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Joel Hill

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Software developer in the Canadian Prairies #yxe. He/him

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 14h
TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One! Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a stretched, GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and painstakingly upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy!
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 01/10/2026
I thought it was named after the gun you use a few times in the game and I thought that was awesome. Like, one of the overall themes of this final chapter is “what if big gun?”
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, maybe some bumper stickers are actually pretty good.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 25/09/2026
For me, I think Sekiro was more challenging overall, but I found that the hardest bosses in Onimusha were just as challenging as Sekiro bosses. I think the difference is that you are never safe in Sekiro, whereas Onimusha gives plenty of breathing room to explore stress free.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 21/09/2026
The big sweeping purple slashes were devastating until I realized you have to dodge the first one to get close enough to parry the second. The parry timing is also brutal. I used amulets of introspection to help speed through the first phase.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/09/2026
It’s amazing how it was able to be a love letter to ALL of the games. So many familiar elements taken from several decades worth of source material while also being its own thing.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/09/2026
#ResidentEvil movie was so good! Takes a lot of inspiration from the mood of the games while still doing its own thing. Plenty of fun Easter eggs from the source material while not rehashing bunch of stuff we’ve all seen before.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 16/09/2026
I forget where I read it originally, but someone commented that Onimusha is a ‘horror game where the protagonist refuses to accept they are in a horror game’ and that lives rent free in my head now. Mushashi is too cool to be afraid.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 15/09/2026
I’m reading the forth book in the Earthsea series, and it’s amazing. The tone was… different, different enough that I looked it up to see what the hell happened. It was written 20 years after the previous book! You think waiting for Winds of Winter is bad? Ha!
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 10/09/2026
Metroid Prime 4 is at the top of that list for me, sounds like Wolverine is worse though.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 10/09/2026
I was blissfully unaware this was a problem, I had no idea large teams were finding bottlenecks like that in git. Wild!
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 10/09/2026
Ahhhh, thank you for clarifying that for me! Okay this is interesting, looking forward to learning more!
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 10/09/2026
I’d be interested in knowing more about the problems orgs are having when using swarms of agents. You mention pain with merge conflicts as an example, but isn’t that a kind of a workflow problem? How does an alternative version control system fix that?
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 09/09/2026
More than I paid for a brand new high end laptop. Almost twice as much actually.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 09/09/2026
The iPhone Duo looks really cool until you look at the price tag. I've been trying to buy my phones outright without a carrier contract and man it's just not going to happen. Yikes.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FIRST LOOK: bluesky designs for the upcoming foldable iphone have been leaked
a 4:3 screenshot of the bluesky app with the butterfly logo, hamburger and hashtag icons at the top. in the middle are two sections labeled "people yelling at you" and "people you're yelling at". at the bottom is the standard nav for home, search, messages, notifications, and profile. there are 20 unread notifications
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 09/09/2026
I’m reading the other comments and wait, no, maybe not.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 09/09/2026
Yes
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 08/09/2026
This is a public service reminder that your coffee maker probably has a little water filter in it you didn’t know about and it’s time to replace that filter.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 08/09/2026
There’s no algorithm to pit people against one another so we have to do it manually.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 04/09/2026
It will fit in every way you assumed it would and will not fit in a dimension you didn’t know existed until it arrived.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 02/09/2026
So that new Mastodon album is fantastic. Two of my favourite bands releasing new material and hitting new creative highs is such a treat. mastodon.bandcamp.com/album/marrow...
mastodon.bandcamp.com
Marrow Deep, by Mastodon
12 track album
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 30/08/2026
Wrong. Goku would simply be disinterested in Road Runner because he displays cunning not strength. Vegeta on the other hand, would spend 5 episodes of B story getting his shit rocked.
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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
MY DAUGHTER: I think Wile E. Coyote was my favorite character. Or maybe Bugs Bunny hahahaha. Dad, who was yours? ME: [calmly but sternly, with the full weight of my decades of cinephilia and overschooling] The single richest character in the history of American cinema is Daffy Duck.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 30/08/2026
This is cool and probably amazing life saving technology. I simply cannot trust drones though. Obviously I would accept a rescue by one, but I’d be just a little disappointed. Like, “I’m saved… probably!”
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 26/08/2026
Getting closer to looking like a cereal crop field? Still orange kinda, but I don’t think I hate it? My first rookie mistake was choosing such a large canvas. I think after this one I’m going to be buying small practice canvases, softer brushes, and some acrylic medium. #art #painting
Updated painting from quoted post. Bottom third has been painted in two hues that are somewhat closer to a cereal grain yellow colour?
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 25/08/2026
I’m aiming for a blue sky meeting a wheat field but I may have painted ocean meeting sand. Also, acrylic needs to calm down and let me blend. Might need a medium? #painting #art
An iteration of the painting in the quoted post. A blue sky going from a dark to white gradient meeting a flat orange bottom third
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 23/08/2026
I’d migrate to it but as far as I know they haven’t made that possible and they haven’t published the lexicons. I’ve never been able to fully trust them without those in place.
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 22/08/2026
This created a great opportunity for me to tell my kids everything I know about Mothra.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 21/08/2026
Oh man I have no idea what I’m doing. #painting #art
Start of a painting showing a canvas with just over the top half of the canvas covered in blue and white thick brush strokes. Bottom is orange-ish colour
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 20/08/2026
I never had a car last long enough to potentially need a refuel. Every one of them blew up or ended up in an ocean. People know you can just run out into traffic and grab a new one right? It’s in the title of the game.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 20/08/2026
Man, people legitimately think kids are dumb. They are so damn smart and they can learn complex things and adapt so much faster than adults. They are annoying though, and emotionally unstable, and ignorant. But not dumb.
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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lore-accurate Futaba
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/08/2026
I should write something in #Elixir.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/08/2026
.... annnnnd apparently they are evil? Fuck, come on it's 2026 I shouldn't have to check if a company supports nazis every time I think about buying something.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/08/2026
Man, Framework is building some of the coolest laptop tech right now. I'll be shopping for a new laptop in about... 10 years so hopefully they are still around then.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 17/08/2026
They should make a Blade movie of literally any kind. But yes, yours is the best pitch so far.
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Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
they should make a Blade movie where he has to fight mummies and just has no idea what he's doing
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 17/08/2026
Trans-species people.
An image of “Kotlin”, a character that wants to be a different species and spends the game consuming items dropped by said species in an attempt to transform.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 16/08/2026
I was too scared to try them.
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 15/08/2026
Out here getting it done
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 16/08/2026
Okay, mayonnaise needs to settle down, this is too much
Two squeeze bottles of mayo, each one is a different variety. The left bottle is “Garlic I Ail Parmesan” and the second is “Pickled Cornichons”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 14/08/2026
My level 99 Charizard is safe and sound where I left him: on the red cartridge thrown into a trunk along with some old Beast Wars toys and some EGM magazines. He’s resting.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 12/08/2026
Apparently I am very active on threads, according to my friends on Insta that see advertisements for Threads.
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