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James Davis

@jamesdavismakes.com
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Genuinely the love of your life. Former Associate Producer @ Activision Blizzard King Latter-day Saints

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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 21h
Making dice. I *loved* doing it but casting dice is too expensive for something I didn't want to monetize. Also, considering being homeless, it involves too many large pieces of equipment that's not easy to store. The act of making dice was perfect for my ADHD, but maintaining it was not sadly.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 29/09/2026
Under his watch, crime rates and budgetary spending is at an all-time high… That said, Mayor @timgettys.bsky.social does make some important decisions for our city.
Target turned the famous red balls in front of their stores into Poké Balls: Standard ball, Great Ball, and Ultra Ball
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 20/09/2026
Me: Hmm that's weird. My debit card was declined. I definitely have enough mone—" Bank: The gas station you last used put as $200 hold on your card. Me: Oh. Eating food is overrated anyways…
The "I guess I'll die?" guy shrugging in a "I guess I'll die?" manner
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 14/09/2026
My second practice project to learn the engine before attempting something ✨ real ✨ Made this in like an hour, maybe 90 minutes? Unreal's ability to quick prototype is incredible.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 13/09/2026
Immediately, slotted spatulas because they were a college staple. The most used item in a cheap cooking set. Secondarily, scraping spatulas. Used them a lot when baking, and I guess scrambling eggs.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 10/09/2026
Me: I watch Stella's videos for the plot. The Plot:
"Maple, what are you doing?"

Stella looking (in disgust? in disappointment? in intrigue?) at her cat Maple climbing and sniffing everything climbable and sniffable in the background. Maple doesn't give a fuck that Shells is recording a video, some real queen shit tbh
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 03/09/2026
AYN Thor will return.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 01/09/2026
Hell yeah! With the power of DLSS 5, I get the absolute honor to play games at 20 frames per second while it looks like ✨ this ✨
Before shot of a young girl character in Hogwarts Legacy

Source: Linus Tech Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-g6XNrkiA&t=499sAfter shot of the same young girl character in Hogwarts Legacy, with DLSS 5 on. She's aged quite a bit, added a bunch of weird detail to her skin.

Source: Linus Tech Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-g6XNrkiA&t=499s
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 31/08/2026
Saving this reaction for a rainy day
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 29/08/2026
I remember joining the TLoU team and being told the work to be done. It was my first game in the industry so I was excited! …but a bit deflated. A lot of work was done to remake it from the ground up, A LOT. But seeing what we were doing on the multiplayer project was *infinitely* more interesting
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 27/08/2026
A couple online frontier models directly queried for you. Like I said, given the OpenAI example, they have to add a layer between the model and the user to answer certain things correctly. Older versions of OpenAI, or using an offline open source version, probably answers the question incorrectly.
Gemini: Today's date is (incorrectly) May 10, 2025.OpenAI: Today's date is August 27, 2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 27/08/2026
tianpan.co/blog/2026-05... Models, on their own, don't know today's date without further intervention. If you ask a model offline the current date, it will give you the training cutoff date. I had to take courses in this. I don't claim to be an AI expert but I'm not pulling this info out of my ass
A widely-noticed failure mode is the agent that, when asked for the current date with no other context, returns its training cutoff year instead of the interpolated date the system prompt provided.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 26/08/2026
Also, unrelated:
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 18/08/2026
Brainiac debuted in a CW season haha Man season one just did things right, felt like CBS put extra care into it. Perfect cast, including one of the best Jimmy Olsens ever. If I ever do a rewatch, I'm stopping at the season 1 finale
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 18/08/2026
There's only one guy I know who can help Hooters bounce back
tim heidecker (impersonating alex jones) sitting at a news desk, covered in blood, drinking a bottle of jack daniels. he's in front of the info wars logo, with the O replaced with the onion logo
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 13/08/2026
Dark Scythe of the Moon
A farmer holding a scythe stands in a meadow before the solar eclipse in Jacobsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany. [Patrick Pleul/Picture Alliance via Getty Images]
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 12/08/2026
Scroll alllll the way to the bottom of your privacy settings and disable this shit
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 12/08/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 11/08/2026
oh wait, @playerdotgg.bsky.social got the sauce
Player.gg announcement: "Introducing our latest curators: Dive into the best picks in gaming"

Featuring, in order, Bruce Greene, Jenny Windom, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Tamoor Hussain, Kahlief Adams, Josh Boykin, Janet Garcia, and the honorable Alanah Pearce.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 11/08/2026
I miss when games felt like a viable career.
Announcement from Supermassive Games:

quote "We have made the difficult decision to begin a redundancy consultation process, which we anticipate will result in the loss of up to 75 of our colleagues. This is a necessary step to help ensure the sustainability of the company.

