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ADIOS. HARDSPACE. PARATOPIC. Narrative Designer. Creative Director. Game design consultant.
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· Dec 28
okay here’s the one about planescape
Over the years, I have taken some commissions to write about various video games. One of those was to write about Planescape: Torment, and…
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New article time!
This one's about Planescape: Torment. I was commissioned to cover it, so I have. I was... disappointed to find I didn't really like the game. I tried not to be too mean, but I really, really disliked this game's treatment off women.
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This one's about Planescape: Torment. I was commissioned to cover it, so I have. I was... disappointed to find I didn't really like the game. I tried not to be too mean, but I really, really disliked this game's treatment off women.
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Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein colluded together to take out Gawker, which resulted in me losing about $7200 of income over 3 years. Stick it to them by reading my article and tipping me on paypal.me/stompsite so I can pay for my ~$300-350 doctor's visit tomorrow morning
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein colluded together to take out Gawker, which resulted in me losing about $7200 of income over 3 years. Stick it to them by reading my article and tipping me on paypal.me/stompsite so I can pay for my ~$300-350 doctor's visit tomorrow morning
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"Must remain in seats for entirety of film."
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 AM
"Must remain in seats for entirety of film."
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a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, everything was totally fucked up. this is the story of three losers, a wolfman, and their two robot friends
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 AM
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, everything was totally fucked up. this is the story of three losers, a wolfman, and their two robot friends
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People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
February 2, 2026 at 5:53 AM
People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
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This whole series of threads is about game dev but equally applies to any producer/project manager/whatever across almost any industry.
If your meetings don't have clear purpose, they're for show. If your process isn't making work easier and output higher quality, it's for show.
If your meetings don't have clear purpose, they're for show. If your process isn't making work easier and output higher quality, it's for show.
I think it's good and sensible for a team to meet up once a week, but whether the regular meetings are 1/day or 1/week, they all need to be run thoughtfully and efficiently. If the meetings are not, in truth, helping people do their work better, you *have to* change it up.
February 2, 2026 at 5:21 AM
This whole series of threads is about game dev but equally applies to any producer/project manager/whatever across almost any industry.
If your meetings don't have clear purpose, they're for show. If your process isn't making work easier and output higher quality, it's for show.
If your meetings don't have clear purpose, they're for show. If your process isn't making work easier and output higher quality, it's for show.
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HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews
Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I can’t afford…
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February 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
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all producers are multipliers on the output of their team. It is very possible for that multiplier to be less than 1
There are a lot of roles in game dev where someone bad in a role can do damage, but a bad producer can be so unbelievably damaging that it truly would be better to have no one in the role at all.
Just as good producers are force multipliers, bad producers are like throwing sand into a gearbox.
Just as good producers are force multipliers, bad producers are like throwing sand into a gearbox.
A good producer is absolutely an incredible force multiplier and allows the folks who are creating the actual artifacts to be more effective.
A producer beholden to methodology or who does not understand the needs of the game they're working, however, can do irreparable damage very easily.
A producer beholden to methodology or who does not understand the needs of the game they're working, however, can do irreparable damage very easily.
February 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM
all producers are multipliers on the output of their team. It is very possible for that multiplier to be less than 1
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It's my game of the year roundup! come for the review of HORSES, stay for my thoughts on PERSONA, listen to me tell you about DIGIMON
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews
Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I can’t afford…
docseuss.medium.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It's my game of the year roundup! come for the review of HORSES, stay for my thoughts on PERSONA, listen to me tell you about DIGIMON
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
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I’m convinced this is why they killed covid aid so quickly
It was breaking the narrative of government inability
It was breaking the narrative of government inability
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
I’m convinced this is why they killed covid aid so quickly
It was breaking the narrative of government inability
It was breaking the narrative of government inability
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The redacted name here is Robert Trivers, professor of evolutionary biology. He took $40K from Epstein and was fired from Rutgers in 2015 for refusing to teach a class. He does not appear to have a post now, but does have some shows on Amazon or other streaming networks. Make him famous.
I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
February 2, 2026 at 5:29 AM
The redacted name here is Robert Trivers, professor of evolutionary biology. He took $40K from Epstein and was fired from Rutgers in 2015 for refusing to teach a class. He does not appear to have a post now, but does have some shows on Amazon or other streaming networks. Make him famous.
it's weird to me that people keep saying epstein invented loot boxes
1) that's bobby kotick talking to epstein with the idea to make loot boxes do this, and then pablos holman replying to epstein
2) valve didn't invent loot boxes, but added them to tf2 in 2010, 3 years before this email.
1) that's bobby kotick talking to epstein with the idea to make loot boxes do this, and then pablos holman replying to epstein
2) valve didn't invent loot boxes, but added them to tf2 in 2010, 3 years before this email.
February 2, 2026 at 5:24 AM
it's weird to me that people keep saying epstein invented loot boxes
1) that's bobby kotick talking to epstein with the idea to make loot boxes do this, and then pablos holman replying to epstein
2) valve didn't invent loot boxes, but added them to tf2 in 2010, 3 years before this email.
1) that's bobby kotick talking to epstein with the idea to make loot boxes do this, and then pablos holman replying to epstein
2) valve didn't invent loot boxes, but added them to tf2 in 2010, 3 years before this email.
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Data centers slurping up electricity like Garfield on a lasagna but I have to turn everything off when it's 10°F or else we get to freeze as a lil treat.
February 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Data centers slurping up electricity like Garfield on a lasagna but I have to turn everything off when it's 10°F or else we get to freeze as a lil treat.
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Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.
Woke 2.0 back with a vengeance. You love to see it.
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.
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those compelled or curious enough to visit foreign lands may now play some PHARMAKOS... have a nice trip!
howling-stars.itch.io/pharmakos
howling-stars.itch.io/pharmakos
February 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
those compelled or curious enough to visit foreign lands may now play some PHARMAKOS... have a nice trip!
howling-stars.itch.io/pharmakos
howling-stars.itch.io/pharmakos
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It's my game of the year roundup! come for the review of HORSES, stay for my thoughts on PERSONA, listen to me tell you about DIGIMON
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.
That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!
Come check it out!
docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews
Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I can’t afford…
docseuss.medium.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It's my game of the year roundup! come for the review of HORSES, stay for my thoughts on PERSONA, listen to me tell you about DIGIMON
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
if you like my work and think me doing unpaywalled free articles available to all is neat, please share and hit my tip jar!
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I need about $350 for tomorrow's doctor's visit and $600 for insurance, so like... if you like the fact I wrote 81 reviews for you and distributed them for free, just a few people tipping $20 would go a long way towards softening the blow of my medical costs. money beyond that goes to debt
February 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I need about $350 for tomorrow's doctor's visit and $600 for insurance, so like... if you like the fact I wrote 81 reviews for you and distributed them for free, just a few people tipping $20 would go a long way towards softening the blow of my medical costs. money beyond that goes to debt
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When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
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entering 0451 replaces the safe contents with a placeholder graybox
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 AM
entering 0451 replaces the safe contents with a placeholder graybox
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ahh memories bsky.app/profile/mich...
the big moon came out while I was ziplining
I even had the space helmet on
I even had the space helmet on
February 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
ahh memories bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Moon
So this is the first time I've seen this happen in DS2
February 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Moon
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It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w
February 2, 2026 at 1:33 AM
It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w
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