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Karl Parakenings

@forkingpath.bsky.social

Writer, programmer, narrative and technical designer. Freelance. 12+ years of gamedev experience. tabletop jam projects: https://forking-path.itch.io/ WIP artstation: https://www.artstation.com/forking-path contact: author @ forking-path.com (site wip)

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Two posts I saw this morning

07.12.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 832    πŸ” 341    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 7

Time to enter my gene wolfe epoch

07.12.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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oh my god Book of the New Sun had Amano covers in Japan and they're fucking crazy

07.12.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

Just a rat. This city's full of them.

06.12.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 

500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

07.12.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
06.12.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that's a small kindness.

06.12.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ecole Polytechnique memorial. 14 women in STEM murdered by a misogynist with a gun

Ecole Polytechnique memorial. 14 women in STEM murdered by a misogynist with a gun

06.12.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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still looking for level design work!

I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2.

portfolio ➑️ iibo.games

17.11.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

We're looking for a few good level designers, because asking one person to take on the creation of over 36 levels is a little bit evil for even me. Do you like games like Half Life 1, Quake and Goldeneye? Send a DM. You'd do well on our ship.

24.11.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI slop could never ever dream of having the staying power of Minmo.

1000 years from now, the people will still remember.

24.11.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Japanese poster for "Angel's Egg" 4K remaster by Mamoru Oshii (in Japanese theaters on November 14).
This is a brand new illustration by Yoshitaka Amano, and you can see him painting it in this video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWY5...

21.08.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 870    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 22
An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

πŸ‘©β€πŸŒΎ Grab your tools

20.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6625    πŸ” 2166    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 13
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Indie Fears Bundle Expand your spooky season gaming library with the creepiest indie horror games! Each purchase at the price of your choice supports SpecialEffect charity!

www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...

1 day, 8 hours left to get the indie fears bundle, which includes several amazing games including our very own Adios!! $13 for the whole thing!

20.11.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

Sounds like you're the one on familiar terms.

20.11.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."

13.11.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 10

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

13.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2446    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0
Oh, Ouch, It hurts, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852 - woodblock print of a pet cat nibbling on their human

Oh, Ouch, It hurts, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852 - woodblock print of a pet cat nibbling on their human

nothing is ever new

13.11.2025 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve talked about how Keeper’s morphs use distance fields (DFs) as their surface representation. But if there are no polys, how do we render them? A DF gives the distance to the nearest surface at any point, which we can exploit for rendering by marching along the view ray until we hit the surface.

12.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.

13.11.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 609    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Showing this to my barber

13.11.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The wizard sleeps well. The little cat stalks an illusionary frog around the kitchen, knocking over a mushroom.

13.11.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is the charge? A sweetroll? A toothsome Nord sweetroll?

12.11.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.

11.11.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 925    πŸ” 554    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 14
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Don't care about Graphix. Only Giraffx. Tokyo Jungle has good Giraffx as shown by this in game giraffe wearing a straw hat.

12.11.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Instagram ad for the Fishwife brand tinned fish fish knife. It’s a folding knife shaped like, you guessed it, a fish

Instagram ad for the Fishwife brand tinned fish fish knife. It’s a folding knife shaped like, you guessed it, a fish

It’s like my grandpa always said: fish wife, fish knife

12.11.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

please be kind to will stancil. you can't bully someone out of being a The Atlantic writer, that is a chronic condition

12.11.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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