Annie who lives here
@stellarine.bsky.social
writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social / @play.date enjoyer / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers
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Assassin's Quest went absolutely LOONEYTUNES in the last 250 pages and I'm still processing
I think Ezra Klein and his interviewees should have to eat deathly spicy chicken wings the whole time a la Hot Ones. If they're going to inflict their thoughts on us they should all be in pain while they do it
I love driving by the Riviera or the Aragon and trying to guess who's performing based on the look of the crowd. I usually get it wrong but one time I had it in one try and that was for PinkPantheress
My favorite wannabe solopreneur influencer move I've been seeing lately is reels filmed as if they're being interviewed for a podcast but they never ever show an interviewer actually asking them the question they're responding to. Because it's a fake interview lmao
Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion
With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history
kotaku.com
Highly recommend Gods & Kings from Dana Thomas for the best context/bg on how John Galliano since the very beginning of his career has always been a world class shit. Also its essential reading for McQueen mega-stans like myself.
Starting imminently!!
Annie who lives here@stellarine.bsky.social · last wk.I've been Greekmythmaxxing this week what with The Odyssey and Hadestown but tonight it's time to take a look at the fallout of a DIFFERENT incestuous pantheon. That's right, more Elden Ring with @robinbombus.bsky.social on Parallel Players at 7:30pm CT/8:30pm ET. See you later:
I've been Greekmythmaxxing this week what with The Odyssey and Hadestown but tonight it's time to take a look at the fallout of a DIFFERENT incestuous pantheon. That's right, more Elden Ring with @robinbombus.bsky.social on Parallel Players at 7:30pm CT/8:30pm ET. See you later:
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Hi, we're Annie and Robin. We're very smart and funny but unfortunately we do play a lot of video games.
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Greekmythmaxxing this week seeing The Odyssey and the Hadestown proshot in theaters all while finishing up Hades II in the meantime
Actually put Robert Pattinson as Antinous into the next season of Love Island UK and see what happens
Funny to see statues of the Trojan Horse for Odyssey photo ops and even popcorn bucket souvenirs of the thing and know the thematic and symbolic equivalent for Oppenheimer would've been the literal Fat Man atomic bomb
One thing about Nolan's Odyssey is that every character is actually in their own genre of story. Odysseys is obvi on THE odyssey/homecoming journey. Penelope is in a romantic tragedy. Telemachus is doing coming of age. Pattinson's Antinous, meanwhile, is literally doing Love Island
Really good example of the the strengths and limitations of the subject matter expert as critic
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Nodding vigorously at this bit from an interview with noted translator Emily Wilson on Nolan's The Odyssey (whole thing worth reading over here: www.derekthompson.org/p/emily-wils...
Extremely bold of Christopher Nolan to play "Who Says You Can't Go Home" by Jon Bon Jovi over the credits of The Odyssey
Switch 2 cartridges are still flavored bitter btw. If anyone was wondering.
So @robinbombus.bsky.social and I played some Elden Ring off-stream the other day and acquired an EXCELLENT hat. Join us on stream tonight in about 20 min for a fashion show featuring said hat:
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Still thinking about the market from this weekend. I would love to do this more regularly but I need to get a lot more merch together before I do. Still!! Big life experience!!
I got asked about AI in games again! I think we underestimate how, while AI use is more rampant in the East than the West, our protections against it here are dramatically worse.
![From the Gamesradar article: "Necrosoft Games creative director Brandon Sheffield also highlights a cultural divide. "I think we are witnessing an attempted assassination on the very concept of creative work, especially in the West," he says. "While I'm anti AI use everywhere, at least in China and Japan people aren't getting fired with the intention to replace them with AI as that's legally difficult. There it's being used to supplement the work. I've seen Chinese companies express amazement at how Western studios are firing folks in order to have 'fewer devs do more' with AI. Why fire all your good people?"
Sheffield says Necrosoft will never use gen AI. "I feel sick about it frankly," he adds, and he would love to see the tech "be treated like a pariah." In his view, "once you let it infect your studio, [it] creatively bankrupts that studio."
"We've also seen that companies outside of games have had to hire back their engineers because AI couldn't cut it – or they're finding that all their tokens are getting spent by execs on 'convert this PDF to a powerpoint' which is cheaper to just have an intern do! So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat ... We're dismantling the entire industry in the interest of short-term shareholder gains and it's just a terrible plan.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qpbuxrel3f3njvjw5rakf532/bafkreidb5l652wbuiw2l7xib3zy2c57q55m2mwhvnhdvhe7z73ca2wqupe)
Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...
God this sucks. The Art Institute and its attached school (of which I am an alum) are always making unbearably terrible decisions
The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
hyperallergic.com
Trinket Fest was exhausting but very fun. Now I am in my bed. Why are all of you talking about Spain. Did they do something important
Annie who lives here@stellarine.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are here AT TRINKET FEST!! 12-8pm at 4325 N Ravenswood Ave. Find me and Izzy on the second floor!!
We are here AT TRINKET FEST!! 12-8pm at 4325 N Ravenswood Ave. Find me and Izzy on the second floor!!
I'm reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb and I can't put it down but also FitzChivalry despite all his badassery is so PAINFULLY fifteen years old. Every twenty pages or so I want to reach in, shake him and yell at him in very plain English everything he's not noticing
What I will say about Dungeon Crawler Carl is that I have not read it and will not read it and if you like it godspeed but nothing I've ever heard about it has surprised me in any way because I feel like I actually already have read it but as a webcomic in 2005
