crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was on an unemployment-adjacent program where you had to work 40 hours a week to get your benefits. Took Christmas Day off (for the family), which invalidated the payment for the week because it came up a few hours under... 🫠 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nothing like heading into fall, and thinking about buying more pairs of shorts because the heat waves keep coming... 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I've seen Barbarian, and that's a nope! 😬 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And my parents played it on repeat because they said I couldn't take my eyes off of it.static.klipy.comDumbo Pink Elephants on ParadeAlt: Gif of a scene from Dumbo "Pink elephants on parade," where Dumbo drunkenly hallucinates a marching beast entirely composed of multicolored elephant heads with blacked out eyes. 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You can't really jump straight into the deep end of knowing anything unless you've earned the experience either directly or through abstract means. 130
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Experience develops intuition. It's only after you've come to understand the soul of the work that you know which parts of convention are critical and which parts are just common expressions. 141
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It also helps that it now costs at least $100 every time you "go outside." 🫠 Pre-pandemic, it would have been $30. 000
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror. 121783
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if this spurs more investment in pain management for AI before re-evaluating giving women more than a couple of Tylenol for medical procedures... 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Though, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has made an AI that has to go to the bathroom. So the doll still wins. 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When the world is run by people who have never actually had to experience reality, first hand: It wouldn't surprise me if their own experiences with pain were just as limited as a "software mimicking the language of a human behavior." 110
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Shareholders got bored of "line go up," and the new jangly keys that get their attention became "layoffs go up." And then some (psychopath) figured they could get infinite layoffs from a finite number of employees by recycling their layoffs. 🫠 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wow, I haven't thought of that book in ages, but there it is! I think it was a Scholastic Book Fair book way back? 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In 4 years, we're going to get a tell-all about the toxic nepo team shit that's about to happen when a COD director gets to put together a "special team" to work on Halo", out of all the people that have been grinding away on COD for the last 20 years. 000
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialCoyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026September, but I lost my 45 adapter 15768832541
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm pretty sure Darwin could have studied The Scalper and The Landlord instead of the Galápagos Finch and arrived at the same conclusion. 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think Nemesis was the first/only game I played that actually had you backtracking on the discs, depending on where you went. 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I feel like everyone's canceling physical media production because it's a subscription loophole. 🫠 110
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Both of those stories are wonderful, but I'm also really digging that your husband is (intentionally/unintentionally?) screening your fans with the shirts. 😆 071
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Roko's Basilisk is Bloody Mary for tech bros. 100
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The thing that would fix all of this is to recategorize game developers and software engineers as non-exempt employees. Once you're legally required to start paying 1.5-2x an employee's rates for excessive hours, you lose the incentive to force your staff to endlessly crunch. 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The huge profits part has more nuance. The publisher will cite the game for bringing in huge profits in their shareholders meeting, and then shut down the studio, claiming the same game was a financial flop. 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Obviously inspired by the villain origin story in Rainbow Brite. villains.fandom.com/wiki/Murky_D...villains.fandom.comMurky DismalMurky Dismal is the main antagonist from The Rainbow Brite Series. He was voiced by the late Peter Cullen. In the episode "Mom" it is revealed that, as a toddler, he colored on the walls with crayons,... 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This, the pre-corrected AI phrasing right here, is why everyone calls him "Android Wilson" after every bizarro town hall speech. 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Billionaires have this weird fetish for actualizing The End Of Humanity, and being one of the select few that are immune to "the end" due to the size of their bank accounts. That comment directly speaks to hyping the 1%-er freaks. 050
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sometimes I forget that there are people I know that have actually seen me IRL. 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026That guy's brain consists of ketamine infused swiss cheese. 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026When you peddle in Brain Rot, and forget you're not supposed to become an addict to your own product... 021
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This BS, right here. If someone is breaking up with you over a mechanic in a game that HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET... It was never actually about the game in the first place. But I guess we'll promote the ancient misogynistic idea that women are incompatible with video games while we can. 🙄 010
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I remember the first version of the autoplay bot (for testing purposes) couldn't 100% that song on expert. 😆 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Translation: Mamdani has so much rizz, influencers are aura farming content about him. The audacity! 😆 010
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“Restoring Van Gogh's Ear & Mending His Broken Heart” 🎨 #asmr #satisfying #vangogh #papercraft #stopmotion IG: @paper_pepper (페이퍼 후추) 2003349860
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialcee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482131909
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026That thing where it's Friday, and you're waiting to see if you get an update today or if it'll be the next business day.... after a long weekend holiday. 🫠 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This one was way more accurate, practically down to the city. The other one was roughly 3,000 miles off. 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm from Jersey... 🤣 But to be fair, we have like three completely different dialects in NJ depending on whether you're northern, southern, or "central" (Philly influence). I'm surprised it placed me on the opposite side of the country though. 000
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Today, in "People are begging to help you make that game you keep thinking about" news: The Universal LPC Spite Sheet Generator. Got some specific ideas about how you would want the characters in a theoretical game to look? This is hella comprehensive. liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LP...liberatedpixelcup.github.ioUniversal LPC Sprite Sheet Character Generator 410139
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 03/09/2026If you are somewhere in the Venn diagram of industrial music nerd and graphic design nerd, you might be interested in this book project on Kickstarter. They interviewed me a while back for it so it will apparently include some of my work and commentary. Looking forward to it!kickstarter.comIndustrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a MovementIndustrial music built a visual language as confrontational as its sound—Throbbing Gristle to Nine Inch Nails, told by its designers. 410333
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"No work from home!" State proceeds to shut down major interstate sections and bridges, simultaneously, for repairs "to be completed over the next three years." But that water cooler, man! 000
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026True story: One of the nda's I've had to sign included a "You promise to not Hot Coffee the game" clause in it. 030
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/08/2026I made a new t-shirt about the only unskilled labor that should be replaced with a chatbot. In my shop now in a variety of styles at robsheridan.threadless.com/collections/... 14450128
crashmycpu.bsky.social @crashmycpu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I'm not going to pull any "pick-me-girl" nonsense to appease alt-right trolls, and I'm also not going to give them the satisfaction of getting upset at their horseshit. You try to catch my eye, and you're going to get that script flipped so hard back on you that you'll regret playing stupid games. 000
Reposted by @crashmycpu.bsky.socialGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026These look great! 114823