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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Spending all day repeatedly pickpocketing the same black pearl mourning necklace from this zombie in the ruins.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Using MS Word online is so great, because it's like using Google Docs that locks up every 30 seconds.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I love Milli Vanilli and I have no intention of ever stopping.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Medical offices these days expect patients to do an unreasonable amount of bookkeeping online before you show up to the appointment. I just entered my own phone number about 55 times in a dozen forms so my son can go to the dentist tomorrow. Sometimes I just give up and tell them to deal with it.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Whoa did any of my fellow Looking Glass homies catch this cameo in Black Mirror s7 ?!?!? I actually still own this exact issue of this magazine! Also this was an extremely rare example of media depicting video game developer culture that I didn't absolutely hate (in fact it was pretty good).

A screenshot from the show Black Mirror showing PC Zone magazine from 1994 with video game System Shock on the cover.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's totally doesn't at all feel super creepy and exploitative that every image on the Stable Diffusion page is a sexy young woman. No notes. This is totally how I would want my totally legit and good-for-society product represented.

A screenshot of the interface for Stable Diffusion where users can select a model to use. Every image is a photoreal or anime style image of a young woman.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hot take: the executive branch has too much power (even when it’s not wantonly breaking the law).

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sometimes you really bring your best self and use an infinity symbol, other times you're too busy and important so you just turn an 8 on its side.

A video game HUD where an 8 is turned on its side to stand in for an infinity symbol.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ok now I'd like to see the original version of the White Lotus season 3 finale, the one before the horrible last minute rewrite, the one that follows through on foreshadowing, makes logical sense, is thematically consistent, and fulfills the promise of the season's confident and glorious story arc.

Rick and Chelsea of White Lotus season 3.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I was all "oh Unity has scene templates? that sounds like it might save work and not easily become corrupt with broken references that it doesn't mention but allows you to save into the file!"

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I clean my laptop when it's really dirty and think "there that should last about 6 months"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025

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Q: Shouldn’t the Trump administration be dealing with the collapsing U.S. economy and the genocide in Gaza instead of this?

A: Have fun in El Salvador.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am fully in support of requiring businesses to offer their collaborators fair terms and good compensation, but even so wow does California make it hard and painful for small indie studios to work with talent in California.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Dems said these guys were incompenent, and within a month they spectacularly demonstrated intense incompetence.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Severance is like if Westworld made sense

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Who am I even if I’m mostly attending business talks at GDC

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

So excited for the day when I see two WayMos stuck in a faceoff, honking at each other.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I will never know how to spell leutenant

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

warnings always say "Check your surroundings for safety" but really they should say "Check your surrounds for danger" thanks for coming to my ted talk

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ThiefGuild.com @thiefguild.com · 03/03/2025

Ever thought that the intro cinematic to Thief: The Dark Project didn't exactly tell you a whole lot about what Garrett would be up against? Here's an alternative for you. Let's talk about CUTSCENE ZERO by @dthron.bsky.social

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

How embarrassing to watch the US behave like the worst, most pathetic schoolyard bully you ever knew and the MAGAsphere suck down obvious Orwellian lies and agree to side with an evil dictator who has been drooling to slit our throats for decades. “Let’s just be shameless” is now foreign policy.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Richard Garriott is one of my personal heroes. Maybe some day my own work will catch up with Ultima 4.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Started SKALD: Against the Black Priory by @highnorthstudios.bsky.social and it's excellent: tons of freedom, plays fast, and a strong, engaging narrative. Big ups! (Makes me wish I'd started making low budget ultima-likes in 2017 when I first thought to.) store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/...

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Save 40% on SKALD: Against the Black Priory on Steam

SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark...

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I love how in Interstellar the astronauts discuss their mission for the first time while on the mission. Just like real life.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

JUST RELEASED! My colleague Sam Bradley has been directing this awesome new game over at Don't Nod!

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm speaking at GDC about 2D grids in video games! Hex grids, isometric grids, irregular grids, spatial distortions, taxicab-vs-Chebyshev spheres, all the usual stuff. Level up your grid game! #GDC2025 #Design @officialgdc.bsky.social schedule.gdconf.com/session/grid...

Animated gif of the game Into The Breach showing gameplay on a 2D grid

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

what kind of role modeling is this for youngsters we're going to see kids running around tariffing each other

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I'm new to Charlie Theel, but his site Player Elimination has well-written, enjoyable design analysis with as high a quality bar as anything I've read. Designers of all experience levels should go check it out!

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Rewatched Ex Machina, which I had criticized as inaccurate about robotics and AI. But on rewatch I realized it's actually about misogyny and variations of masculinity, a timely depiction and warning at the rise of the manosphere. Let's hope Alex Garland is not equally prescient with Civil War.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A UI/UX suggestion: If I am highlighting a section of text, and pressing right extends my highlight to the right, should pressing left extend my highlight to the left? No, it should not. Stop doing that.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's ultra wild that Elon Musk, who is shutting down aid for poor, starving, and struggling people worldwide, equates himself more with the good guy rebellion of Star Wars, Divergent, etc., than the evil empire. How broken does your brain have to be

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The Earl of Orkney 💙 @earloforkney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Being a billionaire is morally wrong. You don’t need a thousand million dollars. You aren’t doing anything with it, and you could be using it to help suffering people all over the world. Part of the US’s problem is people equate rich with good, but hoarding power is closer to petty cowardice.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My fave Caves of Qud story is actually from GDC, 6 years ago or so. @unormal.bsky.social and Jason presented the procedural text generation which produced the book title ** Instructions For The Rarest of Circumstances ** I think about it all the time and want to read and/or write this book.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If you wrote your name in a book 20 years ago, I'm definitely going to google to figure out where you are now and what you've been up to. Just can't go seeding the earth with compelling mysteries like that.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I find that one of the hardest skills in video games is predicting how the audience will understand your work on their first encounter with it. But it's also one of the most powerful skills to have.

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Lee Seymour @leemourseymour.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

(Thank you @dezinuh.bsky.social, @dthron.bsky.social, @randyevergreen.bsky.social, Terri & Eric Brosius, and Stephen Russell - both for making some of the best games ever...and then chatting with me about them 25 years later!)

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Watching some Ghost of Tsushima video for work and I'm all: I should go back and play this entire game again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHhh...

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Ghost of Tsushima - The Ronin Swordsman - Perfect Combat Gameplay - Lethal+

YouTube video by Swifty Unknown

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I think the game design of American democracy could be improved. This is an obvious degenerate strategy.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Looking for an invite to #RiseUp email if anyone has one.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Alex does some of my favorite writing about games, and this bit of analysis regarding Gary Gygax interviewed by Harvey Smith is a great example. "(I guess he was working on Thief: Deadly Shadows at the time?)" Close! That was me! Harvey was directing Deus Ex: Invisible War down the hallway.

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Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Was definitely a highlight the other day when @johnromero.bsky.social added ME on Linked In. Sure, we've met a bunch of times and strictly speaking were both creative directors at the same company, but I didn't want to presume on one of the elder game gods.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It seems 2025 will be very unsubtle with its metaphors and foreshadowing.

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