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Bruno Dias
@brunodias.bsky.social
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Video game writer and and narrative designer. Personal blog: https://azhdarchid.com/ Fediverse profile: https://azhdarchid.online/@bruno Full bio: https://brunodias.dev/bio/ THESE POSTS ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS’ WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Jun 9
📌 I'm a game designer and writer. Previous work includes:

- Skin Deep (Additional writing)
- Fallen London (Lead designer)
- Neo Cab (Narrative Design)
- Pathologic 2 (Localization writing)
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Writing)

...as well as op-eds, criticism, and interactive fiction.
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 2h
I never know what tone to take in marketing so please just do me a favour and decide if "Nemesis is a book about how human transcendence is an ideological stance" or "Nemesis is a book about what if Char didn't wear a bra" sounds more appealing to you loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 14h
So Blacksky is rushing to stand up an independent app view, which I suppose somewhat vindicates Jay's plan that if her team is sufficiently erratic and untrustworthy, other people will step up to do their homework for them
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h
I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 14h
inventing a new genre of smut which is about people who broke up for good reasons getting back together under pressure, leading to toxic psychosexual games. I call this exploitation
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h
Point is, I think if you're looking to this for lessons about the future of land use policy around normal, prosocial, useful industries that make things people need or want: lol
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h
(Some industry does of course use a lot of water, but the problem with data centers is that they want to be fucking everywhere and there's a billion of them; water-intensive industry... tends to go where there's a lot of water)
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h
Also as far as I can tell a lot of data center opposition comes from 1. extremely rapid scaling of capacity without respect to local grid and power generation infrastructure (this is created by a speculative bubble) and 2. heavy water usage. neither is an issue for a normal industrial land use!
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h
I think people would be more willing to support something that was energy-intensive and generated few jobs if it was demonstrably socially useful and not just the umpteenth iteration of "app where you can buy Cameo videos for your dog"
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h
Most data center activity is slop and spam supported by speculative investment from a handful of billionaires firing stupid money from the bottom of a k-hole
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1d
The data center angst feels like a leading indicator of a broader economic development question about if the public will ever support high-value industrial activity that:
-uses a lot of power
-doesn’t create many jobs

Because that seems like the future of manufacturing.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
Yes this is the Sky show from last year.
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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 17h
If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
also he's calling you a slur the entire time
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
like my man is over here spitting gcode from the dome. I'm crashing out at how stupid this show is. no I will not stop watching
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
you'd think this would be a scene where jackal uses his two hands to help machine gun parts. wrong. they are 3d printing this gun. this is done by gunmaker guy saying random numbers which jackal then types into the computer.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
(spoilers for day of the jackal I guess) there's a scene where this genius gunsmith has a broken arm so he needs jackal's help to build the unique special takedown gun for an assassination.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
I get that you got garden-pathed into running the twitter overflow insane asylum but you know. type faster maybe
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
yeah the thing is though like. bsky inc has been at this for what. three years? four years? still extremely low uptake on atproto services other than bsky itself, and 99% of that uptake is due to third parties doing heroic work. not so much "protocol-first" as "protocol-eventually"
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
It's something I'd consider doing but I'd love to test the waters in a low-commitment way first.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
Hm, a bit disappointed that wafrn seems to require a wafrn-specific user identity and doesn't let me try it out using my existing bluesky identity. Isn't the point of atproto that one identity (DID) can do it all?
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 17h
Laura is one of the very best writers and editors in video games, you'd be lucky to get her on board a project.
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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 17h
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 17h
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 19h
How does posting on wafrn works wrt those posts being visible on Bluesky? Are they just wafrn only posts but you can still see bluesky posts yourself?
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 20h
Really, really don’t respect you if you still pay money for wordle or whatever
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h
The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃
Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them. LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question: Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers? Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’ expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important, the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception of se…
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 21h
kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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