Travis Grathwell

@tjgrathwell.bsky.social

I forgot

I was tricked by a very nice person into talking about my career, and a bunch of the amazing things I’ve been able to make with my friends over the last 25 years. If you want to hear someone ramble about LucasArts fan sites, the early years of Telltale, and Firewatch, this chat with Ron is for you:

Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼@ronscompvids.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Let's Chat with @rodkin.online - Designer of Firewatch! youtu.be/9hLDHQBpGI8

One of the worst clients I ever had, who I fired a few years ago, would respond to my emails by plugging what I wrote into chatgpt with a prompt that must have been "why is this wrong?". Every task became a drawn out argument between me and a bot.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I sympathize that some clients use AI to organize their thoughts, but as a whole, I find clients using AI to draft their communications to me to be more of a barrier than a help to clear communication, because AI tends to throw in lots of chaff and inaccuracies that cause confusion.

you know, there's nothing quite like baseball. actually, hold on. now that i think about it, softball is a lot like baseball. you know what, nevermind. man. what a turd this post turned out to be, huh

There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.

Zoey Béchamel@zoeybechamel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So you agree that the establishment doesn't care about the disenfranchised? You agree that the current politic is an ever-diminishing clique of fundraisers and yes-men staying in their bubble, incapable and unwilling to reach the people that need to be reached the most?

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

There are two different places you can live in America, one is a place where lemons cost a little more than you think they should, and the other is a place where people are handing you lemons trying to get rid of the giant pile of lemons

Tech Billionaires love doing just enough LSD to convince themselves that there’s only the present and the soul is fake but not enough to take that idea to its logical conclusion.