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Ben Prunty

@benprunty

Music maker for FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero & others. I did not work on Subnautica 1

Polyamorous. ADHD. Cat dad. He/Him.

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Sacramento, CAbenpruntymusic.com/launchpadJoined August 2008

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Ben Prunty

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Aug 29, 2022

SURPRISE - Into the Breach Advanced Edition Soundtrack is available NOW on bandcamp! 🤖It's FREE 🐛4 new tracks from the game 🌆6 bonus tracks 🦾Includes the A.C.I.D. M8 remix 🎨Amazing album art by

@saint11

💿Coming to other platforms soon Get it here: benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/into-the

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Power Wash Simulator is a great example of why you should hire a writer for your game, even if you think your concept “isn’t about the story”. PWS is based on one great mechanic, but the texts and emails from your weirdo clients ember elevates it to something truly delightful.

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I hope we're all aware that other countries haven't had an opioid epidemic like ours, and that that really does ultimately boil down on the US healthcare industry's inability to protect itself against greed.

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this has happened to me at almost every large games event & it’s dispiriting, even when they belatedly recognise one of you & click into respectful professional mode. that just means they know how to behave & are intentionally misbehaving w women they don’t take “seriously”

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D. Lalonders

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Mar 25

#GDC23 is over and one of my biggest issues ive had is men literally interrupting conversations im having with other women in games to attempt to flirt/hit on one of us. its rude, its disrespectful and it shows how little respect you have for either of us

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ADHD Tip: Time-based Goals Don’t use outcome-based goals: finish the paper, clean the office, file my taxes Instead, use time-based goals: write for 30m, clean for 10m, work on taxes until 8pm Gives you positive reinforcement—you feel success even if time estimation is off.

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Love how this entire mess stemmed from Musk just genuinely not understanding what verification badges were for

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Twitter Verified

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Mar 23

On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: twitter.com/i/twitter_blue Organizations can sign up for twitter.com/i/en/verifiedo… Show more

we’ve experienced school shootings nonstop for decades and democrats and republicans couldn’t come together to assure the safety of children in the US, but they have somehow come together unanimously over tiktok. ok.

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OverClocked ReMix (We

video game music!)

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Mar 21

COMING SOON! (PLEASE RT!) 🎮🎵Final Fantasy VIII: SeeDs of Pandora! ff8.ocremix.org 🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY to VGM legend

@UematsuNobuo

! BRAND NEW trailer for OCR's 4-disc, 69-track FF8 album: SeeDs of Pandora! 🎬Directors:

🎞️Trailer:

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Regarding Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, my uncredited work is in the book. "Solution" is, by the author's own admission, a take on my game Train. She uses the same theme, gameplay patterns, releases the game at the same location (MIT) ... more

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I love what the Video Game History Foundation does and we could all stand to learn more about the problems facing game preservation.

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kelsey lewin

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Mar 20

I want to take a minute to explain why this is cool and the specific problem it could solve. First thing’s first, if I don’t address piracy/emulation right away, it will be the only comment I get, so let’s start with that! (Fyi: this is a US-based thread bc we’re in the US) twitter.com/Completionist/…

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Grandpa on Hospital Bed Begins Glowing as Second Health Bar Appears

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Grandpa on Hospital Bed Begins Glowing as Second Health Bar Appears

Henderson Memorial Hospital entered high alert after 92-year-old hospice patient Harvery Elway erupted in lightning, grew bat wings, and arose anew.

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Ben Prunty

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Mar 17

This is devastating

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TMZ

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Mar 17

'John Wick' star Lance Reddick has died. tmz.com/2023/03/17/the

Ben Prunty

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Mar 17

Hell yes

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Bandcamp United

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Mar 16

We are Bandcamp United - a union of workers across all departments at Bandcamp committed to advocating for a better Bandcamp for all, including our international colleagues and the artists, labels, and fans who use the platform as well as ourselves.

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Mar 16

Silicon Valley social media giants couldn't compete with TikTok so now they're using their bought politicians to force it out of business with fabricated hysterical claims about "national security", and of course everyone in the Western media class applauds with glee

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Weird how all the concerns about government assistance contributing to inflation disappear into thin air when the beneficiaries are rich people

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Hey #gameaudio folks! Going to #GDC2023? We're hosting another informal, open-book, mentorship roundtable! Ask us anything about sound design, contract terms, biz dev, conference tips, demo reels, whatever... we'd love to chat! 🔊 [March 20, 10:00am - 3rd Floor, Moscone West]

Ben Prunty

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Mar 15

Both of these are true: 1. There will never be a time in your life when you don't have a million things that need to get done. 2. You absolutely must take breaks. You deserve to take a break, whether everything is done or not. So take breaks!

