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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interested in game writing or narrative design? I put together my favorite narrative-focused resources FOR FREE for your viewing pleasure. You'll find gems from legends including Mary Kenney, Anna Megill, Emily Short, Susan O'Connor, and Toiya Kristen Finley. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1xIvw...

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ashleyPoprik_NarrativeResources.pdf

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 30/09/2026

I think I deleted the photo, but I saw one up in Pflugerville a few years ago that was a gold wrapped with a "THX ETH" license plate

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 29/09/2026

Yo congrats!! Hope you have a blast out there

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 28/09/2026

Oh man that's literally the day I'm moving out of my place 🥲 Hopefully I can throw something together before then! Regardless, I'm super excited to see what other people in the space are working on!

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Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey Tech Audio fam! Join us on October 14th, 6pm Pacific for a Tech Audio Demo Reel Review Party! If you're interested in having your demo reviewed, please apply to this submission form for consideration: forms.gle/smFCFenR3RRY... Hope to see y'all there!

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Tech Audio Demo Party

This is a submission form for the Tech Audio Demo Party on Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 at 6:00pm Pacific Time! The Tech Audio Demo Party is a celebration of technical audio design where a panel of ...

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 25/09/2026

Congrats on launching!!

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Emily "Eeek!" Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i've spent the last eight months working on EA's FC 27, and today you can officially buy it and play it! on a semi-related note, my contract ends in four months. do YOU need a sound designer or implementer in four months? let's talk about it!

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Ben Crossbones @bencrossbones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh. I'm available for sound design work as senior, principal, or lead and even audio direction. I'm open to talking but I'm going to take an entsy -weentsy break before diving back in.

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 23/09/2026

Like what the fuck are we doing here?

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 20/09/2026

All the love Ben. It's always terrible to lose a friend, but I know Henry had a wonderful time with you ❤️

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 18/09/2026

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that Ben. I hope Henry is able to have a nice and healthy recovery ❤️

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 16/09/2026

Never ended up actually playing Death of the Outsider. I think it's time for a replay of 2 and then a run through of DotO 👀

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Hot Delivery @hotdelivery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THE ROBOT WORKSHOP! It's a huge SFX library featuring over 3500 sounds! 40% off for launch week! Everything you need to design your own robots, androids, drones, cyborgs, exoskeletons, and beep-boop bois. Available now at @asoundeffect.bsky.social #sounddesign www.asoundeffect.com/sound-librar...

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The Robot Workshop | Robot Sound Effects Library | asoundeffect.com

Robot sound effects / recordings: "THE ROBOT WORKSHOP" comes fresh out the oven from Hot Delivery. Our construction kit, muah!, is perfect-o! Servos, clanky things, buzzy zips, switches, pressure, syn...

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 15/09/2026

Maaaan fuck right off. Yeah crunch blows and sometimes it does happen, but if you actively promote or celebrate it go kick rocks

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 15/09/2026

Illegally bombing a sovereign nation and fucking up the entire economic world order? Cool

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 14/09/2026

LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!!! CONGRATS!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”

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Emily "Eeek!" Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i had a great time talking to people about our cool game audio meetup group last night, but no one complimented me on my sign's artistic interpretation of OTT 🥲

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 13/09/2026

Time to run another hundred tests that all prove UBI is good for society but never actually act upon it 🙄

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 13/09/2026

Ahh shit you were showcasing? I didn't make it over to see 😭

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

Please be good please be good please be good please be good please be good 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

If you're in Austin, come say hi at Club Night!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

Hmmm actually gotta check some license agreement things to make sure I can actually share this stuff 😅 In the event I can't...hire me! I make cool stuff!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

Some tools I'm cooking pictured - These will be hosted for FREE on Github for anyone to use! I'm tired of remaking the same tools on every project, so I'm putting it all in a plugin to drop in projects. Overrides to default Ak values, optimizations, and custom tools 👀

