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Daniel

@dadadan.bsky.social

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(He/Him) Support 🏳️‍⚧️ PhD student at Tallinn University trying to make sense of sound in the built enviroment. Radio Drama and Audio enthusiast. Hidden Baker. Did radio but no podcasts (yet). Used to do, and sometimes still do, Animation and Weird films

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CTXT @ctxt.es · 4h

🆕Las fuerzas armadas interrumpieron en el Hospital de Cotacachi (Quito) para desarmar una huelga nacional. Hasta ahora hay un fallecido, una decena de heridos, uno de ello grave, y 17 detenidos.

Boletín desde América Latina con Poli Sabatés y Emiliano Gullo👇
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Represión y muerte en Ecuador

Las fuerzas armadas interrumpieron en el Hospital de Cotacachi (Quito) para desarmar una huelga nacional. Hasta ahora hay un fallecido, una decena de heridos, uno de ello grave, y 17 detenidos

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 2h

The construction Random thing that may or not may be a real issue + "this ______ wants to change that" is the laziest or headline ever

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 2h

Le tengo más fé, ella sí me rompería un poco el corazón

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 3h

#Wikimedia is currently electing open positions on its Board of Trustees. Wouldn't you know, two pro-Palestinian candidates have been removed from the ballot under mysterious circumstances. Statement from the Arabic Wikimedia community: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objecti... #censorship #fascism

Objection to the removal of Ravan from the Board of Trustees election process 2025/Arab Community - Meta-Wiki

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 4h

Teaser 2 for my interactive fiction game, with the official game title reveal:

"Alight in Tyrnasìth"

Btw, the title track for AIT is called "Inward, Outward, Forward, Backward"

Coming 2026 🐝

youtu.be/SMfr02nUL4o?...

Alight In Tyrnasìth - interactive fiction teaser trailer 2

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Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 8h

You are very generous about your knowledge and raising people you have worked with

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

GUI won because it was more sellable and easier to use for noobs. I went back to the whole HCI literature about CLI when I was researching Voice Interfaces, which I felt was a better grounding for UX in that case. For AI I would actually think we need to consider it a design material for experiences

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact, in the early HCI a lot of the work was based on trying to make better CLI (back in the day HCI was mostly run cog psychologists). The GUI really messed up with that. There was even a period of pushing back against the GUI because CLI is much faster for super users...

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

Although, I think you started without UX designers because engineers just get into building when they are excited. They are not gonna stop and wait if they can build and see with their own eyes...

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

... And not the standard set for web and GUI.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

It is an analogue issue to writing for cinema vs radio vs video games. Some things may translate but it is not a 1:1 relationship. Funny thing is, IMO UX research could actually inform design and avoid these issues but it needs to come along with new research methods...

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

Okay then yes, absolutely yes. Same issue with Voice Assistants, before and CUI in general, they don't engage with the medium but try to force it into becoming their known media.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 9h

I have been pondering your question, but I feel I need to ask, what are you considering "traditional" UX? I feel that regarding AI and Agents we fell into a place of assuming that designing the user experience was unnecessary, since we can all talk and we have been patching from that point on...

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わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 5d

I have officially received an exchange for a book (The Games That Weren't) that I have infinitely more faith in, and cannot stress enough, none of this is bitmap book's fault. The other products I've gotten from them are absolutely stellar, and I'm still confident their physical product of (pt1)

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 11h

Okay video game podbook is the new conceptual category I didn't know I need it to explain our current times

わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 5d

fine I'm stepping on the rake

oh of COURSE you're excited to bring up Card. Like I don't even regret reading his shit despite, uh, look at me, but like WHY HERE. WHY NOW. THIS IS A VIDEOGAME PODBOOK

There’s a question that I’ve been asked
many times: is this the worst Super
Nintendo role-playing game? Worst ...
that’s strong terminology. I can only
say at this point that I don’t like half of
it half as well as I should like, and I like less
than half of it just as much as it deserves.
You’ll have to untangle that one yourself.

inspire us, speaking
anecdotally. Would
we have had the fantasy
fiction of C.S. Lewis were it not
for his friendship with Tolkien? Would
we have seen the rise of Le Guin, R.R.
Martin, Pratchett, Del Rey, Brooks, Card
or Stephen King? What about Warcraft,
Warhammer, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy
or Soulsborne? Would there be a D&D to
serve as the inspiration for so many RPGs
without Tolkien? Of course, you don’t
need me to tell you this.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 12h

If you are trying to make a point about the whole FF and how its themes and design are in a specific continuum you could make the claim without excluding other takes, it may be true within your claim. But it is there to be an argument not a fact. The whole thing, needing to make this point is weird.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 12h

I just want to add that the missing question in this whole Is-It-Is-It-Not drama is why? What are we trying to do by making the claim of it being a FF? What's the point beyond trying to sound "clever and contrarian"?

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わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 5d

anyone who is reading this thread because they were interested and genuinely invested in this being a good product, please, treat yourself, please go buy fightmagicitems.rocks and read that instead. @aidanmoher.com thank you for being an excellent author oh my lord

Fight, Magic, Items – The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West

fightmagicitems.rocks

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 22h

El they are worse no me ayuda con tu you are awful Gavin

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 22h

Recuerdo estar caminando por Río Churubusco con mi tío y me contó que de hecho, era un río y estaba entubado. Me voló la cabeza.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 1d

My main annoyance in life is people solving the non problem part of the thing and calling it innovation.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 1d

And no matter what, Chrono Trigger is not a Final Fantasy and that argumentation is the most cringe text I've seen in a while. What a mess.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 1d

As always it was the cover up that made everything worse, the community manager made a very bad call. This leaves nobody happy but I think, and that is sad. I like their books, I hope they can do better.

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 1d

This has been an impossible situation for Bitmap Books, I hope they do learn from the situation and be more careful about researching their authors. The issue with Moses goes beyond what St1ka showed, and Twitter is filled with very angry racists.

Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · 1d

Monday 6th October 2025

Dear supporters of Bitmap Books,

Although I stand by the fact that Moses’ comments were ill-advised and insensitive, the whole thing blew up and was made much bigger than it needed to be. Moses has publicly apologised for any offence caused, as has the original poster of the comments who did not intend to cause this much trouble. I do not feel that this warrants an author losing his livelihood and ruining years of hard work to produce the book.

Despite multiple accusations to the contrary, Moses freely agreed to donate his royalties to charity. There was no coercion from me, however we both recognise that due to an increasingly stressful situation that decisions were rushed on both sides. I’m pleased to say that Moses and I have spoken again today, we stand together, and have agreed that he will receive 100% of his royalties.

Maybe I was hasty in my response, and I’m happy to admit to that. At the time I sincerely thought I was doing the right thing to diffuse an increasingly difficult situation. I will commit to donating all company profits from this first print run to the charity, Special Effect.

The bottom line is that is that Moses has apologised for his original comments, and will now be paid the royalties that are rightfully his.

Moses and myself have received a large amount of personal abuse and threats over the past few days. We hope that this statement will bring some closure to what has happened.

Sam Dyer, founder of Bitmap Books

Daniel @dadadan.bsky.social · 1d

... While this would never replicate the experience (that wasn't my intention) I found out that students could experience the film more deeply through my critique. The film kinda kept playing in their mind and their experience changed. I believe that's our value as lecturers.