Bounty hunter who uses parkour to catch his targets, named Skip Traceur

People will say “Oh so Google gets mad about copyright when people do it but not when they do” but these two images are consistent: your creative labor is a profitable plaything for people more powerful that you

I'm stoicmaxxing

You're laughing. Thor was traumatized by the Infinity War, and you're laughing

LLMs are "what if the allegory of the cave but also it destroys your ability to think critically and solve problems"

"Can you believe Todd McFarlane has embraced AI?" I can believe that more about Todd than I can about anyone.

My Irish grandmother once told me I had the gift of gab. It was not meant as a compliment. Harness my blarney for your own dark designs and capitalist aspirations by hiring me to write for you.

This one was pretty good though

Really if you think about it, all our troubles can be traced back to the pools of amino acid from which all life on earth sprung, leading directly to both Reagan and Thatcher, who in turn created the condition for Trump's ascension to power and now there's a dang ol' cheeto in the white house!

Billions are unnecessarily trapped in Samsara because the agricultural revolution allowed the population to expand to this point. Those souls did not need to be trapped in the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

The invention of the wheel was bad because it led to traffic congestion

In 2015 I wrote a book set in 2025. It, uh, failed to address a lot of things.

there are a lot of people screaming "the left hates women" today, and I just want to say, this is what I meant. there is vile misogyny, apologia, and defense of this asshole that's turning the place toxic. it's coming from the liberal centrist Democrats and getting blamed on the left.

I find this disappointing, and a good reason to pivot to Godot with the Dialogic or an Ink plugin.

one of the posts was flagged as a tos violation, apparently mistakenly

Sonic the Hedge Fund Manager

SEGA began life because the Bromberg's got blacklisted from US military bases for the crime of doing too many crimes, and had to reincorporate Service Games as SEGA to keep doing business.

▢ I accept that I didn't care enough about what I was creating to do it myself, and accept that as my brand in the eyes of consumers.

Friendly reminder:

It is understandable to find value in a redemption story. However, if you can't understand that it's not only rational but prudent to be skeptical of a mercenary with a nazi tattoo, who claimed to not know its meaning while being a ww2 history buff, you're either being disingenuous or a rube.

A big part of the reason why I've been having such trouble finding work over the last 15 months.

look if sextape and cookiepus can get into Noel's ethereal dreamscape, entities created therein can certainly get out.

Working on a serial whose comp line is currently "Joel from The Last of Us as the Black Swordsman in the Caves of Qud." #amWriting

Anthony Head, Michelle Trachtenberg, Nicholas Brendon... rough year(ish) for Buffy fans.

I would argue that this is vital knowledge for everyone who doesn't have faith that the US legal system is fair and just.

"During Prohibition, when the public was frustrated with alcohol control laws, it became commonplace for juries to acquit people charged with liquor possession, manufacturing or sale—even when the evidence of guilt was undeniable. In some jurisdictions the majority of such cases ended this way."

Heard today that the 2-3 AI companies that are used to filter job applications evaluate a resume against one job them use that score for 330 days instead of re-evaluating every time that person is filtered by that company. Does not bode well for my job hunt.

If you haven't started talking to your kids about how to scavenge enough scrap to pay Lord Humungus's tribute, now's the time.

Hanging out at a friend's place and having him show me BBS door games on his Atari ST.

Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)

Isekaiception

I knew I liked this guy. Seriously though. He built his career with free and student-license software and talent. I’ve been a fan since the first video and am thrilled he’s had such success. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Merge two movies: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Hire me. I'm a senior level writer, but cheaper than AI in almost every regard and of higher quality, too.

Hey, if I were to start writing an interactive fiction serial that patreon supporters got early access to, would you be more inclined to become a patron for a Twine choice-based serial, or a parser-based serial in TADS3 or Inform7? #amWriting #interactiveFiction

Disturbingly for me, at the retro event over the weekend I had at least 3 people ask me if I used AI to help make games for the Game Boy, I want to make it clear, I’ve been coding since 1987, and making Game Boy games since 1999. I have never used AI to help with game development.

Can we normalize class war?

AI cannot create art, because art is meaning derived from synthesis. Meaning requires intent, and it is incapable of intent. If you prompt it, you act as director or patron; your intent does not transfer because it has nowhere to go You end up with output no human cared enough to create. It shows

honestly, facts. Mastodon is not perfect but this place sure as shit isn’t either

I'm helping host a panel for the DFI's Festival of Storytelling next week - we'll be talking about games and nonlinear storytelling - @playthroughline.com @heidi-colthup.bsky.social and John Wills will all be there sharing amazing insights! Free tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Now, I know what your thinking. Tzimisce or Tremere, right? Maybe Toreador? Well, you're wrong. Derek was the _storyteller_ at his med school's V:tM Larp.

"Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness." — George Bernard Shaw

Big hello to new followers! I'm Michael, Narrative Designer and Game Writer. I've been laid off for quite some time so job leads are appreciated; my runway is crumbling fast. I have a youTube channel focused on video game history and retrogame narrative analysis, check it out:

writing tips - experimental fiction edition. you might think that experimental fiction is the type of writing that needs the fewest rules. you'd be dead wrong