Rider Plugin folder of SoundStriderToolsWwise
SoundStriderToolsWwise.cpp
SST_AkAmbientSound.cpp
SST_AkAnimNotifyState.cpp
SST_AkComponent.cpp
SST_AkCoreBase.cpp
SST_AkGeometryVolume.cpp
SST_AkPortalComponent.cpp
SST_AkSpatialAudioVolume.cpp
SST_AkSubsystem.cpp
SST_CorePlayer.cpp

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

First beta up on Git will just be a ScriptingIO tool that I've been working on the past few weeks. Once I got that stable and working in the freelance project I've been a part of, I'll hop back on the Wwise tools I've also got cooking in the background

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

So damn close to getting a first beta on Github to mess around with...whenever you think you're done you find new bugs with edge cases don't ya 🙃

Picture of the SST_Dev commit history over the last 2 days

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 12/09/2026

Making it real fucking hard to want to vote for you dude. Paxton is an utter piece of shit and I don't want him to win either, but god fucking damn dude...

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 11/09/2026

This is good, right? 🙃

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 08/09/2026

Valve should lower their rev share portion to 15% for the first $1m a game earns. Not because it would would help small teams survive to make more games (it would), but because they would earn more money in the long term.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 03/09/2026

I think this just about sums it up right now 😅

Pushing a commit to SST_Dev that has the description "Oh dear god UI"

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 02/09/2026

YOOOOO DLC LETS GOOOOO!!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 01/09/2026

The fact that they even comment something like that shows they know nothing about working in games. Hooooly that video was so accurate to the point where I was in tears with laughter at how true it is spending the whole day in meetings 😂

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 31/08/2026

I upgraded from 2x8gb to 2x16gb since I was starting to use my personal machine for bigger projects last September. What a fool I was not going 62gb or even 128gb honestly. UE + Wwise + Rider = 🫠

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 31/08/2026

GUI programing...is something 😐 Probably will still take it over working in any kind of Canvas editor...but oof both blow chunks LMAO

Small snipit of the SoundStriderIO Tool showing a single row

There's a "Message" On "OnJump" target "BP_DoorFrame2" using function "IO_Open" after delay "0.0" Max "0" entry shown and that's it

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 31/08/2026

I wasn't crazy about this the first time I listened to it, but holy shit I can't turn it off now. Not nearly as heavy as New World, but man I'm loving the hip hop/modern influences on this tidal.com/album/522747...

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Allt - Ataraxia

Listen to Ataraxia on TIDAL

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 29/08/2026

Been plugging away at this all week, and I've been having an absolute blast! Currently have a Scripting IO system working, and have begun creating new Subclasses of Ak classes so I can build more modular functionality onto them

Picture of my Rider IDE showing the SoundStriderTools project I'm working on. There's a bunch of files open in Rider, but the one being shown is SST_AkComponent with a teaser showing that I'm overriding default Ak Values

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 28/08/2026

Me but working in Unreal 😌

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 10/07/2026

Hey sound designers! What are some common issues you're running into with Wwise and Unreal? What are some tools you're constantly needing to rebuild for every project? I've been really enjoying learning to make tools for UE, and want to start writing my own plugin!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 24/08/2026

Finally time to get started on some tools 😎

Screenshot of the top of Rider's IDE toolbar that shows a project called "SoundStriderTools" in development

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Emily "Eeek!" Meo @emilyemeo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

so it turns out my math here was a bit sloppy, but NOW i am roughly five months away from the end of my contract in late January! do YOU need a sound designer / game audio generalist on your team in late January? if so, let's chat!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 23/08/2026

Glad you're enjoying it!! ❤️ ShB is something truly special imo

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 23/08/2026

Sooooo true 😂 However, miqo'te supremacy all the way

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 19/08/2026

Yooooo huge congrats!!!

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 18/08/2026

Man...fuck data layers and doors 😤

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Will @soundstrider.dev · 16/08/2026

Damn is just everything enshitified at this point? Had some basic expo markers that have completely dried out after never really being used in the 6 months I've had them, with the caps on the whole time 😮‍💨

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

stadia is now the product the time needs as nobody can buy local hardware anymore heh

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