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Mar 15

Raid crew hype session before Root of Nightmares

it is very funny that all these tech founders are apparently realizing for the first time that the general public is not in fact grateful that they’ve spent the last 15 years inserting middlemen and subscription fees into every interaction

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Giving poor people money to buy groceries: bad for economy. causes inflation Bailing out rich people after bad investments in industries they purposely & specifically lobbied to deregulate: saves economy. no inflation

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My debut at

: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn't be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.

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The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?

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silicon valley destroyed entire industries and well-payed professions only to replace them with a new class of permanently unstable and low wage gig jobs which they skimmed off of to enrich themselves and now they're curious why everyone's giddily watching as they squirm

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Ben Prunty Retweeted

ax krieger's big sigh

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Mar 11

🌊 STREAMING TOMORROW @ 8PM EST at aqualounge . tv!! showcase game is 🌎24 KILLERS🌍, a brand new indie rpg inspired by cult hit Moon - Remix RPG Adventure! also: 🎮 other fresh indies 💽 return of the vita? 🎶 new music videos+tunes 🐟🎙seaman live! talk to seaman via discord

one of the largest banks in the United States just collapsed because of the same 2008 risky gambling shit and without even blinking the very same people who were melting down over your $600 unemployment check are now demanding that we bail them out

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Get it here:

amosroddy.bandcamp.com

Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack), by Amos Roddy

Wow, so if you've been wanting more music that sounds kind of like FTL, you can't do much better than the Citizen Sleeper soundtrack by Amos Roddy

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A duly observed International Women's Day to all women, but especially trans women, whose work we all benefit from, and who've been putting up with way too much shit, always, but especially lately. No feminism without intersectionality!

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Ben Prunty

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Mar 8

am i doing this right #Destiny2 #thrilladrome

I am not a romanceable NPC, a quest giver, nor a final boss. I am in need of an escort as I follow this corrupted leyline. I walk at neither your running nor walking speed. I am constantly stopping to comment on items I see. There is a 75 minute lore video about me.

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BIG NEWS!!!!! Super Spline Studios is moving to a 4 day work week with no reduction in pay or increase in hours! #fridayMYday 🏡 Fully remote or Hybrid 🥳 No Crunch or Overtime 💵 Annual Profit Share 👍 Personal Progression Plan We're also hiring :) supersplinestudios.com/2023/03/06/fou

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buddy, you have truly f-ed up even more than usual this time

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Ben Prunty

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Mar 6

It's another #AMA day! Ask me anything about game music, electronic music, being an indie musician, my collection of cool jackets, my cats, indie game development, my Destiny 2 obsession, or whatever else you can think of.

could not agree more. we should take our work as designers & artists seriously, but the work itself does not have to be “serious”. a lot of times I feel grimness & cynicism in the work are there to hide the shallowness of artistic ambition underneath - “seriousness” as aesthetic

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John Epler

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Mar 5

in the endless pursuit to be seen as a ‘serious’ art form too many people in game dev leadership internalized that the only way to be ‘serious’ was unrelenting grimness and forgot that sometimes being a person is just fundamentally ridiculous

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People want to pretend that non-binary and transgender identities are an invention of Tumblr when in reality the original historiography of non-binary identity was burned in the streets of Germany by Nazis along with 20,000 books of transgender history

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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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Without taking new photos 1) Romanceable NPC 2) Quest giver NPC 3) Final boss NPC 1, 2, and 3 are all the same photo:

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ax krieger's big sigh

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Mar 4

Without taking new photos 1) Romanceable NPC 2) Quest giver NPC 3) Final boss NPC twitter.com/_nyancrimew/st…

Why do capitalists running railways, airlines, etc. say "safety is our #1 priority"? Because it isn't. Profit is. Spending more on safety hurts profits. Tragedies like East Palestine, Ohio, make us ask: why let profit-driven capitalists be in charge? That's what's unsafe.

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Ben Prunty

@benprunty

Mar 4

I make music not because I was some child prodigy (I had no musical talent as a kid) or because I felt some kind of divine calling. I make music because as a teenager my brain was fixated on electronic music and I kept feeding that obsession for 20 years.

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