G.D. Annin
@gdannin.bsky.social
They/them. Auto repair technician-in-training; former Narrative Designer @ Monolith Productions. Fungus, birding, embroidery, animal rescue, F1, video & tabletop games.
Making games and bartending at @okayblueheron.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/gdannin
Making games and bartending at @okayblueheron.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/gdannin
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I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I WANT TO HOST ONE OF THESE
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📣 SENIOR(ISH) GAME WRITERS 📣
The folks at GDC have reached out to me about heading up a narrative portfolio review workshop. Are you planning on going to GDC this year and would be down to review some portfolios? HMU!
The folks at GDC have reached out to me about heading up a narrative portfolio review workshop. Are you planning on going to GDC this year and would be down to review some portfolios? HMU!
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📣 SENIOR(ISH) GAME WRITERS 📣
The folks at GDC have reached out to me about heading up a narrative portfolio review workshop. Are you planning on going to GDC this year and would be down to review some portfolios? HMU!
The folks at GDC have reached out to me about heading up a narrative portfolio review workshop. Are you planning on going to GDC this year and would be down to review some portfolios? HMU!
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
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Getting very tired of the tech bros making their inability to grapple with mortality everyone else's problem.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Getting very tired of the tech bros making their inability to grapple with mortality everyone else's problem.
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“This isn’t the America I know!”
Black People:
Black People:
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“This isn’t the America I know!”
Black People:
Black People:
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
🥲 Happy birthday to a real one kotaku.com/no-one-lives...
One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It
No one will sell you No One Lives Forever, but shhhh, you can still play it
kotaku.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🥲 Happy birthday to a real one kotaku.com/no-one-lives...
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
New Yorkers, you know what to do (take all the pasta from all the grocery stores and dump it into the harbor)
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New Yorkers, you know what to do (take all the pasta from all the grocery stores and dump it into the harbor)
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Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!
There'll be a new pinned post this week, but for now: Ambrosia Sky: Act One is *out* now!
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...
Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky on Steam
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest strains of aggressive alien fungi...
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!
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video games right now: half the people I know are out of work and the other half are in DMs with me telling me things like "yeah so Lobster Guy (guy at my studio who does no work and puts a live lobster into other people's cars as a prank) was moved to another project so HR can avoid firing him"
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
video games right now: half the people I know are out of work and the other half are in DMs with me telling me things like "yeah so Lobster Guy (guy at my studio who does no work and puts a live lobster into other people's cars as a prank) was moved to another project so HR can avoid firing him"
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IN THE UNITED STATES YOUR *RIGHT* TO DISCUSS YOUR SALARY WITH YOUR COWORKERS IS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO THAT
Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IN THE UNITED STATES YOUR *RIGHT* TO DISCUSS YOUR SALARY WITH YOUR COWORKERS IS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO THAT
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Found it. The non-disparagement clause in 2K's employment contract from 2020. The whole thing was the most draconian read and the reason I pulled out of an interview (this was sent prior to a Zoom meet).
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Found it. The non-disparagement clause in 2K's employment contract from 2020. The whole thing was the most draconian read and the reason I pulled out of an interview (this was sent prior to a Zoom meet).
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Once saw somebody answer "what did Watson and Crick discover?" with "Rosalind Franklin's notes," that's always been a favorite of mine.
NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Once saw somebody answer "what did Watson and Crick discover?" with "Rosalind Franklin's notes," that's always been a favorite of mine.
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I'm joining the fight on the side of the carnivorous death ball
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I'm joining the fight on the side of the carnivorous death ball
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
I applied for the state's Training Benefits almost two weeks ago... I have absolutely no idea when I might get any sort of response... but my severance runs out in two more weeks. 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I applied for the state's Training Benefits almost two weeks ago... I have absolutely no idea when I might get any sort of response... but my severance runs out in two more weeks. 🙃