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Jonny @darthmalks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This week on Indie Game Garden I spoke with @ultamaynard.bsky.social about Fair Play Collective. If you want to hear fascinating insights into how your favorite indie games might get funded in the future, you shouldn't miss it. Audio: indiegamegarden.transistor.fm YouTube: youtu.be/dZElMSOvl3k?...

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Well upload videos of specific lengths then. Geez.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had an idea the other day for a reverse Tetris where you’re trying to line up a board with Tetris shaped holes over a full board of Tetris shapes.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Turns out old, rich, white men do and say old, rich, white men shit. As a middle aged, middle class white man, if I start saying and doing old, rich, white men shit down the line, you’re all invited to the tontine to take me out.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’ve got an Etsy store making custom vehicle emblems and at least two dozen sales have been folks replacing their Tesla emblems with other stuff.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It’s a wild difference between here and threads. I’ve been on there for a few days and their algorithm is so overcooked that if you engage with a single post, that’s all you get. Also, bots. Bots everywhere.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Holy cow. Threads is a cesspool of bad faith engagement.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sorry, that was an incomplete thought based on what I was trying to fit via the text limit. “…I think it’s a decent thing” What we’re trying to build. Not the layoffs. They blow.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I don’t want to be insensitive to the moment, but having come out of the first round of Epic layoffs in 2023, watching my friends and coworkers who are still left getting hit again, I think it’s a decent thing. We’re trying to build a backer funded, indie dev mutual aid. @fairplaycollective.org

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I do actually believe he is high on his own farts and believes his BS. It’s the money folks at Epic that leaned in hard and went “man, we should use this dude’s psychosis to rake it in”.

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Ben Taels @bentaels.taels.net · 24/03/2026

Absolutely devastating to wake up to news of another layoff at Epic Games. So many wonderful and truly amazing people impacted. Just awful. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

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Today’s layoffs

This note was sent to Epic employees today.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This always was and always will be a petty shit-fit Tim threw because he couldn’t directly charge folks within his own app and had to share a cut with other services. Don’t get me wrong, it all sucks. But the goal was never altruism or industry betterment. Fuck Epic the company.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I was there when he pushed against Apple and Google. I was there when he talked up the altruism of fighting these “behemoths” for other developers. It was as much bullshit then as it is now. You KNOW it was BS by the hours and money they poured into ridiculous anti-Apple cinematic.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

“and in being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers.” An insulting piece of writing. Millions wasted on ego stroking lawsuits, and he has the gall to say this. #gamedev #videogames

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Today’s layoffs

This note was sent to Epic employees today.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#runsky #running Has anyone tried out the Mount to Coast shoes? I think they came out about a year ago. I’m thinking of picking up a pair of R1s. They seem like a pretty neat piece of shoe. And it’s definitely time to replace mine.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

But who the fuck could know when all we get are three sentences. And I’m sure she’s super busy and probably doesn’t have the time to give us a dissertation with 16 third graders to handle, but this is like the 5th time she’s just kind of handed us a vague-ass text like this. (4/4)

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Ok?? She’s fucking 8.5. 8 year olds do that sometimes. So, maybe use those decades of teaching skills to work with her a bit and see if you can help her contextualize her feelings and find some new perspective? And maybe she has already? Maybe they’ve been trying for like the last hour. (3/4)

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“She wants to go home” So my wife and I talk and agree that a headache really isn’t enough to come home an hour before school is up and tell her teacher that it would be good for her to let her know that we think she can make it one more hour. We just get back “She’s crying” (2/4)

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Gonna vent for a minute. We’ve got a kid that is often big drama. We’re working on that, but she’s expressive and emotional. Her teacher is retiring after this year. She made it to school, and all the way up until 245 was fine. Her teacher texts us “[Daughter] says she has a headache” (1/3)

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Had a friend whose parents had one rotting in their front yard in high school. I wanted it SO badly.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I don’t really think there can exist a better album cover than Stratovarius’ Visions.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A. D. H. D. At least that’s the way it works for me.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A did a marathon! Holy shit that sucked.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Got my phone, got my watch, got my 1200 calories of honey and B vitamins, nips are taped, thighs are lubed, shoes are tied. See you all in like 7 hours.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It’s 4:37am. I have to be at a park in an hour for the start of my first marathon at 7am. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea like 5 months ago??

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Y’all wanna see something nuts? The kid broke her collarbone this weekend. Straight up snapped.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Two more weeks till the marathon (sans a day) and with the shin issue I basically lost three weeks. Gonna attempt 17 miles today. If I can, then I think I can handle the marathon on the 15th. Maybe I’ll record it.

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The Fair Play Collective @fairplaycollective.org · 25/02/2026

The website update is looking pretty cleeeeeeeean. (Don’t mind that top bar, I uh, haven’t done a ton for mobile yet). #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

lol thanks. I probably need to work on it some, yeeeeeah.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Once a year I love to make the mistake of shaving my face to help me remember what a big fucking stupid face I have and how good it looks with a beard.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

@akirathedon.bsky.social I’m not sure you’re still on here but my neighbor, and friend, Ted made a comprehensive Akira the Don discography website in his spare time, just for fun!

meaningpedia.lol

Meaningpedia!

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

So, I’ve got what looks like a shin splint like 4 weeks for my marathon. Not 100% sure what that means for the run. I can manage a decent run, but thirty minutes after my right shin on the inside is killing me and is for a couple of days. Going to PT, but man this sucks.

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Ultamaynard @ultamaynard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Benadryl from night and the Vyvanse and Sudafed from this morning are all fighting for supremacy in my body.

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