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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 12h

It really struggled with the marketing not matching the actual gameplay at launch

Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 12h

But also Microsoft basically nuked Xbox and all its games investment this year so they would have more cash on hand to pour into AI so you can blame that nonsense bubble for a bunch of this year's layoffs too.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 12h

... But it was single player? With 4 player coop as an option but it was always fully playable solo. That's why we introduced the machine companion, cause solo players sometimes felt lonely. Maybe grab it on sale and see if it actually is what you hoped.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 12h

Dune sold crazy well and they still had massive layoffs including shutting down the entire Outsiders studio. The games are good but investors have poured way too much cash into them during development demanding the games become the next Fortnite or CS:GO so good & popular isn't enough to pay it back

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 14h

Just saw a friend dip her cheese tomato lettuce croissant into her hot chocolate and I will need the whole day to recover.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 1d

Ash is incredible. So incredible, in fact, that after we'd worked together I decided I wanted to keep her and now she's stuck with me for life. Any studio would be lucky to have her. In fact, dear reader, that could be you, but you playin'.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Generation Zero Cover Image featuring A person with dog robot companion firing a rocket launcher at a giant bipedal robot.

Cover image of Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows featuring 3 dioramas of the frozen north and the wall of ice

Cover image of City Of Red Waters featuring cedar trees in a red bayou

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

Ursula K Le Guin being right again here.
www.ursulakleguin.com/some-assumpt...

Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 8d

Hickory is a Spider. She just keeps having to do Slide stuff because our crew is insane

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 9d

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

I'm calling to demand that Senator Schumer not allow Donald Trump to take away access to transgender health care for anyone, let alone people with federal or state health insurance.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving medicine. It is not cosmetic or frivolous; it is miraculous and it is vital.
It is not something trans people can just go without.
[You can add a personal anecdote here-how it has helped you or someone you love, how long you've been receiving trans healthcare, etc.J Trans people are also over twice as likely to live in poverty, which means they are often receiving this care through government-funded programs. They simply cannot afford it otherwise. If this care is lost, trans American lives will be lost too. This is the truth.
If none of this stirs the Senator's compassion, please understand that trans people are, as a group, politically active, and they are rarely Republicans. The Senator should understand that if he caves and allows Trump to do this to us, it would be a betrayal of his constituents at an unforgivable level. If he caves, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I will not vote for a Democrat for president, for senator, for dogcatcher. This is a promise.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 9d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Momma Moo @cloverpatch.art · 16d

In the face of looming evil I continue to love with reckless abandon.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18d

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore”

that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you

these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20d

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 @clove.bsky.social · Aug 6

IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM

PORNOGRAPHERS HAVE YOUR BACK

DO YOU HAVE THEIRS?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20d

My YouTube feed today is sending weird mixed messages

Screenshot of YouTube feed where one thumbnail says in big letters "its complicated" and then the next thumbnail says "it's not complicated"

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24d

also "people of faith" doesn't mean conservative christians thats not a synonym

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24d

i think leftists who can't accomodate people of faith into their politics are really really making a profound mistake

Kostotom @kostotom.bsky.social · 24d

How? You simply tell them to fuck if they are homophobic, transphobic or aren't secular. It's easy and refreshing.

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Jaye the They @jayeeis.bsky.social · 24d

Quote or post with the small-time TTRPG designer or writer who you love. You may have never played their games but you follow their work and dream of bringing it to a table. Or maybe you run their game/supplement/house rule all the time!

Feel free to use #TTRPGbrag and let's lift others up.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26d

"Research shows that trans people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be the victim of a violent crime. We salute our colleagues across the media who are working tirelessly to make that number even higher."

The Onion @theonion.com · 26d

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

theonion.com

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · Sep 8

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" is a statement meant to prime a conversation about the inherent exploitation of the system. It is NOT an excuse to break boycotts or pursue employment with arms companies or some shit. In the kindest way, pull your head out of your ass.

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wendi yu @wendiyu.bsky.social · Sep 8

awoke from troubled dreams to see smart gringo writers saying dumb stuff about genres as usual so:
1) the lit/genre fiction split makes zero sense from outside the anglosphere and if you understand how genres/cultural categories work. don't take contextual relations as universal ontological facts.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is just being good at tactical RPGs. If you're not using movement spells and mechanics to get rid of every enemy you can you're bottlenecked by your own damage output. The most important part of GMing tactical games in my experience is ensuring every fight has environment to play with like this

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gonna need cis folk to be extremely vocal and actually take action on this. Things are escalating month by month and it's only going to get harder and harder to rebuild these rights.

Act now to protect trans people, do not wait

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.

Here are three ways to fight back.

Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Three ways to fight back

Email my MP
Call my MP
Meet my MP

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