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Michael

@graydiance.bsky.social
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A guy (he/him) who loves interconnected systems of intricately, humanly crafted parts that excite everyone differently; all artistic expressions made of love and joy. Personal account. Occasionally a Senior Designer on Progression @Riot on League

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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The further I get into Control Resonant the more the game is cementing itself as a front runner for game of the decade The technical marvels. The writing. The gameplay. Nothing disappoints. Remedy please never stop innovating and changing your formula. You are a beacon of inspiration.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
coming... soon...!?
drawing of Honey B. Lovely from Final Fantasy XIV Arcadion Raid series from the Dawntrail Expansion. She is depicted as a chibi on a jar of honey, decorated with bows, lace, and hearts. Her little crowd bees are also there.
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Remap Radio @remapradio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Normal Golf Game doesn't have good art because its designer isn't an artist and wanted the game to reflect his own strengths and weaknesses
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
over the last few months, i decided to write by hand more. With work being hectic, my short-term memory's been suffering. Writing's helped immensely. I'm left-handed; I've never liked my handwriting. The fountain pen helps me relax, be methodical. Need lots more practice, but it's getting better.
a photo of a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen in a brass finish over a hand-written paragraph of jibberish words written cursive
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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
30 years ago, Barry Reich designed a visionary Magic set that Wizards purchased but never published. Spectral Chaos was a daydream about what a game could be, long before we knew what it would become. 🎥 youtu.be/gco_njeerfE
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Anamanaguchi @anamanaguchi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
our love letter to free will yeah I guess 🐁 out now
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Salem 🎏 @dragonfur.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kofi pkmn request finished. Good job Arcanine. Thank you for your support!
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
koana cawfee #ffxiv #ffxivart
A chibi drawing by floon of Koana from Final Fantasy XIV sitting in a chair drinking from a mug and holding a saucer. Around him are coffee beans, flowers, and a paw-shaped spoon, a bowl of sugar cubes, and a cream pourer.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Painted over my star guardian from 2022 ✨⭐
Drawing of floon as a star guardian. Purple galaxy background with a full body character in the middle. This is from 2026.Drawing of floon as a star guardian with the text "my star guardian" full body character on a plain background
This is from 2022
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Candies..
Photo of a bunch of different button pins. Many of them depict the pokemon type icons (my interpretation). Some of them are pokeballs with sky designs where the red part usually is. One button is big challenges.Photo of a bunch of different button pins depicting final fantasy xiv job stone icons. There's some other stuff in the background like stickers and smarties candy.
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Truth in 32 Bit @truthin32bit.racing · 05/09/2026
2000 Subaru Impreza WRC2000 (P2000) picture: Calreyn88 commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?c… under CC BY-SA 4.0
A blue Subaru parked on grass.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/09/2026
The quotable Tarn Adams: "It just reminds me of like a fucking Dead Kennedys song or something."
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Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 26/08/2026
Jake's post was the Rosetta Stone for helping me remember a YouTube video that's been stuck in my head and I could not find for nearly a decade (no exaggeration).
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
the duskbloods is so incredibly fun. nightreign but pvp was a great starting point and they made a ton of wonderful decisions in iterating on that core
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 20/08/2026
As someone who has followed video game discourse for literal decades, this piece is fascinating to me.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
my online shop is back up and here's the new stuff!! flareboostshop.etsy.com
flareboostshop
August Shop Update
Sticker Sheets
Winter Sticker Sheet
Spring Sticker Sheet
Summer Sticker Sheet
Autumn Sticker Sheet
Happy Halloween - Trick or Treat - Boo
Ryne & Gaia Sticker Sheet
Kirby Items Decoflareboostshop
August Shop Update
Mini Stickers
Yan and Cornservant
Stickers
Holo Finish "I'm Tinkering a ton!" Tinkmaster Tinkaton
Clear "Silkie"
Glitter "Gay Cactus" Lunatender Queen
Restock "G'rahamole" G'raha Tia with Guacamole
Restock "it is wednesday my goobs" goobbue
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
shop is back live with new stickers and sticker sheets, some restocked!!
screenshot of flareboostshop etsy page showing a grid of listings. each item has an image, a title, and a price in USD.
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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
happy “today is the only day you can repost this” day
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Digimon Adventure: August 1st, 1999
ALT: Digimon Adventure: August 1st, 1999
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 30/07/2026
I think part of the problem with the extreme proliferation of roguelike deckbuilders is that the structure seems to exist for its own sake It feels like colored keycards did in 90's FPS games: "We need a way to contextualize play and give it structure, and we know this works."
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Gnoz @gnoz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
guess who got blown up by lows again
edit of kaguya love is war manga ft. jam as hayasaka
"Look, I can stop wakeup parring whenever i want i'm aware of other getup options"
jam lied as naturally as she breathed
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 26/07/2026
Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🎂 a relaxing one. i needed to catch up on sleep. aside from a nice dinner with my spouse, basically just rested all day lol. birthday cake is an uncle tetsu mini strawberry cheesecake this year. it's wonderful
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV of the arena in The Epic of Alexander Ultimate raid after the fight is over. From left to right there is a male miqo whm, male hyur smn, male miqo bard, male hyur sam, fem viera war, fem au ra gnb, fem au ra drg, and fem miqo sch. There are also two emerald carbuncles.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Have you ever walked into a furniture store selling modern furniture and home decor cuz that's all they're selling for some reason lol
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Kongregate page for Don't Shit Your Pants has maybe the funniest game news update of all time
Developer Updates. April 17, 2013.

