AJ Fraser

AJ Fraser

@ajfraser.dev

👨🏼‍💻🎮Tech/Game dork. | He/Him. | 🇨🇦 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿|

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The most stressful part about going back to school for #GameDev so far has been this final stretch where I try not to have imposter syndrome when trying to build a portfolio website.

Tim Curry, the offbeat British actor who specialized in playing eccentrics like the seductive, cross-dressing scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and such fiendish villains as Pennywise the Clown from Stephen King’s It, has died. He was 80. bit.ly/4wOSlqy

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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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I passed on a food truck last week cos their entire menu looked like the one on the right and any moral reaction didn’t even come into play - the slimy, cheap graphics just immediately made my stomach turn.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Damn. Every once in a while one of these just sucker punches you in the gut. Maybe it's proximity to my own age, or the fact that I got to meet her at a convention once? Who can say? Regardless, rest in peace. Save the cheerleader, save the world.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...

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oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?

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We've seen some questions pop up around layoffs: "well, if they were laid off, didn't that mean they weren't doing a good job? Maybe they deserved it." And on its face, that sounds logical and legitimate. Because the opposite would just be pure cruelty, right? ...Right? ...So here's the thing.

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well this kinda hit me like a ton of bricks not to "kids today" but it's fucked that so many people can't even remember existing in a world where you couldn't be clipped by some shitbag's phone video recording to get clowned on social media for. That's such a ubiquitous risk of being outside now

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don’t make me tap the sign 👉 lookingfor.game

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them. Algorithms built to surface content are increasingly rewarding volume, familiarity, and short-term engagement over quality or originality. https://bit.ly/44VFYO9

The absolute AUDACITY of my auto-correct to change my intentionally typed "No Problemo" into "No Problem".

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🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

PBS News@pbsnews.org

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the "unprecedented cyber incident" that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company. https://to.pbs.org/4gQf2GN

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When 13 soldiers died on Joe Biden’s watch because Biden was *ending a war* that had killed Americans for two decades, these people acted like Biden shot the soldiers himself

Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

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Constantly relieved that my favorite porn genre is “two people who are equally happy to be there”

WIRED@wired.com

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X. www.wired.com/story/people...

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I think it's unfair of Marvel to put out an actual Avengers trailer. What will all the accounts that have spent the last year generating fake AI clips of the movie do now that there's real footage? Did they even think of all those people's passive income streams?

Me: *Watching a video of people interacting with lava and some guy throws a banana into it* "Oh wow! That will make an interesting fossil find one day!" My smart watch: "Your device identified potential signs of stress or excitement."

I was laid off a few years ago (not games) and after the lawyer fees, I walked away with double the early signing fee they promised on top of my severance.

Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com

Due to all the layoffs recently: If you are asked to sign a severance agreement, please check it with a lawyer. Yes, even the ones that look good already. This can cost money, but sometimes the severance can include the lawyer payment. Just ask! For example, in Europe, ask @aceottorney.bsky.social

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JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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I’m a firm believer in talking shit about the dead or recently deceased. Let it be a warning for the living that if they are shitty in life, they will be remembered for being shitty in death.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said. He was 71. https://to.pbs.org/4w1cXwv

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I saw a post where someone made the connection that a company laying you off right after your product comes out is pretty much stealing your wages from you and, yeah. They’re double dipping, getting all the profit and not having to pay for the team that generated it.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Ubisoft devs who worked on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced in Barcelona celebrate the game's launch today by bracing for layoffs. "After 7 years at Ubi... https://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-devs-celebrate-black-flag-remake-launch-with-layoffs-this-is-not-how-i-imagined-it-would-end-2000714209

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funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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It's nice to just to browse through your physical games and find something to play. Ya hear that, PlayStation?

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"Also this week: a 12-year-old girl – whilst in her tent – was shot in the chest with live ammunition from a [Israeli] crane-mounted gun; a three-year-old girl was shot in the face by a bullet from a [Israeli] quadcopter drone while inside her home. " www.unicef.org.uk/press-releas...

unicef.org.ukA child a day: The deadly illusion of Gaza's ceasefireGENEVA/AMMAN, 19 June 2026 – “For many, many months, the world has been told there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Yet for Palestinian children, this so-called ceasefire has become a cruel and deadly illusion...