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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

was pleasantly surprised by a little maughanii, then saw truncata being stupid about blooming as this specimen always does #plantsky #succulents #haworthia

photo of haworthia maughanii putting out a flowerstalk

photo of haworthia truncata with a medium-length flowerstalk that's bent in the middle and drooping

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Dana Cief @ciefstatten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Opening emergency comissions! Lost my job back in April since legal and insurance issues stemming from a family loss became a full time thing, now I'm unemployable. Donations are also welcome (links in bio). Payment through PayPal, Ko-Fi, or transfer (MX only) #illustration #art #comissions

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Local man spends years going from one fps community to another being an obnoxious grifter and stirring up petty drama. Do not support that Quake 4 project.

Post screenshot: "it's Spiderman-Dev from moddb whose drama began when I rated HLA NoVR mod as 4/10 based on my experience (and not having rose tinted glasses for it)
that drove him to the depths of desperation unknown to any man. The fact he was already promoting the mod as something like "9.6/10" as a banner on moddb, and that 4 dipped it slightly, may have had something to do with it.
He was generating torrential floods of whine and drama about it. Meanwhile, very obvious bot accs from him started review bombing DI and even mods I favourably reviewed, such as Disrepair. I mean accs that would rate NoVR as 10/10 with samey short texts on the same day they join, and review bomb another mod (Disrepair, DI, Swelter, some others). He even didn't bother setting their countries to be different from his (Canada). Moddb staff confirmed the suspicions and removed those reviews and blocked most of the accs.
At the same time he would go into people's DMs nagging them more and more. About the same subject. The moddb reviews that is.
Then more people also didn't give the mod totally perfect scores, all for their own different (or similar) reasons. Now the mod's not even 9/10.
Other unfavourable parts of his personality included bragging his age and familial status or always nagging people to go buy HLA just to play the mod.
He's also in other mod that has to do with DNF, but I know less about that one."

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So I was thinking about Valve's Prospero recently #y2k #art #illustration

a landscape of flowing purple shapes dotted with shiny glassy spheres and trees with airplane-shaped leaves. On the hazy horizon there is a city destroyed by sharp angular shapes of red and black stretching into the sky. On the foreground, a giant black woman with rocket engines in her hair locks is half-lying down, her face is a shattered void, and on her chest is painted a blood-red hexagon. She is surrounded by levitating monks with red hexagon prisms instead of heads, and is approached by a small human figure

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Maestra Fénix @maestrafenix.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

gofund.me/a3cf9b191 If you are familiar with the #halflife #goldsrc modding scene, is very probable that you have heard/interacted with Rimrook before Well, he needs help as his situation has become desperate So if you have some spare to give, or at least move this around, he would be thankful

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Donate to Help Ben Benson Get Back on His Feet, organized by Ben Benson

I am Ben Benson, a lifelong artist, animator, and independent game developer. I have f… Ben Benson needs your support for Help Ben Benson Get Back on His Feet

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Two disks from two very different eras

Portal 2 box with a fancy lenticular print on the cover, and next to it a 1998 shovelware cd with content for Quake 2 and 3, Unreal and Half-Life.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Commission illustration of @attack-slug.bsky.social's Isle of Ascent project #art #indiedev

a view of a rocky mountain topped with a stone building with giant rusty pipes snaking towards its base with strange growths and spikes. The top of the building glows, and the sky is stormy with colors of sickly green and grey with reddish streaks

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Echinopsis cactus is being both gorgeous and ridiculous

side view of a variegated echinopsis in a smapp pot propped up by plastic cat figurines to stop it from falling because of a singular white flower larger than the cactus itself

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AMINO-SHIFT @amino-shift.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

AMINOSHIFT early access is here! New enemies and a new and improved creature gallery showing the future of Aminoshift #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #earlyacess #newrelease

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

air exchange exploration sketches for Dark Interval

pencil sketches of different variations of a wide tower with spikes

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Adopted some sort of kneading machine.

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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I think the more cheerful their music gets the closer we are to the end of the world

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

07.04.2007-21.01.2026 He got so frail, thin and sad, but I'd rather post a photo from the happy years. He died peacefully and painlessly in my arms, and that's all it needed to be.

A photo of a short-haired kurilian bobtail, of red and white color, sitting on a desk with half his butt hanging in the air, lit by sun, eyes half-closed

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Portal 1 Chell is an underappreciated vibe. Quick 30-minute thing.

digital portrait of a woman with messy black hair in a ponytail. She is rolling her eyes at something to the side

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don't get to texture HL1-styled things often, so this was a blast #halflife

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I contributed multiple in-universe movie posters for this, and I recommend playing.

