Naomi Clark (暗悪直美) ❌
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Chair & faculty at https://t.co/UEdPv60PHj • Game Designer, textbook author, occasional drummer. Also Bsky: @halfrobot.com
ÜT: 40.581589, -73.896411
Joined March 2009
My 1-year old daughter, mixing everything on the breakfast table in one glass of water: Yum. Me, practicing Igor Parenting Method: Don’t worry young master... no one shall ever know what we’ve done here. They wouldn’t understand your brilliance! But you can trust Igor! Yes...
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with new AI-generated sprite sheets you also get the added benefit that all your characters become ambidextrous -- they're left-handed when facing right and right-handed when facing left!
Indie games are going to explode in 2026 📈 You don't need an art team anymore... Nano Banana Pro is just that good. Quick thread on making character & creature designs for games:
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Autonomous AI agents increasingly operate across multiple blockchains, yet most systems still struggle to reason across fragmented data, execution, and governance. OpenLedger’s partnership with @LayerZero_Core enables cross-chain–aware AI agents with verifiable execution and
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Just two words, Bill: standard deduction
.@ZohranKMamdani, congrats on the win. Now you have a big responsibility. If I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do.
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Republicans Should Be Afraid—Just Look at Who Joined No Kings Protests
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For days, Republicans have been claiming No Kings protesters are all agitators and terrorists. Well, America had a different message for them, and for their Dear Leader.
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Over 170 American citizens were dragged off and held by U.S. Immigration Agents Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds — ProPublica
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The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And...
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More than 730,000 trucking companies are operating on U.S. roads. But 647,000 don’t have a federal safety rating. And these unrated carriers are involved in 84% of large truck crashes. In other words, trucks operated by unrated carriers are 9 times more likely to be involved in a
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A huge portion of crime in Japan ends in community service and being made to feel really bad. It's not even comparable
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Tough on crime? Japan has strict gun control w/ close to 0% gun owners, 1/3 the incarceration rate of US, and drops prosecution for 55% of charges, ~2x a typical US rate. Signed, married w/children in a dense urban neighb with great schools & parks, zero crime run-ins for years
1) Some of us like suburban living because we are married with children and not single gay males 2) If you want people to live in dense urban neighborhoods like the Japanese you need to be as tough on crime as the Japanese and as restrictive about immigration as the Japanese
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someone please choose the right moment to tell Geraldo about the Prophets
Whether Tyler Robinson faces a firing squad in Utah for the murder of Charlie Kirk, my guess is the accused killer will probably have been motivated more by Halo and similar fantasy role-play than by substantive political discord. The game features Grunts vs Elites. I’m guessing
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Since things are supposedly so awful in this city, who's in charge in NYC at the moment anyways? Surely not a mayor who declared this summer and last summer "NYC's summer of games" and funded a big city-sponsored Valorant and Minecraft tournament, that'd be ridiculous
I’m sure a scavenger hunt was fun for the people with nothing better to do. Ask our working families trying to do whatever they can to survive if they participated. Ask the people worried about making rent if they thought it was worth it. Mamdani is trying to turn our city into
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Just Published a New Year's Gratitude Journal-- But mine is really different than others and you should look at how mine is and see if you prefer my style, because I didn't ask a lot of questions for you to answer (prompts) or anything like that. Mine is fast and easy and
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After reading a multitude of studies by highly respected sources and researchers, including the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medicine, which have shown that actively practicing gratitude--and a large...
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Almost as if being intensely partisan online in a performative way (which, let me be clear, is a very different thing from holding and supporting clear values, fighting in other ways, etc) has a built-in narrative arc prone to melodramatic heel/face turns
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I’m sure there’s literature on this? In the last decade it seems like those who’re militantly, ferociously “anti-anti-” to the extent of constant online-battling are more likely to get a psychological bit flipped, have conversion experience & radicalize in the opposite direction
It's really important to understand how quickly online radicalisation works on vulnerable people: Jan: TERFism is a cult Apr: (Being trans is) not a cult, that's dumb. May: I don't support a cult. (note the subtle difference) Jun: Feel like I'm leaving a cult. 6 months. 1/
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At the @NYUGameCenter we’re about to start streaming a talk about BURNING DOWN GAMES from Karina Popp! I’m excited, not least because Karina is hyper-intelligent about games; if you are interested in BURNING DOWN GAMES you should tune in at https://t.co/IIcggEsjdx ASAP!
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The NYU Game Center is the game design department at New York University.
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Please do not announce and give out awards for "Excellence in Game Design" while acting like nobody is doing the game design, @originsgames
Disappointing that the listing of the @originsgames Awards finalists (for "Excellence in Game Design") does not mention the game designers. We requested that they include that last year, but the omissions continues. https://t.co/gSupgGens5
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Today, @NYCMayor instructed his top officials not to criticize Donald Trump. And now we know why. Instead of standing up for New Yorkers, Mayor Adams is standing up for precisely one person—and that’s himself. New Yorkers deserve better.
The Justice Department is dropping federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to a memo obtained by CNN
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Captain America also says: don't let America be captured by corporate oligarchs. (same issue)
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Captain America says: don't break international law by invading Panama. (August 1990)
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This is not only appalling - it’s actually embarrassing to see our university leadership get played so easily. “Screenshots shared with The Intercept show Rand boasting of her group’s sway on NYU and its president, Linda Mills.”
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The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.
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I'm kvelling here, big congrats @q_dork @solimporta @mutmedia and I only regret that now you must NUOVO-DESTROY EACH OTHER (actually I understand this is a very cordial and supportive mutual destruction)
#IGF2025 Finalists: Nuovo Award Consume Me (@q_dork) Despelote (@despelotegame) Extreme Evolution:... (@TheSpaceHole) Ginger individualism in the dead-internet age:... (@alienmelon) Starship Home (@Starship_Home) tapeçaria (tapestry) (@mutmedia) The Exit 8 (@playismen)
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*600 miles below the crust *buried crypt door creaks open* *withered hand emerges and discards a full hand* SEPULCHURAL VOICE: … game … design … game design!
Good graphics used to be *difficult* (on the technical side) and as such were often a decent proxy measure for a game's quality, a sign a game was properly funded and had lots of talent working on it. That's not really the case anymore, and people have been realizing that
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The modern job hunt is broken, a mountain of disingenuous listings and low-signal roles. Pranav focused on high-quality opportunities, landing an AI role at a top-tier unicorn. Built for engineers who build, Fonzi delivers upfront salary transparency and ghost-free interviews.
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icymi we put out Caves of Qud 1.0 yesterday https://t.co/ST21FTUy2y
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Caves of Qud is a Hugo Award-winning science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers...
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