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Kris 🎃 Lorischild

@direkris.itch.io

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Game writer, editor, localizer, project manager. Looking for work! I wrote YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS and half of COZY GROVE. no pronouns or they/them

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · Jul 13

Periodic reminder that I am open for work!

Specifically I am looking for:
-Writing roles
-Editing roles
-Project management roles

I have a decade of experience in all levels of journalism and seven years as a game developer and localizer

A cover for Cozy Grove, for which I was narrative co-lead and localization producer.

League of Legends, for which I served as an archival editor.

Honor Bound, for which I served as copy editor.

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 3h

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 17h

Calvin is awake at night in bed, stressed out over esoteric categorization.

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

The harder Newsom tries to be the Democratic frontrunner the surer I am that no one will even know his name in 2028

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Absolutely

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

I honestly don't blame him. Could you? Jobs are so scarce right now, and until the bubble bursts AI is practically the only game in town

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Depends on whether you want your quantity of teeth to change every time you open your mouth

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Just replace instances of "AI" with "radium" and you have a good sense of the fad happening right now

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Oh my god

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg is obviously a heroic person by any measure, she is quite obviously the kind of person who any decent society would hope they see their reflection in. It is remarkable how cruelty is so common place that people will openly hate her, and in really vicious ways, with no shame.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 2d

In case you had any doubts Skin Deep is a good game, here's an excerpt from its patch notes.

Fixed: mech glass wound bug
Piloting a mech and stepping on glass shards would sometimes result in getting glass stuck in Nina's feet. This was not intended, as Nina's feet are fictionally safe inside the mech. Using the mech to stomp on glass no longer applies glass wounds to Nina. Nina is now safe.

Fixed: pod departure logic
Under certain circumstances, the player was able to deposit all of the cats into the cat pod and then force the pod to leave before Nina could enter it. This resulted in what felt like a soft-lock where the pirate boarding ship never appeared.

Fixed: swordfish consumed by trash chute
If the player had a swordfish impaled in their body and then stood near a trash chute, the trash chute sometimes
"ate" the swordfish. This was not intended. It sort of made sense and was an interesting systemic behavior, but the interaction was a little too confusing. In this update, the trash chute now ignores impaled swordfishes.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Grammarly wants me to grovel

A screenshot of a skeet in progress. The skeet reads "Hire me to be your game's project manager." Hovering over it is a Grammarly "Pro suggestion" reading "Want to sound more diplomatic? Please hire me to be your game's project manager/I was hoping you could hire me to be your game's project manager."

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Hades 2's story doesn't change the status quo
aftermath.site/hades-2-ending

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is a wholesale rejection of the Enlightenment including stuff so basic that we don't even think of it being part of the Enlightenment project--like being polite to people and making social interactions smooth and pleasant.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Can't be done. You're recording adorable cat snores now

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry, but if you let a young kid mess around unrestricted on these things you are absolutely parenting wrong.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

Vienna Teng mention which means I get to post this. @viennateng.bsky.social

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

RIGHT? THANK YOU

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

The correct answer is Vienna Teng

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

Most of the comments have been supportive, but I still don't want to hear their takes

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

Welp that Greta post escaped containment QUICK

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

They can't abide sincerity, it's their kryptonite