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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton@austinkelmore.bsky.social |
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Unionizing the games industry one person at a time. Cofounder of the IWGB Game Workers and Game Worker Solidarity. DMs open. Game worker, rock climber, cat hugger. Bi, He/Him. Based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I don't know if I'd specify a lower limit because I kind of love the idea of it going down to a 1v1, but probably 5v5 on a full pitch would be ridiculous enough that it'd be entertaining to watch. Subs would play a HUGE part in that considering how tired they'd all be at that point.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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10 vs 10 then, 9 vs 9, then 8 vs 8 (assuming no red cards). Teams would have to decide whether to take a striker, midfield, or defender off the field and they'd decide at the same time. The play would be similar, but they'd have to adapt and it would get REALLY interesting around the 7v7 mark.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I would love to see FIFA try different ways to end ties during tournaments instead of penalty kicks because they feel like flipping a coin to win. Like what if instead they extended time again, but each team took a player off the field every 5 minutes. That would make things MUCH more interesting.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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My mom would laugh so hard if she heard me say that considering I never woke up early when I was younger and refused to go to sleep at a reasonable time.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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My favorite time of the day is the morning when people are just waking up. It's calm and quiet and everything moves at a slightly slower pace. Having a good cup of coffee and reading or doing stuff on the computer is so nice.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Same Chowder, same.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Ah, crap, you're right. 😅 My apologies!
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The Green Party's 4 seats are far more impressive than Refash's 4 because they managed it without the entire media setting up camp in their back passages and giving them wall to wall 24 hour coverage for the past 5 years.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I had the exact same initial reaction when people didn't show up until @prisonculture.bsky.social told this story several years ago.
I'm appreciative she's telling it again so I can share with new folks so they can learn it too. Her father is teaching generations of new organizers.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Those look delicious.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Remember that when we vote in elections, the people who win are not going to magically do what we want them to do. We're going to have to organize and fight regardless of who is in power.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Some people find community by finding people they can reliably piss off. I find that sad.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I am super excited about this. Proton has been absolutely wonderful lately with all the stuff they've been rolling out. proton.me/blog/docs-pr...
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I'll be there too! I've similarly not booked a lot so if we see each other, please say hi! :)
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Going to Develop? Come on by our round table! I'll be there Wed-Fri if anyone wants to meet up and talk about unions or just say hi!
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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You do one little thing wrong in an interaction with someone and it can just spiral out of control, eh? Oye, I hate how my brain just sticks on this and won't let it go all day.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I love your art so much. Always have.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I hope things improve soon for you and yours. 💙
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Gorgeous!
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Honestly I'm the same right now and what helps me is talking it through with others and regularly scheduled meetings that I go to. Those two things help me out so much.
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Another amazing video from #PeopleMakeGames, talking about the issues in the video game industry right now.
PMG hasn't put a bad video in the time I've been actively watching them, I'm glad there's an outlet producing videos like this.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Chris Bratt from People Make Games was one of our guest speakers at the IWGB Game Workers Annual General Meeting this past month and he gave such a fantastic speech.
I'm really glad he recorded it and has released it for everyone else to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2x...
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Ah friend, I'm so sorry. 💙
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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This Portugal vs Slovenia game is all about the keepers, holy crap.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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That was absolutely sick.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Hoooooooly shit Slovenia.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Anyone feel like creating a feed for people in game worker unions or posting about them? I'd love something like this.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I mean, come on. I can't with them, they're too good.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I love seeing what people create in this moment that uplift and motivate people working to change the world be it art, writing, organization, or something else.
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Comrade card for 7/1/2024. (Words by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)
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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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"It was clear to me from the start that CIG didn't want people to work from home after the expense of their new Manchester office, and worked backwards from that to retroactively conjure up reasons why my request should be denied"
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Happy birthday to these silly little guys. 13 years old! They're both still active and happy cats and I love them to bits.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Dislike.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I really enjoyed Venba for what it was. It felt like a sweet, biographical video game and I loved that. Well done to the team, I look forward to seeing what they do next.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Ya, that's definitely something I was worrying about too. I think you're probably right even if I wish people would remember that more often. :)
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I have so many things I want to write about but not enough time and energy to do any of it. I'm always in awe of people who write all the time. For me, it's something I have to work really hard at to have it make sense, so it's not something I can do in short spurts.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I wonder how it would feel to define "you" up front, ie: "A player familiar with who enjoys the <enter genre genre here> and is motivated by x, y, or z. Then you can use "you" which feels better but also puts specific types of players in mind in the beginning.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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What do you like about each of them?
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I love this.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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That site looks really great and explains who you are and what you do really well. Also, fuck ya on both of these - "I'm an em dash enthusiast, a passionate defender of the Oxford comma"
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I got two pieces of very good news today about things that I've been dealing with for the past couple of months and I'm very, very happy about that. Today has been a good day.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I've never heard that one before, but I think there's a lot of truth to it. The industry as a whole gets stuck in ruts and having people outside it say "Why don't we try this thing?" that's out of left field helps SO MUCH. Also it's just fucking cool to work with different people from all over.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I feel the same way about people who make games. If someone's entire identity is playing games, they're not usually bringing that much new to the team.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Being mad at people I don't know for things I didn't know they did does not seem like a good use of my time.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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Occam's Razor is used to cut up mushrooms to snort so that you can have visions that will give you the scent of what you need to smell so that when you smell it in waking life you'll get the answer to your question, right?
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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I am absolutely exhausted and I still have a two hour meeting left tonight. Please send gifs/pictures of cute animals.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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What music/podcast service do you use these days? I've been using Spotify for years but have been increasingly unhappy with them as they up the prices while the service feels worse and worse.
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Austin Kelmore 🔜 Develop Brighton
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It's a little different, but Mission Impossible seems like it should probably be in the list as well.
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SCIENCE CAT (my latest cartoon for New Scientist)
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