Mark Mausz

@redwizard86.bsky.social

Love my family, my cat, my friends, and my life. Games, anime, comics, occasional random/deep thoughts.

Well folks, after 10 years without being laid off, it finally happened. I’m now the FORMER narrative lead on skate. If you know of anyone looking for senior narrative, quest, or mission design roles, I’d love to chat about it with them (or you!)

Last night I wrapped up the first D&D campaign I’ve ever DM’d for. The players were all first timers too. I’m relieved now that the work is done and glad they enjoyed it. It was a lot of work but definitely worth it. I decided to commission this for them as a gift. I think they turned out great!

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I used my day off to play the new Halo. Damn it’s good! It looks amazing of course but it’s just as fun and addictive as it was 25 years ago. I also noticed some of the level layouts felt different. Maybe I’m remembering wrong but the Library level felt shorter. #HaloCampaignEvolved

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D&D commoners seeing PCs using magic and not understanding what’s happening must feel the same as people who don’t know how to recognize ai. “What do you mean it’s not real? I just saw it!” “No dad that was just a minor illusion. They’re everywhere now.” “Well how do I do that?” “Please don’t.”

I sell phones for a living, so I hear a lot about ai in iPhones and Samsungs and so on. Often I’m encouraged by those companies to push their ai to sell their phones. The other day a rep from one of the big companies told me ai in phones now is like how cameras were added to phones 20 years ago. …

if any Xbox employee from any studio or part of the company want to chat with a reporter about all this, anonymously or otherwise, my email and Signal are in my bio, and I would like to listen. I cannot fathom what everyone must be feeling right now.