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It’s Sindre Skaare

@sndr.bsky.social
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Level 39 Gamedev Red Mage @ Funcom on Dune Awakening. Technical Art: Character customization, Mutable, Materials and Tools. Occasionally draws and 3D models. Formerly at Massive Black, Firewatch, FooVR, Norwegian Indie scene, and The Anacrusis.

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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Prison jumpsuit is probably the one. But I also have her in my head as a tacky leopard print enjoyer.
The mom from Mathilda in a wonderfully tacky leopard print blazer and matching headband and random cheap jewelry.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If I ever find myself in the position where I can implement a pettable dog I will make it a hundred nodes deep dialog chain where the protagonist rationalizes to themselves how they COULD pet the dog but simply chooses not to.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ve seen the clip of Biddy Blas and I can tell you were having a lot of fun with this.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ohh I see. Well in any case theres a lot of brands on the scene now like Fiio, Truthear, and Moondrop which are so called Chi-Fi which is affordable Chinese audiophile gear that strikes way above their price class. I see Moondrop has a wired one appropriately called the Old Fashioned
A pair of Moondrop Old Fashioned headphones plugged into a Walkman.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’ve heard very good things about the Fiio EH11 that’s retro styled and shockingly capable for a $30 wireless headphone. (Of course it’s 650kr here in Norway) I like that it has physical knobs on the side. youtu.be/01vJ7ds9KRo?...
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It shouldn't be this good. Fiio EH11 review
YouTube video by Super* Review
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The one with the orange foam pads.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think about them a lot too. I love how they built to-size physical models and photographed them. Unparalleled skeuomorphism. Made them feel like objects from another world contained behind some layer.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Foundation. It’s like Tiny Glade mixed with Banished. You organically grow a quaint little medieval village, and it gives you lots of tools to decorate and add visual flourishes with. Lack of resources only constraints growth. There is no starvation, warfare, or disasters to deal with.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
C++ really does feel like someone’s being doing bonsai with a weed wacker.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve been in C++ land recently and been confounded by there apparently being two competing standards for private variables. Either a prefix m_Var or a trailing underscore Var_ (not to be confused with a leading one, _Var, those are reserved for global constants. Unless lower case, then it’s ok). 🥴
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like someone got 2cat’d 🐱🐱
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yeah, makes funny colors.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Watching The Sopranos for the first time in 2026 is such a bewildering experience. Because you will be locked in on the drama and then suddenly get flashbanged by a meme.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interesting. My experience is the opposite, people wish they could use Blender but our animation pipelines are too tied to Maya/Motionbuilder. As for myself. Maya native of 10+ years I picked it up way faster than Max, Modo, etc.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Feeling the same about that Rainbow 6 Siege XCOM clone they showed off at gamescom. Two games I’ve put hundreds if not thousands of hours into, smushed together at last. I’m a hog for slop. I’m owned.Shove it in my gullet.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh hell yeah. 🙌 Easily the gamescom announcement I’m the most excited about
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At work I have a beast computer that can have multiple instances of Unreal engine open alongside Photoshop and Maya etc. One thing that consistently brings my PC to its knees and freezes it for minutes is opening a 30 page confluence document.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I bet that they’re cooking the numbers by integrating Threads crossover stuff in Instagram, Facebook, and probably WhatsApp, and counting that as activity on Threads.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Dont forget Milkshake Duck
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I really appreciated that about Foundation. Had no adversity, only fostering growth. Felt like gardening.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Picking away at some digital painting now that I only code and don’t do art at work any more. Trying an approach where I don’t use pen pressure opacity, single layer, and don’t use the color picker, only picking values straight from the color wheel.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh I loved the old packaging. It had such a Yer Auntie With An Old Underutilized Arts Degree And A Copy Of Paint Shop Pro energy to it. The new one is nihilistically sauceless.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Time to fall down the tiling window manager rabbit hole
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’d guess it’s related to that hearing in the US recently where a congresswoman talked about private Minecraft servers being like a black market and should be illegal.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🫵 yes!
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
That bugs and undercooked features ship because we don’t notice or are lazy/stupid. We definitely know. But the bug where the inventory menu is visually janky was deemed less important than the multiple ways it could corrupt your save file. You (usually) only see the bugs that are safe to ship.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Finishing the book like this
static.klipy.com
jack sparrow, sinking ship
Alt: jack sparrow, sinking ship
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Rat jumping on board a sinking ship.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Not at all! Thanks! 🙏
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So that’s what his face is. I couldn’t make sense of it before. That said, I now have even more questions…
The Wikipedia page for the Cookie Puss cake, a horrifying product.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Does the engine not have the option for using separate invisible geometry for collisions?
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hihi hemmelig språk
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This could actually be really cool minus the use of real money. A game where have to pay for every action, and you have a fixed budget to start with. See how far you can get before dying or going broke. …Wait. Thats just Blue Prince isn’t it?
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh hey I remember her! Looks like she’s eased up on her stance on pants as well.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’ve heard that an argument being used is that directors or investors need polished visuals to get an accurate representation of the final product. And like, why? Isn’t their *whole job* to be visionary? If they have no imagination or ability to extrapolate then why the fuck are they there?
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Using AI for placeholder art is so stupid. I often joke that the most reliable way to ensure an asset makes it into the final build is to name it _TEMP. But for real if it’s too passable in quality it’s way more likely to slip through. Placeholders should be gray boxes and pink comic sans by design
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
IIRC ol’ Bobby Kotick had a hot mic or was just musing out loud about how Neat it would be if they could charge per bullet or every time Mario jumped. I think it was just a rich dumb guy brain fart and not something that was seriously considered.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Cooking Simulator games have a pouring mechanism that looks pretty decent from the videos I’ve seen.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy birthday Jen!
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Check out the Details View widget too. It works the same way but lets you pick multiple Properties, or entire Categories (my favorite).
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This guy makes great breakdowns of musical techniques. Great fun and very playful presentation. youtu.be/2VBHIxCJwVU?...
youtu.be
when the beat hits.. wrong?
YouTube video by Synthet
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Definitely got the look of a guy who’d back his car into a cop car.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I would be too if I had his barber.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Only one I’ve seen that’s worse is LinkedIn.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
ok mr fart
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
To be fair, a big part of the charm of those games is how incredibly high on its own bullshit they are while also having Goofy ahyucking it up in the background.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Went looking in my work drove for the specific ones we used, but I can’t find them. But iirc they looked like this. Used substance designer to scatter brushstroke alphas with random grayscale values (and i think a slight gradient?). Also had some versions where all the strokes went the same way.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I found that slope blur with a tiling brushstroke texture was surprisingly effective.
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It’s Sindre Skaare @sndr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I’m reading some summaries and reviews now, and wad da heyl
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