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davemakes🔶

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 14h
that's a relief
packaging that says "no flavors"
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 19h
this would make a beautiful video game
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 03/10/2026
only one filmmaker could capture the epic scale of The Odyssey (2026)
Drenched woman sitting on rocks near river rapids looking forlorn
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 03/10/2026
star wars character who invents a lightsaber that goes right through other lightsabers

not even very good with it, just constantly catching jedis by surprise in the first 2 milliseconds of the fight
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026
I miss these tabs. These tabs were peak.
Google Chrome from the 2016 material design refresh, when they had more angular tabs still but the kind of kitschy brushed aluminum gradients got stripped out
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026
going to about:config and searching nova is the easy way of fixing this mess
browser.nova.enabled false
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026
anybody need columbo in japanese on dvd
Shelves of japanese columbo DVDs for sale
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026
OK while I am mad about UI, everyone is also banned from the "everything is a card" school of design. I was recently faced with this mobile app lookin ass departure board at DFW. Putting everything in rounded boxes within rounded boxes within rounded boxes is making shit completely illegible.
DFW departures board where every flight is on a mobile ass looking card and it's a big unreadable messOld school split-flap display laid out like a spreadsheet
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026
firefox updated and no one in software development understands how rounded corners are supposed to work anymore
completely mismatched rounded corner radii
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 29/09/2026
frankly godlike jam submission from @dps2004.bsky.social
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 29/09/2026
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 28/09/2026
named her Nara Mari #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/09/2026
pleased to report today's incredible pull from the magazine rack
Brutus magazine bizarre insects handbookArray of colorful beetles in magazine
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 26/09/2026
she is passionate about her pasta #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 24/09/2026
she dream of spaghetti #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 23/09/2026
also just really fun understated cinematography! lots of static shots and long takes with interesting blocking that plays with depth
Three girls sitting on bench facing away from the camera, another girl standing in front of them looking nonplussed. In the far background, a girl is coming down some steps holding a box.The girls on the bench shout to the girl on the steps, "Song, let's do a band."The mad girl has left and one of the bench girls has run to Song on the steps to explain what she just agreed to (her Japanese isn't great) and she says "No! No, no! I can't!"
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 22/09/2026
gettin saucy #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 22/09/2026
I hope there's a game in this #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 21/09/2026
no idea what i'm doing, just seeing what sticks #FallingBlockJam
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 19/09/2026
congrats to every dev I talked to dreading the extra public day
Sleeping boy (Tokyo Game Show Exhibitors) protected by soldier (Typhoon) from barrage of weapons (New 5 day schedule)
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 18/09/2026
opinions on showing games at events (mostly a memo to myself for the next time i have to do it)
Have a screen visible above the crowd to draw people in.
Show something on it like an attract mode or gameplay video to communicate at a glance what the player does in the game. NOT just a title and logo!
Make the demo station inviting. Decoration, not clutter. Comfy seat, comfy headphones. Unless you NEED a mouse and keyboard, a controller is way friendlier.
Set up some call to action like "Press X to start demo" on screen. People should feel like they can sit down and start without someone giving them help or permission.
Don't stand in the way of the game. People wanna see the game, not you!
Have cards or fliers available for people who are interested, but don't shove them into everybody's hands as they pass.