We know this will be an incredibly difficult time for everyone, and out priority throughout the process will be to provide support to all those impacted."
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 11/08/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 11/08/2026
Would You Still Love Me? Your neighbor jealous of your love magically turns you into a worm. That witch! In this open world platformer, you hop skip and jump your way back to your lover who's unaware of your new state. uh… and your partner has a fear of creepy crawlers? That might be something 😂
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 10/08/2026
@kindafunnyvids.bsky.social Have y'all streamed How Many Dudes yet? Might be time for Mike to show you the ways of the dude juice
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 07/08/2026
It's hilly and it's silent. What more can I say?
A very foggy San Francisco street
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 07/08/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 06/08/2026
Finally, a company that is right on time with the trends of the city youths
"The Summer of Six-Sevennnn: Fountain drinks, any size: 67¢"

AI generated gas station advertisement of a cup holding up the numbers 6 and 7, in that order. The fountain drink cup is smiling, wearing sunglasses, a backwards baseball hat, and generally having a tropical fun time on some generated island
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 05/08/2026
I've seen this take a handful of times now… Do y'all REALLY want Peter Parker to become a newspaper photographer? In the year 2028? The only photos he's taking are of his spider-piggies for his OnlyFans and J. Jonah is his biggest subscriber. Is that not enough for you??
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 04/08/2026
Many folks are replying Cairn, which is interesting. I feel like it wasn't talked about much after release (or more so overwhelmed with the wave of other game releases) but apparently it made a lasting impact! Excited to see where it lands during end of year GOTY discussions ⛰️
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 01/08/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 31/07/2026
Also something that surprised me: I was the guy in this seat and it was kind of spectacular. Row to myself opening night helps a lot 😄 I normally hate the front rows, but this was a smaller screen and the field of view just kind of hit perfectly. Might become my go-to strat for non-IMAX screenings
Photo of theater seat selection screen. James highlighted the seat that's dead center of his row, alone.

You know how theaters separate front rows that are close to the screen, then the walkway, and then the back rows? James is the front section, furthest row from the screen, right in front of the walkway.

Slowly realizing how difficult this was for me to explain haha
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 26/07/2026
Overall, the tips are just bad (tips being 25% of my income here vs 65%+ in SF and Austin). Many $0 tippers, some in mansions 🫩 I wouldn't judge past-James for leaving San Francisco two months ago based on the situation and data he had… but the grass might have been greener than originally thought.
Thanos: "Perhaps I treated you too harshly."
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 23/07/2026
I think I miss streaming.
Omni-Man, from the show and comic Invincible, right before he says:

(spoilers for the season 2 finale)

"I think I miss my wife."
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 22/07/2026
I think Epic needs a new way to distribute their Linux versions of Unreal Engine. There's no Epic Games Store and they made it so you can't simply pause a download in your browser. Had to build a janky solution. 40 gigs on Starbucks wifi means 9 days of downloading one file 😭
Screenshot of a file in an Operating System.

File: Linux Unreal Engine 5.8.0.zip
Size: 39.8 Gigabytes
Created: July 12
Modified (Download Finished): July 21
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 21/07/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 20/07/2026
sonic the deadgehog
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 20/07/2026
Good content on YouTube? Gross.
Mac: "Oh my god! That's disgusting. Where?"
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 19/07/2026
I wish I knew more about Geoff Keighley outside of his events. QTCinderella on her pod called him "just a perfect human" and tells a sweet story of how he invited folks to The Odyssey premiere to honor his dad. Maybe by design, it's fascinating how little I know about our Semi-Annual Gaming Santa.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 15/07/2026
I left this hot bullshit back in Texas, what the hell 😭
A car console that, among other things, reads a temperature of 101°F (38.3° C)
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 15/07/2026
the incredible urge to paint this bad boy white with red highlights, load the back with proton packs and ghost traps, and convince three of my friends to wear jumpsuits and get absolutely slimed together
A photo of a Cadillac Superior Ambulance, white and orange, an old school ambulance from the 70s. They essentially turned an old Cadillac into a hatchback. It looks like it would make a great Ghostbusters car.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 12/07/2026
I forgot that existed, thanks for the reminder! Yeeeesh. 48.7°C is rougher than I thought. Granted, I'm charging my phone but my car is relatively cool. Also didn't realize they purposefully slow down my phone at certain temps. Makes sense but I've yelled A LOT at my phone over the last year 😅
Phone battery diagnostic screen. "Elevated" status at 119.6°F
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 06/07/2026
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 06/07/2026
Use a GIF, vid, or image to describe your mood today! 🖤
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 04/07/2026
Watching futbol the way god intended
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 30/06/2026
5. Added everything to a level. And that's the end of this Udemy course, 14 hours total to make a basic game, with everything monetarily and royalty…ly free! Moving on to learning animations and Unreal's multi-track editor. That said, I might make time to brainstorm game ideas in the near future 👀
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 28/06/2026
Someday, there will be a Smallville movie. And someday, they will put the Smallville logo on the WB water tower just like in the show. The streets of Los Angeles will fill with joy. Crime will be down 200%.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 28/06/2026
Supergirl is getting very mixed reviews, most of which are leaning towards the movie being mid… That said, I legally cannot hate a film that puts the House of El crest on the Warner Bros. water tower. I simply can't.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 27/06/2026
4. Learned how to add impact FX — spraying blood and concrete when you shoot certain things. With directionality, so blood sprays different directions from different angles. Also added on-screen graphics and learned how to update them with health, bullets, etc. 2 more learning hours, 13 total.
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 26/06/2026
Los Angeles gas prices average around $5.50 to $6, often in the upper range. In California, this is my first time in a loooong time pumping gas priced under $5. Hope this continues! (Well, it's hard to argue $4.999999 isn't just $5 but still 😅)
Photo of a gas pump prices.

Unleaded: $4.999
Unleaded Plus: $5.199
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 26/06/2026
ugh I sold my consoles too early
Illustration of guy mining but gives up and turns around, being less than a foot away from a lot of diamonds
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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 26/06/2026
3. Learned how to import and apply animations, how to give and take damage. Did you know Adobe offers a lot of royalty-free 3D models, rigs, and animations for those models for free? Adobe Mixamo @ www.mixamo.com, it's kind of an abandoned product but still cool! Another 2 hours, 11 total learning
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