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Canada based gamedev making a Tower Defence/Deckbuilder: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3778320/Bear_Defence_Situation/ It would help a lot if you wishlist it! I stream development of it here: https://twitch.tv/earend he/him

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6 blue rock monsters are walking along a dirt path on a grass island, until the player pauses the game. The player selects two cards, a pair of aces, and a tower build menu appears. The player chooses to play the ballista tower, and puts it on the map, in a corner of the dirt path near a few of the monsters. The player holds the X button, and the button border wipes out, but also the tower's range indicator, previously green, fills with a vibrant orange. Once the button has been held long enough, the player unpauses the game and the tower explodes, killing all enemies in range. The player repeats this process with the remaining enemies in another corner further down the path, but this time without pausing the game.
A post from gamebrief.bsky.social. It reads, "objects that refuse to delete themselves is a classic. is it a reference issue keeping them alive or something holding the object in a collection you forgot about?"
The two buttons meme. The first button says "Well edited and review ai code," the second button says "Habitable earth"
Icon for "Spare Battery." It looks like a 9-volt battery with a glowing green charge meter and a glowing icon of a bear head in a circle, made in Blender
it's the goose chasing meme. In the top panel where the goose looks suspicious, it says, "why's there a shortage?" and in the bottom panel where the goose is chasing it says, "why's there a shortage, motherfucker?"
A screenshot modifier from my game, Bear Defence Situation. It's called Pride Flag, and the icon is the LGBTQ+ pride flag. The description of the modifier is: Towers gain 3x damage when built without playing a straight. Straight flushes are bi, it's ok
I have sliced the banana bread. A big chonky slice has been cut off the end of the loaf revealing a bunch of chocolate chips inside
A loaf of banana bread fresh out of the oven. It's covered in chocolate chips
A screenshot of a new modifier from my game, Bear Defence Situation. The modifier is called Bi Flag and it adds a new type of hand called Disaster. A Disaster can be played with any cards. All played cards are scored. The icon for the modifier is, of course, the bisexual pride flag
My squat rack set up in the garage with about 315lbs on it. I have to do sets of 8 which is gross but I will do it
A selfie of a ginger man with long wavy hair and a beard. He's just standing in a hallway, there was no reason to take this picture except to practice taking them
A wave of blue rocky enemies (called ice golems) are walking along a dirt path on a grassy island. As they pass a tower with a big crossbow on top, they are shot at, but also a bright spherical shape quickly emits from the tower, hitting several of the golems at once.
A screenshot of a Windows setting that uses ai to try to improve your typing (the setting has correctly been set to off)
4 examples of the elemental effects that can be applied to the cards in my game, Bear Defence Situation. All of the effects are applied to the card "10 of Earth" (I use elements for suits instead of traditional playing card suits) The first effect is called grounded, and the entire card looks like grey/brown sandstone. The second is called burning, and the bottom of the card is lit up with a bright orange flame The third is called wind sheared, and flowing green wave is constantly passing over the middle of the card The fourth is called frozen, and the top of the card is covered in angular blue ice shards
A newly re-setup squat rack in a cluttered garage. You can't see it but the squat rack is happy
A black and white cat is sleeping on top of a cat tree. She has completely face planted. Just face straight down on that cat tree, absolutely passed out
A mockup of my definitely real upcoming social media site, featuring a post by AJ Gala. She drew a picture of femme Jar Jar and then said "I can't believe I did this for ten dollars. why did I do this." The post has received 2.1k horses. Is that good?
A scene from my still in development game, Bear Defence Situation. A grassy island with a dirt path connecting a portal and a cave. Red stone golems are walking along the path in single file, being shot at by towers with large crossbows on top. There is a random selection of playing cards at the bottom of the screen. The suits are replaced with elemental icons (earth, wind, water, and fire) and the fire cards appear to be burning. This is a new feature that I'm working on, where boss waves will do bad things to your cards.
A video of the literal Unity AI announcement video spinning and falling through the sky until it lands in a trashcan, where it belongs
The top two panels from KC Green's this is fine comic. The first panels is a little orange dog wearing a hat, sitting at the table in a burning room. The second panel is a close up of their smiling face saying "this is fine"
Tuxedo Mask saying "My job here is done" to Sailor Moon, who responds "But you didn't do anything" before he swoops off dramatically. I didn't even edit this one. This is just what copilot is like now I guess lol
The meme where a person believes the computer is alive because they tell it to say so AND IT DOES. It's edited to say "say I am CEO." The computer responds, "I AM CREATING VALUE." The person reacts by saying "oh my *picture of line going up*"
A box of Jane's pub style chicken wings, containing 9 wings total. The fine print on the box says "product shown larger than actual size", but there are at least 10 god damn wings in that picture
A two panel meme of Bilbo looking at the ring and thinking of keeping it. It's edited to say: Top: after all, why not? Bottom: why shouldn't I creep it?
