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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

EVERYBODY EVERYBODY! I've kept my mouth shut for a year about this (*wink*), but it's finally "Serling" day! @sepinwall.bsky.social

A screenshot of the Audible app displaying "Serling" by Alan Sepinwall

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Anyone remember that John Goodman movie "Matinee" ? Not great, exactly, but good, and extremely re-watchable. It's a thin (if clever) early-60s satire, but it's also unintentionally a snapshot of the "end of history" 90s. @robertpicardo.bsky.social is extremely fun it in it.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's that time of year again where I accept the Audible one-month free trial which comes with 1 permanent book credit.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will say this for Googlebooks: they realized that the minimize button [pictured left] should look like more an underscore than a hyphen, as how Windows [pictured right] now does it:

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Noble Comp (for After Effects) is now also available in Adobe Exchange for a seamless install to AE. Apply an arbitrary number of settings to an arbitrary number of compositions (and more) in this advanced Composition Settings panel. In other words: Finally! exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/2060...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yup, but it's just volumetric fog, which isn't too tricky to do in unity. The only novelty here is that it's actually projecting the image.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@tetronimike.bsky.social, @skrimbus.bsky.social, and I are building a working movie theater for our upcoming video game. Other things we're building for it: * A bookstore * A set of impossible shapes * A fountain * A carnival game * 100 keys * Etc. #gamedev #indiedev

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I built an entire AE plugin do exactly one thing:

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Research into AI use shows what we sorta already knew: the more you use it, the less unique the output. "Starting from hundreds of completely different prompts every single run converged on one of only 12 motifs. Researchers called it 'visual elevator music.'" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rock, and I cannot stress this enough, Lobster.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have you ever wanted to edit an arbitrary number of settings on an arbitrary number of compositions at the same time?

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TFW you forgot which 24Pa pulldown pattern you used to shoot your miniDV film 20 years ago.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Okay, so not all the footage survived...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's 6.5, not CS6. Circa 2004 bay-bee!

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I thought I'd seen the last of QuickTime...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoy this logo I drew for a high school band I was in called "The Balsam Street Massacre Band"

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Woah, this brings back memories...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The first of a dozen or so projects, ready to be upgraded.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, that's correct: The project file I'm opening is *even older* than this. (Shout-out to the non- dpi awareness I'm about to descend into)

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's like my life is flashing before my eyes:

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm about to attempt to restore and convert a bunch of 15-20 year old video projects. Wish me luck. (This is #gamedev, somehow.)

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Director Robert Wise was from the old school of deep focus. A lot of the split diopter shots in TMP assisted the storytelling, IMO, but a few of them felt totally unmotivated. His "The Andromeda Strain" had even more of them, and I'd say were used to much greater effect in that movie.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Control (Committee leadership, etc.) is decided by the VP. In Jan 2001, Democrats took control of a newly 50-50 Senate, but it changed hands 3 weeks later when George W Bush was inaugurated. Hilariously, party control flipped twice more before 2003: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107th_U...

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm in Paris. Anyone need any Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité?

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Check out the 90s AF cafe car on this French train I'm on:

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Went to the invite-only @gameinformer.com 35th anniversary party at Gamescom and did my usual party thing which is "talk to no one and leave the moment it would be weird to go back for another soda." Congrats to @seamoosi.bsky.social @kylehilliard.com and everyone else at my hometown games rag.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I got tricked into a networking mixer. Engaging wallflower mode. #gamescom

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here's mine, taken yesterday in Amsterdam.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We have something similar here which are sometimes called "beg buttons" but they're labeled to indicate what they do and which crossing they're for. The one above just looks like IKEA instructions for how to press a button. 😄

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm in Amsterdam, and as a resident of America's only good bike city, it's been a dream to get around, but I'm not sure what the idea was with this:

A small button on a post at a crosswalk. Above it is a small printed graphic depicting the post and a full size human figure pressing the button. Nothing else is implied or indicated.

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Being selective, I've booked 15+ #Gamescom pitch meetings, which is great, but I see some holes in my calendar. Don't you want to be the indie publisher who forces me to get up early on Wed or stops me from getting lunch on Fri? (Find me on MeetToMatch, Gamecom biz, or bsky DM) #gamedev #indiedev

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