Poster for a movie "Terror of the Hyperons" with an orbital view of Earth as background. There is a blonde woman with a displeased expression, wearing shimmering violet clothes and pointing a sci-fi

blaster at something off-screen. Next to her is a man with a grey beard, wearing a blue hat and an orange survival suit, poiting a tiny welding torch in the same direction. The two figures are framed by icebergs, and above them are looming three figures of alien warriors.

Movie poster in cherry-red, white and black colors. It depics an angry moustached man with a hat, a suit and a red rose boutonniere. He is shooting a tommygun, while torn newspapers fly off in all directions behind him. The title font proudly states the name of the movie is "CITIZEN KANE II", and the tagline is "Time to make NEWS". Director and screenplay are as Alan Smithee and Robin Bland respectively.

Poster for a movie titled "Glory of Progress" in painterly colors of soft orange, blue and pale yellow hues. A row of same-faced workers in rubber overalls and gasmasks is marching, looking to the left.
Behind them are abstract building shapes bristling with spikes and antennas.

Movie poster with closeup portrait of an aged scarred 50s gangster and a burning 1930s car. Title is "The Last Job" in bold red letters.

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AMINO-SHIFT @amino-shift.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

mantoid hunter model update

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Music for surviving through all the *vague hand gesture* seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

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The World, by Seeming

11 track album

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Coker Co-Op @cokercoop.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Crocodile Dance is a 2D/3D Animated Thriller about a Nigerian musician who must confront the curse of a Mami Wata to save her family. Support us on @Kickstarter today! bit.ly/croc-dance-ks

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Promo art for @amino-shift.bsky.social Incredibly fun oldschool enemy design, got to reference 80s animes for background, was a blast to make. #indiegame #digitalart

digital painting of a giant green human-mantis hybrid with one cyborg arm gun, charging up a blue energy shot. It stands in a dark blue corridor with pools of blood and glowing green goo.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Since #HalfLife is 27 today, two Xen pieces from 2019

a digital painting of splintered islands floating among greenish nebulas

a digital painting of two bullsquids drinking water among organically-shaped caves

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Of all things, seeing early pre-release media of THIS game blows my mind. (CD 139)

Early screenshot of My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens (1998). A 2d pony with blue body and yellow mane stands against a 3d render backdrop, depicting flat green hills with rather blobby apple trees and an evening sky with some clouds. A post box and a wooden fence visible on the left.

Early screenshot of My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens (1998). Same pony stands inside a 3d-rendered barn that lacks almost any shading. The barn is old and seemingly decrepit, with a lone sad lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. There are blocks of hay that look like bricks made of american cheese, two ladder and a few cutesy items of furniture.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Textures for Valve's unfinished sentry turret model, x512. Made for Dark Interval and then donated to HL2 Leak Megapatch 5. (2017)

Multiple views of a gun turret, in yellow and grey colors. There is a miniature of an untextured version in the corner.

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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

NOW ON STEAM! Chiaroscuro Imago - a short horror game about bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. Link below... 🐝📞🍯

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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. Chiaroscuro Imago, our narrative-driven horror game about murky secrets and stark realities, will be releasing on Steam come November 10th! Very exciting. You should probably wishlist it so you don't forget! Link below! 🔽🐝📞🍯

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

An idea for Gwen's look before the park executive feedback loop #knightsofguinevere

Full-height portrait of smiling princess Guinevere with waist-long loose blue hair, wearing a pointy golden tiara, a slim two-tone pale pink dress with a golden belt, and yellow shoes

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Textured tent for Dark Interval (mesh by Cvoxalury). Closely modelled after soviet tents occasionally used in student expeditions, though we'd usually add extra tarps on top for waterproofing. 1451 polys , 1k texture, handpainted normalmap. #gameasset #indiedev #sourceengine

two renders of a dirty-beige tent with a contrasting blue botton

A terribly overexposed phone photo of a group of tents at the edge of a forest. Someone's single leg is sticking out of a beige tent covered with a green tarp

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

my band's new single heavy sad synthpop b-side is a banger in Spanish seeming.bandcamp.com/album/tomorr...

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Tomorrow Place, by Seeming

3 track album

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Bison @bisonrimant.fr · 26/08/2025

Hello everyone ! You can now visit my portfolio in DOOM II ! Grab a ticket to my museum on my Ko-Fi or on ModDB 🌟 ko-fi.com/s/d6fee4dbae ✨ www.moddb.com/mods/museumwad Have fun !

