Andy Vatter
@andyvatter.bsky.social
Senior Designer II (previously Lead Designer) at Squanch Games, makes a bunch of other stuff too, you get it
She/her to you, bub
She/her to you, bub
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Andy Vatter
@andyvatter.bsky.social
· Nov 23
they did it. the maniacs really did it.
(we're watching @discotekmedia.bsky.social's herculean accomplishment)
(we're watching @discotekmedia.bsky.social's herculean accomplishment)
i was maybe. maybe. too young to be seeing this in theaters
frankly it was a tough time pulling up this image
frankly it was a tough time pulling up this image
October 5, 2026 at 5:36 AM
i was maybe. maybe. too young to be seeing this in theaters
frankly it was a tough time pulling up this image
frankly it was a tough time pulling up this image
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A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
October 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
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AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.”
NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.”
AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.”
AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
October 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.”
NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.”
AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.”
AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
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Instead of dethroning Scar, Simba should focus on succession reform
October 5, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Instead of dethroning Scar, Simba should focus on succession reform
look i know my immune system is going through A Lot when i get the combo vaccine but i do wish it made my bones hurt a little less
October 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
look i know my immune system is going through A Lot when i get the combo vaccine but i do wish it made my bones hurt a little less
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We can finally enjoy Super Mario Kart SNES in full glory! 🥹
It's not perfect (yet) as you can see but already playable on real SNES hardware.
www.romhacking.net/hacks/10083/
It's not perfect (yet) as you can see but already playable on real SNES hardware.
www.romhacking.net/hacks/10083/
October 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
We can finally enjoy Super Mario Kart SNES in full glory! 🥹
It's not perfect (yet) as you can see but already playable on real SNES hardware.
www.romhacking.net/hacks/10083/
It's not perfect (yet) as you can see but already playable on real SNES hardware.
www.romhacking.net/hacks/10083/
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Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
October 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
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If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
October 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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I Have No Mouth is hiring an Isometric Sprite Artist for ProjectTideTactics, a JRPG with Breath of Fire IV vibes!
🛰️ Remote, Contract
🎨 Isometric tile, enemy & environment art
⏳ 3 months, Part-time
⤵️
🛰️ Remote, Contract
🎨 Isometric tile, enemy & environment art
⏳ 3 months, Part-time
⤵️
I Have No Mouth is hiring a Isometric Sprite Artist
We are looking for an experienced Isometric Sprite Artist to create assets for a strategy-lite JRPG.
workwithindies.com
September 29, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I Have No Mouth is hiring an Isometric Sprite Artist for ProjectTideTactics, a JRPG with Breath of Fire IV vibes!
🛰️ Remote, Contract
🎨 Isometric tile, enemy & environment art
⏳ 3 months, Part-time
⤵️
🛰️ Remote, Contract
🎨 Isometric tile, enemy & environment art
⏳ 3 months, Part-time
⤵️
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Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse:
archive.org/details/tipp...
archive.org/details/tipp...
October 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse:
archive.org/details/tipp...
archive.org/details/tipp...
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When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now.
“More than any other digital service, my email is a window into my brain. Now Meta has it. If that's not enough, Muse also suggested I give it my bank accounts. No thanks. I didn't let the AI run wild on my computer hard drive, either.”
'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying
Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.
www.bbc.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now.
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Hello!
I am actively looking for freelance and commission work
If you need/know someone who is looking for a Illustrator, Game Artist or Concept Artist
Get in touch!☺️
💼 Portfolio : lnkd.in/etuTq3QP
#lookingforwork #gameartist #visualdevelopmentartist #gamedev #artistlookingforwork #conceptart
I am actively looking for freelance and commission work
If you need/know someone who is looking for a Illustrator, Game Artist or Concept Artist
Get in touch!☺️
💼 Portfolio : lnkd.in/etuTq3QP
#lookingforwork #gameartist #visualdevelopmentartist #gamedev #artistlookingforwork #conceptart
September 30, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Hello!
I am actively looking for freelance and commission work
If you need/know someone who is looking for a Illustrator, Game Artist or Concept Artist
Get in touch!☺️
💼 Portfolio : lnkd.in/etuTq3QP
#lookingforwork #gameartist #visualdevelopmentartist #gamedev #artistlookingforwork #conceptart
I am actively looking for freelance and commission work
If you need/know someone who is looking for a Illustrator, Game Artist or Concept Artist
Get in touch!☺️
💼 Portfolio : lnkd.in/etuTq3QP
#lookingforwork #gameartist #visualdevelopmentartist #gamedev #artistlookingforwork #conceptart
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the chad neon
Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it’s making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively reached out to the SCP Foundation Wiki team and has pledged to release it under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.
Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie
The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year.
www.theverge.com
September 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
the chad neon
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People forget that being smart is a superpower in warfare and plenty of drugged up roided up meatheads got dog walked by someone with half their body weight who was using their head.
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math."
At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
October 1, 2026 at 12:49 AM
People forget that being smart is a superpower in warfare and plenty of drugged up roided up meatheads got dog walked by someone with half their body weight who was using their head.
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Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
futurism.com
October 1, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
i haven't followed wrestling since before wcw went under, so i don't know who anyone is, and even still this got me emotional
Everyone expected Ricochet to be the one to do it because Will has expressed shooting star presses are impossible with his neck now. The fact that he did it and it was difficult for him makes it mean even more.
will hitting the black arrow is so fucking beautiful
October 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
i haven't followed wrestling since before wcw went under, so i don't know who anyone is, and even still this got me emotional
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Managed to hunt down two photos of the kitbashed model built by Jim Bowers as reference for the original WipEout game, sometime around 1993 or 1994.
You can see the logos on it are harvested from other kits- Toyota and Buick logos, USAF roundels, and more that I'm sure someone else could ID
You can see the logos on it are harvested from other kits- Toyota and Buick logos, USAF roundels, and more that I'm sure someone else could ID
October 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Managed to hunt down two photos of the kitbashed model built by Jim Bowers as reference for the original WipEout game, sometime around 1993 or 1994.
You can see the logos on it are harvested from other kits- Toyota and Buick logos, USAF roundels, and more that I'm sure someone else could ID
You can see the logos on it are harvested from other kits- Toyota and Buick logos, USAF roundels, and more that I'm sure someone else could ID
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BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
September 30, 2026 at 3:52 AM
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Also we already have a straight hockey show.
From the OTHER creator of Letterkenny
From the OTHER creator of Letterkenny
September 29, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Also we already have a straight hockey show.
From the OTHER creator of Letterkenny
From the OTHER creator of Letterkenny
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How do you know what kind of RPG you're making? Well...
1. Do your players need to return to town mid-dungeon-delve because they ran out of resources and need to heal + sell?
2. When they do, do they hate your guts or are they taking it in stride because it's the core loop? xD
1. Do your players need to return to town mid-dungeon-delve because they ran out of resources and need to heal + sell?
2. When they do, do they hate your guts or are they taking it in stride because it's the core loop? xD
September 29, 2026 at 1:04 AM
How do you know what kind of RPG you're making? Well...
1. Do your players need to return to town mid-dungeon-delve because they ran out of resources and need to heal + sell?
2. When they do, do they hate your guts or are they taking it in stride because it's the core loop? xD
1. Do your players need to return to town mid-dungeon-delve because they ran out of resources and need to heal + sell?
2. When they do, do they hate your guts or are they taking it in stride because it's the core loop? xD
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Game design meme for me and maybe three other people on this site.
September 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Game design meme for me and maybe three other people on this site.
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oh cool, magic race science and blood purity made the leap from harry potter to practical magic
this is why midichlorians suck, and every other form of genetic woo replacing hippie vibes based energy of the universe superpowers. yeah family curses and bloodlines and stuff but not that!
this is why midichlorians suck, and every other form of genetic woo replacing hippie vibes based energy of the universe superpowers. yeah family curses and bloodlines and stuff but not that!
In Practical Magic, there was a little witch in every woman, and the PTA phone tree could produce an impromptu coven. In the DNA-obsessed sequel (Pace’s character even insists magic is in the RNA! I am not overstating the case!), most of us are NPCs who are welcome to buy the merch.
“I would warn you that there will be spoilers,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the new film Practical Magic 2, “but there doesn’t seem to be much point as the sequel retells the same story as the original.”
wildhunt.org/2026/09/nost...
#pagan #witchcraft #practicalmagic2 #nostalgia #filmreview
wildhunt.org/2026/09/nost...
#pagan #witchcraft #practicalmagic2 #nostalgia #filmreview
September 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
oh cool, magic race science and blood purity made the leap from harry potter to practical magic
this is why midichlorians suck, and every other form of genetic woo replacing hippie vibes based energy of the universe superpowers. yeah family curses and bloodlines and stuff but not that!
this is why midichlorians suck, and every other form of genetic woo replacing hippie vibes based energy of the universe superpowers. yeah family curses and bloodlines and stuff but not that!
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Strange Scaffold remains unbeaten in the "Synopsis That Makes You Go Holy Shit I Need To Play That" stakes.
WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY
WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY
store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY
store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
September 28, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Strange Scaffold remains unbeaten in the "Synopsis That Makes You Go Holy Shit I Need To Play That" stakes.
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Yup! @strangescaffold.bsky.social remains a proudly anti-AI studio.
Finally, a library sort game that doesn't have an AI disclosure.
September 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Yup! @strangescaffold.bsky.social remains a proudly anti-AI studio.