yeah the bar is so low. so much of my blood and sweat in a medium where 'vague consistency' IS probably the best we can do under present constraints

(i think if you like this one you'll find ghost in the shell a little basic, perfumey, but ofc we all have different noses)

YES

Agar Olfactory Cero Eau de Parfum The year is 1999, and the world teeters on the edge of a digital reckoning.

HOWEVER (panting) the most “smell like computer” fragrance I have ever encountered is Agar Olfactory’s Cero. you can smell warm printer ink and fans spinning inside hot plastic casings. It’s unreal and very addictive and I try to get everyone to smell it

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Rook Perfumes’ “scent of the metaverse” is one of my signature scents and I’ve gone thru two bottles of it! that hot copper wire note man!!!

If You Don't Like Duck, Order Goose (Published 1970)

A legendary New York restaurant that opened in 1970! Can you imagine the Vibes

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its’ all a bout the Fun 😀

I don’t usually post about the games I work on because I want the privilege of running my mouth freely without being associated with / reflecting on my teams’ hard work

but also bc by nature of this business “my work” is often at odds with the design values I commonly like to talk about. conundrum

I love these tactile relics from an era when people commonly smoked after dinner. matchbooks acted as advertising and essentially as business cards listing key contact info. When you strike them they smell like history

Five vintage matchbooks with unique graphic design and colored heads. they are from international 1970s restaurants named “le carousel”, “Singapore restaurants”, “the sign of the dove”, “la rose”, and “the duck joint.”

A few of my latest matchbooks with exceptional vibes. many are restaurants from the 1970s

very little that has happened at work has ever been my choice 🫠

~Attention: Editors~

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I won't be weird about Disco.

I have read most of the Smiley books.

I am extremely good at what I do.

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich"

working from home

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

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I am not sure what changed — whether it’s me growing out of an intellectual phase, dunk culture, the fraying of communities build on Twitter that have scattered across platforms, the political moment, or all of the above

I do know that I no longer feel comfortable thinking out loud the way I did

I don’t even get along with the job title “game writer” because Writing ought to be such a small part of our job, outside of certain genres (e.g VN) where it’s the point

in interactive we have more tools than probably any other medium to “show not tell”, but I quit most games I start these days because they tell me how a moment or a character feels instead of inviting me to inhabit it. I enjoy when text is responsive and not didactic.

rather than show me a movie about where we are going and why, can you place me on the journey and let me explore it myself? At any given time does the game have a good reason for me to be clicking thru text instead of playing it?

in narrative design I find it frustrating when a game uses a dialogue scene to convey information that could be shared in an embodied, interactive way. don’t have a character describe herself; let me look through her things

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

yes, we talk about it like it's prescriptive or process driven and in fact it's just kinda curious

i also keep in mind what jordan peele says about finding the fun. we tend to assume writing has to be this dire emotional process, or structural labor -- make it fun for you, fold in your special interest, imagine something that entertains you, that will carry you into the flow most of the time!

when you 'feel' what you're doing, when you're moved by it, you don't worry if it's terrible or not

also writers tend to come up with a lot of tender psychological reasons we get stuck, 'oh it's imposter syndrome' etc, but imo it's a practical problem: you don't know how to tell the story yet. so break it down, start with the parts that are already alive in your mind for whatever reason

find the part of you that needs it to exist; bring it into alignment with what you need to express. shift it from being "something to be read by others" and toward "something to be written for you"

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