Edward Newton

@ewords.bsky.social

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Software Engineer Senior Unity consultant on Risk of Rain 2 Formerly of YouTube he/they

A haiku that reads: Pity her, sure, but Rapunzel's biography is still a tough read. Day 2259, still in the tower. No calls. Hair grew 1 inch more. Kind as we may seem, we can't stand boring suffering. Sympathy craves blood.
A screenshot of a YouTube title that says "fall asleep to the biggest plot holes in the MCU."
An advertisement for crowd control, a dropout original series, the new season starting on August 3rd. The image features Taylor Tomlinson doing stand-up comedy.
A photo of Mark Zuckerberg bottle-feeding a calf. The caption reads: Mark Zuckerberg announces to produce the world's finest beef by personally raising cows and feeding them with dry fruits and beer.
Three panels of a cartoon dog with a ball in its mouth. Panel 1: "Pls Buy" Panel 2: A hand tries to take the ball, and Dog says, angrier: "No Earn" Panel 3: Dog, very angry, "Only Buy"
A screen cap of a swirling energy vortex, with the news headline: space-time does not exist
A weather report saying there is a record high today of 77 degrees.
A screen shot of a previous post by Edward. It reads: "when you think you need to be perfect, remember that Batman: Arkham Knight said 'close enough is enough.'" Under the text is a game screenshot of Arkham Knight, showing a grappling hook hovering next to a handle. It looks like it's been glued there. Underneath is a response: "Arkham Knight is not a role model."
A screenshot from Batman Arkham Knight, Batman is looking at a grappling hook that is stuck to a handle, as though someone had super glued the two outside edges together.
GDC Festival of Gaming - March 9-13, 2026 (by Informa)
A Reddit post describing how the original poster learned their company's AI had been making up their analytics data for 3 months. The VP of sales made territory decisions, the CFO showed a board a deck with fake insights, all using information that had been made up by the AI. The original poster only discovered it when someone asked them to double check something. Holy shit. It's bad.
A screenshot of discord's support page, with the question "can you please just stop" in the search bar
Edmund McMillen's face superimposed on a cartoon cat, with the caption "HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR" - (a reference to Mewgenics)
A promoted ad from mechanize Inc. It reads: Columbia seniors: automate software engineering before someone else does. junior software engineer, $300,000 a year in San Francisco California. We build real life environments to train AI on real world work. Our goal is the full automation of the economy. 300,000 base plus competitive equity.
"It would appear they really do make 'em like this anymore."
A box with two plastic swords in it, and the label on the box is let's hit each other with fake swords
A still image of a dialogue scene from a video game, where a character is talking to the dream version of herself. Character: I like my insights with a little more compassion and a little less accuracy. Dream version: I can't give you that. I'm the only person you have no compassion for.
A user interface with an option called "Extra Padding". The option has been deselected
A drawing by Salens16 of Hornet from Hollow Knight, facing off against the three illustrated "There's been an error" characters from Steam's store system.
An illustration of Art Spiegelman, the author of MAUS, with an accompanying quote from him: "I've spent a lifetime trying not to think about Israel - deciding it has nothing more to do with me, a diasporist, than the rest of the World's Bad News on Parade. Israel is like some badly battered child with PTSD who has grown up to batter others."
A screenshot of the game description: " You are a corgi. You have a floofy butt. You are an agent of giving few fucks. You slay boots the fence down hunty."
A screenshot of an update for Eve Online. The text reads: "Delivered! Freelance Delivery Jobs are Here"
A snapshot from Reddit: One person saying the eagles should have taken the hobbits to Mordor! And the next comment saying, Don Henley really wanted to but Joe Walsh put the kibosh on that.
A wall of posters and photos, including images from Risk of Rain 2, Star Trek, Hank and John Green, and Matpat / The Game Theorists
An excerpt from an IGN article that begins: "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.
A YouTube thumbnail from the Kurzgesagt channel: "Why does Fentanyl feel so good?"
Maurice from beauty and the beast
Beautiful pixel art images of Louisiana: on the top, a distant industrial area full of black towers belches fire into the night sky; on the bottom, the bridge over a bayou is backlit by sunset coming through old trees.
A screenshot of an NPR headline, featuring Donald Trump: "Does a president need to uphold the Constitution? Trump says 'I don't know'"
Four older gentlemen in tshirts (the Barenaked Ladies)