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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 5d

WarGames (1983) remade for modern day would switch out the supercomputer playing tic-tac-toe for Deadlock, and at the end it’d print “A strange game. The only winning move is [10 pages of incomprehensible meta]”

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 8d

Hot New Japanese Trend Has Tokyoites Exchanging “Denwa Bango”— Here’s What It Means

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 8d

Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are better at Unfair Flips than you www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Tf...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Heads Scene (1/11) | Movieclips

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 13d

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are ████ (1990): What Are They? You Will Just Have to Watch to Find Out.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 14d

PlayStation Pro’s always been a funny product name to me because they started with a play on the word “workstation” to turn it into an idea centered on “play,” and then they added “professional” to it to turn it back into work

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Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social · 14d

Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.

www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 15d

Buddhist LinkedIn like: Innovation Leader, Sahā World | ex-Nāga | ex-Preta | ex-Cow

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 18d

Wim Wenders: [sharing grandly philosophical thoughts in German-accented English over lingering shots of 1983 Tokyo]

Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up

Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower

An astonishingly young-looking Werner Herzog (shot in 1983 so I should not be so surprised) in the observation room of Tokyo Tower saying, "One has to search through this ravaged landscape..."

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 20d

The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.

www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...

Process: A Novel

“Matthew Seiji Burns has done the nearly impossible. He’s thought deeply about the systems and technologies warping the human experience, and embedded them in a moving, nuanced, weird, and superlative...

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 20d

The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.

www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...

Process: A Novel

“Matthew Seiji Burns has done the nearly impossible. He’s thought deeply about the systems and technologies warping the human experience, and embedded them in a moving, nuanced, weird, and superlative...

www.tuneandfairweather.com

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 24d

Men Are Sharing What They’d Do If They Awoke One Morning from Uneasy Dreams to Find Themselves Transformed into a Giant Insect and It’s Adorable

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 25d

If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.

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Thinking About Game Difficulty

Periodically a wave of discussion about game difficulty occurs in game developer spaces, so I wanted to share some thoughts that Zach Barth and Keith Holman of Zachtronics [http://www.zachtronics.com]...

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 26d

Dorian (2021): In this modern take on the Oscar Wilde classic, young Dorian Gray mints an NFT of his famous portrait, which records all of his sins on the blockchain. What could possibly go wrong? Rated PG-13.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 28d

(2020) Welp, stuck at home for a bit, so I suppose what I’ll do is a massive amount of drugs and stare at algorithmic social media 24 hours a day

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it_is_right_to_rebel @j-nix.bsky.social · 29d

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 29d

What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Sep 8

I will just go ahead and admit that I dock games for doing things that I give Dark Souls and its successors a completely free pass for. I don’t have to be fair. I’m like the headteacher of a strict Catholic school and FromSoft is my perfect angel who never does anything wrong.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Sep 7

Life is like a box of chocolates… there’s usually a guide on the back or inside like a map that tells you what everything is, so you can make informed decisions

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Sep 6

They attempt to steer in a more normal direction as they go to II and then III, but the original is so far out there I’m not sure they ever really get there

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 31

*Stephen. I should have checked

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 31

“We’ve got Company!” I shout to my squad mates in the back of the APC as I continue browsing the Steven Sondheim musicals we have available to put on

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 29

How do I apply to direct Death Stranding 3. Tell him I’m the banana bread tweet guy

Headline claiming that Hideo Kojima has ideas for Death Stranding 3 but “doesn’t want to direct it.”

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 29

“Join the void,” I say, shrugging a little, as if to laugh at the notion I had any choice in the matter

Aevee Bee @mammonmachine.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Join the void” would be a great slogan for the void.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 27

*slamming my drink down on the bar and getting up in Hemingway’s face* baby shoe factory still operating post-apocalyptically

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