M. Ryder
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M. Ryder
@wanderways.bsky.social
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Just the letter. Wizard of the Coast; Product Manager & Content Design on MTG Arena | prev. Narrative on Eternal CCG | They/Them✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ⚠️ Posts are my own (good) opinions & may contain strong language or suggestive content. 🌐 wanderways.me pfp - tsuyoi.art
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What’s up, I’m M.

Yes, just the letter.

Gamedev, writer, worldbuilder, queer, trans, hilarious, anxious, tired; not always in that order.

I post abt game design, narrative, Magic: the Gathering, cooking, my cat & any stupid joke that pinballs across my brain.
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i think rabbits should have unfettered access to heavy artillery
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this is one of the reasons I got so into baseball tbh. without little enrichment activities in the enclosure we’re going to eat ourselves
baseball gone for a day and videogame discourse has returned, i see
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Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there
I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.

Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee

It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
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There's a concerted push to weaponize medical billing against trans people and their healthcare.

Using alternate billing codes for coverage is ubiquitous across the medical system for all kinds of care. This is not unique to trans healthcare but it's being portrayed as such to target access to it.
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$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this
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Our 249-year-old system -- two-party presidentialism -- has sometimes worked in spite of itself due to favorable conditions, un-codified norms, & a few periodic fixes.

That run is clearly over. I argue below that we need a multiparty democracy with the legislature supreme and a limited executive.
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As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night
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I actually did major in the humanities so that apparently doesn’t help
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Without understanding what a piece of art is trying to achieve, and where it is successful, all negative or critical feedback becomes a matter of opinion.

And too many people assume that their opinion—what they don’t like, essentially—is the same as critique.
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Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1
DHS document states ICE will NOT let people decline from being scanned by its new facial recognition app - Mobile Fortify.

It is used to verify one’s identity and immigration status. However, the face photos taken will be stored for 15 years, regardless of your immigration status.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
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The first rule of fight club is don’t talk about fight club on COMPANY equipment including slack discord etc🙈

Ex. At Ubi an EP would spy on PRINTER LOGS! to catch employees printing resumes/cover letters 🖨️😱They r watching u

A union is not an after work club. Everyone who is fighting jobs are stake
I've seen a couple of people say you shouldn't talk to your coworkers about unions on work time or that a union is like fight club and you shouldn't talk about it at all.

While I think people have good intentions with these, I think you ultimately have to take calculated risks. Let me explain. 1/
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I get really frustrated with the way so many people try to gatekeep "game design" behind the activity of "product design", like it only counts if you're making a complete object to offer to people. But "thinking like a game designer" is something most RPG players do in order to even play at all.
a really interesting criticism of the expressionist games manifesto when i posted it was "in order to play like this, everyone at the table would need to be a game designer" which is ...
1. i'm a game designer. ofc that's how i'm gonna play
2. it's v easy to think like a game designer if u want to
(It was extremely fun)

(I did not survive. I got a bad? ending because my vampire host bit me for being too nice.)
Be cautious befriending game designers.

I told some friends I was struggling w/ topics for a Halloween PowerPoint party and they offered to make me one

…the next thing I know @makeadent.bsky.social & @doe-or-die.bsky.social made me a bespoke Twine horror CYOA game that I had to play & narrate live
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look. the process of aging is tough. coming to terms with the impermanence of the body is never easy. but I find it useful to remember that age is just a number. what is coming for you is not so easily calculated
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The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
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Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice
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A hill I’ll die on:

“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.

Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.

It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
Oh neat! I’ll take a look. Ty Ty