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Cat Manning

@catacalypto.bsky.social

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narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi to new people leaving the other place!

I’m Cat Manning, currently narrative director on Civ 7. Worked at Riot and on some indie games previously (most notably Pathologic). I have a Lit PhD and a background in classics.

Here I talk about emergent narrative, games, poetry, possums, and perfume.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 3h

I'm attending a NATO conference today and someone has done the funniest thing possible with the name of their wi-fi network

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3h

it was such a different era

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that’s our boy

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3h

yassified Justinian looking very pleased and also very unsettling

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3h

oh WOW

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 5h

don’t worry, “good at cobbling together disparate nuanced thoughts” isn’t really panning out either

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6h

again: I love it when she’s funny

liv taters @livtaters.bsky.social · 6h

no, i am not secretly petty. i am very openly petty.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6h

again: I love it when she’s funny

liv taters @livtaters.bsky.social · 6h

no, i am not secretly petty. i am very openly petty.

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Andrzej Zawadzki @andyzawadzki.bsky.social · 6h

Found a tshirt that perfectly describes state of the games industry (and a lot of other things) and I really fucking need it.

A picture of a tshirt with a picture of a sad frog sitting on a chair. Sign above says:
"It is what it is and it is not great"

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 7h

is it this

a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

media.tenor.com

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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social · 11h

Literally a 1-in-40,000 chance this bit would hit. Incredible heights in dudes rock.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Quake (Erin) @quakeroc.bsky.social · 10h

a negative buddha telling you bad things

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 10h

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 9h

What a wild year to be trying to think about networks and what they do to our brains. Thank you for coming along with me.

www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-...

A year into the wreckage and salvage

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things...

www.wrecka.ge

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 11h

I felt like this was harmless until I saw someone mention they had no problem killing the Geth anymore after experiencing LLMs.

That is bad! That is a story specifically intended to broaden your empathy and challenge you and you're no longer experiencing complex human feelings about it!

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 12h

"this is a bad thing that you should not be promoting because it is actually based on realworld racism and is used like realworld racism" is apparently the anti-woke position on bluesky right now, and everyone is rushing to show that they don't agree with it

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 9h

god this is incredible

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zoraal ja's psychoanalyst @zoraalja.bsky.social · 10h

remember this phenomenal fucking post

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 9h

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 9h

Re: the priest getting shot

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

So I missed the lede of the piece and didn’t realize this was last month.

Which makes this far worse, bc there’s been a month for this to become such bigger news than it had been.

I know there’s a lot going on, but … still.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 2d

I've wanted to break this down for a bit: Wrote about a big quirk in how Game Awards is structured that makes it tough for small games to compete at a top level. Localization matters! And it creates a tough battle for the Blue Princes and 1000xResists of the world. www.polygon.com/blue-prince-...

In the GOTY race, localization really matters — which is bad news for Blue Prince

One of the year's best games will have a tough time breaking into The Game Awards

www.polygon.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15h

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11h

Even beyond the grave the man is still out here doing good in the world. Blessings to Bob Ross and whatever happy little cloud he's sitting on right now.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 22h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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