Kelly / Callo

@callonetta.bsky.social

Producer - PM | prev. @Solotech_Inc / genre fic publishing / esports live entertainment | She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

update: the kids do not know how to type every semester im back in school i see the wildest shit - on top of the kids not being able to read, im now noticing they are PECKING at their keyboards with pointer fingers what the fuck is going on im being serious

i need everyone to understand ive been spending my entire time off for the holidays sitting right here at my desk playing games (not pictured: iced coffee and snacks literally everywhere)

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The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

im watching the making of Disco Elysium and Aleksander Rostov says this thing about being young, finding people, forming your "gang", and then going and committing "art hooliganism" against society i just thought that was incredible and we should just do that even if we arent young

getting on this app and seeing so many people shit on Star Trek kinda sucks :/ i grew up on TNG and as far as the “newer” shows - i love Discovery and Strange New Worlds and it’s so lame seeing people shit on stuff they don’t like instead of just talking about stuff they do 😞

Gamers have such incredibly unreasonable demands of indies it's sort of a wonder anything gets made at all. I could never fault an indie dev for just wanting to withdraw entirely from public from what are deeply wild, unfair or aggressive demands on their passion projects from 'gamers'. #gamedev

My self-care routine? When I walk into the teleporter I am actually completely obliterated, and a fresh new identical replica with no continuity of consciousness but a set of false memories is instantiated from nothing in the other end

i want you to think about how many books you read this year and then note how you're going to change that starting today not enough time? stop scrolling reels, shorts, tiktok - you arent shocked at how many collective hours a day being flushed down the toilet, you're just letting it happen

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.

web search results are such a wasteland now and I hate it I miss finding cool information on websites that were clearly personal passion projects, or giant FAQs formatted in pure ASCII that explained everything about a niche topic

cannot stress enough that if you’re feeling numb, disconnected from life, and disillusioned with everything in it- go outside go to the park, volunteer in your community, go to game meetups, do anything that snatches you from the loop of the internet bc it’s truly vile here and you will feel better