Jim Otermat

@jimotermat

Game Programmer. Currently in Sweden. Worked on Dark Scavenger, Rock Band 3, Pokémon Go, Marvel Heroes Omega, and a bunch of other stuff.

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Jim Otermat@jimotermat· 22d

I found it!

Sign in the center reads "SIDEWALK ENDS". The bottom third of the photo is two panels of well kept sidewalk, which ends at the signpost. Middle third is scrub brush grass in browns and greens and greys. There are mismatched fence posts and a telephone pole. The top third is a grey-blue sky at dusk.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· 25d

The Guardian out here casually throwing shade.

Caption reads: Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team. Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

Additional alt text: Screengrab of mobile version of The Guardian, with the URL visible along the top. Center is a photo from the World Cup trophy celebration. Lots of yellow confetti creating a kind of static effect on the picture. Center of the photo is Trump standing slack, seemingly listening to Infantino, who is gesturing to the left towards the podium. They are very close, so Infantino can be heard over the celebration.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jul 15

Best I can do is MP Coney Island Brand Hot Dog Chili Meat Sauce.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jul 10

Fog says hi.

Fog, a fluffy grey manx mix, sitting on my lap during my morning meeting. She has her eyes squinted closed, enjoying scritches.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jul 8

I took the time to capture this for a gif. Now I need to find an excuse to use it.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jul 6

Wearing a cardigan to see The Cardigans. As one does.

A bearded man wearing a Bluey family shirt labeled Dance Mode under an unbuttoned cardigan. Behind him is a poster for The Cardigans concert he is about to see.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jun 26

My wife put "dress like a ninja" on the invites for our son's laser tag birthday, and I remembered I actually have a ninja outfit. That I bought like 25 years ago. And has Morton's List branding on it because I was a juggalo at the time. Anyways, here's me as a ninja in broad daylight.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jun 12

Yeah, after lunch mini-nap in the hammock.

Bearded man with eyes closed laying across the bottom of the frame. The hammock is barely visible next to his neck along the left side and a bit more near his hip. He is wearing a black t-shirt with a white and blue design on it and black weathered jeans. The side of the building next to him is a textured white stucco. The door and window frames are a pale blue.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jun 4

10 months later, I finally got around to assembling my Byrdie The Duck #CustomFigure. Throwing the painted pieces in the hot water to soften them up enough to pop back together was scary. All in all, pretty proud of my first ever custom figure attempt.

Byrdie The Duck action figure. Nearly complete repaint of a Siryn figure, stealing Falcom's shoes and wings. Her shirt is a black tank top with a red skull emblem that has a white lens flare in one eye. She has black leggings with maroon painted on leather accents and similarly colored combat boots. She has wing tattoos on the inside of both arms and has wings with a sort of sunset color scheme red at the center, orange on the middle, and like a red beige for the wing tips. She has painted on eyeshadow and darker lipstick, a white diamond on her forehead, and her hair starts red, but abruptly switchs to white about 2/3s down. She is hovering over a patio table by way of a electronics clamp thing. There is out of focus trees and shrubs in the background as well as a white building.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· May 29

Got my signed PUPTHEBAND poster up on the wall in record time. Going to be grinning every time I see it.

3 pieces of art on a white wall.

Top is a very abstract psychedelic punk picture in a black frame with lots of eyes and warped band related imagery. On the top in white 70s bubble letters it says PUP KEEPS SENDING ME. Beneath that is a big bowl of soup, and floating among the tentacles and eyeballs and fangs are yellow alphabet soup letters saying MORE BAD STUFF, which is the name of their substack. Towards the bottom, it has been signed by all 4 members of the band.

Bottom is a frameless painting I did of Zigzagoon as a chipped mug turned into a planter.

Middle is a framed handdrawn picture I got for Christmas a decade ago from my cousin-in-law, Tom Adams. It depicts Harry Caray holding a can of Budwieser with a smiling goat over his right shoulder. They are looking down from a cloud onto a baseball field. The cloud has Cubs Win! on it, where the exclamation point is a baseball bat. On either side of the field are David Ross pointing both hands into the sky and Kyle Schwarber running the bases. The field has 2016 in white block letters. The upper right of the picture says World Series Champion, underlined by red stitching of a baseball.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Mar 18

We went to a clay sculpting/painting event tonight, and I made a water tower to put behind my Animaniacs figures.

Clay quarter cylinder painted to approximate the WB water tower

Clay quarter cylinder painted to approximate the WB water tower. Shot from a low angle to show the 3D-ness

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Mar 18

Kinda jealous of Jacqueline Loewen for having "Arcade counter human" available for their resume from Nobody 2.

Grainy photo of a TV during the credits, showing four roles. Ayla Allison and Everley Barr Trapp were "Concerned lady daughters." Jake Kennerd was "Casino cheater." But the middle credit, the reason for this photo, has Jacqueline Loewen as "Arcade counter human."

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Mar 8

Foggy and I were competing for Big Stretch space during our naps. She won.

Overhead shot of a couch. Human's legs stretched out under a blanket, pressed against the back cushions. A grey and white cat takes up a good portion of the last cushion, her back paws stretched out towards the human's feet, which startled away from them. There is a pair of child-size costume dragon wings laying on the armrest.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Mar 7

I burned through this today. And still managed to take my oldest out to the mall and made dinner and did a full run of the dishes.

Completed Lego One Piece pirate ship. Centered under the light, held by me. On the windowsill, you can see a stack of books, the top two are Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer and Twelve Months by Jim Butcher. Both of which have been started, but not completed yet.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Mar 5

Not at all suspect.

