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Nels Anderson

@nelsanderson.zone

Founded Sonderlust, helped design Firewatch, lead designer on Mark of the Ninja, and the only Canadian game developer born & raised in Wyoming. https://sonderlust.horse/

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I use Gemini when I'm bored β€” and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

11.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 5870 πŸ” 1034 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 127

We've been paying for Slack annually but holy shit, once this year ends, we're moving to a Mattermost self-hosted server so fast

10.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is "free" in the same way that someone giving you chlamydia is "free"

10.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You're dead right about the Renegade there pal (which I'm conforming here, cuz I ain't gonna be at GDC)

07.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, why would anyone agree to these interviews at this point? Do they not know who Chotiner is or do they think that they - unlike every other single person Chotiner has previously interviewed - are actually more clever than Chotiner or ... ???

05.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know if Sim is getting massively overcharged by Navigator for whatever they're doing on this or if he desperately needs to *start* paying Navigator, but either way, woof.

04.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

03.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1438 πŸ” 795 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 163

Hahaha, oh my GOD Nick

25.02.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another shot from my Mirror’s Edge-inspired scene.
I’ve updated the lighting and post-process to bring back a cooler blue tone while still maintaining the impression of bright sunlight.

23.02.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Gah, I figured! If somehow reminiscing how much I loved those god damn books reconnects long-dormant neurons in my brain and I can conjure something similar, I shall surface it.

22.02.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mysteries of the Unknown - Wikipedia

I'm 99% sure it's not this, but on the off-chance the specifics were different (or even if this leads you closer toward the right path), was it the Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteri...

22.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere

Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

22.02.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 3431 πŸ” 449 πŸ’¬ 247 πŸ“Œ 119

And I guess some people don't even get there after 40 years, EH SAMUEL??

21.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI is the β€œasbestos of the internet”

17.02.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 6170 πŸ” 2173 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 82
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The Killing Stone is OUT NOW in Early Access

πŸƒ Occult Card Battler
πŸ‘Ί 17th Century Occult Horror Mystery
πŸ“– Modern and 17th Century English
πŸŽ™οΈ Starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social

Can you beat the Devil at his own game?

store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/

18.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12

dudes rock

14.02.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Hahaha, jesus christ Tom

12.02.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"The ketamine addict told employees the factory would be powered by 'grinding up the bones of the shrivelled goatmen that live in tunnels below moon's polar mountains.' The Times has yet to verify this claim."

12.02.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, hell yes! This is absolutely going on the list.

11.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing finer than fabricating a smoke barfer with you, pal!

09.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is absolutely wild that Firewatch came out a decade ago today. I don't think any of us then could even get close to fathoming the ways it which it would resonate with people. I'm still unspeakably grateful to anyone who spent time in this (lightly fictional) corner of the place I grew up.

09.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Except for one robot, who is absolutely fucking dead

06.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hahaha, uhhhhhhhhhhhh

06.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's important to assume the CEO of Nexon is staggeringly full of shit, actually

06.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rotten Tomatoes page for Melania, with 11% from critics and 99% from, uh, audiences

Rotten Tomatoes page for Melania, with 11% from critics and 99% from, uh, audiences

Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall

01.02.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 4219 πŸ” 622 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 39
Protesters gather outside Hootsuite headquarters in response to contract with ICE
Protesters gather outside Hootsuite headquarters in response to contract with ICE YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

Hundreds of protesters in the pouring rain at Hootsuite headquarters in Vancouver over ICE contract youtu.be/ZeobfcYg18M?...

31.01.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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πŸ’ͺ

30.01.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And if there was any doubt that calling these people to the mat does indeed work, local billionaire and CryptKeeper cosplayer Jimmy Pattison and his company just pulled out of a pending deal to sell one of their warehouses in Virginia to ICE (who were going to, ya'know, turn it into a prison)

30.01.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1