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impact interactive wordjam heartune 🇨🇦->🏴->?? Prism: https://eliot-mb-howard.itch.io/prism-a-tale-of-heterogenous-futures Game Director Story (demo): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305180/Game_Director_Story/ eliotmbhoward.com
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w agoAI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath v1.01: Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
okay so i've been pagan my whole life but to imagine the summer before the lord's birth has such a texture; soft moments of miracle, before everything we know to come, in service of nothing more than a young mother's cravings. beautiful
Jack de Quidt@notquitereal.bsky.social · 2mo agothe cherry tree carol. this song is very very old, from the early 15th century. i've always been really touched by its sweetness and simplicity. mary wants to eat cherries
Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You construct intricate rituals...), 1980
it is such a blessing to be drawn into something, so captivated that in order to savour it, you have to resist the urge to tumble down into it. perfect tides: station to station is my thoughts now, and i intend to keep that running as long as possible
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe but now you can expect new abilities, animations, VFX, summons and cantrips, and unique voiced dialogue lines
obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub
Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 3mo agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
My go-to on this topic has always been Terry Pratchett:
I will be honest that was one of the most interesting few minutes of you guys watching sports that I've ever read
Happy birthday, Franz Kafka. This is the tattoo I got while I was in Prague. It's a Franz quote inside one of his drawings.
Everyone thinks the vegetables are the garden. But the garden is the soil and the garden is the the trellises and the garden is the insects and the garden is the sun. Remember that when you look in the mirror. You are more than what you see in the glass
Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome.
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art
