Jack Shirai

Jack Shirai

@yourgmjack.itch.io

Game developer. Canucks enthusiast. Canadian in retrograde. Living in the space between the beauty and the pain. He/him. Games and more over at https://yourgmjack.itch.io/.

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heading into the kitchen to salt and preserve the latest "rip bozo" so it can sustain me through any lean times in the future

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I wolde smyte my lord out on thre piches. Slider withoute. He feleth as he were drenchid. Curveball in the erthe, of cours he chaseth it. Ladybird y-souk, sle thy-self. And bang 97 withinne corner. Thou art out. Thou were alweyes out. Thou hast be out sith the day that thou were born.

Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social

Not a bad baseball stance. From the 14th-century Le Roman de la Rose.

Since folks are posting fun #OVER/UNDER memories, here's the certificate I got for officially being the third-best hacker on the Dream.

As a non-driver, something about the motion required to engage your ramjet in Galactic Racer really captures my fantasy of what upshifting at high speed would feel like. Between that and having a Slay The Spire map that I didn't immediately hate, the game is a hell of an achievement.

this is legit good, but for some reason it suddenly made me sad that we've never got a knopfler version of private dancer, either with him singing or tina

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“Important” tweets? Milkshake Duck Torment Nexus Leopards Eating People's Faces Someone Good At The Economy Please Help Me Tweets that have most infected my vocab? Torment Nexus Charlie Brown Had Hoes Looks Like He Brought a Bag Lunch, Smart ”Not Involved in Human Trafficking" Shirt

My Pun Killed Steve Albini@texannolongerinnyc.bsky.social

What would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets? (Mount Rushmore means 4. Do not be a coward and hedge by saying more than 4. Make a decision. (Less than 4 is fine though))

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Florence@justflorence.bsky.social

Went to an arcade in Halifax that had a framed portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto looking like he's about to be at the center of a murder mystery in the pacific northwest

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Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

i can’t believe this is how i learned how stoppage time actually works

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it"

Yeah, ultimately I just want you to play (and hopefully enjoy!) what I make. Most of my digital output is free and/or massively multiplayer stuff, but as far my tabletop designs go, if there aren't community copies readily available, just reach out and I will set you up. We're in this together.

David Szymanski@duskdev.bsky.social

My stance on piracy has remained consistent over my entire career: I'd prefer if you paid money for my games, but if that's not going to happen for whatever reason, I'd rather you pirate one of my games vs never playing it.

having a mini-existential crisis this morning after realizing that my ability to condense a large text into a smaller summary tailored for particular audiences, one that i'm proud of and have spent years honing, is maybe A Part Of The Problem

a mini-crisis, of course, i don't really believe that my being able to quickly learn how to play a board game from the manual and then turn around and teach the other players is the cause of society's ails but it COULD be

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i went to costco for the first time last weekend. membership fee is $65 a year. but a hot dog + soda combo is $1.50. if you assume a hot dog + soda elsewhere is like $3.50, that's $2 in savings. so if i eat a hot dog + soda at costco 33 times a year i break even. now if i eat there 300 times a year,

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People are so hungry for cool weird original things and we would have an endless buffet if people had any kind of stability to work from. Its so frustrating that there maybe 10 guys holding back what could be an insane artistic, cultural, and economic renaissance and we get nothing in return

I'm a pretty big "I don't think Marathon needs PvP and/or prox chat to be fun" guy, but I _did_ just have one of those Rook runs where a crew that's wiped the map downs you, picks you back up, and then adopts you, and that was kinda cute and fun. 😅