corey marra

@coribald.com

he/they. la. engineer. some sorta 🏳️‍🌈. 10+ yrs in game dev IT. usually posting about: jrpgs, vns & anime, mets baseball, drumming, and random music i find on bandcamp.

it's so cool how the ai era of IT and business process engineering has turned everything into "please provide a solution so <team> never has to read or write anything ever again" cannot begin to tell you how doomed i'm feeling all the time

the most burbank thing of all time is happening next to me at the coffee shop, a first date between an aspiring screenwriter and an aspiring dancer rooting for them so hard

I love when a game/show/movie takes place in a world beyond our own and takes the time to tell you about the culture of its imagined backdrop. You can do a lot of storytelling with “this is the biggest pop band of this universe”

nothing in the world is funnier to me than "gordon's office" in hell's kitchen - like he's spending time in there, what, taking calls? filing? returning emails?

hell's kitchen, season 20 episode 8 - gordon ramsay sits at "his desk" in "his office", he's holding a pen apparently writing something, there's a picture and a cup of pens on there along with a bunch of manila envelopes and a file tray - chefs jackets hang on the wall

A lot of folks have interviewed Grant Kirkhope about the DK Rap over the years and he's had very interesting things to say! But I really wanted to talk to the guys who actually rapped it, and managed to get the "So they're finally here!" guy on a call for this:

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w ago

The DK Rap is a silly, yet beloved, cornerstone of Nintendo and Rare history. It was also recorded in a stuffy hallway by the game director and a programmer who was picked because he listened to Tupac sometimes. https://kotaku.com/stuffy-silly-arhythmic-hallway-recording-original-dk-rap-2000715929