20+ years making games. Creative Director, Game Director, Producer. He/Him. current: @WayForward. prev: @genvident. My views are not reflective of employer

Santa Clarita, CA
Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
I have many wonderful @bauzilla stories, and I’m heartbroken to think we might not have any more. But I’ll share them with you.
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Pictures of a young Eric Bauza alongside other staff working at Spumco USA circa 1999/2000, rest well you talented man
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Eric @bauzilla was EVERYONE’S friend. His talent was immense and undeniable AND he treated everyone with such kindness and gratitude. It’s such a loss. RIP.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award-winning voice actor behind Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died Sunday at his home as a result of hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner records. He was 46. variety.com/2026/film/people…
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Devastating doesn’t begin to describe what losing Eric Bauza means. He was just scratching the surface on a career that would define the genre. Watching his star grow was an honor for me, and he always kept it humble when I congratulated him. This is the worst. RIP Eric.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
People are leaving education because yall hold the teachers accountable for everything while the kids and their parents do whatever.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
MONOMOON, my non-linear game about exploration and discovery launches on Steam November 11th! With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
It’s very telling that restricting the ability of eligible voters to vote is seen as a win for Republicans.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules student IDs can’t be used to vote in New Hampshire, a win for the GOP in a Senate battleground. nbcnews.com/politics/supreme…
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Socialism is the fire department saving your house. Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
by the way, the fact that they keep giving him these tests means that they are not trying to figure out if he has dementia. They already know that. They are monitoring the rate of his decline.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
The fact that Mike Johnson is intentionally keeping congress from convening while the president commits blatant treason with Russia, is also blatantly treasonous.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
I once sold a truck to a guy who called and agreed to pay full price as long as I brought it to the airport within the hour. It was incredibly sus, but my truck had been for sale for months, and I had grown desperate. So I went. It only got weirder. The moment I arrive he hops in the drivers seat for a test drive, and a run to the bank to get the money to buy it. He’s a freakishly large porcine fellow, adorned head to toe in dirty work clothes. He looked like Hagrid if he were an alcoholic with a the world’s most unionized construction job. We get to chatting on the drive. Work, life, conspiratorial ramblings, Donald Trump, Pakis. The usual, if you know this type of guy. I come to learn he needed to buy my truck to get home. He had bought a one way plane ticket to come buy a different one, but had been ghosted by the seller when he landed. He was stranded at an airport on the other side of the country with no other plan. So I thought, “well maybe I know the guy who ghosted him. Let me see if I can help.” I asked to see his phone to read his FB Marketplace message with the seller. He had been talking to some guy with Broken English and a vaguely middle eastern sounding name for several days now. The guy was selling an incredibly desirable truck for 30% below market. A virtually impossible deal. The vehicular equivalent of a horny singles in your area add on a porn site. He turned to me and said “y’know, his listing says the truck is about an hour from here, maybe I should go look for him.” I said “bro I’m looking at his profile, he has this same truck listed in every city in North America. The plate in the photos isn’t even from our state. This truck is spammed hundreds of times across marketplace.” To which he replied, “yeah I thought that was weird. I think it’s a glitch.” “No it’s not a glitch… you didn’t send him money did you?” I asked, fearing the answer. “Yeah I sent him a money, otherwise he was gonna sell it to another guy.” I winced. “how much?” “Five thousand bucks.” “……okay.” “Well let’s look him up, we have his name.” He replies confidently. “Look him up where?” I ask. “Facebook” “I’m looking at his Facebook. It’s not real.” Just then we arrive at the bank, he parks my 2500HD in the handicap spot at a 45 degree angle. I say maybe we should pick a different spot, he tells me he isn’t picky. We set up the wire transfer, he makes a disparaging remark about brown people to the teller. She frowns, she is brown. The money luckily still gets sent. And he takes off in the truck. Hours later he calls me from the middle of nowhere. He had decided to fuck with the aftermarket tuner while driving and bricked it. He was stranded. I don’t think all you xitter users realize just how difficult the modern world already is for an 85IQ person to navigate. With 53% of youtube shorts views now coming from AI content, these people are about to be thrust into a completely incomprehensible dream realm forever.
Bricklayer, 49, travels 1,200 miles for dream girl - only to discover she's AI-generated trib.al/3CcGOfk
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
AuDHD IS WILD. • I notice any tiny sign that you're upset with me but miss all the signs that you actually like me. • I need structure, guidance, and clear expectations. Just don't tell me what to do. • I can spend hours creating the perfect routine and approximately three days following it. • I can accomplish a week's worth of work in one afternoon but one appointment at 2 PM will ruin my entire day. • I want to be included but hope the plans get canceled. • My brain wants stimulation and silence, preferably at the exact same time. • I struggle to start something but once I get started, can't make myself stop. • I want everyone to understand me but would rather disappear than have to explain myself.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
If California billionaires can burn through $340 MILLION to run ads against paying a billionaire tax, then they can definitely afford to pay a billionaire tax.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Now that @AbdulElSayed has been asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mother’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood before he was born, will we be asking Donald Trump to disavow the Ku Klux Klan because of his father’s alleged ties to the KKK in the 1920s? washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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I hope everyone took notice how no one punched Tommy in the face or pulled his hair. Both parties are not the fucking same.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
I have 4 kids in public school and the nurse has to call me for permission to give them tylenol Theres a 0.0% chance of the principal performing a sex change on my child during study hall
Replying to @Lauderdale11
You are obviously not in public schools
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
This is so perfect. Honestly, I thought "Tommy" was a plant by the way he walked off at the end. Abdul El-Sayed just looks too good here. But after looking it up, I learned he was a former Josh Hawley staffer. This is the most inspiring performance by an American politician that I can remember seeing. El-Sayed was faced with a bigoted question. He didn't hide from it or pander. He broke down why it was a bigoted question, and gave a stirring defense of American principles and the Constitution. At the end, his interlocutor wouldn't condemn Christian Nationalism! El-Sayed has a perfect response to this, and "everybody clapped." A lot of us have had this experience of arguing with right-wingers, questioning them, and then finding out that they have no principles, they're just bigots. A Hawley staffer will talk about the US Constitution and freedom of religion to attack a Muslim politician, and sing a completely different tune when it comes to Christian fundamentalists. Again, the "everybody clapped" nature of this, followed by Tommy walking off in shame, made me think that he was a plant. But no. This was a real-life rightoid, getting exposed as the hateful, hypocritical bigot that he is in front of the entire world. Abdul El-Sayed's rise in American politics has made me a lot more optimistic about our future.
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever
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Austin Ivansmith Games retweeted
Yeah, it used an AI powered program they wrote, trained on libraries THEY made specifically for it to aid with a very tedious part of animating. It's not generative AI. When will people learn that the problem is generative AI and not AI-powered/assisted tools?
Spiderverse used AI in production
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