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Seer of Hope

@dexdavican.bsky.social

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Freelance writer (Exalted 3rd Edition & Exalted Essence), amateur game-designer, mental health professional, homestuck. (Grew out of my Knight Era.)

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Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · Feb 9

Check out my original games here: we-need-to-talk.itch.io

My latest is TRUE POWER, a game inspired by action games and media like Devil May Cry, Trigun, and Mega Man X.

Plus other games inspired by The Crow, Silent Hill, and Homestuck.

We Need To Talk

we-need-to-talk.itch.io

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 8h

I've seen RPGs with Holy/Dark damage types where high-tech weapons inflict Dark damage because they represent the subjugation of Nature to the will of Man or whatever, and I REALLY want to invert that reasoning. Getting punched by a robot does Holy damage because robots are free of Original Sin.

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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 10h

you don’t want fuck Ghostface.
you just want a man who calls you all the time and asks about your favorite movies

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm enjoying this!"

"Do you recommend it?"

"Honestly, I'm terrified to recommend it. You can tell when it was written, and I feel like I need to give several 'yes, various parts are bullcarp and/or shockingly offensive' warnings."

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Goku voice actor Masako Nozawa was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit by Japan 🇯🇵

• She's the first voice actor ever to receive this honor

• The government will pay her $23K annually for life

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TurquoiseHammer @turquoisehammer.bsky.social · 1d

I'd never put this together until today reading the phrase 晩鐘 (banshō, evening bell) that Yuffie's ultimate limit, all creation (森羅万象, shinrabanshō) can also be interpreted as shinra's evening bell (i.e., herald of shinra's downfall). Maybe I'm overthinking it

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 1d

Star Trek themed management sim where you manage an entire starship or starbase where attacks from hostile forces, encounters with strange aliens, and interpersonal conflicts between crewmembers are inevitable

Choose between building your own crew, or using a Trek classic

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Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

for a moment I read "Dear God, it's Steve" as an exclamation of horror, and that tone honestly wasn't far from where we ended up

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pray-2 #smbc

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mcc @dryad.technology · 1d

I have this idea for a video game where there's a fast travel option but every time you fast travel there's a 12% chance instead of taking you to your destination it drops you off in an entirely different place and then there's an ultrahard on-foot section. I call it "the Toronto Transit Commission"

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

It's really sad that entertainment overall has become a landlord economy. The people who own the platforms make the money. The people who provide the labor make crumbs in comparison.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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axolotl "Wound Licker" lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

i'm always fascinated by elaborate kayfabe systems of power that completely break down after the guy who comes up with them die. the roman empire being divided by a pair of augusti and a pair of caesares, the tetrarchs, who were sort of supposed to be seen as the same person

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I know absolutely nothing about Arcane other than there's a character in it named Cait and like once a month I see a post seemingly accusing me of being a war criminal or something and get very confused for a second

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Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social · 1d

My retirement plan? I dunno, I guess im just gonna leave lots of cryptic journal entries around town for a future protagonist to piece together what day to day life was like before the fall.

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Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention that some of those chunks will in fact be composed of/influenced by actual bad actors seeking to undermine the group’s goal by shifting focus. Purity tests in theory weed these out along with the more well-intentioned distractions.

Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

I think the natural intersectionality of political aims means that every single-issue movement naturally starts to lose focus as chunks of the movement decide that different secondary aims are relevant or crucial for the primary aim. Which then results in arguments for/tests of purity.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think that's lost on a LOT of people under the age of, like, 30-ish. Doc Brown's time machine was a DeLorean because DeLoreans were stupid garbage. It was a lemon he probably got for $500. Using it was just another thing made him look insane. 80s audiences would have understood that.

vampironique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 1d

satire that people misunderstood: they picked the delorean for back to the future as a joke because it was a failed vision of the future

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Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so perfectly fine-tuned to his audience, who would largely claim that Peterson’s philosophy was for everyone but also feel like any inclusion of a clearly non-white student in the ad would be pandering

Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

Love how evil this “Peterson University” ad I’ve been seeing is. It’s got Peterson spouting pseudo-profundities, of course, but it’s also promising to be “ideology-free” while talking up Jesus, and it never lets you get a close look at the students so you can’t confidently claim they’re all white

Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 1d

A bittersweet video about the loss of a parent youtu.be/EvdDIJ2ojDM?...

【ORIGINAL MV】I'll still be here - Gigi Murin

YouTube video by Gigi Murin Ch. hololive-EN

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 2d

i'm at the Yes Kings rally and it's really rough. most of it is me pouring mead for this guy while he entertains lords from far away lands

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Dani Teal @tealkittenpaws.bsky.social · 2d

tell him the truth

#homestuck #hs:bc

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Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 2d

Sincerely tempted to write a novel with this comic as the starting premise. The brotherhood of failed questers

www.stutterhug.com/comic/life-a...

Stutterhug

Silent, gentle, emotionally driven comics to brighten your day and soothe your woes.

www.stutterhug.com

Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 2d

It's a bigger issue in the Hades games in my opinion, because you're expected to do so many runs to get the epilogues, and if you finish a run early enough that means that the rest of the game is spent tweaking things to keep the game interesting

Seer of Hope @dexdavican.bsky.social · 3d

I asked Grok to describe me once based on my Twitter account, and it said I had a sassy, irreverent tone and also that I was way into sports

If “ask a basic question and get an accurate response” is not the LLM use case then I’d rather, you know, look things up myself

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

i've asked an llm one question, about something i know about, and it made up a bunch of incorrect bullshit that i knew to be false. what am i supposed to do with that

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.