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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I think I'm at the age where I randomly get messages inviting me to events to invest into random stuff. I don't wanna give money for other people's businesses, I want people to give me money to make goofy games and art 😆

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

If you can give a thank, you can save a thank for a rainy day. Stow that idea away into your thank bank

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Can a game be both hyper violent and super cozy? Ghost of Yotei seems to split the difference

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

People think I ask Socratic questions out of intellectual skepticism and due diligence, when really I am just a dumb dumb asking dumb dumb questions

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I just realized that Texas is an anagram for Taxes. I have a feeling a lot of people won't like that.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Kids are growing so tall now, I'm going to end up shopping for clothes in the kids' section

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The EU flag is technically a banner spangled with stars 🤔🧠

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The colon is one of the worst names for a punctuation mark.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

If I ever build and sell my own game projects, I would have to create accounts on more cursed social media websites to promote them 😭

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Igorrr concert was amazing. As much fun as Zeal & Ardor live.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I've been living under a rock. Hello Kitty Island Adventure's soundtrack slaps.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have discovered Wendy's emo album. I am angry at how stupid the lyrics are but at how hard the songs slap

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

It is the year 2026. You are a AAA dev. You either get promoted to freelancer/contractor, indie dev, or customer.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I am sad to learn that Spec Ops the Line is not available on most stores anymore due to expired music licensing. How am I supposed to easily pester people into playing one of the greatest games of all time?

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Being out of the loop is a silent flex in an algorithmic world

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

On average, humans believe they swallow 8 spiders a year when presented with made-up facts

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The new Starcraft trailer is a metaphor for game dev 😂

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

How to scare artists: - Tell them to shelve their changes - Don't tell them how

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Seattle in a nutshell: (drinking horns and fur tails)

Shop booth with a big stack of drinking horns and fur tails together

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The Double Fine booth at PAX is really cheeky

Small PAX booth from Double Fine games saying "61 days since indie" with the number incrementing every day. Also has a "going out of business" stickered to correct it as "going back in business."

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

If you spend 0 dollars on a game and never ship it, you will be more profitable than most of your competitors.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Every time someone asks you why, tell them that "you're built different"

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Every DLSS5 video or screenshot is full of incomprehensible horrors

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Still thinking about the time someone randomly complimented me on my "vintage" clothing. Thanks, my clothes are just old. 💀

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Someday we'll stop saying hindsight 2020 and start saying hindsight 2026

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Spot the lie: A) The tooth fairy is real B) There is no war in Ba Sing Se C) Our studio will never crunch

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I sometimes wonder how much it would cost me to enroll into Stanford, drop out, and raise money as a Stanford dropout.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Register companies that sound similar to legit places. There is nothing fishy about a resume with 8 years at Iksbawccs, 2 years at Sawnnee and 5 years at 10scent.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Hello new developer, choose your game engine! Would you like to a) start off with every unshippable feature you'd like to manually strip out or b) start with none of the features you actually need to ship?

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

The heart has its reasons that reason knows not... it yearns for memes

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Hot take: "y'all" should be a standard English pronoun to differentiate from the singular "you", instead of using "you" for both singular and plural.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." - The Little Prince

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

If I had to wait for Unreal to get faster at compiling materials, my Unreal materials would have finished compiling already

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I am concerned that companies that perform layoffs after successful product launches may teach an entire generation to jump ship before releases to avoid the potential jobseeker crowd. If it were commonplace, companies may be forced to standardize shipping bonuses to increase retention for […]

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Do people who follow movie news end up enjoying said movies more than those who don't? If not, then why? Why risk any exposure to the drama, political discourse or spoilers beforehand?

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Unpopular GDC talk idea: a panel where game dev professionals talk about how stress destroyed their physical health/well-being, deterring aspiring professionals from joining

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Why is there a Sierra Madre but not a Sierra Padre

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

"How to increase your bus factor" would make a hilarious GDC talk of the current times.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Everyone keeps telling me to ask AI but instead I've been asking Al. Short for Albert. Sorry Al.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

If you can't explain your job on your resume, just invent new words and tailor your definition to the job you're applying for. Why yes I'm highly experienced at turbo-encabulating propagenic data. In fact, only senior assistants did the vertigration of the synchro-inert frameworks.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

If you have beef with someone and you're salty about it, do you have salty beef?

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I think about how Stephen Hawking claimed that time travel wasn't possible because nobody showed up to his time traveler party. His theory however stands on the basis that people liked him enough to want to party with him.

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An-Tim Nguyen @antimnguyen.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Daylight savings do not go far enough. We need to spring forward by a full 12 hours during the summer. We could become night time creatures together. There is no reason to endure the summer heat wave at full blast.

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