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@ironiciconic.bsky.social

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Award-winning writer, game designer, & programmer. Wrote for Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys & BAFTA-winning Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. Partner @ Talespinners. Cat sorcerer. Canadian. (He/They)

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · Apr 23

Time to update my intro!

I'm Chris Tihor, a game writer and designer, and founder of @ironiciconicstudios.ca. I've worked on a bunch of things but may be best known for working on Nancy Drew and Poirot games. More recently I worked on Monaco 2 and (the sadly cancelled) Life by You.

A group shot of the main characters of Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys with game title in the lower center of the image.

A game cover depicting the figure of a young Hercule Poirot striding forward with other mysterious characters surrounding him.

An image depicting 4 bands of colour with the silhouettes of the figures of security bots chasing Pockets in front of them. The title Monaco 2 is also silhouetted across the coloured bands.

A depiction of a sunset on a tropical island with a blue car driving along a road and a couple holding each other and gazing at the sunset. The game title "Life by You" hangs in the air.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7h

Are we certain that those are actual tech bros in the photo? They look like they're AI generated from a prompt. Even their names seem AI gen.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 17h

“Changing narrative is easiest”

🏰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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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow we had a successful game launch in 2025: A thread 🧵

We launched Little Rocket Lab this week, and it's been mega for us. Which is amazing, because well, the industry is bad right now!

So I wanna go through the things we did, in the hope that something here can be helpful to someone here

➡️➡️

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 3d

Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!

Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.

store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...

Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...

store.steampowered.com

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 4d

I'm so happy to see this finally completed!

New $38.1M Indigenous Law wing opens at UVic share.google/1TLeIREfb1MB...

New $38.1M Indigenous Law wing opens at UVic

The University of Victoria is celebrating the opening of its new Indigenous Law wing, which spans a whopping 2,440-square-metres (26,264-square-feet) and connects to the Murray and Anne Fraser Buildin...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

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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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 4d

Some days I just want to nap.

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 5d

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 4d

🇨🇦's Cybersecurity bill is back! Bill C-8 is Bill C-26's twin. 👯‍♀️ Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don't let #BillC8 fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bsky @openmedia.org

Fix Bill C-8: Stop the Fast-Track of a Flawed Cybersecurity Bill

Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let it fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 https://openmedia.org/FixBillC8

openmedia.org

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 5d

For sale: cute widdle iddy-biddy baby shoes! Also someone died? idk...

#FirstDrafts

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 6d

I would fly to Toronto for this. Good luck!

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 6d

Telus:
- plays a bad song
- plays a 2nd bad song
- interrupts 2nd song for an announcement
- starts playing 1st bad song again
- repeat ad infinitum

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 6d

If Telus were really for mental health then they wouldn't be subjecting me to this on-hold support line hell right now.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7d

Oh gods. That damned song!

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7d

I've never seen Titanic.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 9d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Feb 22

found this in my notes, good advice for aspiring devs

Rules for Game Dev
1. The gamer is always gamer
2. Games aren't finished, only completed
3. Always keep at least one infinite loop in your game to trap malevolent spirits
4. Don't code the small stuff (it's all stuff)
5. Respect the seven axes of player motivation
6. A bad game is bad forever, but a broken game is right twice a day
7. It's not about who you know, it's about knowing who
8. Disregard the eighth axis of player motivation
9. You couldn't make Super Mario today. Try again tomorrow.
10. The game developer with the most victory points at the end is the winner
11. Do not acknowledge the howling skull

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

It's all Michael Moore's fault. He started telling us what CEOs were actually like in his books and movies and no-one's been able to put that genie back in the bottle ever since.

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

Remember the old days when we didn't know who the CEO of a company was and didn't have to hear their opinions on things? Good times...

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

It would be great if Eventbrite, Live Nation, etc would stop suggesting stuff to do in Vancouver as I don't live there.

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

I rewatched the first one recently and it holds up really well, I thought!

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think we can assume that AI actors are virgins. They could be having lots of wild AI sex for all we know.

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 10d

This made my day.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 11d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off