iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don’t have a lot of energy for social media anymore but I do occasionally miss the collective triumph and/or crushing despair of a shared election night. So far it’s looking like the former here in Michigan tonight.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The GDC takeover of Yerba Buena is dumb just in general, but the cherry on top is the “Open to All!” sign behind the fencing, the three hour daily window and grim looking dudes in suits glaring at anyone walking by.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

You ever watch a beloved movie from your high school days and think “maybe I SHOULD go to that reunion after all!” Only to then remember that no one from the movie actually went to your high school, and it’d be mostly assholes in attendance? No, just me?

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Finally got the go-ahead to post my rejected theme song for Halt And Catch Fire. IT’S THEIR LOSS

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Then oddly disconcerting effect of being in another room and hearing your computer make a notification sound you don’t recognize. “Not teams, not slack, not discord. Did a meeting start? Build failed? What are you trying to tell me tiny chirp sound?!?”

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

High school - “You wont get extensions in the real world so you wont get them in this class.” College - “Hey, life happens. Try and get me the assignment next class.” Gamedev - “Yeah…we’ve decided to push the milestone out 6 months.”

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Looking forward to four years of texts from Democrats. “URGENT: RFK Jr is serving bear meat sandwiches in our public schools. Sign our petition to DEMAND he limit bear meat to only one meal per week.”

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I'm firmly in the "we don't know yet" camp, but Young first-time voters breaking for Trump—young men 60-40 while young women go 55-45 for Harris—is some bleak shit. & I can't help but look at young men at 60-40 and think: that's Joe Rogan, AsmngoId, the frothing anti-DEI ragers. ...That's gamers.

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Alina B @froshadowing.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

It's so funny it hurts #production #gamedev

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

*poke* *poke* Come on, do your job tea.

A packet of “Relaxer” loose leaf tea next to a mug with the tea being steeped.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Weird that in a 50/50 race it feels like your candidate has to have everything break their way perfectly and the other candidate can just fall into the presidency. I don’t think that’s how math is supposed to work, but I draw pretty icon for a living, so who knows?

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Haven’t bluesky’d in about a year, but I have a feeling I’m going to need a place on Tuesday, for good or for ill, that is not accessible by extended family. So…sup y’all?

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I just don’t know if I can social media anymore.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Snowflakes spotted on Halloween night. Truly I have returned to the Midwest.

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

This *is* financial advice youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

The production design of the 2001 “Thirteen Ghosts” deserved a much better movie. Industrial design meets glass brick meets overly ornate brush script Latin. You certainly were a thing that was released in the early aughts.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Defeated Don Draper voice: “This business is rigged.”

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I’ve got a soft spot for the “This suburb is so god damn boring we’ve gotta fuck everything up.” genre of film.

Movie poster for “Over the Edge”
Text: “Nobody listened. Nobody cared. Until the night they went Over the Edge”

Movie poster for “Pump up the Volume”
Text: “Talk hard. Steal the air.”

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Sci-fi games really can’t resist that “Earth? Why would we go back to that shithole?!?” narrative trope.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Bethesda hire a UX designer challenge.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Honestly amazed at the amount of goodwill Unity has managed to burn through in one day. The gamedev subreddit is filled with wannabe developers asking which engine to switch to. Even if the rule change wouldn’t have hit them, the mistrust is now baked in.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

The Embracer group still owes Gearbox employees several years of payments including cash and stocks. I don’t know what happens in the event of a Gearbox sale, but prior game industry history doesn’t make me optimistic for the rank and file.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Not getting a pickle spear with your deli sandwich… Pre-2020: aw man, someone screwed up. Now: SHRINKFLATION HAS COST US EVERYTHING WE HOLD DEAR

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Hello brain. I’d like to reschedule your productive hours. 11pm to 3am isn’t ideal. Is there a setting somewhere? Cheers.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Embracer Group out there “restructuring” studios into smoking holes in the ground. Godspeed Volition folks.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Helped my sister and her husband with some yard work. In the Midwest. After a storm. I had mostly forgotten about mosquitoes.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Big storm blew through Michigan last night. My next door neighbors caught that “fuck you in particular” treatment from Mother Nature.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Does anyone who started posting art on the internet in the 2000s have a hard time not making everything into a project. “Ooh, I like this one doodle I did on a notecard. If I make 364 more of them I can post one a day and it’ll be a ‘thing’” Why brain, why?!?

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

I’ve got that brand-new-sketchbook anxiety with this app. It’s so clean and pristine. I’m just going to start making some dumb pencil marks and screw it all up.

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Pat Guarino @patguarino.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Hi new Twitter! Old Twitter is having a day.

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