Hey @adobe.com, how about a UI font size option in Premiere? For those of us without absolutely perfect eyesight? Menu text is really very, very small. (Fun fact: there was a way to do it through the debug menu, but they removed it. Discouraging.)

I kinda wanna know if in the original script for Bound, Jennifer Tilly betrays Gina Gershon, as she had planned all along. But then someone thought that was too dark.

If your stories are about true things, they will always be timely. Unfortunately.

Finally it can be known: Lisa and I wrote two of the games in this showcase, Rainbow Billy 2 and The Caribou Trail. (Lisa did the heavy lifting on Rainbow Billy.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrr...

An argument is the shortest path to the truth.

So The Sticky is pretty fun. Fargo with a Québois accent.

Watched Downfall last night, a movie about a group of people who maintain their slavish adoration of an obviously delusional maniac long past the point where anyone with any sense of self-preservation would run for the hills. Timely.

Using that ole UCLA film degree to cut a small ad for Alink, a charity creating homes for neurodivergent folks to live on their own. Back in the day, cutting literally meant slicing the 16mm film. You got rid of blips on the sound reel by rubbing off the oxide with a Q-tip and acetone.

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

I've heard that moviegoers used to come in whenever and watch till the end, then stay till the point at which they came in. Hitchcock got theatres to stop that so Vertigo would work. So Q: was storytelling different in some way that we don't notice, since we now watch movies start to finish?

Happy Fat Tuesday!

It's a DECK BUILDER? why didn't anyone tell me? (I had already downloaded the demo.)

14 years ago we accidentally hired a genius to write the script for 80 Days. Now she’s narrative director on a deck-builder about billionaire busting. Check out All Will Rise:

I think Zohran may be the first mayor since Ed Koch to have fun mayoring.

Apple: Hey, remember all those movies and tv shows you paid money for? You can't watch them on an Android phone. The Apple TV app for Android does not have a "library" tab. Nyah, nyah.

Had some folks over Friday night for board games, so naturally for the past two days I have been finding things I bought to put out for them. My family was never into "less is more" when it comes to food.

This is superb. Wayne Horton may have invented a new genre of journalism. This is a deeply informed, wonderfully enlightening essay on how to behave in bad faith negotiations, as well as a perfect reading of Carney's manner and thinking, and it's satire. It is explanatory parody. And it's right.

Who told Gallup to stop running presidential approval polls? thehill.com/homenews/med...

It's -18 again.

They ought to give an award for Best Casting Discovery, but, like, 5 years later. Like, who cast Ryan Gosling in The Mickey Mouse Club? Or Justin Timberlake?

On March 5 I'm talking at Cinesite about how narrative works in games. Might be interesting for screenwriters, too. There's a lot going on under the hood. lnkd.in/ewfCzTaE

We watched the Riefenstahl doc. Odd thing. She wanted everyone to believe she was innocent. But what makes me sure she wasn't is that she could never bring herself to say she did anything wrong. Someone innocent might have said, "Yes, I made two films for the Nazis and I was besties with Hitler.

Boy, nothing beats the Muppets for sheer joy. Vaudeville is back, baby!

Find out what 118 game writers are thinking! (Including me!)

If I had to write a podcast for Aloy, essentially a blank slate character in spite of her backstory, I would be wracking my brain. I can't wait to see what keen observations the AI comes up with for her to make. "Robots, amirite?"

I never get tired of seeing how the fans feel about our worlds.

Happy Imbolc to all who celebrate. Hopefully the light is returning, eh?

I love that Sharif from "Rock the Casbah" made it into the Villains Wiki.

I'm so relieved that Beast Rabban has been sent home. Hopefully Feyd-Ruatha will make everything right.

Emma Lazarus' poem, on the Statue of Liberty, gets me every time: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the gold door. (Yep, choked up again.)

I get a little verklempt when somebody gets a tattoo of somebody we made up.

Hey, @washingtonpost.com, what if you reported what you see in the videos ?

The whistles. The whistles just keep going. Endlessly telling the goons that the people of the city hate them. They're scared. They are panicking. Murdering people hoping it will stop the whistles. But it doesn't.

Does anyone have this bystander’s video? Please share.

Okay but do i have to play TR-1 through 48 first ?

I'm going to do a little seminar about game narrative for non-narrative folks on March 5!

If we get through this, it will be only because the fascists are so transparently corrupt and cartoonishly evil. God forbid there's ever a mildly competent demogogue.

Reminds me of shooting in Cape Town. They explained that "I'll do it now" meant "soon," "now-now" meant "very soon," and "just now," meant "don't hold your breath." Nothing meant what a New Yorker means by "now," which is, "why isn't it already done?"

What is the deal with Montreal putting up 7 am snow clearance no parking signs in the middle of the night, so when you wake up you already have a ticket?

I want more dialogue systems where you can interrupt the NPC. complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-di...

What does not kill me makes me stranger.

I think Provigo has started using AI.

I don't think I've ever seen a more heartbreaking Hamlet/Ophelia scene. But then, it helps when the words are this clear. youtu.be/AR28oIFTzNY?...

I am having surprising trouble finding historical resources about the Vinland Vikings. There's kids' books and Farley Mowat's Westviking. Anyone have some recommendations?

Looking into narrative softwares for making a Thing of my own. I've always had other folks implementing my spreadsheets/Fade Ins/Final Drafts/Articies/Twines. There are a lot of options. Which is great, and also, yikes.

I'm so disappointed in a couple of games I played recently, that felt too "in order to progress, guess what I'm thinking." And they looked so promising on my wish list.

During the Cold War, everyone got that the Soviet Union would push the envelope -- they would get away with whatever they could wherever they could. It was the job of the United States to push back and keep them contained till they collapsed under their own corruption and ineptness. <clears throat>

Driving through Harlem we saw a sign that said 127th Street is James Brown Way. Which was disappointing, because it's 125th Street that takes you to the bridge.

Maybe we're thinking about legalizing illegal immigrants wrong. Maybe there should be a statute of limitations. If two people live as if they're married for seven years, they are now legally married. It's called common-law marriage. Most felonies can't be prosecuted >5 years after the crime. It's

“ all backed up by fantastic art, music, and voice performances. It’s a strong contender for my personal game of the year and it hasn’t left my mind since I finished it.” www.inverse.com/gaming/best-...