Erik Robson

Erik Robson

@erikrobson.net

Game/level designer | LFW | Valve (Portal 2, CSGO, DOTA 2, The Lab, Artifact) | Double Fine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) | 3DO () 25+ years making games professionally. On Signal @ ErikRobson.47 Husband, father, PNW, living through Interesting Times

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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Long-simmering thought: Shin Godzilla looks like a vicious satire of the bureaucratic state to my western eyes. Is it also that from the Japanese perspective?

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Replying to @deswalsh.bsky.social

There are so many who are struggling with art right now and it’s understandable but there is ways to help by trying to shift how you view your self your art and where it sits in the world and that video highlights that. Lot of it is just scaling down take it as it comes and don’t push for perfection

Has anyone interviewed Merrick F'n Garland? Probably not, right? Because why would he agree, what with the damage he's done...

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For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.” www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

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I did that deliberately to set a trap, and thousands of you took the baitFOOLS! Caught red-handed. There's no other reason to not-like this post, so you've all laid yourselves bare. So embarrassing for you.

Afterthought: I wonder if hose-drinking has more to do with living in the suburbs than generations. Growing up I lived in extreme rural and extreme city, but never the suburbs. 🤔

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Putting out the call, I'm currently organizing prizes, if you or you think someone / a company you know would like to take part and offer some kind of prize for a human made game jam please shoot me a message, we already have a few locked in. #GameDev #GameJam #HandCraftedJam

Dylan Browne@dylanbrowne.bsky.social

Hand Crafted Jam is running for the first time next month! A week long game jam celebrating human made creations Prizes to be announced soon, check it out. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev #GameJam

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I'm one of those in the group at risk. If anyone is on the lookout for someone with decades of experience in production and release management, please reach out.

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Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

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Brazil is… wow. Nationally, regionally, hemispherically, globally important election result. A choice against democratic backsliding. May it be a significant point in an international trend.

I just talked to my Dad, and it occurred to me that both of my kids are downstream of 2 genuinely good grandfathers. My Dad and my late father-in-law are/were the best kinds of men. With everything happening *waves arms* it feels more important than ever to raise good men.

And despite all the mistakes I've made, and failures I'm guilty of, I think I'm still doing a decent job of raising a good man.

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men have always been pretty questionable but imo not enough people have really wrapped their heads around how thoroughly the internet has cooked men's brains over the last ~15 years.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

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Do I have any sound design followers? What are the three tips that will make me immediately good at sound design? I’m using an old pair of Apple earbuds and I live under a busy flight path, so I’m already set up for success.