A standing ovation on stage is nice but have you ever had most of your team emoji react with :lol: to a throwaway joke in the text chat of the all hands
Yichao
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Narrative director and creative consultant, making secret new things. 👀 Previously Phoenix Labs, Riot Games, Wizards of the Coast, ArenaNet, Imagineering. Founder of Take 5 Improv. Cofounded Jam & Tea Studios. Most often found in Seattle. ✨
Teaching a week long seminar on writing for games this week Me: how many of you like games All hands go up Me: how many of you like group projects Most hands go down Me: I have terrible news for you all
“Revising a draft is like cleaning a toilet; you can’t make it worse!” is now one of my favorite author quotes
Don’t dream of winning the awards. 🏆 Dream of making the art. 💙 One depends on waiting for others to give you permission and validation. The other becomes success the moment you begin, and only deepens as you continue the work.
Folks are right to be incredulous when these people spout off like this, but it’s also important to remember that they are performing for an audience of two, and both of them have proven time and again that flattery works and that they believe anything their favorite Telly programs tell them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoExclusive Senior Adviser to Melania Trump Marc Beckman: "I believe that our First Lady -- the current First Lady Melania Trump -- is the single most consequential First Lady in the history of our nation ... it is fair to argue she's had more impact on the peace process between Ukraine and Russia..."
A student just said "I think journaling is microdosing vulnerability" and boy howdy these kids should warn a guy before they just drop incisive and relentlessly provocative thoughts like this
Lindsey Graham died before Mitch McConnell but also after Mitch McConnell, otherwise known as a Schrödinger's Mitch
From the makers of Squid Game The Game comes“We built the “don’t build the torment nexus” immersive live experience”
Tired: let’s put a pin in this and circle back Wired: let’s put that on the stack and resolve it after this suspend trigger
Guy: so what are you doing in the area? I didn’t think this was close to you. Girl: it’s not. But I just wanted to spend time with you. :) Guy: hm. I’m now watching her try to flirt and say overt and obvious “I really like you” things and him he completely oblivious somehow
It's been a while since I've gotten to bring this lil' stamp out of retirement 🫡 Excited to be crafting some new lore again
Thinking of how my chapter in an academic textbook opens with this picture bc no one told me the “fun headshot” they requested would be published without further questions or context at the start of said chapter
Haters: yall need Jesus 20 person polycule: nah we good we got scrum
It's finally happened. I am officially "will there be parking at this social gathering" years old 🫡
Me, making two references back to back that's first Hot Ones then Chicken Shop Date: "wow, I watch a lot of chicken based interview shows"
Drafts are great because instead of tapping "post" you can just tap "save to drafts" instead and live a healthy carefree life
Listen, I’m very happy for your gritty and immersive live service title where your actions have consequences, but could I also interest you in making a bright and fourth wall breaking single player game where choices don’t matter bc you’re just a silly little guy
“Our video game lets you make dynamic choices that matter” The choices:
I enjoy board games, but they don’t trigger my unrelenting crushing guilt that “I should be writing instead” quite enough Board game designers: hold my beer
I once witnessed a girl working at a Chipotle correct her coworker that it’s “only one scoop of meat actually” and y’all when multiple people spontaneously boo’ed her it was the most solidarity I’ve experienced in this country in a long time
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou were, basically, stealing from Subway. They had their rules for their company and you decided not to abide by them. What you do with your own business is up to you but what you did was wrong at Subway.
Thinking about the time we ran into our 70 year old classmate from improv 101 at a show and I said “it’s so good to see you! This show is great you’re gonna love it” and she said “THANK YOU” very loud then leaned in and whispered even louder “I’m VERY high right now” Anyway Seattle’s pretty great
"We put an error prone slander machine into our previously ironclad high trust search product and all it cost to do so was all the water and electricity capacity in Wyoming, only to get sued and lose in German courts over it" was, somehow, not on my 2026 bingo card
Yo but these lines slap 👏 From the deep lore (demon true names!) to the sick burns (Garen has no honor XD) to the nicknames (thrilled they got away with calling Swain “Jerry”), the writing here is 🔥🤌✨
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Creative work within games can be tough to estimate, because "create the compelling third act of the experience" can take anywhere from 30 minutes when a breakthrough idea strikes, to three weeks of chewing through concepts and explorations that don't quite land. /1