Nicholas Abel

Unity Dev and VR interaction master!

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

I don't tweet often (read: ever), but like everyone else, I'm scanning the room, checking who left, and trying to decide if I can even pretend everything is the same.

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@WestSeaWx Thank God. The world needs you. Or at least Twitter does.

[Sam Blackman @drsam]

A very different view of Seattle when flying into @PaineField on @AlaskaAir. Downtown, Lake Union, and The Mountain! #iflyalaska #wawx @NWSSeattle

[Safely Endangered @EndangeredComic]

one of those days

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

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@sjnglim Haha! Sauced!

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

Congratulations @powerlanguish! I'm always see a personal project, the kind to which we give our valuable time, and share freely, rewarded with good karma. You deserve this!

New York Times Buys Wordle https://t.co/WeOrrhkDcE

[Cabel Sasser @cabel]

A quick thread about something I find interesting:

A specific visual aesthetic that is 100% lost to time.

It's just gone. Nobody cares about it. Nobody is replicating it for nostalgia. Most people don't even know how it was done.

Let's start with this video (via @stevesi)…

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@johntamny Or, could it be that an optimized and decentralized global economy has little ability to absorb systemic shock. A global economy is highly exposed to truly global disasters, like COVID. And redundancy and overstock is fat to be cut by classic business logic.

[NWS Seattle @NWSSeattle]

The storm track returns to Western Washington much of next week. The 1st system will arrive on Sunday with a 2nd on its heels for Monday. Unsettled conditions persist into Tuesday with snow levels dipping as low as 5000 feet. Stay tuned for additional details this weekend. #wawx

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@richgel999 I think Epic saw this as a way to buy customers, which seems to be the standard for neuveau-riche Epic. RAD is familiar, more than anything else. Maybe this gets Unreal in the door at orgs who currently roll their own legacy tech. We'll see what happens to current employees.

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@Osso_VR @GSRVentures @SignalFire @OCAVentures @ScrumVentures @vatortv Congrats to @jbhungry and all of Osso. Y'all deserve this. I know ;)

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@GailSimone Ageism is another huge issue. There are a lot of older men and women playing games, yet when was the last time you saw a playable badass grandma or grandpa. Again? Small minds at the top think kids can't handle having someone older than their parents in the character select.

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@GailSimone And that's to say nothing of the straight misogyny that remains rampant in the industry. At all levels.

[Nicholas Abel @n_abel]

@GailSimone This is my favorite tweet ever. I think it come down to respect and trust, neither of which corporate has for their audience. They're so damn scared of insulting what they think is their core demographics (needy boys with complexes I guess) that they willingly shut out women.

[Gail Simone 💙💛 @GailSimone]

I worked with three massive video game franchises in the past couple years where women working on them each individually told me their bosses were shocked and unprepared for the number of women and girls buying their games. Some expressed disbelief rather than delight.

[FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight]

This was not the first time that a group of Americans decided that winning an election was more important than maintaining a democracy. https://t.co/alBMnQ43je

[Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer]

I get the longing--I even share it--but the naivete is annoying. Online pundits should know (and factor in) that social media as a "public square" where "good faith debate" happens is a thing of the past. Disagreement here happens through trolling, sea-lioning, ratios, dunks.

[Access Fund @accessfund]

BREAKING: Access Fund Purchases Climbing Areas in Leavenworth!

https://t.co/qKpNJ5RFGV

[ken @aquariusacquah]

absolutely devastated after going down to pitch in at the capitol hill autonomous zone organizing tent only to find out the anarchist commune already has an L2 AWS cloud solutions engineer