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Ryan Markel

@ryanmarkel.com
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Human leader of humans. Customer experience professional. FGC behind-the-scenes. Doing my best to lead with empathy and be a calm in the storm. Looking for my next professional role. Knocking on the sky; listening to the sound. biz: ryan@26mag.com

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Ants Schmants @zippermint.itch.io · 24/07/2026
This reminds me of a youtuber I saw once complaining that Garfield Kart would shut down his computer with a controller plugged in and it turns out the problem was that the most upvoted steam config for Garfield Kart at the time was a community config that bound every button to "Shutdown Computer"
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 18h
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 8h
!! WARNING !! TOWER OF DRUAGA IS ESCAPING CONTAINMENT !! WARNING !! www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-tower-of...
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The Tower of Zeldaga is a free retro mash-up of Zelda and Druaga in which you rescue Ganondorf from some evil blonde queen
Two classic dungeon crawlers combine in free browser RPG The Tower of Zeldaga, which sees you rescuing Prince Ganondorf from some villainous queen.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Warhammer pipeline from casually curious to detrimentally obsessed is REAL and can HURT YOU
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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 23h
i've been saying, one path forward for the mid-budget games industry is just... going and making expansions to popular old games. there's a market here. bring back the era of outsourced expansion packs. i'm so serious.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
Hire this homie! Listen to the reel!
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
Each layoff was (and is) a massive “WTF” when I hear(d) about them, but hearing about Salvatori was a “WTAF, no really” in my book.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
I decided the best course of action was to look quite hard to find contact email addresses for the talent departments at those two companies it sent off to, explain the situation to them, and attach my resume with an explanation that the service likely didn’t meet my professional standards.
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Rob, The Bishop Of Bobbins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(The trick is to not conflate Game Difficulty with Game Accessibility)
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
So instead of applying for the roles I *thought* I was, I was instead having a machine read my resume and then fill out applications on other ATSes without any ability to vet what was being put into the application. It also used a bounce email address of its own, so it’s obvious to the recruiter.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
Had a new one today: followed a job listing from LinkedIn, filled in what I thought was Yet Another ATS, only to find that it was a capture from a service that auto-fills job applications for you (for a monthly fee, of course), which it did without really explaining to me that was what was going on.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
I would watch this.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
I wish our neighborhood had some crows I could befriend until they hang out with me and occasionally bring me gifts.
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are cooking up food in the #WhiteSox stadium that you cannot possibly comprehend
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
One of my traditions when I used to travel for work was finding local comfort food. In London, I recommend finding a local place to get kebab. And it’s usually worth it to find a good chippery and get fish. Less gauche, more serious: a Dishoom location (they have a number) for Indian cuisine.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 29/09/2026
Congrats! Sounds like a really cool opportunity.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 28/09/2026
That is *amazing*; thank you for sharing that with me. Gives me some things to learn up on while I’m job-seeking.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 28/09/2026
I miss the days when applying for a job was an email as your cover letter with an attached resume. The ATS ecosystem is a horrid experience from the first minute you interact with it. Re-typing pretty much everything in my resume, or checking the parser output, and *also* uploading a copy.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 28/09/2026
What’s the class? I am thinking I may want to do this at some point as well.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 28/09/2026
I don’t think you can undersell how influential Michael Piller was to the past thirty-odd years of television writing.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Matty @zagrebista.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saw something in a nostalgia-bait FB post about Gauntlet and this is an excuse to go off on my pet theory which is Gauntlet is a rare game that primarily and arguably ONLY works as a coin-eating arcade game:
Four player Gauntlet machine replica
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 26/09/2026
nanomachines, son
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 26/09/2026
what if there were a fighting game where the only input method was voice
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 26/09/2026
Fantastic shot.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
And you got one of them every year! Half in the fall, and half in the spring! (old man yells at cloud)
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
I have been watching a lot of peak era Star Trek while job searching, and it blows my mind that they used to have *twenty-six episode seasons*.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
This is not really what they have said, nor is it really the reason such a great game is struggling.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
shortest video game ever
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
100/10 no notes
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
I will be here, pretending this is not actually how long it’s been, thank you very much
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
paging doctor @jparish.bsky.social - tfrog, would you please report to the Xevious ward
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
My Sonys are always on the ready as a hot backup for the Sennheiser open-backs (HD 6XX, may Drop rest in peace) that power my day-to-day listening. They are consistent, reliable, and built like a tank.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
Hang in there. I’m now also needing to find a gig for the first time in almost 20 years, and the jobs environment is patently bananas. It’s hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t had to experience it recently, I think. We’ll get through this. I have to believe that.
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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 25/09/2026
Dude, even *I* would be tempted by this, and I don’t have a job right now.
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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 25/09/2026
now is the time of monsters
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
me arriving in hell after visiting the Parthenon
Doom guy in hell grabbing an imp and yelling “where is lord Elgin?!”
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image
The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Photo of a vintage book cover featuring a bearded man chopping planks of wood in half. Title and copy read

Defeating Wood

Teach Wood
The Lesson It Has Long Deserved

Gary Arkanasse
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of" is such an unbelievable terrible name for a documentary presumably aimed at people (comedy fans, people over 40, Canadians) who have indeed heard of SCTV
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