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Nigel

@pseudohausen.bsky.social
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Lead Game Designer at Ubisoft Toronto, working on Splinter Cell I post just enough to stay irrelevant.

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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Personally I think it's neat that Ikea's delivery notification email has an empty Contact Us section and when they completely ghost your delivery there is no easy way to rectify the situation. And that the Contact Us link does not work. Really wonderful enshitification strategy here
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Really need my 7 year old RAM sticks to hold it together for another 7 or 8
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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tried looking up how much I spent on 16 GB of RAM for my router build just over a year ago to see if I could transplant it into the Steam Machine and it was like looking at menu prices at a diner from the 1940s.
An order showing 16 gigs of laptop ram costing 41.99
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time
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I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out
The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.
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mark @aftermark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So this really wasn't an exaggeration
David Cage and Yoko Taro Tumblr meme
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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today, April 7, 2026, humans inexplicably stop aging, dying and being born (17776 or What Football Will Look Like in the Future by Jon Bois, 2017)
A conversation. 1: How long has it been like this? 2: On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging. 3: Ham cheese. ham cracker. cheese cracker. ham and cheese cracker. ham and cheese. 1: Why? 2: We don't know. Nobody knows.
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I bet every open source project is getting absolutely hammered by dogshit vibe coded PRs and nothing is getting merged for some of these load bearing projects ever again
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Blue Prince reminds me of the insecure dungeon master; too afraid to tell you plot too early lest you go and kill the big bad in session 4
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Every game needs a graph
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If you're from a certain vintage of the internet, Chuck Norris being dead seems impossible
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FabioBLK @blanca.com.br · 16/03/2026
NVIDIA RTX On - Off comparisson using squidward harmonization face meme
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Seeing as making $100k from a game is topic right now (Valve said 6000 games in 2025 made $100k+ each) this is a good time to read this: www.patreon.com/posts/can-yo...
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Can you survive off 10k sales for a $15 game? | Grey Alien Games
Get more from Grey Alien Games on Patreon
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
lol. lmao, even
"We're seeing teams not only using AI to generate these ideas, these thousands and thousands of ideas, but actually they're using AI as a curation machine to actually understand the game design documentation, to understand the art bible and art style, and go into all of these objects that are being created, both by humans and AI, and surface the stuff that’s the most relevant for the game design [...] saving thousands of hours in pre-production."
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Why DS9 holds up so well.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Again
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18/02/2026
perennial reminder that this typographic thing: * * * is called a "dinkus" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus
Wikipedia entry for dinkus

In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g.   ∗ ∗ ∗   or   • • •  . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
RIP Discord and all the load bearing information hiding on assorted discord servers because forums are now dead
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A horse looking pensively out at the ocean, with the caption "MAN"
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The Hedonistic Pervert @photonmarie.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
this is genuinely incredible
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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The most recent episode of Heated Rivalry is currently the 14th best-rated episode of all time on IMDB with a 9.9/10 so yeah, it’s not just “hockey smut,” like some journalists would lead you to believe.
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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 24/11/2025
maybe i am going insane
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Every new hardware launch that doesn't feature an Atomic Purple shell is leaving money on the table.
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
oh my GOD this is so fucking stupid.
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The toilet flushing sound effect that plays a second late after the character drops into the sewer is an apt metaphor for this whole bubble
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
Characters from the game Aviary Attorney. They are birds wearing fancy clothes. One of them is a fox, also wearing fancy clothing.
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 19/10/2025
happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Designed with gamers in mind
Picture of Gandalf's Big Naturals

Designed with activists in mind
Picture of Gandalf without Big Naturals
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I will never give up my emotional support 35% off game
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 16/09/2025
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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
when i discovered fantasy synth, fogweaver was the first project i listened to. imagine my surprise when i learned that not only was one of the most talented artists someone i already knew, but one of the sweetest, funniest, & most resilient women i’ve ever met 💜 daily.bandcamp.com/lists/fantas...
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Exploring the Mystical Realms of Fantasy Synth
Brighter and more emotional than its cousin dungeon synth, this is music for epic quests.
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Alright I'll bite. First 5 steam purchases (bonus non-purchase stress-test key). Technically I think I got the Half-Life Platinum Pack in 2002, but Steam wasn't real yet
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Games by Stitch @gamesbystitch.com · 28/07/2025
At Elsewhere Electric, we encourage curiosity. Other companies may discourage employees from touching unidentified machinery or receptacles* At EE, Installers should confidently place fingers into holes 🫵 *Elsewhere Electric assumes no liability for incorrect insertion #indiedev #puzzlegames #VR
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🎃 Dave Proctor, the GRAVE DOCTOR 🎃 @positivelaser.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thank you THANK YOU everyone for your support of Missile Command Delta yesterday. The teams and I are absolutely overjoyed. Still riding that launch day high, so excuse me for telling you to go buy this game again: store.steampowered.com/app/2790160?...
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Missile Command Delta on Steam
Missiles are incoming. The stakes are high. Only you can stop the destruction. Manage your pool of defenses strategically to survive rounds of incoming missiles in this high-pressure, tactical turn-ba...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 02/07/2025
One mistake people make with these letters is assume they're written for humans, but they're not. There's no contrast. They're written for shareholders, & for them, this text is just a non-stop parade of good news. Record numbers? All verticals up? Layoffs?! What a feast, for them, what a feast.
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Tom Caswell @tomcaswell.games · 02/07/2025
Important to note; Japan has way stricter laws around laying people off. Actual protections from its government that force companies to do things like have execs take pay cuts before doing a mass layoff. The solution to this problem is not a “good” CEO. It’s systemic and complete reform.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The picture show is a gamer partaking in an act of intellectual stimulation known as gaming








Is burb
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/05/2025
The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Saint of Bright Doors
Check out The Saint of Bright Doors - <p><b>Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel!</b><br><b>A 2023 <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br><br><b>“The best book I've read all year. Protean, sin...
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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
They are Cooking Thee in the Replies, my Lord! My Liege they claim Thy Kingdom is naught but a Duchy!!
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Nigel @pseudohausen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Don't worry it's just the fifth in a lifetime financial crisis
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Robert Makes Games @rjs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
being a game dev is knowing sometimes 10/10 is too much but 11/10 is just right
an screenshot of a video with the caption: 
"fixed bug where cat was too round (he is rounder now)" 
a beautifully very round cat is pictured
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anthony (haunted version) @panecasio.com · 04/04/2025
work on the sneaking man game with us, we’re looking for a level design director toronto.ubisoft.com/jobs/#744000...
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Jobs - Ubisoft Toronto
Push the boundaries of AAA game development while working with Ubisoft’s most powerful technologies. Learn more about Ubisoft Toronto jobs and apply today!
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This rocks from first to last frame.
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