Snickerdoodle

Howdy folks! I'm still working on League and at Riot but at the beginning of the year I started a role that's more behind the scenes and operational/strategic. Because of that I'll be quiet on League posting for a bit and will mostly be posting personal stuff!

@jadel4w It does for sure, that's just not the path Daisuke took. Right out of school he was composing music, designing characters, writing story, and more on Guilty Gear. I don't think most people do like he does but *because* of his path I can see why he indexes his advice this way.

@SuperSnkrdoodle He’s absolutely right. But specialising in one thing first allows you to go through the process of understanding how to learn

After 6 years of running a specialist AAA art studio I like to think I know a fair bit about specialisation. Specialise in something. Then go lateral and develop secondary skills. Be versatile: As an artist I’ve always been versatile. Concept was my primary skill but I’ve done UI, marketing, simulation, 3D, texturing. I never let the staff at Wardog define themselves as weapons artists only. Specialising in important. Learning to get extremely good at something. But all my seniors are great at other things. As artists you should absolutely specialise, but once you start to see diminishing returns on your progress; congratulations you’ve learned how to learn. Now learn something else.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is RWBY for 6 year olds and I won’t be explaining myself

This is about the same amount of screentime as Darth Vader in the first Star Wars

The pomodoro sauce always looks prettier BEFORE it’s fully cooked

Made a breakfast sandwich with a hashbrown, steamed egg, smoked gouda, maple honey butter bacon onion jam, cilantro, and chipotle cream.

An important game design lesson: do not create a button that, when pressed, gives someone a worse time. People will press it (because they think they want what it outputs) and then be upset that you gave them a worse time.

Teammates got you down? Sick of the endless grind? Hungry for LP? Come on down to Swain’s Hot Chicken for some finger-lickin’, cluckin’ fun!🍗🍗

God when making onions: “Make them crucial to cooking but always twice the size needed for any recipe”

@SoraJackSong @egoraptor Family Guy, it was based on a baffling criticism Seth McFarlane heard from a professor in a film class.

@SuperSnkrdoodle @egoraptor I bet you can't guess where the meme originated from.

i don’t wanna talk about it

@Inurian5987 @egoraptor In 2026 I don’t think so, but in 2005 I recall it being criticized for very surface reasons and unfairly compared to Resident Evil 4 because it bears a loose resemblance. Imo it was a different time, Braid came out in 2008 and subverted expectations. Today it’s hardly a thinker.

@SuperSnkrdoodle @egoraptor Is this a hot take?

I’ve come to really hate the term “intellectual property” because it fundamentally misses the point of what it is describing and implies a utility to creative expression that doesn’t exist. It’s the entertainment industry equivalent of painting cars red to go faster.

@SoraJackSong @egoraptor I know this is a meme but I honestly think it does the opposite

@SuperSnkrdoodle @egoraptor Does it insist upon itself?

@ThunderBrush It works very well here. In a weird way it reminds me of the texture fidelity of Max Payne but with higher polygon models. I almost feel like if there was an RE4 PC first release in 2005 that wasn’t constrained by Game Cube resolution it would have looked like this.

Honestly I wished we just had more games that went all in on diffuse textures and good baked lighting, the absolute sauce it can deliver when done well is so damn good. (Resident Evil 4 hd mod)

@crototrigger @egoraptor Hey I’m grump, I’m grump, I’m grump, I’m grump, I’m grump, I’m grump, I’m grump and we’re in a tight spot

@egoraptor @SuperSnkrdoodle Dude you gotta play Killer 7 with the grumps

Pokémon Pinball - Ruby & Sapphire has the most replayability of the entire Pokémon franchise and remains untopped in 2026.

@egoraptor I was just doing a playthrough on steam deck. As an adult the game feels very different. When I was a teenager it felt mystic and impenetrable. As an adult it feels familiar and cynical.

@SuperSnkrdoodle I’ve beaten it probably 5 times

@egoraptor The only game I love that I will also not recommend

@SuperSnkrdoodle Hey hold on stop making sense

@KristinaSOSKi Horomones about to ask for a cut on the profits from that script

Hormones are so crazy like what do you mean they’re making me cry more than the baby and giving me hyper vivid dreams about a dark gritty MCU version of Lazy Town.