Nick Dymond

my take on game industry finance is any analysis of dev time, dev cost, sale pricing etc. is pointless without acknowledging the role of big capital in systematically acquiring and extracting all of the wealth

it‘s like giving someone diet and exercise advice while Dracula is actively killing them

Cor, I wish my Strugatsky novels stank of smoke. I might have to sort that.

I maintain that this is the moment a lot of folks realise that they can just do direct deals with porting houses and marketing teams.

Publishers got used to low risk thanks to platform deals and crowdfunding. They need to remember that ‘absorbs risk’ is their primary non-replaceable role tout suite

If I had one suggestion to those just starting in sound design, it would be to stay curious. Interrogate the world and objects around you. See what they have to say.

I talk a lot about mastering, metadata, mixing, & more, but a sense of play is the best thing we could possibly have in our toolkit.

And with one of the greatest winamp skins. Respeto.

A party at the National Gallery with people dancing to music is not a “rave”. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Are there any quotes about Macromedia Flash? 🥹

Yup.

Billionaires are enemies of/incompatible with civil society.

The Cold War never ended...

In piles of trash, where they belong.

Love to see it etc.

Do it 👍

My condolences.

If you're ever in need of a walkin' buddy I can come to wherever, whenever.

Love to the family.

(And yeah, fuck that inhuman, tech-solutionist bullshit.)

Reaper update changelog on their website, which reads: "REAPER 7.60: With Liberty and Justice for All (members only)"

Reaper.fm was down during the strike and now this. It's good to give money to not-the-soul-crushing-world-destroying-private-equity-cunts for once.

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

Wise words from Malaysian musician, professor, and artist Kamal Sabran.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY DOES. NOT. WORK. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

NI?!? What?!!

Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...

Unfortunately, this is confirmed news.

Not remotely what you want to see. Wishing everyone at NI the best in a tough time, and hoping that in the restructuring process, the tools find a good home. Details:

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Zine cover : "In bed past noon, Volume 1" showing a man in a suit with bare feet holding a microphone standing on a gravel path. Inside cover "Lying in bed past noon - Kicked out of the house to get some exercise"

A variety of photography zine pages.

I'm considering making a zine of photos that sit outside my long-term projects that are just sitting on my HD, and really need to leave the house and DO something useful.

Just gauging interest for now - anyone? Any reposts much appreciated.

Phasing out our dependency on the US for tech infrastructure should be a priority now, and the first step is making it easy to do so.

Never underestimate the power of something being easy.

Labour in the UK and the Democrats in the US are both carriers of the same sickness, unable to access the energy and vitality of progressive causes because they accept the authoritarian solutions laid out by their opponents. An electorally barren and morally bankrupt position, untenable in 2026.

Legendary Editor/Sound Designer Walter Murch talks after an American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social screening of Francis Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece THE CONVERSATION. (1/4)

If only (UNITY) there was a solid recent (UNITY) example of this (UNITY) not working out well for (UNITY) anyone.

Does the US not have a past tense for 'spit'?

Spit/spat like shit/shat (with both verbs being legitimate actions to take towards ICE agents).

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Fircomp 2 by Jon V Audio is now available for FREE Jon V Audio has updated the pricing of Fircomp 2, a digital compressor plugin previously priced at £23, to a pay-what-you-want model, with no minimum. You can now download this outstanding compressor ...

That plugin looks dangerous. I had a Focusrite LiquidMix for a while and enjoyed deep-diving the compressors on that.

Not that you need it, but this is an excellent clean compressor which is apparently free now: bedroomproducersblog.com/2025/05/09/f...