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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Homemade chicken fajitas day!

Picture of component parts of chicken fajitas: peppers, onions and chicken; pico de gallo; spicy cheese; sour cream; and a fajita all put together

Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Honestly the case for any design tools. Just watch the designer and see what insane workarounds they came up with that you can fix with 5 minutes of work.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Needs to be large enough for a small water bottle, a reusable shopping bag, and my mini-pharmacy. A bag the size of a phablet and barely wide enough to stick my tiny fist in ain’t it.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shockingly hard to find men’s crossbody bags that aren’t tiny squares. I regret throwing out my old GAP one from the early 2000s.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything I read says you’re supposed to let your cat “win” your play sessions or they get frustrated, but when I do that he walks away and starts yelling at me until we play again so I’m not entirely sure if advice is bad or cat is weird.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey Canadian GameDevs, SGI is hiring game programmers of every level from junior to lead! C++ primarily, with some C#/Unity is preferred. Come work with me and my team! Hybrid and remote both available, but British Columbia residence required. smokingguninc.com/careers/#JOBS

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Careers - Smoking Gun Interactive Inc.

Join Smoking Gun's tight-knit team of passionate, talented professionals who love their craft, and build great things together.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am absolutely trying it when it hits shelves.

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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am not convinced that I'm very far down the 'spectrum', but boy does this resonate with me.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol, up to $1800 CAD now

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And they work very well so far. As someone who gets nauseated at the drop of a hat due to motion sickness, I can ride the train and read and type on my phone for 30 minutes and not get sick! I’d post a screenshot but they don’t get captured by screenshots…

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

iOS (and recently Android) has a feature called “motion sickness dots” where it renders a bunch of dots on the screen and uses the gyroscope to animate them when they detect acceleration (ie: if you’re turning left, they’ll slide across the screen, versus sliding down the screen if moving forward)

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Went back and finished Unicorn Overlord. Gorgeous game, enjoyed the og Ogre Battle style gameplay, but even Tactician was pretty easy, I think I should’ve cranked the difficulty to that last step. Story was serviceable. Absolutely nutty number of characters, up there with Fire Emblem or Suikoden.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have to say, I much prefer getting announcements to games that will be out in 3-4 months rather than 3-4 years. Who knows if the game will even exist in 3-4 years or if it’ll have to pivot, get cancelled, or get delayed?

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me: What fresh hell is [symptom]?! Medical Site: [Symptom] is a common sign of aging. Me: Yay but uuuuugh

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too stupid to stop, too smart to slop

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh. Huh. This describes me re: regular adulting in a way I’ve never considered.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shaking in his sea foam? (Grandpa was cremated and scattered into the sea)

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Did the author intend to support or criticize some aspect of 1890s British society? Maybe, but maybe not. Author’s dead, can’t ask. But you can look to 1890s British society to understand what the input may have been.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I like this framing because it finally allows me to understand why I disliked the framing my intro to sci fi prof used. She assumed everything had authorial intent. I argued how could we know it was intent, maybe it was unintentional. But it’s *always* a product of its time and place.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah yes, the passive aggressive afraid of confrontation approach. That always works >.>

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

row row row your boat c c c o o o l l l u u u m m m n n n y o u r b o a t

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This might be the wildest CEO statement I have ever seen. Relying a little too much on AI there, buddy.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Actually was pretty well laid out with lots of comments, but the issues were it was almost overly abstract for what it was doing and just…a lot of code. The human didn’t spend the time to break it into smaller pieces.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure how humans are supposed to code review 100+ files of AI code output with any sort of reasonable input. Let alone 2 such changelists in 2 days. If it were a human I’d tell them to go break up the CLs into smaller parts, but the answer I got was “can’t, AI made it”

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My studio has a policy that if a request isn’t in JIRA or email it doesn’t exist. In practice small requests still end up in chat, but anything that takes longer than 10 minutes? Email please.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Time to teach my cat to talk!

A picture of a starter kit box of FluentPet buttons

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Producer: “I’m having trouble putting meetings on your calendar for <thing>, can you reduce the number of meetings you have?” The absolute irony.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My cat is capable of performing about 13 tricks on command and crushes every feeder puzzle he runs into, but somehow a half-closed bedroom door was too much for his cat-mind and triggered a full screaming meltdown. Cats. Wtf.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Yay! We launched a game today! FreeFall Racers for the Nex Playground 😀 Porting a motion control game from over a decade ago had some interesting issues to solve, but super excited to see it out :D www.gamedeveloper.com/business/a-k...

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A Kinect game that debuted in 2013 has been revived

Freefall Racers is returning to screens after 13 years via Nex Playground.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

gamedeveloper.com

A Kinect game that debuted in 2013 has been revived

Freefall Racers is returning to screens after 13 years via Nex Playground.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

*Freefall Racers. No upper case middle F. I’m a terrible brand ambassador lol. Memories of being admonished for writing XBOX instead of Xbox in 2010…lol

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Which of course isn’t as easy as just uninstalling some programs. Noooooo, I had to dig through the services manager with a fine tooth comb and kill and prevent startup of a lot of leftover services. What took me 30 minutes to diagnose and fix would’ve been like a $500 repair bill for some rando.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

OEM software should be classified as malware. Anything related to sound on my new PC (settings window, trying to join a meeting, even just adjusting volume) would hang for 30-60 seconds on every interaction until I fully removed everything ASUS and AMD from my installed software.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Those indeed look like pancakes from this side of the pond. I do enjoy me a good pancake

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yes, I get it. Sometimes you just need to ship, deadline’s here, and you live with it. But like, we should know how our code works, and if you see something you don’t understand, where’s the curiosity? The sense of exploration? These are the problems that turn you into an excellent programmer.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As much fun as “load bearing code, don’t delete, we don’t know why” stories are, it doesn’t actually speak very well to either your programmers or the organization’s approach to tech debt. You should know why things work or don’t work, or be able to learn why.

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Doop @doop.toys · 17/07/2026

in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The negative is its overwhelming. I say this twice because there’s so much that even explained you miss nuance, etc. but I enjoyed it quite a bit and the Celtic fae theming was quite neat.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Kynseed is charming and open ended in a way that the other games you list aren’t. There’s SO much to do it’s overwhelming. It’s almost like what Fable was touted to be minus the real time combat. Generational, you can be a shopkeeper, a farmer, a warrior, a gatherer, etc.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not the greatest video (hard to run training with a single hand…have to get a tripod).

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My cat Peter and I do training twice a day with his dental treats and he *lives* for it, favourite parts of his day. We’re up to 11 tricks: * Sit * Stand * Lay down * Paw/Left Paw * Spin/Turn (different directions) * Touch (Boop) * Step * Up/Down (to or from a surface) Trying for high five next.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thiiiiiiis so much this. Every time you get to near shipping and there’s a bunch of stuff that just isn’t hitting the quality bar you want to hit that wasn’t originally accounted for. This isn’t bad unto itself; you just need to be realistic about giving yourself time to iterate.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Beautiful post, thank you for sharing it with us.

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1bn DAU for “Xbox” only makes sense if they actually finally execute on their whole “everything is an Xbox” scheme from a few years ago and count Windows machines.

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