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Giada Zavarise

@cheerfulgoth.bsky.social

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Gamedev, cat lover, shitposter, content designer @ Paradox (Stellaris, Cool Unannounced Game) | http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://bricabrac.itch.io/

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · Oct 19

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Hello, I'm Giada!

🗞️ Former games journalist (RPS, Eurogamer, PC Gamer)
📚 Narrative Designer (Monster Loves You Too!)
🖥️ Now Content Designer at Paradox
☀️ Still trying to finish Selling Sunlight in my free time I swear

Portfolio: giadazavarise.com
More small games: bricabrac.itch.io

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 45m

unplanned German localisation announced

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 4h

and that's why the whole industry is into Warhammer

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 19h

is there a website like goodreads where the "similar books" recommendations AREN'T algorithmically generated? I am looking for the equivalent to MyAnimeList's user-made lists

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Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social · 17h

This is a magnificent piece of writing. In genuine awe here.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17h

"I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!"

I’m a Chunky Geometric Statement Necklace, and I’m Here to Solve the Woman Invisibility Problem

They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger? Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey ...

buff.ly

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 19h

is there a website like goodreads where the "similar books" recommendations AREN'T algorithmically generated? I am looking for the equivalent to MyAnimeList's user-made lists

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 21h

past script lock, but

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 23h

The French wikipedia page has an entire section on this weird dress, theories and reproduction attempts: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peau_d%...

Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 23h

In French Musical Donkey Skin, the protagonist wears a dress "the color of the weather" with moving clouds dancing on the fabric. No one quite knows how they were able to accomplish this in 1970:

youtu.be/otydgTryWak?...

Peau d'âne - Scène des robes

YouTube video by TacitusK

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 1d

I moved around 2021 and even without knowing any Swedish, going from 2 years of full lockdowns to a place where people weren't even wearing masks was.... it sure was something

Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 1d

On one hand I feel pretty guilty about my very basic level of Svenska after living here for years

On the other, sometimes it's great to be blissfully unaware

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 2d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 2d

I have been on a project where the stress test was "what's the emergent story that should develop when cannibals interact with this new feature". I am not gonna say the project. It could be any Paradox game

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah we do this all the time at Paradox, see: the Party Baron
www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-met...

Have you met the party baron of Crusader Kings 3?

He's no painter, and he's likely long scarpered from Crusader Kings 3, but the Party Baron has left his mark on Paradox's cast of medieval cretins.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 2d

I made it! Always funny/sad to see it resurface

Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 2d

Especially in dating sims! You get a cast of varied personalities, which means not every hot anime boy/girl/person will appeal to everyone!! I don't want to romance people I don't truly care about just to see the story, it just makes me feel evil!

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 4d

omg, do you have a source? First time I hear this story

Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 4d

!!! a rare unmasked Grim! Hello!

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 4d

Fate/Stay Night took more than a decade to get an official English translation, so it got fan-translated and retranslated multiple times over the years. People have Takes, but on one thing we all agree:

genderbent King Arthur is called ARTORIA Pendragon, not Altria like in the official translation

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 4d

I got an entire career through the sheer power of my posting

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 5d

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 5d

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 5d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Generation Zero Cover Image featuring A person with dog robot companion firing a rocket launcher at a giant bipedal robot.

Cover image of Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows featuring 3 dioramas of the frozen north and the wall of ice

Cover image of City Of Red Waters featuring cedar trees in a red bayou

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 7d

Our entire catalogue for like $10, I don't know what to tell you! store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 7d

Necrons AND Orks both being too busy with political infighting to agree on anything is surprising yet makes so much sense

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 7d

Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction. Astounding. Motion for Deathwatch to be renamed to Hotwifewatch.

www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...

Text tong to fit - it's a list of subreddit memberships for each of the 40k factions. Here's a sample...

r/AdeptusCustodes: gundam (19.71), airforce (19.20), daytrading (16.56), sandersforpresident (9.82), centrist (6.93). Conclusion: Ex-military guys with schizophrenic politics.

r/AdeptusMechanicus: pathfinder_rpg (14.05), adhdmeme (7.27), dankleft (6.07), theowlhouse (5.88), kerbalspaceprogram (5.39). Conclusion: Current stereotypes are pretty much correct.

r/BloodAngels: preppers (15.98), airforce (15.74), menslib (9.04), asktrp (9.01), asktrumpsupporters (8.45). Conclusion: Black Templars got nothing on these guys.

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