"Hey everyone, we’ve taken the veil off of for our latest game. I’m sorry to say it’s not Don’t Piss Your Pants, but we think it’s just as cool.

Our newest game is called Rogue Legacy, a procedurally-generated “Rogue-Lite” with an in-depth heritage system. We’re super proud of it, but right now we need your help to get it on Steam.

If you’ve enjoyed the games we’ve made in the past, it would mean the world to us if you could visit the page below, and give [...]"
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Healers who spot heal you 🥰 Drawing of a friend's WoL 💕 #ffxivart #ff14
Portrait drawing of a red hair male miqote facing left. Signed floon
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was feeling a bit nostalgic today for the game projects I worked on in college. Two of them are just lost media. Theyre not good but I care about them. I found the source code for one on my retired professor's github. If i want to revive it I have to update it to monogame - we used XNA lol
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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...
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Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths
I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
manifesting this rn #viera #ffxivart #ffxiv
illustration by me of my viera warrior of light of ffxiv in a stream/pond with water flowing and surrounded by leaves 
based on the meme with the text "unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing."
said text is also in this illustration in a box and written by hand
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 09/07/2026
permadeath of the author
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🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money · 07/07/2026
Hey y'all, I wanted give people a heads-up that Mike Z is still working on the Avatar Legends dev team, for anyone who wanted to know before deciding whether to buy/support the game. (If you don't know who that is or need a refresher, here's the Kotaku article: kotaku.com/workers-leav...)
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Workers Leave Skullgirls Developer Over Studio Head’s Behavior - Kotaku
Back in June, two people came forward to share their experiences with Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont, longtime fighting game player and lead developer behind indie
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves
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VIDEOMANCER @videomancer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Seven Dollars feat Kasane Teto. A song for chronic freelancers.
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BoyOzen @boyozen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
@pattheflip.bsky.social asked and i delivered
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in the stripped club, straight up morgin’ it @apoapsis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
GO! MY LABUBU MISSILE! KILL!
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
as someone who used to love mtg, and now mostly just engages in tiny infrequent ways, it's starting to frustrate me when i "lose" friends to the infinite vacuum that is magic. it is all-consuming as a topic. i adore the game, it's community, and the things i've done with and around it.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*buys rainbow dango from fugetsu-do, a century old mochi shop* hell yeah this is just like hello kitty island adventure
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polymatt @polymatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I made memory from scratch and I may have gone a bit overboard. Ok 64 bits overboard… Enjoy the new video! youtu.be/IOtf85sHRlg
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I made memory from scratch
YouTube video by polymatt
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
SHMEVO day 2 stream is live!! Featuring: Vsav ST Fighting Game Jam Mystery High Stakes Suika Game twitch.tv/pattheflip
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
i need to update my do it for her board with 2xko lux redesign she's got everything i wanted
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm floon, and this is my pinned post! ✦ Website: flareboost.art ✦ FFXIV Website: floonxiv.carrd.co ✦ Online Shop: flareboostshop.etsy.com ✦ Instagram: www.instagram.com/flareboostshop ✦ flareboostart(at)gmail(dot)com
Self portrait signed "floon" with Komasan from Yokai Watch, Drifloon from Pokemon, and an Amaro Hatchling from FFXIV. Along with the figure and these characters are a Nintendo Switch 2, alcohol markers, a sketchbook, and an iPad and Apple Pencil.
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ickygolem @ickyburd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
BEST HEADLINE IN ALL OF GAME JOURNALISM
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Jon Renish @jonrenish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
i don't know many people there anymore. i used to know a lot. i don't know who i should reach out to and talk to. platitudes on social medias aren't for me; i want to talk to the people i know who did great work on these teams, these games. to be there for them. as all of these do, this sucks
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Michael @graydiance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
in light of today's SIE announcement this song that was already being repeated ad nauseam will now be played louder www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ml...
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How Do You Sleep at Night? (Halfway Version)
YouTube video by Streetlight Manifesto - Topic
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026
Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
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floon @floon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ryne & Gaia in alt fashion 💜🩷🎀 #FFXIV #FFXIVArt #FF14
Text reads "Gaia & Ryne" and "flareboost.art"
Drawing depicts Gaia and Ryne from Final Fantasy XIV wearing outfits inspired by cute street clothes. Gaia is wearing a hoodie with lacing, frills, and zippers, along with studded belts, fishnets, and platform ankle boots. Ryne is wearing a pastel muted pink dress with an off white blouse underneath, pink bows, and platform sandals.
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That Tom Hall @thattomhall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.
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[eve] @ninehydras.dev · 18/06/2026
Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon
Screenshot from Bungie's Marathon, showing the Bioresearch region of Dire MarshScreenshot from Bungie's Marathon, showing the Bioresearch region of Dire MarshScreenshot from Bungie's Marathon, showing the Bioresearch region of Dire MarshScreenshot from Bungie's Marathon, showing the Bioresearch region of Dire Marsh
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