Screenshot of the doom mod museum, the player is holding a fish right to an exhibition room with giant woodcarvings

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I Die: You Die @idieyoudie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Comaduster returns with a complex and emotional album that takes the project's mixture of IDM, post-rock and bass music into still more stunning forms. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/08/20/c...

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Comaduster, "Memory Echoes" | I Die: You Die

Comaduster returns with a complex and emotional album that takes the project's mixture of IDM, post-rock and bass music into still more stunning forms.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

There's a hole in history that holds it all together #art #sacredandterribleair #pjõl #tw:blood

Portrait of Anni-Elin Lund from the book "Sacred and Terrible Air". The girl is wearing a white t-shirt and a blue skirt, her loose blonde hair is hanging in the air, she is staring into distance with mydriatic pupils, where tiny red sparks can be seen. She is surrounded by stars. The stars are linked by stitched-up bloody cuts, and the entire image has a layer of bruises and grime.

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Scornkeeper @scornkeeper.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In HL2, I've always loved this crude brush security camera in the first level of Entanglement. Now I just found out it has two counterparts in its last level, albeit tucked away in an out of bounds area. They serve to guide actual camera entities when Alyx uses the monitors.

The amusing brush camera in Entanglement's first level, d2_prison_06.

The other brush security camera in Entanglement's last level, d2_prison_08.

Yet another brush security camera in Entanglement's last level, d2_prison_08.

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers. Vincent

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Going through @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social archive and enjoying these Half-Life 2 rumors from 2001. (HL2 was not officially unveiled until spring 2003)

Cutout from Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Issue 46, July 2001. "Half-Life 2 Shaping Up: I hear from a number of sources that Half-Life 2 is going to be a mission-based affair rather than a sequential story-you jump into any mission you like, and there will be a bunch of different characters you can play. Sounds like it takes the best ideas from all the side stories and add-ons and runs with them. I hear that the game is being designed from the ground up as a console title. It
won't be a PC game shoehorned into console clothing this time. The story certainly sounds very interesting - apparently the aliens from the first Half-Life are actually the guys" (the ones you've been killing.. The
REAL bad guys are the ones that turn up in the sequel. The origi-
nal aliens were apparently being big girlie wusses and looking for
somewhere to hide. Poor babies. It seems they wanted to take refuge on Earth and in order to check the place out, decided they' "test" humans to see if they'd make good allies or not. So all that running around and killing stuff in the first game was just to prove how macho you are. Expect to see the first Half-Life soon (as we revealed in our
exclusive preview last month) and the sequel in a year or so. Excited? I am. If you want to hang out and talk Half-Life smack with people, make sure you check out www.planethalflife.com"

Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Issue 50. November 2001. "I've mentioned this a few times, but I'm still getting word about Half-Life 3 even before Half-Life 2 is out! The second game has been in development for three years already, and will explain why the aliens came to Earth in the first place. In Half-Life 3, I'm informed that the hero of the first game returns, but this time he's a bad guy. - Sega and Namco are teaming up for another gun-shooting game"

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Seeming @handle.invalid · 04/07/2025

New song with Comaduster, one for a time after the end of everything. There's a hole in history that holds it all together. comaduster.bandcamp.com/album/way-wi...

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WAY WITH ME + THE LESS YOU KNOW, by Comaduster

2 track album

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

was thinking about vortigaunt clothing #art #half-life

three pencil sketches of vortigaunt aliens from half-life game series. One is dressed in pants, boots, sweater and leather jacket. Another is wearing a shawl, moccassin-like shoes and a cap. Third one is wearing a variety of slug-like creatures sticking to its skin

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Alyx Vance but inspired by very first Laidlaw story drafts

knee-high portrait of a dark-skinned woman in a brown leather jacket, green pants. She has goggles and a patterned red bandana. She is holding a weapon, and there is a small neon green alien on her shoulder, staring at the viewer

two pencil sketches of a young woman in field gear, with and without a jacket

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Seeming @handle.invalid · 13/06/2025

open.spotify.com/track/1dFHrJ... Grindshow isn't a dancefloor banger. You'll get that later. Instead, it's a pocket universe, a question mark, a writhing riddle. We picked it as the lead single not because it's obvious, but because it's the kind of song that nobody else makes. Say hello.

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Grindshow

Seeming · Grindshow · Song · 2025

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a-shift.bsky.social @a-shift.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

HEV helmet for Dark Interval (textures+material setup). We really wanted a HL1-style hood rather than a hard helmet remakes usually go with. It also makes some people very frustrated. #gameart #modding

renders of HEV suit from Half-Life 2 with helmet

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