Park bench in front of a baby poop green plywood wall. On the bench there is an empty bottle of chardonnay and three spaced out lollipops with smiley emoji wrappers on them

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Feb 21

Whoever wrote the recipe that came with my waffle maker went from incredibly precise to vague and not helpful across the ingredient list and 4 sentence recipe. Exact grams of butter/sugar/flour, then Milk. And maybe eggs, if you want.

WAFFLE RECIPE
Vanilla waffles

150g butter or margarine
200g sugar
Vanilla sugar
1/2 tsp salt
250g plain flour
1 scant tsp baking powder
1-2 Tbsp cream
Milk

How to make: Combine the butter, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, flour, baking powder and cream. Mix well. Add milk until your batter has the right consistency. If you want to use eggs in the batter, mix these in together with the other ingredients.

The recipe does not say what the right consistency is, how much milk or vanilla sugar to use (or what that even is) or how many eggs would be recommended.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Feb 17

I enjoyed Ghost of Yōtei so much. @erikaishii.bsky.social killed it as Atsu.

Screenshot from the PS app showing the platinum trophy for Ghost of Yōtei, Legendary Onryō, achieved earlier today. The picture is the Onryō mask in white with gold teeth; ringed by twin wolf heads, one red and one black; with a golden ring sprouting ginkgo leaves.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Feb 7

"There has been a lot of talk about the new retirement age..."

Bus shelter in Sweden. Blue sky with sparse clouds above it. Cars driving by towards the camera on the street to the right of the shelter, and a snow drift in front of a building to the left. A large green advertisement on the shelter has a giant 67 in white taking up the top half. Under that, also in white, is Swedish text framing the 67 meme as talk about the new retirement age. The ad is for Svensk Hypotekspension.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Feb 6

So here's a picture of the icy water

A concrete dock runs along the top of the frame. There is an emergency ladder between two of the pillars.

The water beneath the dock is full of chunks of ice. Big hearty pieces that were bashed apart by previous ferries. The ones closest to the dock have started freezing together again.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Feb 3

Tried some new techniques, making @governorwalz.mn.gov's turkey trot tater tot hot dish. Blanching green beans, making a super cheesy roux sauce, any kind of casserole for this family, enough butter to appease Paula Dean. Looks a hot mess, but tastes amazing. As it should.

Deep casserole dish with crispy potato triangles (tots are hard to come by here in Sweden) swimming in bubbly cheese. Some green beans are peaking through the cracks

Serving of the hot dish on my plate. You can make out green beans, bacon, and mushrooms in this yellowy-grey mush. You have to trust me that it was amazing.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jan 16

Yeah, shaking the winter blues with a new do

Me, with considerably less hair on my head and a properly trimmed beard

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Jan 13

Scene from arrested development:
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but....
Tobias: but it might work for us.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Dec 28

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

A horse peeking out of a square hole in the pavement, which is definitely too small for the horse to get out through. There is a group of kids in the back right and a metal picket fence in the back left. Vertically centered in large white lowercase letters with a black drop shadow is "soon...". Soon is horizontally centered so the ellipses nearly reach the right side of the picture.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Dec 24

I had to buy the print and play version of Bugsnax after the store I ordered it from sold it to someone else instead of telling me it arrived, so I needed to repaint one of my other board game boxes to store it. I think it turned out pretty good for a freehand rush job. @younghorses.com

Hand painted box cover for Bugsnax The Card Game featuring Filbo with a net chasing absolutely nothing on a split background of green for grass and blue for sky. The name of the game is in orange and purple with a white drop shadow.

Back of the box featuring a hand painted Strawby looking absolutely terrified over a split background of green for grass and blue for sky.

Three quarter view of the top box, showing the split green for grass blue for sky continues around the side of the box. Filbo is blurry but visible on the top. The orange and purple with white drop shadow title of the game is on the shown left and bottom sides. The bottom side also features the icons saying the game is for 2-6 players, should take about 30 minutes, and is suited for players 8 and up. The box is sitting on a piece of brown cardboard with various colors of paint splatter.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Dec 9

My pharmacy has their own line of holiday mustard? And it's popular enough to have a regular and a year specific recipe?

Three ceramic jars with wooden lids full of mustard made by/for the pharmacy Apoteket. The one on the left is red and just labeled Senap (Swedish for mustard). The two others are white and are labeled Senap 2025. This year's blend has ginger and honey.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Nov 26

Google translate has finally figured out I curse like someone from Ohio. Though maybe this line from the Swedish preschool's blog might actually mean something else.

Swedish above English translation. The original Swedish is "Det är jätte gott!" The English that translate has output is "it's fucking good!" Jätte generally just means Really.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Nov 24

They need to send in the Heroes to help!

Always crying tofu mascot stuck in a Normal-Sized Door. From the game Promise Mascot Agency.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Nov 16

They wrapped up our last 2 slices of pizza like Peking duck. Behold our Peking Pizza.

Foil wrapped thing that includes a foil handle. Sitting on my hand above a leaf covered sidewalk and street

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Nov 7

That's kinda mean to our cat, weather app. Fog may be getting older, but she's not dense.

Notification that dense fog is expected tomorrow.

Our cat, Fog, sitting in the newly reassembled fort with my lådcykel as one of the walls now that the weather isn't ideal for biking. The entrance is made of steamer trunks. There is a grey blanket on the floor, and one of the bike's wheels is visible. A fluffy grey cat sits in the center of the doorway.

Jim Otermat@jimotermat· Oct 31

My oldest loves bright orange clothes, but the styles around here have been much more muted colors. So I bought him a pair of white pants and we dyed them ourselves. So happy with how they came out.