Don't deliver the game's pitch unless someone is REALLY curious. You are not trying to pull people into a sleazy nightclub, back off and let people explore at their leisure.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 15/09/2026
this is everything to me
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 14/09/2026
i have waited so long for this
Groundwork of FLCL book reprint
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 10/09/2026
they aren't joking about the length of those horns
Longhorn cattle walking down the street guided by cowboys on horseback
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 10/09/2026
please picture me in cowboy zone wearing my glow in the dark megadrive t-shirt
Covered corridor with big overhead fans and brick road with cool light coming in
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 10/09/2026
Texas vibes are kinda out of control ngl
Picture of fake horse on some scaffolding
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 09/09/2026
it's crazy that this thing with the knob where you're dialing in temperature manually is still the norm. and you pull that pin up for the shower and the whole thing shudders and sputters water. how has this not changed since i was a kid one trillion years ago
Standard bathtub faucet with the pin you pull up for shower mode
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 08/09/2026
also how i feel about the switch 2
you cannot convince me i need to buy a ps5 to play a 3d platformer called astro bot. my n64 should be more than good enough for such a thing
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 07/09/2026
Game descriptions are fascinating because the more guaranteed a game's success is, the less effort they require. A popular indie will have a great description, and then the sequel is just "It's us again, we made another." When you can afford to write one like this, then you've REALLY made it.
Portal TM is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 06/09/2026
Massimo Vignelli springs to mind as an outspoken critic of desktop publishing but I think it was mostly designers who saw the "visual pollution"
the twentieth century. This typographic deluge yielded what Massimo called the "biggest visual pollution of all times" (Vignelli Canon). If everyone in the early 90s who called themselves a "desktop publisher" were a doctor, he complained, we would all be dead by now. (This might be true, if you think about it.) Massimo's appearances in
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 06/09/2026
I saw an alligator snapping turtle for the first time and I am now obsessed. This thing was as big as a man. Real life dinosaur.
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 05/09/2026
[furry charlton heston] get your paws on me, you damn dirty ape
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 05/09/2026
i feel like i am so rarely pogging anymore
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 05/09/2026
why *did* rick moranis keep shrinking those kids
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/09/2026
I got you
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/09/2026
Inspired by @verbante.bsky.social, I made a small version of an old idea of mine for #Pico1k jam in 999 compressed bytes. davemakes.itch.io/dodge1k
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 30/08/2026
That's so cool! I love seeing the extra step of giving the ball to the person!
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/08/2026
you can't be serious
Universal Technical Institute logo, a T penetrating a UGet a Firsthand look at UTIUTI.EDU sign on building
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/08/2026
[absolute cinema increases]
Criterion Barry Lyndon bluray and The Fall bluray
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/08/2026
if you sell a beautiful blu-ray rerelease of Tarsem Singh's The Fall it's important to wreck the sleeve with a crummy sticker that's impossible to remove cleanly
Back of sleeve with barcode sticker tearing apart like it's clinging on for dear life
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/08/2026
the thing about these being relatively unscripted is that sometimes the ADHD takes over, and this moment made me laugh too hard during editing to cut out
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 26/08/2026
halal matcha baumkuchen is the most international possible food
Halal matcha baumkuchen in vending machine at haneda airport
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 26/08/2026
plug her in marques!!
Youtube video about phone with uncharged playdate in thumbnail for some reason
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 26/08/2026
fuckin road runner ass hotel hallway
Long hallwayEnd of hallway is a wall painted to look like a tunnel
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 25/08/2026
The Dispossessed deluxe 50th anniversary edition being the most gorgeous object ever produced is maybe the most a book's packaging has been at odds with its contents
Hardcover in deluxe sleeve with gold foil embellishmentsThe cover has a punch out to reveal gold planets
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 23/08/2026
architects and urban planners in the 50s to 70s like
Old UIC campus, huge swaths of geometric concrete dotted with tiny people baking in the sun, concealing a parking-garage-like covered area, perfect for being assaulted underI am going to create an environment that is so concrete
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 20/08/2026
also check this out lol
Gigantic QR code that loads Pico-8 flappy bird source code in EDU version
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 20/08/2026
I like how this lil guy turned out
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 16/08/2026
I need someone to team up with to make a science fiction falling block game that is also a face melting prog rock album because this aesthetic is everything to me
Tetris Worlds box artTetris Zone box art
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 16/08/2026
Imagine having a logo by the guy who designed all those Yes album covers and throwing it in the trash for web 2.0 slop
Roger Dean tetris logoGlossy round Tetris logo
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