Manuela Malasaña

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old gross laughably out of style: flat logo with a fuzzy drop shadow behind it
last year: flat logo
sexy new hotness in design: flat logo with fuzzy drop shadow in front of it, tinted white (it's GLASS)

ugh in hindsight this has impacted my professional life (here I am "between jobs" now), my social life (stopped seeing friends), my personal life (so many home repairs neglected...) fuuuuck

i thought getting physically worn out and listless after just a few hours awake was part of getting older but turns out i was missing The Vitamin. over a year of my life lost to this because i thought nothing weird was going on. get blood work. make sure u are not missing The Vitamin

lol realizing i don't actually own a copy of among us vr/3D, the game i worked on the most over the last 3 years, because i always launched it from dev builds so I never actually had a key for it. don't feel like buying it tho because let's be honest im not gonna play it for fun

checking the tabloids to see what antics charles ii of spain, my celebrity lookalike, has gotten into now

the receptionist at the doctor's office called me a "young lady" thus becoming my favorite person

this is an aria from Handel's 1724 opera Julius Caesar in Egypt, which is about Julius Caesar in Egypt. The narrative context is that Julius Caesar sings it while he's in Egypt

my least woke opinion is that it is extremely unfair to make me take final exams decades after i graduated especially if the text is going to rearrange itself every time i look away

of course my haughtiest cat becomes very affectionate the moment i get a laptop

case study in "it's not the size it's how you use it", 18th century superstar castrato Senesino's jealous contemporaries seethed that he had no shortage of mistresses despite the tiny childlike size of his

pitch range (only 1.5 octaves)

i pronounce it jiff but every time i say it i also make intense aggressive eye contact

many indies are intimidated about hiring voice actors and assume they have to go through "official channels" but voice actors, just like you, love money, and all you have to do is email them and offer them money to act. Here's an up to date guide on how much to offer: voiceactingclub.com/rates/

we managed to pay voice actors for kitsune tails and we're a bunch of impoverished queers running on hopes and dreams instead of an actual budget

just in case you're wondering about AAA studios who wanna use AI instead of actual voice actors. they're not even saving any significant amount of money

this packet is not a packet of honor
nothing valued is inside
what is inside is dangerous and repulsive to us
this danger is unleashed only if you open the packet and eat the delicious gel inside
this packet is best shunned and left around so you keep finding them everywhere

Manuela knows where it's at. She can shader-nerd with me for hours. Tell her about your cool graphics engineering jobs.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.

rando on masto: remember over thanksgiving not to mention eating to anyone as that could trigger their eating disorder
me: but what if their outfit is really good?
[blocked]

but i mean what if

a mutual on mastodon challenged me to sing Candy Candido's version of One Meatball (www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXk...) Here it is, transposed up 5 semitones, but otherwise exactly as Candido performed it

Latest podcast episode is out and it's a doozy! I spoke with Manuela Malasaña, whose work as a graphics programmer you've seen in games like Darkest Dungeon 2 and I Am Your Beast. We spoke abo... Latest podcast episode is out and it's a doozy! I spoke with Manuela Malasaña, whose work as a graphics programmer you've seen in games like Darkest Dungeon 2 and I Am Your Beast. We spoke about think...

Latest podcast episode is out! I spoke with Manuela Malasaña (@xibanya.bsky.social), graphics programmer, shader expert, creator of video game adaptations of classic plays, and hobbyist opera singer! You've seen her work in Darkest Dungeon 2 and I Am Your Beast.
makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

before someone runs into the replies being like "actually ants are carriers of prion disease" or something 1. the bag was not saturated with ants (if it was I myself would have been too disgusted to keep it) it was more like a dozen ants in a half pound bag of ginger 2. bonus prion disease yum yum

one of the most goblin mode things ive done is, back when i had ants getting into my home office, I forgot and left a bag of crystalized ginger on my desk and ants got into it. I put it in the freezer. a few hours later the ants were dead and i ate the rest. bonus protein yum yum

signed distance fences

I was laid off from Schell. I think I'm gonna chill for a bit and not get serious about looking for a new job until at least January but if any of y'all have any leads about roles for a senior graphics engineer that are remote or Austin-based I wouldn't mind hearing about 'em

book: the air was filled with the scent of flowers in bloom--
high school english teacher: NOT ON MY WATCH
(strikes out "the air was", scribbles in "^flowers" filled the air with the scent of flowers in bloom)
high school english teacher: it's not easy being a hero but someone has to do it

sign: smoking is not allowed within 100 ft of the building
high school english teacher, lighting up: by whom, bitch??
cop: u gotta stop or ull be fined
high school english teacher: or you will fine me, u fool. u idiot. u imbecile

❤️❤️❤️

Follow Manuela and watch her videos they are absolute delight, like brighten your day, and they’re also funny.

I bet that famous soprano lady not even 10percent funny. I probably wouldn’t follow her on social media.

She doesn’t seem to spark joy.

this reminds me of the time a professional operatic tenor slid into my DMs to be like "I'm a professional operatic tenor and you sound to me like you have barely any training" well u see champ, that would be because i have barely any training 👍

it makes no sense that one of the finest opera singers alive today would publicly be rude to a rando hobbyist, ergo, she must have thought i was not a rando hobbyist (maybe a vocal performance major or something) ergo she actually paid me a massive compliment