Hamlette
@hamlette.bsky.social
Genderfluid, Pronouns: any. WLW/NBLW, ENM. Very neurodivergent. 40+. Sentient hyper-optimized data access network. Infected Activist. I took what you gave willingly. By day: Principal Game Designer. Personal opinions/comments.
Police don’t need these. I need these
Alex Zucker@alexzucker.bsky.social · last mo.The Bellevue Police Department, in Nebraska, has been using electric-shock gloves for three and a half years. “Road patrol officers check out the gloves before their shifts, and all school resource officers have a pair assigned to them.” nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2mo ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
The ADHD test was honestly one of the easier rhythm games I've played
Bungie friends: you deserve better. We as gamedevs deserve better. The industry deserves better.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Bungie is planning a significant layoff following the end of Destiny 2's development. Destiny 3 is NOT in active production. Some Bungie staff are pitching and prototyping new ideas including Destiny games, but none are yet greenlit. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I am aware of the effect that I have on women
Hamlette@hamlette.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me
i’m gonna keep this folded up in my pocket like i’m kevin costner in DRAFT DAY
djoyce@joycelaurie.bsky.social · 4mo agowake it up
I am aware of the effect that I have on women
Hamlette@hamlette.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me
No, Aaron. I get you’re in a tough spot, but I cannot permit you to run from this.
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 4mo agoOkay, hang on Aaron. When users identify a patten of moderation decisions that have a disproportionate effect on a marginalized community, or disproportionately target that community, an objection can be raised as to the neutrality of the moderation infrastructure.
Asking her if she would be able to ask the server what the “pup seasoning” in the dog meal is—a normal question that a normal person could conceivably ask for normal reasons—without giving herself away. And she says, no, there’s no way she could. Not with the collar on.
Same for the story, also. It’s both: —At atmospheric and surreal homage to the 19th century horror book The King In Yellow —The most Videogames treatment possible of a straight man whose only visible motivation is obsession with an offscreen woman So, you know, it depends on what’s important to you
Hamlette@hamlette.bsky.social · 5mo agoBoss 2 down (1-shot 💪🏽). Man, Saros and Returnal are so weird. A kind of…semi-rogue structure that…does it make sense actually? Some upgrades and stats and whatnot that are, like, fine? Run variance but just…a little? And then shooting and dodging and enemies that you can’t stop going back to again.
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility
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Boss 2 down (1-shot 💪🏽). Man, Saros and Returnal are so weird. A kind of…semi-rogue structure that…does it make sense actually? Some upgrades and stats and whatnot that are, like, fine? Run variance but just…a little? And then shooting and dodging and enemies that you can’t stop going back to again.
Hamlette@hamlette.bsky.social · 5mo agoA few mins late clicking on a work meeting because I was in the middle of the first major boss of Saros. Eveything turned out fine though. I won.
A few mins late clicking on a work meeting because I was in the middle of the first major boss of Saros. Eveything turned out fine though. I won.
Ruiner. When I saw them live last fall, Ruiner was a piano solo—which was cool, but I honestly did miss the album arrangement.
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5mo agoName your fav NIN song.
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
I have no opinion on this. I will not be tricked into mocking or humiliating a cis man on the internet for free.
Amoura@getamouraapp.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm a cis man building a trans-first dating app called Amoura. I know how that lands. Worth saying upfront before any of the rest. The short version of what I'm building below.
Whenever something similar to this (player-perceived power being a one-way ratchet) came up on WoW, I called it "the flying problem". Basically, whatever new thing you want to try or change you want to accomplish, players can't be less able to fly than they were in 2007.
Hamlette@hamlette.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere’s a trap that happens to early access games, which is that making any element harder spawns enormous backlash. Famous example is Darkest Dungeon. I’d kind of imagined STS2 would be immune to this, but I suppose I don’t know why exactly I thought so. youtu.be/Os5uLJbcDP8?...
I'm a game designer, and glimpsing his game show made me realize he doesn't entirely grasp the concept of a game show. So I imagine an employment lawyer must look at him and realize he probably doesn't understand exactly, in a important sense, what an "employee" is. It's reverse Gell-Mann amnesia.
Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 5mo agook the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this
Saving this to use in my gaming sub-hobby of trying to get my friends to play Outer Wilds
Josh Scherr@joshscherr.bsky.social · 5mo agoAs much as I love OUTER WILDS, it is not an easy game to get into for some folks - there's very little direction & the navigation controls take some practice. After a number of friends bounced off the game, I wrote up some tips which I've revised/added to over the years. Maybe they'll help you too?
There’s a trap that happens to early access games, which is that making any element harder spawns enormous backlash. Famous example is Darkest Dungeon. I’d kind of imagined STS2 would be immune to this, but I suppose I don’t know why exactly I thought so. youtu.be/Os5uLJbcDP8?...
I Read Chinese Reviews to Understand Slay the Spire 2’s Backlash
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The first time a lesbian says directly to your face “I like older women” is a lot of things to reckon with all at once
Obligatory note, of course, that also it wouldn’t matter anyway if trans women were really good at sports. If we have women’s sports, I tend to imagine that women who are good at sports are people that we want to have participating.
Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 5mo agoOh wow really
Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER
Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 5mo agoOh wow really
“Why must life be so hard? Why must I fail in every attempt at masonry?”
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5mo agoName your fav joke from The Simpsons.
Even now (almost 20 years later) this makes me feel better about not getting a federal clerkship while I was at HLS (Like, I knew about FedSoc before this post, but just reading it put this way is cathartic)
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe "aha" moment for me was when I was told, explicitly, that FedSoc is for ambitious people who want a federal clerkship and have no principles to get in the way of getting one