Kris 🎃 Lorischild
@direkris.itch.io
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Game writer, editor, localizer, project manager. Looking for work! I wrote YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS and half of COZY GROVE. no pronouns or they/them
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Periodic reminder that I am open for work!

Specifically I am looking for:
-Writing roles
-Editing roles
-Project management roles

I have a decade of experience in all levels of journalism and seven years as a game developer and localizer
A cover for Cozy Grove, for which I was narrative co-lead and localization producer. League of Legends, for which I served as an archival editor. Honor Bound, for which I served as copy editor. You Are Jeff Bezos, a game I wrote.
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thecorodon.bsky.social
Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."
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Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"
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most annoying part of having a baby is how everyone you know is all "can I see the baby" "where's the baby" "I don't see the baby" "is there actually a baby" "I don't mean to imply anything" "it's just that... You've been different lately" "ever since you fainted during that weird electrical storm"
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djangowexler.bsky.social
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"
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I mean, this is the "empathy is a sin" crowd so
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Always have been
amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Who knew furries would be the vanguard of the resistance?
kamimagic.bsky.social
I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue
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"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
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This shoe is on the other foot and I don't like it!
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spoke to @afterclimate.com.au about the sustainable games standard, a means of tracking emissions now publicly available for use by the entire games industry. a lot of thought went into this thing
“In terms of methodology, each one is a little bit different,” said Abraham. “I started with whatever already existed, talked to a lot of our member companies and some other contributing ones. We knew we needed a quick and dirty method for as many as possible, so where there's the option to make a ‘spend based’ calculation, we've put one in there. Those are good for fast and easy numbers, but they don't give you any control over the emissions, because the only way to reduce them is ‘spend less money,’ which you might not want to do if you're marketing your new game.”

This meant that in some cases, Abraham – alongside games industry experts – had to devise new methods entirely.

“Like the [section 3.11] use of sold products (mobile) component, which says ‘OK, phones have batteries, what if we measure the battery level at the start and the end of a game session, that will tell us how much power the game has used,’” said Abraham. “Because the use of energy at the battery doesn't actually directly generate emissions, we also have to trace it back to the source, which is grid electricity emissions. To get power from the grid there has to be a charger that converts AC to DC, and when you do that you get power losses, so you also need to account for that by adding some extra on top for charger losses.”
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Two of my favorites. I believe "Escape the Green Room" has an explicit "You've gone full Jigsaw!" callout as well

But the MOST Saw trap design one might be Bingo
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Having now seen All The Game Changer, I can confirm the moniker is deserved and I am adding it to Sawniverse canon
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Time to see what this "Left-wing Jigsaw" fellow is all about
Sam Reich on the set of Game Changer.
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Having now seen All The Game Changer I can say the Jigsaw moniker is deserved and I'm a convert
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I get it but I really dislike the "the political climate is tense" phrasing the same way I don't like the "Gaza war" phrasing - we're foregoing that one side is people who want to live and the other side is people who have more power and both the means and intent to destroy and harm.
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
"Can we sell black characters in this political climate?" That is what Ubisoft asked itself and then answered, "No." Which is a skill issue and bigotry on THEIR part because black entertainers are out here selling their wares EVERY DAMN DAY, antiblackness be damned. Our culture MOVES NUMBERS.
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Lol what a weird fucking neg
A screenshot of a comment on my itch.io game You Are Jeff Bezos. It reads, "Excellent for a rushed game. I'd love to see it updated."
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The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
Screenshot of David Simon interview 
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015
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leguinbot.bsky.social
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
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Man I wish the Democrats of the Republican imagination actually existed. What a different world that would be
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blipstress.bsky.social
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much
Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner. 
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"