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Joe Marchuk

@joemarchuk.bsky.social
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Sound Designer @ Odyssey Interactive #gameaudio

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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s gotten real bad. I’ve switched over to DuckDuckGo, but I’m considering paying for Kagi because I keep hearing good things about it
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
God it’s such a treat to capture near-silence. Funny how one of the things that seem to be missing most from my library is those sorts of quiet beds with nothing going on
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
These things; paint on the ground indicating that bikes and cars share the same space (“sharrow” = “share” + “arrow”)
Example of a sharrow; a painted bike symbol on an asphalt road
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
All of the above, more or less. I’m lucky to live in an area where transit access is at least okay, I don’t own a car (and really don’t want to), I’m happiest around places where cars aren’t needed, and driving is just an overall less pleasant way to get around
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Honestly, this would be fine. Maybe a dream, even. The majority of what I create (even in my professional work) ends up not being seen by the public, but I still enjoy the process of creating.
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Also: “Once you’ve ruled out the impossible, then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, alright.”
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Can’t pass up an opportunity for a Discworld quote: “It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.”
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Matthew M @mattesque.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Super excited to announce Our Sonic Landscape, a one day game audio conference taking place on May 2nd here in Vancouver BC. Rachel, Em and I are organizing this and tickets on sale soon. So we're looking for speakers. Please fill out the form on the website oursoniclandscape.com #gameaudio
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
They put so much care and attention into other aspects of the game, its a shame the voices sound so goofy and off putting
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Alex Barnhart @alexbarnhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us *Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026 jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...
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Sound Design Intern, Summer 2026 (Jedi)
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Yo! Any chance you’ll be making your way out west towards Kitchener?
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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · 19/08/2025
it doesn't get mentioned all that much in books on drawing or comics, but i don't know any technique that's more useful than walking away for an hour
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Mothership could also be a good option if you want to lean into the horror side of it more and/or want a more OSR-style system
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I picked up The Wildsea recently, and one of my first thoughts was that it could totally be adapted to work as a Scavenger’s Reign type of story/setting
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Only issue I’ve found working with parsec is that I can’t use ASIO in my daw
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Oh hell yeah! I just recently got into playing Mothership, I’ll check this out
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Seconding Voidtools’ Everything. Sooooo much better and faster for finding files
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Oh I’m definitely like her. There are pretty much no circumstances where music helps me focus
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Time to make a crow library
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Car-dependency is awesome. I love it when the sidewalk that is my only path to get from A to B just becomes something to hold all the snow that was in the road and now I get to choose between trudging through waist-deep snow or walking directly in the 50 kph road
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I don’t think I’d call it it “ceremony” (in case you’re looking specifically for formal practices / presentations), but it’s great if you just want to learn the best ways to make tea
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Amazing and infuriating how decades of dystopian writers were apparently not on-the-nose enough now that every day I see things like: “This is the anti-indoctrination bill, which says we can control what children are allowed to think”
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I absolutely hate that this is one of the best jokes I’ve read in a long time
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The musical section of Alan Wake 2
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s such a delight. I can’t think of the last time a game made me grin like a child the way astrobot has consistently done
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
newsweek.com
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
You’re telling me this isn’t the normal size?
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Astrobot is such an amazing piece of work in every way. BUT, it drives me insane that there’s no audio settings whatsoever. The mix was made for one context and one context only, and that’s pretty frustrating. Not even simple volume sliders
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Presley @phrequencies.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#gameaudio It's that time of year again where I try to do a resource roundup for the Free Audio Resource site! Please take a look and let me know: - Any free resources I missed? - Any additional categories you want to see? - Anything else I can add? freeaudioresource.notion.site
freeaudioresource.notion.site
Free Audio Resource | Notion
A growing database of free audio resources, including sound effects, plugins, tutorials, job listings and more The below resources are all 100% free to use, as stated by the content creators. This we...
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Yeah! And all the audio work was great. There were so many moments where they let the sound carry the comedy and tell the story
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Just watched it last week as well, it was amazing. Made me feel like a kid again in all the best ways.
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And if I want to bike, I have to deal with busy roads that have no bike lanes and minimal lighting at night
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Definitely our biggest frustration after moving back to North America. Just seeing a friend on the other side of town is either 20 minutes by car, or over an hour by bus and the bus schedule isn’t even reliable.
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
How? I just don’t get it. You’re telling me real people with real human brains voted? For this?
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Yo
Stuffed hippo, identical to the one in OPs image
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Loving the game’s sound so far, yall did great work on it
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Servers are North America only right now, so unfortunately the experience from Brazil probably isn’t great
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Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
ok so Byte Breakers rules. really fun mechanics and great game feel, and also i love the homosexual dark wizard ninja
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
This is a WILD thing we’re doing, but the prototype for our next project is going public! youtu.be/jMz0jxxT2Xw?...
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Introducing Byte Breakers | New Playable Prototype
YouTube video by Omega Strikers
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
When 96% of the player base lives in one time zone, yes
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
There’s also this thing that people do regularly called “sleep”, which might explain this phenomenon
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
The sound design discord and wwise discord are both fairly active and accessible
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Ah just missed it! Was 6am for me. These are getting recorded and archived though, yeah?
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Just last year I decided on a whim to check out the Discworld novels. I started with Colour of Magic, and I was hooked. I've since been going through the books in published order, and I'm absolutely in love with this series. Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchet, and thanks for this wonderful experience
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Path of totality is an hour’s drive away. I’m taking Monday off. I’m so freaking psyched
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Joe Marchuk @joemarchuk.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Started Alan Wake 2 recently, and there's just so much fantastic #gameaudio work there. Big praise to the Remedy audio team, the game has been such a phenomenal experience to play and listen to
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Julie Buchanan @jbuaudio.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
✨🎧🔈Hi y’all, I have some availability for game audio work from mid-summer and onwards 🚀 🎵 🌈sharing appreciated 💜 Links to my work below⏬
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