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Ryan Mattson

@rmattson.bsky.social

390 followers 760 following 720 posts

How bizarre, this theatrical and pasteboard unconscious. Game & level designer, BioShock 2, Near Death, Psychonauts 2, Return to Moria, and others. He/him. Portland, OR.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1h

lmao

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1h

vote dems into power and they'll promise to do sensitivity training for the secret police (and definitely won't slash that dhs budget at all)

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 2h

holy fuck, man

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 2h

fair! yes, they did. very fair point.

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 2h

the amount of follow-through required on that one, though. sure, some enterprising shithead might do it, but they'd actually have to, like, *do* something, instead of just post

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 2h

fake news, portland does not have that kind of density 😤

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 2h

Portland resident here, can confirm we do have stores. Many, may stores. In fact, they're all over the city. Lousy with stores.

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 7h

Playing Mario Kart with your cousins for far more longer than is healthy.

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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 10h

Look, we’re both very sorry about the widening gyre.

The US president on the phone in Dr Strangelove.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 20h

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve cackled, but it’s usually because the overall mood is elevated across the board, so I’m primed to get much more enjoyment out of a post.

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 20h

It all feels so insulting.

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 21h

Another nice definition of disavowal today. 👍

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Not to discount the enormous damage they have done, and still can do, but this really might be one of the dumbest governments in the history of the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'd rather flawed games with soul, than sterile retreads any day of the week.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so envious of Remedy as a studio, they just keep cranking out interesting (if occasionally flawed) games, and I'm happy they're still doing it.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Building narrative support into the diegetic art was chefs-kiss good.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhat related, I also told my son the year I was born, and he guffawed, and couldn't really comprehend the '19' at the start of the date. I might as well have said 1750 for all he cared. He gave me a real 'what was it like when dirt was invented' look.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

I've thought about that occasionally, and I can't really comprehend what that means for the kiddos. Wild world we live in.

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

(poe's law disclaimer: this is a joke)

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, and that's cool, but like, what is the binding effect of this particular document?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

This is a fair question (the answer is no) but I am begging people to just quickly check out U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 7 because it's really not about counting dollars.

a pound of flax @oatsmemento.bsky.social · 1d

dumb question, but: are we making enough in tariff revenue to fund these programs?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Is there some parallel or offshoot of the Streisand Effect here?

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever wondered what disavowal means in psychoanalysis? It means reading stories like this and then continuing about my day like I don’t live on the west coast.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“A magnitude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone could create tsunami wave heights that would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific Coast.”

West Coast's two monster faults could trigger back-to-back earthquakes, new research suggests

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.

www.latimes.com

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 1d

As good a sign as any that society has crumbled even if it still appears intact.