Alec Austin
alecaustin.bsky.social
Alec Austin
@alecaustin.bsky.social
Game systems designer at Netflix, reader, occasional writer. He/Him. Looking for book recs and nuanced discussions.
The immediately lethal dosage aside, there’s no way anyone properly trained would suggest holding nuclear waste in your hand. Good way to get all kinds of unstable isotopes inside your body.
January 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Sunzi's The Art of War is not a general-purpose book on life, it is a guide on how to have your princeling failson of a general fail less hard at a very specific, time and context sensitive, kind of war.
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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It’s like more people need to be introduced to “rubberducking”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...
Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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SAURON: for the Nazgullible!
December 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Also, the "conspiracies are real" RPG par excellence, Mage, realized that the conspiracy actually was probably making some pretty good points and that maybe you would actually want to side with them a lot of the time.
December 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Suspect pan-frying is required, yeah. Would love to be able to make any version of scallion pancakes in an air fryer tho.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Why don't you create a separate award for AI-generated work? Surely you can't mean that all the Nebula Awards could potentially be given to people who don't write their own work?
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In Nomine is incredibly evocative for a game that verges on unplayable. I still have a Malakhim necklace that I’ve worn off and on for 25 years in my wallet, while all of my White Wolf clan pins and T-shirts are long gone.
December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Instead of joy, we will always be thinking: Cat, or Dopple-cat?
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM