The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I still remember my mom's reaction circa 2010 to finding out I'm a furry, which was "I talked to a colleague at your former uni who explained it's a social venue for many folks, and wouldn't you want him doing that more than, say, drugs or car theft," and it's amazing how far society has backslid. 110
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026If you really think about it, "High Commissioner" sounds more like a strain of bud targeted at the furry community, and not what it actually is - a brand of blended Scotch Whisky. 100
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026@oxizn.bsky.social A friend (Jamie) sounded like I should add you as a friend here, so I'm doing that. Given that you were making history when I was still working on my Bachelor's, I don't think my usual "Hey, I've been a game developer for 20 years" line really works here... 020
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026@marc-irl.bsky.social Anything to say about this "shangxi888go_501" person who's been hanging out on the Minecraft Feedback Discord server for the past 3 days, phishing people, and the moderators are seemingly doing nothing? Is this what passes for community outreach these days? 100
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026On my way to train station after work today, on a crosswalk, some familiar-looking moustachioed person on a bike waved at me and said, "Hey, Ryan!" I gave a nod and a polite "Hey" back, but I can't place his face, and I feel like a colossal asshole. 😭 010
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Emulator developer for a quarter-century, member of the furry community for equally as long. Four more years and I can say the same about my game-development career as well. It's just like Mr. Smashmouth Eat The Eggs once sang: The years start comin', and they don't stop comin'. 140
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026WTF?! I've poured 25 years of my life into this project! Now they're going all AI-slop?! Where can I get a refund?! www.mamedev.org?p=562mamedev.orgMAMEdev.org | Home of The MAME Project 230
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026If your main page on YouTube seemed conspicuously *different* for the past 3 days, then mysteriously went back to normal today, I want to hear from you. I don't want to be all tinfoil-hat, but it's STRANGE how all politics-related channels exited my feed for 3 days starting March 28th. 240
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I can't even begin to describe how relentlessly fucked things have gotten with Google these days. I've forgotten my account password - to their credit, I'm still logged in on my existing devices - but I just waited out the 6h delay on recovering my password, only to hit another 6h block. The fuck? 230
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The "how much is acceptable" questions really tilted me. "None" across the board. AI is fine for something like rapid-prototyping, but when you're in production, fuck the clankers 150
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026If I hear one more time how I can just put my search in the address bar, I'm going to snap. I didn't spend my formative years from the mid 90's up to the aughts, where an address bar was just that, to be lectured on how it's no longer an address bar. Just let me be old as fuck, and get off my lawn. 060
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Something I hope the @hytale.bsky.social devs address: Gamma slider. A friend I play alongside can sail through most caves because he sees things I don't. It's not my eyes, it's my TV. Even in Monitor mode, it has a super-dark low-end. Photos don't work, because phone cams invert the gamma curve. 110
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026That @hytale.bsky.social has progression gated by tier upgrades on workbenches, with the upgrades requiring resources that require the specific tier you're about to unlock, to unlock, to encourage exploration, is so genius I'm not convinved Hypixel's designers aren't space aliens from the future. 210
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026First customizable worldgen, now rabbits. Lowkey feels like Microsoft are trying to gradually erase the history of my involvement with Minecraft. If they could get rid of mutton, stained glass, wood-specific doors, craftable cracked stone brick, and block models as resource packs, I bet they would. 020
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026As a fmr. Minecraft dev - dude who added mutton, stained glass, worldgen customization (RIP), & rabbits (upcoming new anims and models, RIP), the folks behind @hytale.bsky.social have made something really fucking special. I haven't felt like this since 2010, when I discovered Minecraft. Kick. Ass. 293
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Rumor is, Steve Ogg has regrets about being typecast as Trevor, from GTA V. My perspective? You can't make that call. We all have our sins that we'd prefer not to be typecast by. I'm an aspiring VA, every job I've ever hard, my colleagues ask if I've considered a VA role. Yeah. I fucking have. 110
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2o-... Merry shmup-mas. Boogie Wings is the most insane horizontal shmup to ever exist. The entire thing is like a fucking fever dream. A designer at Data East goes "You know what this level needs? A dog that chases the player and barks at them the whole time" OKAY, DO ITyoutube.comBoogie Wings Merry Christmas level - MAME arcade game - digitubaYouTube video by digituba 030
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025A friend, Sunday: "Getting over pneumonia, dropping your Christmas gift in the mailbox." Wednesday: "Checked your mail?" WHAT THE FUCK THIS DUDE He found someone in Czechia to custom laser-engrave my favorite moogle design for a custom box and whisky tumbler. Just Holy shit 😭 160
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025TBH it was seeing the sheer number of people who genuinely do *not* get it when it comes to the rhetoric in Helldivers 2, so I felt like giving the hornet's nest a good ol' poke by turning the character-customization menu gender-agnostic. Somehow this completely failed to piss off most fascists. 240
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Folks're discussing the best furry partners for 2025, but with the ongoing DLC updates to Helldivers 2, Terminid queens deserve an honourable mention. Advantages: - Great mom - Defensive of young - Prolly feeds kids better than most folks nowadays - Oviposition Disadvantages: - Possible evisceration 000
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Can I just say that it is deeply annoying to be so 'in' with old game studios that've sold out that it becomes annoying to interact with folks who actually have a decent about of histoircal panache 210
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Honestly, it seems like most folks aare keen to still wanting to associate @macaulayculkin.bsky.social with some stuff he did in the past, but honestly, dude is excellent when it comes to actingt. The hell? Drryvers was a serious hell of a thing. 120
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025What's it going to take for @timsweeneyepic.bsky.social and other Epic folks to go chat with @macaulayculkin.bsky.social about gitting him - adult him - into Fort-something? It's the holidays, dammit. Best possible time for folks to be the chaos that exists within them. 010
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025@developer.chrome.com "Wouldn't it be nice if you used Chrome," says your browser, which I should remind you is called Chrome, when I have the temerity to pull up google.com because I want to search for something outside my address bar, you inept fucksgoogle.comGoogle 010
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025This is your reminder that while Final Fantasy VII Rebirth moogles may look like a muppet fucked a shut-in WoW player's cum-sock, they are NOT off-model, because for there to be an off-model moogle, one would have to be on-model. And moogles have changed appearance with literally every game. 130
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Insert 20-page essay about the late H.R. Giger's designs for the Alien xenomorph and facehugger were rather explicitly intended to be overtly sexual in nature, so this is not even slightly unrealistic when you get right down to it 041
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I'm presently trying to emulate the Nikko digiBLAST media/gaming handheld. It runs Linux on a 180MHz ARM system-on-a-chip, and its controls work via an OHCI USB host, so I need to emulate a USB host. It is proof beyond denial that there is indeed a God, and he is vengeful and angry at our hubris. 2133
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025God help me if I ever hit Sandy's level of big-fish-ing past glories. I just *can't* overblow past work. Yeah, I added rabbits to Minecraft; my texture work sucked and the AI sucked, thank god other folks helped. Meh, I made Helldivers 2's armory gender-agnostic, and did some other UI shit. etc. 1112
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Reminder: Once you're done with the turkey hangover later this month, you're legally obligated to bring Freezeezy Peak and Hailfire Peaks up on loop on your local sound system until the holidays have passed. Hey, I don't make the rules. 010
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Does anyone have a link to any particular streamer or YouTuber who opted to play through the Order of Giants DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and actually did so from the initial start-point of the game? Everything I've found just has folks continuing from Vatican. 000
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025There's something universally correct when it comes to Charlie voicing the one furry in the whole trailer for that thing. I've been wanting to take a stab at being a VO person for decades, and I now have receipts via Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's DLC, but, damn. Dude earned the W. 120
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=eov1...youtube.comConker's Bad Fur Day EndingYouTube video by Jakester12621 110
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The whole situation is fucked, top to bottom, and it's not something that innocuous porn enthusiasts should have to deal with. That said, records exist, and I would highly encourage anyone who was once part of the Patreon patronage for this project to throw a bit extra into the ring, directly. 45627
