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Philip Bak

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Decades in video games, still not in witness protection. Programmer | Now: Fortnite @ Epic Games | Then: Ripstone, Niine Games, Deep Red, Argonaut, Gremlin, Sony Playstation, Vectordean.

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Mon Mothma from Star Wars

Mon Mothma from Star Wars

Mon Mothma from Star Wars X wing

Mon Mothma from Star Wars X wing

Mon Mothma in Star Wars Dark Forces

Mon Mothma in Star Wars Dark Forces

Mon Mothma in Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith

Mon Mothma in Star Wars Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith

30+ years of Star Wars games has conditioned me to believe that Mon Mothma only exists at this angle.

02.11.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s great to see this game is still celebrated. Way ahead of its time.

12.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

08.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 5432 πŸ” 936 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 0

Bit far fetched but it’s pretty good.

07.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and he thought it was a good idea asking Christopher Nolan to make it!

06.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine how good he’d be with a nice wet piano.

06.03.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

oh that is awesome, well deserved! congrats @ocornut.bsky.social

06.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Where the Prompts Have No Shame
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Slopping For
Sunday Buggy Sunday
With or Without Unit Tests
Mysterious Bays (Of S3)
The Unforgettable File
Stuck in a Jira You Can’t Get Out Of
With or Without YouTube
Pride (In the Name of Slop)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, CL Me

05.03.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible actress)
@rebeccaferguson.com

This is actress Rebecca Ferguson, the real one and not a scam. Accept my private message request.

why on earth would you message me if you were real

I need you to watch my movies.

the scam is just messaging individual people to watch rebecca ferguson movies?

I have been a fan of yours ever since I read a post about how you sneezed so hard the yellow acorn flew off your penis shaft.
In Dune 2 I played the powerful mother of a thin desert boy.

Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible actress) @rebeccaferguson.com This is actress Rebecca Ferguson, the real one and not a scam. Accept my private message request. why on earth would you message me if you were real I need you to watch my movies. the scam is just messaging individual people to watch rebecca ferguson movies? I have been a fan of yours ever since I read a post about how you sneezed so hard the yellow acorn flew off your penis shaft. In Dune 2 I played the powerful mother of a thin desert boy.

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice."
"Real media access is still only on Twitter."
"No one important uses or will ever use this site."

Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

26.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 10109 πŸ” 2250 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 64

Was a computer programmer as a student and helped a big company produce a hugely successful ZX Spectrum game - for a laugh managed to put a pixelated cock in one of the backgrounds and it has NEVER been noticed.

25.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 222 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8
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I remember marveling at changing this blob pixel shader (tens of thousands drawn each frame) from rendering the blob texture to rendering it with maths and it sped things up.

GPUs are fast. Accessing memory is slow.

Oh and I admit it when I'm copying stuff out of stack overflow.

25.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hahaha more 3am code. These function names would never pass review on Fortnite :)

25.02.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm still bitter my first submission failure was for doing no profanity checks on my 3 letter high score names. Growing up some of the most creative moments as a player was coming up with ways of swearing in 3 letters.

This was written at 3am in 5 minutes.

It even caught BUM and rejected it.

25.02.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I pulled up 60,000 lines of code for Bezier during my Epic interviews. "This is me. The good and the bad. Name a system and let's go take a look at it."

(this Main.cpp is the tidy bit haha)

25.02.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Most game programmers I know have bounced around back and forth between the two.

AAA == Indies. And code is code.

25.02.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a great book.

24.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Return To Genesis was the first smooth side scrolling game on the AtariST, but 2 weeks before it shipped, my dad got a demo through the post that did the same (albeit less bit planes), so he never wanted the credit.

Silly as it was 88, with no internet, so neither coder would've seen the other etc.

24.02.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I found quietly heartwarming was the two-way admiration between games programmers & demosceners.

Gamedevs in awe of the sheer wizardry with limited hardware.

Demosceners, seemed to understand that a game is more than a trick or a flourish, it’s relentless work, and respected that graft.

24.02.2026 10:16 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

my initial reaction was to roll my eyes because green cross always means dispensary around here but then I realized this was europe and this is probably part of a jobs program for retired demosceners

24.02.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.

"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren’t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don’t say that, but that’s what’s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night."

gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

23.02.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 790 πŸ” 234 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 74

This is exactly what marketing yourself on social media feels like, actually.

23.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 760 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if you can fall down the stairs then you've got the drum track sorted already

23.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When my dad passed in 2019 Phil was the only C-Suite voice to send out condolences. He played dad's stuff on the Atari ST growing up.

Always had a soft spot for him after that. And the fact we're both cursed with the same forename.

23.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

22.02.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 6926 πŸ” 2269 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 415
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Guys being Dudes

21.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 7729 πŸ” 1851 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 243

Still boils my piss that the final installment of First Blood wasn't called Rambo Number 5.

21.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky is full of sick freaks in the best possible way

21.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting for coders. And Matt is always a treasure to listen to for all things programming.

It's been an eye-opener this year joining Epic where I've had to quickly pick up parts of C++ I've never used before. Confused at first, but after a few laps, wondering how I ever survived without it.

19.02.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me:

"The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

18.02.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 2154 πŸ” 833 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 14