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hanna ✨

@andcuriouser.com

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queer game dev / creative director / tech artist🔸currently: Rift of the Necrodancer, Phantom Brigade🔸previously: The Long Dark, like 5 different Halos, Remember Me🔸posts on this account are legally binding🔸I miss BBSes🔸she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · Nov 15

I'm Hanna, a creative director / tech artist / writer who has worked on 40+ games, movies, and TV shows. I have a background in interactive fiction, UI, film, programming, VFX, theatre, journalism, and religious cult studies, which is both strangely confluent and difficult to fit in 300 characters.

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 17h

Ooo, this seems like a way better idea than "install this weird DEBLOATED!!! version of Windows from an ISO where some random Reddit poster deleted a bunch of stuff and maybe kinda broke a few things? but promised they didn't inject anything evil but you'll never actually know"

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 23h

STALKER-ass doorway

cc: @raphlife.bsky.social @pjcarlson.bsky.social

An industrial doorway set into a hillside, surrounded by low brush and wildflowers

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 1d

Sorry about the rain. 'tis the season.

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 1d

Yeah, but no one is going "we need to forcibly put 50% more bisexuals in this game". It might not always be the best writing, but straight relationships can also feel forced. Cis characters can be poorly written. And those don't get accusations of being "intrusive".

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 1d

I think part of what you're missing here is that "intrusive" diversity just isn't a thing. People put representations of themselves and people in their lives into games, cue bigots complaining that having to see their existence is intrusive. I don't complain about games with straight relationships.

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 2d

I mean, it's not nothing, but it's close. They're promising more transparency in the future to prevent funding transphobia...but still doing it this one time. "Ugh it's tearing us up inside that we're going to stab you in the back, if only something could be done about this knife we're picking up."

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 2d

Had a great "oh god I'm old" moment when I decided I might want to go see a movie, and I'm still pissed when they raised the price from $7 to $13, because even at $7 I'd usually just wait for things to play at the $4 theatre, and apparently three of us going to a movie would now cost 75 DOLLARS

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 2d

It's really messed up that one of the best restaurants nearby like doubled their prices, but keep advertising a "buy one get one free" deal, but the deal is always limited to...fries. I don't want double the fries. Give me double everything but the fries. Work with me here

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 3d

taps the "I miss BBSes" sign

WE'VE STRAYED SO FAR, AND EVERY DAY BRINGS US FURTHER FROM THE LIGHT

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 3d

So 3/4 of my family is currently playing @thunderlotusgames.com's Spiritfarer, including my 5-year-old, who thinks it's sad when people leave but is more sad when they don't have room to build a fifth garden on their boat.

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 4d

"I voted for exactly, precisely this, but now my kids won't speak to me."

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 5d

Considering everyone was just forced to update @unity.com because of a pretty bad vulnerability, this might not have been the best choice of words

An email from Unity with the subject line "3 Unity Pro Hacks you wished you knew"

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 6d

I lived two lives, tried to play both sides
But couldn't find my own place

Oh, I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin'
Like l'm born to be

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 6d

*** OFFICIAL GENDER UPDATE ***
The Panel has named "Golden"
from Kpop Demon Hunters the new Transfeminine Anthem. Thanks to all our finalists!

Waited so long to break these walls down
To wake up and feel like me
Put these patterns all in the past now
And finally live like the girl they all see

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 6d

Keezifer

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hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 7d

Ugh so many of these questions are like "how do we switch to a Beanie Baby-based economy, how do we ensure we're buying them as fast as possible? How do we get Beanie Babies into every business"

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 7d

When so many people are out of work, it's hard to even figure out the metrics for hiring anymore. Though if you sent me a portfolio while applications were open, I looked at it. If you sent me a cover letter, I read it. But even being technically flawless might not be enough. It's so stupid.

hanna ✨ @andcuriouser.com · 7d

On the hiring side, the last time I needed an artist for a short-term contract I got over 600 portfolios. And a lot of them were amazing, so many people who used to be senior artists at major game devs. What are you even supposed to do with that? And what hope does any junior have?

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