This is the date selection control on the website that BMO gives you to pay your business's GST online. If you click the < button, which surely means previous, it takes you to some point in the past! What point? It gives you the following dates: Dec 2025 Nov 2025 ok cool makes sense Sep 2025 hey I think you missed halloween I love halloween May 2025 ok what the Sep 2024 does it just really like september or like May 2023 ok I guess May is ok too Sep 2020 ok but why 2020 this time 2020 sucked May 2015 there might be some penalties if I'm trying to pay for 2015 Sep 2004 this website kinda looks like it came from 2004 Jan 1991 this was the beginning of time my account number is behind this calendar please don't look
The Titanic band meme. Top text (picture of Titanic sinking) says Washington Hilton. Bottom text (band playing) says opening the wine during an attempted shooting
The Scooby Doo unmasking meme. The top text (mask on) is "an apology" and the bottom text (mask off) is "a sales pitch for more surveillance"
This is how the banana bread turned out. The crust is nice and crisp and it's soft and chocolatey inside, not too sweet. I will not actually mail you banana bread I'm sorry everything is a scam now
The loaf on a cooling rack because I was able to remove it from the pan after all I was just being dramatic
A cooked loaf of banana bread in a loaf pan because it is stuck there because I am bad at baking
A loaf pan full of banana bread batter, ready to go in the oven. Maybe never ready to come out. I forgot to grease it.
A bunch of chocolate chips on top of soon to be banana bread
One big mixing bowl full of wet banana stuff, one smaller mixing bowl full of dry banana stuff. Together they will become Captain Planet.
Three mashed bananas in a white ceramic bowl. It's the same bowl as the last picture. They didn't really fit well in this bowl but I did it anyway
Two beaten eggs in a white ceramic bowl. They are very sad they will never make video games.
A bowl full of grated butter, which is much easier to mix than not grated butter. A crochet owl teapot cover is peeking over the bowl like a fucking creeper
A very short video of me showing a couple waves in my tower defence game, Bear Defence Situation. I'm starting to work on adding sounds to the game and for this video I made sounds for the towers shooting enemies with my mouth. I hate how much I don't hate it. There are laser sounds, a lightning crash, some small percussive hits, a fireball hitting that really just sounds like a snare drum, and a more wooshy hit for the ballista tower. the enemies featured are skeletons and stone golems. The skeletons say "ow my bones" when they die, and the golems say "ow my stones"
Obi-wan saying "I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if 310,000 voices were dropped in a pool and suddenly silenced"
a screenshot of the bsky profile page for @why.bsky.team, who has blocked me (and probably you), because I dislike ai
the "my body is a machine that turns x into y meme" but it says "my website is a bad website that turns *unloaded image* into *unloaded image*"
the Simpsons meme where a crowd of people in the doorway to Homer's workstation are waiting for him to do something stupid. Top text: GET READY EVERYONE Bottom text: HE'S ABOUT TO LAUNCH SOMETHING STUPID the glasses from the snapchat smart glasses announcement are crudely photoshopped on to Homer's face
A screenshot from steam showing the number of outstanding wishes on my game. It's 420 and today is 4/20 everything is fake I'm so outta here
the title screen for my game, Bear Defence Situation. There is a little brown bear in a cave sleeping on a cozy bed with a red blanket and pillow waiting for the game to start.
An excerpt from an article about Carney's budget last year, pertaining to funding for public AI initiatives: Budget 2025, tabled Tuesday afternoon by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, provides $925.6 million to support “sovereign public AI infrastructure.” “This will help businesses seize the opportunities from AI, creating new jobs and economic growth,” states the budget document, by boosting AI computing availability and supporting access for public and private research. Article here: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carneys-budget-reveals-925-6-004125158.html
The bike meme where someone is riding along but puts a stick in their own wheel and ends up falling The stages are Riding: vibecoding my website Stick: function that does 10000 times more lookups than I thought Fall: this is a very sophisticated ddos attack
a video of me giving a short overview of my game Bear Defence Situation. It's a tower defence/deckbuilder and you build towers by playing poker hands. Here's what I say in the video: I'm a solodev making an indie game with no ai I hate that shit and if you liked balatro but you think balatro clones are embarassing I got something for you it's a deckbuilder, with poker but the twist is that you're playing hands to build towers cause it's also an elemental themed tower defence game and what do you defence? it's this bear you can pet the bear and you can collect hats for the bear like party hat! or viking hat! or shark hat! there's actually a lot of these and I should probably get back to work because
It's the goose chasing meme The top panel with the skeptical looking goose says "famous for what?" The bottom panel where the goose is chasing someone says "famous for what, motherfucker"
A bearded ginger man explains the making of a new hat (3d art asset) It's a goose head made in blender with a beak that can open, eyes that can blink, and a neck that can wave around The behaviour is set up in godot, including the ability to honk, and then the head is attached to the head of a bear Then many of them are attached to the bear's head, until it resembles the snakes of Medusa
A video of a hat I made for the main character of my game (a small brown bear) today it's a bunch of white goose necks attached to bear's head as if they were the snakes on Medusa's head. They have yellow bills that open and say honk, blinking black eyes, and they are all moving around
A very short video of the shop scene in my game, Bear Defence Situation. A small brown bear is standing behind a shop table, selling a key, a bottle, and a very fancy capybara wearing a top hat and monocle. Left of the shop is a stack of icons representing the main modifiers of the game, called wishes. The bottom one the Asexuality Flag and it is showing a tooltip: Ace Flag Rare Wish Towers gain 3x damage when built with any hand including an ace.
A chocolate cake with a pink lifmunk made out of icing on it. There are 6 green candles because I made it for my daughter's 6th birthday.
A screenshot from clearsky.app showing some of the recent lists I'm on. The important one is called "AI Haters" and it's described as "Subscribes to anti-AI blocklists or otherwise seems poorly disposed for productive conversations."
It's the right to jail meme but it says: Work in office? Outlook Work from home? Outlook Work in space? Believe it or not, double outlook
A screenshot of the wishing well from my game, Bear Defence Situation Three random modifiers are available, but the important one is called Trans Flag It adds a damage multiplier to towers, gaining 0.25x each time a gendered card (jack, queen, king) changes rank