I sat down for dinner at my favorite Brooklyn dumpling joint where they normally blast Super Mario video game soundtracks, but tonight they're playing shitty modern country music. I don't understand. My sorrow is beyond comprehension.
Leamon Tuttle
@tuttlepower.bsky.social
Former Loremaster for The Elder Scrolls Online, former Loremaster for a rad cancelled project, current dude who's okay at video games and drinks too much caffeine.
TFW you black out and write a novel in someone's comments and then remember your opinion is largely irrelevant, and that you have to clean up a banana peel you left out on the counter, and that we're all going to die someday.
Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...
Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths
I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...
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One of the most eloquent (and most heartbreaking) posts on the ZOS layoff. He nailed it.
Finn@thefinninator.bsky.social · 3w agoBeen a bit but this one is for the #ZOSFam
I love how the youth of America is gradually evolving into the Tracksuit Draculas from Matt Fraction's run on Hawkeye. A literal exchange I heard on the train: Guy 1: "Bro, listen, bro. You need to calm down, bro." Guy 2: "Fuck you, bro. I'm hungry as shit, bro." Fucking poetry, bro.
My LinkedIn feed is like the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment. The list keeps growing, and it's utterly devastating. The cost of entertaining people should not be this high.
Yup. We’re looking for ANOTHER narrative designer to join our project! Come work on Star Wars!! ✨ www.respawn.com/careers/narr...
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If I see one more post calling this XBOX warcrime a "reset", I'm gonna fucking lose it.
Tfw someone behind you on the train has been humming lullabies for like two and a half hours and you think they're soothing a baby, but then you get up and see there is no baby.
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The World: "Leamon, you should walk more. Walking is extremely important. You should never stop walking." *Leamon walks around a bunch and develops shin splints* The World: "You walked too much. Why did you walk so much? You're walking wrong."
Layoffs are not just “how the industry is going” They happen because pieces of shit who care only about themselves are put in positions of power Pieces of shit who have ruined this industry Never forget what these people have done. This industry is devastated, and their bank accounts are bulging
1000 hard working devs got laid off from Epic today. FUCK these corpo assholes and FUCK their investors. I will never get over the irony that an industry that produces fun runs on misery.
Back in Brooklyn! I asked for a room that wasn't near the front desk because they blast music there all night. So, they sent me to the farthest reaches of the building, to a room facing the street. The loud, loud street.
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Honestly, what I remember best about Oblivion was the raw terror of encountering a mountain lion in the wild. I'm more scared of colovian mountain lions than I am of real mountain lions.
"I was born 87 years ago. For 65 years I've ruled as Tamriel's Emperor... This is the 27th of Last Seed; the Year of Akatosh 433. These are the closing days of the 3rd Era, and the final hours of my life." --Today is the 20th anniversary of the initial release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion!
Just reread @duncanfyfe.net 's exhaustively researched article on TES lore and man, do I have thoughts. Observe, as I barf them out for anyone who cares to read them!
Wowzas. Really cool stuff here. Strongly encourage a read!
Duncan Fyfe@duncanfyfe.net · 5mo agoFor @remapradio.bsky.social, I wrote about the worldbuilding business, and the apparently irreconcilable lore of Bethesda's ELDER SCROLLS games. This is about people who love lore, people who make it, people who break it, and those who do all three. remapradio.com/articles/who...
AHHHHH! Huge thank you to @pantaloonzzz.bsky.social for drawing my silly Sotha Sil design! She’s so cute. 😭🥰
Last night I had Guinness and two slices of Joe's Pizza in Brooklyn. I feel like I aced the assignment of "St Paddy's in NYC"
I have now made the journey from Baltimore to Brooklyn twice. When do I earn the right to berate tourists about their poor choice of pizzeria, then loudly direct them to follow a coked up possum to a half-collapsed cardboard box hidden beneath the J train that sells the "best slice in town?"
Sometimes I get so angry I'm like "I have never been this angry in my life!" But then I think back to 1993 and those little assholes on Legends of the Hidden Temple who couldn't get their shit together in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Being forced to watch that shit unfold ... That's true anger.
Have you ever built a recording studio out of your kids' blanket fort-making kit? Well, boy howdy, I sure have and lemme tell ya ... It looks like shit!
Leamon working on portfolio shit: "I'm a writer! An artist. What is an infographic if not a marriage of the two?" Canva:
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*Leamon pulls the skin from his cybernetic skeleton to reveal a L-2000 lore development platform"
Dr Holly Nielsen@hollynielsen.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhenever I hear devs or other creatives who do worldbuilding say they *have* to use ch*tGPT to help with their lore bibles because no human could possibly collate such a huge and complex world… I glare in historian
Astonishing X-Men #1 Age of Apocalypse was transformative for me - particularly the art. Joe Mad became a constant reference point for me (like many other aspiring comic geeks). Loved it from beginning to end!
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 7mo ago“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.” Without a doubt, Claremont/Byrne X-Men.
This is still the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie theater.
Rock@ricosblues.bsky.social · 7mo agoRewatched DEEP BLUE SEA. Renny Harlin the GOAT for this scene. #filmsky
Late to the party, I know, but Dispatch is really, really good.