Fg9viDV

True story. #canada #yeg

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

I couldn't find a list of game directors so I created one. My general rubric is simple: these are the people who are directly responsible for the creative direction of the games they work on.

go.bsky.app/6TAQbHE

-19 outside all day. Slept in until 2pm. Played video games with my teens. Ordered in for dinner. Watched an episode of "Down Cemetery Road" with my wife and then popcorn, hot chocolate and watched Violent Night as a family. The perfect, Canadian #BoxingDay #yeg

Wtf?