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025So far I haven't seen anyone point out, via a Google search even, a deep-cut joke in the Super Mario RPG remake: www.gamespot.com/articles/sup... On SNES, the 6 hint notes were attributed to Magellan, DeGama, and Van Doren (2 each). In the remake, the note authors are different... 🧵gamespot.comSuper Mario RPG - Sunken Ship Puzzle Answers GuideFind all the clues and solve a riddle in the Sunken Ship in Super Mario RPG. 1105
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Sometimes I wonder how the current administration in the USA manages to not eat itself. Stephen "Goebbels Junior" Miller probably cry-faps himself to sleep dreaming of ejecting Patel, while RFK Jr. dreams of finding a female brain-worm so that the one at the helm doesn't feel so lonely all the time 050
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Considering using my upcoming 3 months of free time to actually, finally, get my "The Untold History of UltraHLE" video out the door. Wish me the best of luck, it's going to be a doozy. 041
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025It's telling that as controversial a figure as Karl Jobst can still refer to rileycs_ by the correct gender, while a cowardly AI-slop-voiced goblin "CallOfShame" insists on misgendering her. Like, guys you're saying the quiet part out loud. Keep doing so so we can keep throwing spitballs at bigots. 120
Reposted by The Moogle In Your ClosetRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I wish racists would just admit to being racist. It's so much quicker than saying "Immigrants don’t work… apart from my GP, my nurse, my teacher, my cabbie, my IT guy, my plumber, and the woman at the corner shop" 1952298
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Charlie Kirk said firearm violence was an acceptable tradeoff for 2A, and that empathy is for the weak. So if you think about it, I'm reacting precisely how he would have wanted. If you're upset by a game developer with 2 decades of experience saying this, my only advice is to cry harder. 061
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Interesting, as the left has also been profoundly unhelpful this weekend. If you thought a headline like "Nazi-Shooting Game Studio Fires Dev for Comment on Shot Nazi" would be a headline that would gain instant traction, you'd somehow be wrong. Even YouTubers have been notably absent in @-ing me. 010
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025By the way, I'm not limited to the loud-voiced folks that I'm specifically pinging. If you have some channel on social media that's LGBTQIA-aligned and want to boost the story of the dude who got fired from the nazi-shooting game studio for expressing tepid relief about a shot nazi, hit me up. 013
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025@miamulder.bsky.social Recent posts notiwthstanding, I don't think you're too stupid to pass up this opportunity, with the headlines that are already hitting: Want to chat on an Uppsala-based game studio firing a developer for speaking positively about a nazi's death? Oh yeah - it's me! 000
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025@commandersterling.bsky.social @xanderhal.bsky.social Still waiting to hear back. One would think a headline of "Nazi-Shooting Game Studio Drops Dev for Comment on Shot Nazi" would be a pretty gripping headline. Plus it seems ZeniMax learned nothing from Leona. Let's remind them. 132
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025As I just explained to a former colleague on LinkedIn: The management at MachineGames dramatically underestimated the breadth and the number of contacts I have when it comes to game-related media. And they just handed me a headline on a silver platter. God help them. 030
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Okay, I'm drawing a blank here, who's that awesome, also-Brit, also-wrestling-fan lady who is in Steph Sterling's orbit? I'm doing a stupid here, have somehow failed to subscribe to her on YouTube, and it's eating at me. 100
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Now that the DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great CIrcle is out, I have to admit something that's been haunting me about it for months - - the area called "Cloaca Maxima". I know, Latin and all, but I can't read it and see anything other than "biggest asshole". 130
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"Then they came for the folks on the autism spectrum, and there was no-one left to speak for me, because Hans Asperger was a eugenicist motherfucker, and a whole heap of allistic people kinda suck too" 070
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Reminder: Icer "Sardu" Addis (of Bloodlust/NESticle fame) might've been Near if not for an anonymous game-dev giving him an 'out' via EA Tiburon. Yet folks still went all shocked-Pikachu at Icer's readme.md about SNESticle. "You guys have way too much free time"? What does it all MEAN? /s 000
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025One fascinating aspect of @legaleagle.tv's Taylor Swift video regarding master-recording rights that Devin didn't cover: Bulk-licensing. Record labels demand eye-watering sums for individual master-recording licenses, but as a bulk deal, it gets shockingly cheap. Case in point: Music/rhythm games. 131
The Moogle In Your Closet @themogminer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025The thing about bandwagons vs. doing your own thing is that bandwagons use 2010-era game physics. You can stand on them, and if you're really careful you can hang around for a while, but once they get going fast enough, you'll probably fall off. 000