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Jan 26 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
i've tweeted about it a fair bit already, but i modeled & textured almost every object in "i don't think i've walked this stretch of road before" in #crocotile3d, an exceedingly rad #lowpoly, tile-based 3D design tool by @SpectreSkully

#GameMaker #gamedev
coming from a 2d #pixelart context, constructing volumes *from* tiles was remarkably accessible. as i got a lil more comfortable, distorting & dividing geometry & watching the ensuing texture chaos was a great way to learn more about uvs, etc
even without any conscious focus on optimization, i find that crocotile constantly encourages me to be thoughtful & sparing with color & form, & to squeeze use & value out of the same tiny tiles over & over

#indiedev #pixelart #aseprite
it's also painless to pass image/objects/etc between & to aseprite/blender, so i was able to integrate those tools as needed (for ease of drawing & more complex/granular rotations). it's just such fucking good software! pls check it out if you havent

#3dmodeling #lofi #nobudget
&, on the off-chance you wanna see these lil guys lit up pretty & bathed in dither-fog, you can play the game on jan 31st!

store.steampowered.com/app/1874200/I_… (steam)

ottomaddox.itch.io/dontthinkive (@itchio)

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Jan 27
a very good morning to all CAAT-A college faculty!

& an absolutely terrible morning to whoever put together this trash fire of corporate lies for the CEC! Image
i...can't even believe someone wrote these bullet points with a straight face

hey CEC, let me fix ALL of these for you:
you say

"Labour stability and certainty."

but you mean

"The certainty of management blitzing past the bargaining table, imposing unilateral terms & conditions, then forcing a vote on an offer union membership has already rejected."
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Jan 20
one of the common reservations i've heard about supporting continued labor action against ontario college management is that the terms of the CEC's upcoming "offer of settlement" (read: forced offer vote) don't seem *that bad*

let's dig into this a little:
without wanting to restate the obvious, the most fundamental issue here is that this "offer" was NOT obtained through bargaining;

it was unilaterally drafted by a corporate management body that has repeatedly refused compromise on ANY key issue raised by faculty union reps
if you have any stake whatsoever in labor rights (& frankly, if you're a working person, you should), it's important to understand what a terrible precedent this sets

the whole *point* of a union is to give employees a strong voice in shaping their working conditions
Read 20 tweets
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Jan 19
i don't want celebrities talking to me about mental health. they're figureheads of capitalism & individualism. they cannot, by definition, care about the collective good. i want my friends & family & neighbors & colleagues talking to me about mental health -- theirs, mine, ours.
i completely appreciate that rich powerful people also have emotional struggles; i hope they can find support where it makes sense for them. but i have no interest in the paper thin care discourses of millionaires whose public image is a celebration of the unattainable
we don't need pop culture to model or make visible things that thousands of brilliant, dedicated people with far less social power have been teaching us (often at a great cost to themselves) forever;
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Jan 17
well, the CEC has gone and played the last, crumpled, worthless card in their bag of union-busting tricks: a forced offer vote

surprising absolutely no one, it's empty of compromise, self-satisfied in all the wrong ways, & extremely dangerous to faculty, students, & colleges
some colleges have already sent the "offer of settlement" to their employees (clotting up institutional channels as usual, as if management's communiques are simply statements of fact and not CEC propaganda)

if you haven't seen it:

collegeemployercouncil.ca/en/bargaining/…
perhaps the most important thing to state up front is that this is neither an OFFER nor a SETTLEMENT

it is an ESCALATION of the unilateral Terms & Conditions imposed in december; the final blitz of the CEC's attempts to bypass CAAT-A, fair bargaining, & faculty labor rights
Read 14 tweets
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Nov 28, 2021
apparently the CEC felt the need to blast college faculty with a weekend email full of the same chest-puffing truth-distortion that is rapidly becoming their exclusive brand

why are they so determined to bypass the bargaining table? why won't they negotiate in good faith?
the CEC is no longer maintaining even a pretense of negotiation. their only tactic at this point is to suggest that if CAAT-A is fully confident in their proposals, they should be willing to risk everything in a win-lose vote with the arbitrator
the real message here is that the CEC is so determined to have it *all their way*, they would rather face off in an all-or-nothing duel with CAAT-A than *do their jobs* and reach towards a compromise that college faculty & students deserve
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Nov 27, 2021
this isn’t open & honest, it’s just more meritocratic mythmaking that sidesteps all the other structural prejudice & bottom-line thinking that pushes people out of these spaces before they even get started
maybe, MAYBE if you’re speaking in purely technical terms, it’s worth having a conversation about skill-level expectations, but it’s impossible to separate these from the economic & cultural conditions these industries are premised on
this thread basically comes down to “if i, a person who looks like the default dominant person in these spaces, deems your work lacking, this is an objective deficiency on your end which can only be made up for with more unpaid labor”
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