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Chad Armstrong

@chadarmstrong.bsky.social

aka “Shishka.” Senior technical designer at Gravity Well Games. Previously: Apex Legends, Tomb Raider, Halo. He/Him.

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opens for* Damn you, lack of edit button.

23.01.2026 00:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Jungian Shadow" sounds like a name for a band that opens before "Attack and Dethrone God"

23.01.2026 00:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Next time Google “How to Dissolve Your Dragon” BEFORE using a tub!

22.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Funny you mention. In my Korean class last night my teacher asked me to name something about Seoul that's better than LA.

"Public Transportation" was the easy, obvious, and instant answer.

21.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A poster in a window that reads “Oh, the memories you’ll make,” “Make memories happen here” and “welcome to Central City” with a Central City logo and some stock city images.

A poster in a window that reads “Oh, the memories you’ll make,” “Make memories happen here” and “welcome to Central City” with a Central City logo and some stock city images.

A poster on glass that reads “Welcome to Central City AirPort” with airport shuttle instructions. 

This photo was taken at a airport bus station in Van Nuys, California.

A poster on glass that reads “Welcome to Central City AirPort” with airport shuttle instructions. This photo was taken at a airport bus station in Van Nuys, California.

A “Central City Airport” logo frosted onto a window of an airport bus station

A “Central City Airport” logo frosted onto a window of an airport bus station

A poster on glass that reads “DREAM BIG when you fly Gotham Air” with stock image of a woman on a canoe in what might be the Philippines

A poster on glass that reads “DREAM BIG when you fly Gotham Air” with stock image of a woman on a canoe in what might be the Philippines

Something you get used to seeing when you live in LA is seeing places get used for films.

Anyway, looks like the FlyAway bus terminal in Van Nuys might cameo as the entrance to Central City Airport in something DC related?

18.01.2026 22:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Love when I get e-mails desperate for reviews of some mundane product I've bought that start with something like "Chad, there's still time!" Like the Childlike Empress needs me to give an HDMI cable 5 stars to save Fantasia.

09.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s a bot reply for accounts that repost other people’s content. Basically a content farm account asking please because it detected a tag or keyword in your post.

27.12.2025 22:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fucking hell.

My condolences to his family.

22.12.2025 20:22 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rest counts as "something useful!"

17.12.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An orange and white cat sitting peacefully with its eyes closed on a stone foundation. Behind and above it is the entry to a traditional Korean building.

An orange and white cat sitting peacefully with its eyes closed on a stone foundation. Behind and above it is the entry to a traditional Korean building.

Close up on the cat, soaking up the sun

Close up on the cat, soaking up the sun

Need y’all to slow down and appreciate the vibes of this cat I saw sunbathing in Gyochon

21.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Safe to assume that the Venn diagram of people who are eating the propaganda up and the people who say games "shouldn't be political" is a single perfect circle.

29.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t help but remember Kutaragi comparing the PS3 pricing to getting dinner at a nice restaurant…

www.gamesindustry.biz/ps3-is-proba...

21.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

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13.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 372    🔁 427    💬 7    📌 24

That's a helluva list of great games that can GET IN LINE

07.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WTF GO PLAY DREDGE

07.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hot damn, "You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line" is the kind of articulation I wish I was capable of.

06.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senior QA Analyst Remote

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

06.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

Social media peaked at “stuff a message into a bottle and throw it in the ocean.”

03.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve become the meme video of the middle aged guy jumping down a flight of stairs, then cut to an ambulance. 🙃

21.09.2025 04:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Update on this: two fractures! Yaaaaaay. 😑

21.09.2025 03:47 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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a black and white cartoon cat is sitting on a red pillow . Alt: a black and white cartoon cat is sitting on a red pillow while crossing its arms to pout.

@alexabkim.bsky.social to me: “Chad I’m gonna need you to stop 40’ing so hard.”

Me: “I’m gonna 40’s ✨even harder✨ now.

(My dumb 43 year old ass just rolled my ankle so hard there was a popping noise)

20.09.2025 22:41 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

I'd argue Halo's control scheme and input handling changed the course of console FPS's, but I suppose that's not what people typically mean when they say 'influential.'

16.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 38    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Yeah he is 100% right.

16.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

I think it was Del Walker that rightly said that AI art makes brands look cheap.

16.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Always good to see women capably climbing the corporate ladder.

🫠

13.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't think anyone wants to tear Team Cherry down, here. No one worth listening to, anyway.

The bigger concern is the potential for misperception. How will media/consumers/investors/etc perceive OTHER games once they're convinced "only" 3 people made a game that a hundred people made?

09.09.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Peter, nobody's really talking about Team Cherry's fulltime headcount, though. The discourse was brought on by the media portraying the game as having been made strictly by those three developers "with support from a few contractors."

THAT is inherently inaccurate, given the size of the credits.

08.09.2025 23:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I guess @chadarmstrong.bsky.social keeps up with this app and has told you we go camping a lot, and have rats again. In fact, here's Neeps on my desk right now.

I hope everyone is taking care of themselves, hydrated and staying cool.

05.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Baby rats Whisky and Tattie chilling under my computer monitor while I work

Baby rats Whisky and Tattie chilling under my computer monitor while I work

My new managers Whisky and Tattie making sure I stay productive

05.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 107    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

"Finally"

03.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 1009    🔁 219    💬 6    📌 0