Macross Plus is neat because it evolves the space opera + coming of age + pop music formula of its predecessor. Part of the secret is it’s a coming of age tale about turning 30 instead of 18. Part of it is Yoko Kanno.
I don't even disagree with the concept that genAI will end up in corners of post production, I just tire of the lack of context in the bubble. At least this article didn't do the thing where they're like "AI has been used in filmmaking for decades" and they're talking about noise reduction plugins.
This article is like "from one known director to this one..." like it's a range, when it's the two total guys actually releasing stuff made with genAI. And one of these "projects" was that wretched Time AI historical series everyone hates. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
How many fucking “godfathers of AI” are there, and why do none of them talk about the actual realities of LLMs? Grifters galore
I think it’s still either Macross or The Tomorrow People for me.
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Practice sitting with whatever it is stopping you rather than reacting to it. That thing will never go away, so you might as well put it next to you, let it wail, put on some LISA or whatever, and get to work.
You’d be shocked how illiterate elements of the industry are, lots of this stuff.
This is also game design illiteracy
Today, exactly 1 year ago, I started a new project, that later became Gloom Gate. It began as a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds and it evolved into a full grown game-dev project I'm really proud of!
#gamedev #indiegame #1bit #playdate
I suppose StS is big enough matchmaking was a possibility but this does read like “Tetris roadmap suggests we won’t get open world continent, but does promise tetrises.”
Hey now I remember Harold and so do you. And the spiders zit and the rat dog and the drum and the hotel one that had a bunch of extra material explaining it
Tiffany Stiff: “Tiffany Stiff.”
Flooding a little market like Playdate's with the kind of junk you see in bigger stores would kill the host body so fast. Not that Kindle Direct and other platforms are healthy, they're just big enough that it's less like eating glass and more like eating sand. help.play.date/catalog-deve...
In addition to being a deeply fun, challenging, and empathetic exercise, this practice helps so much in narrative dev work. Yes, NPCs, yes, branching, but also just because we're expected to tone match.
I have a favorite book that I was thrilled to learn had a spinoff story written from a major character's perspective. It was super disappointing to find the story read very similar to the o.g. and felt like an obligatory handwave to sate the fans.
This type of work is deeply personal to me. I learned to write on a collaborative writing website (ye olde psyhigh.com) and every novel I've written has point of view shifts. One is an anthology with writing from over fifty POV characters (though tbf most act as a sort of Greek chorus).
Collaborative storytelling is powerful, relatively easy to spin up, and adds a lifelike iceberg vibe to the worldbuilding. It's a shortcut to the authentic feeling contradictions we hit in our world. aftermath.site/left-4-dead-...
let's get Villa's
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If you haven’t seen it, it’s so DENSE and weird. It demands engagement and rewards a revisit once you know more about the world
I found the Marathon debut film super engaging in part because there was so little traditional filmic language to latch onto, same as his take on The Pitt. Interesting.
I think a bug flew into my mouth
I dunno they would have to have seen the movie or to know what Mortal Kombat is to do that
Huh. @rudetales.bsky.social ‘s new high school arc is spectacular.
Back when I wrote that explainer essay about the AI bubble for writers, I noted four existential threats to the bubble. One of those was audience perception. All four are very much still alive, but that one has become supercharged in the last year.
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this is just like when I went to listen to the How Did This Get Made episode about the '95 Mortal Kombat and they had no actual information about how the movie got made and the jokes weren't good enough to make up for it
For all the wild adventures I’ve had in Marathon, I’ve never seen anything quite like this.
