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michael lutz

@ztul.bsky.social

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"warrenisdead". he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. writer and narrative designer, working on Project C for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail av by @maximumgraves.bsky.social

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Oct 17

whether my followers got here from the Dumb Horseshit starter pack, the Annoying Assholes starter pack, the Waste of Time starter pack, the Dogturd Face starter pack, the No Cussing (Non-Christian) starter pack, or the Following Mainly To See When He Dies starter pack, i hope you have a good time!!!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

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So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Sep 24

the children are insatiable in their desire for fruit juice. if we don't stop them now, there'll be none left for us grownups

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 2h

If you're looking for Goku, you can find him in the lobby

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Wren @fauxwren.bsky.social · 2h

slowpoke Garfield be like I hate Wednesdays

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 3h

Axes include the war axe and battle axe.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 4h

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liv taters @livtaters.bsky.social · 3h

my heart is actually a light purple.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 4h

What up hivemind! 👋

Let's fight back against the doom and gloom of the world today and do something productive together 🌈🌎😁

Put on a comfortable pair of shoes 👟

Fill your water bottle 🚰🥤

And grab a compass 🧭

We'll start at the top here and work our way down: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of missing treasures - Wikipedia

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · May 15

Crowder's eyes bugged and the barrel of the Glock wavered under the marshal's chin. "Raylan, I didn't know you had friends from the fuckin Stone Age."

"Boyd, that shotgun's pointed at us both," said Givens, watching as the green dinosaur wielding the SPAS-12 advanced on them.

"Yoshi," it drawled.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Nov 25

email stands for "egnored mail"

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23h

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 23h

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 8h

The Mariner's Revenge's mum if she'd lived: I don't remember saying that. I suppose everything is MY fault then

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liv taters @livtaters.bsky.social · 15h

no, i am not secretly petty. i am very openly petty.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21h

the best moral panic of my childhood was when people thought there was a bit in the lion king during "can you feel the love tonight" where the lions rolled through some grass in a way that spelled "sex", a devious plot to point out the scene's subtext to an audience of largely illiterate children

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Feb 14

LITTLE LOTTIE: Baby Yum-yum, stop horsing around on that conveyor belt!
BABY YUM-YUM: Bwee!
TINA: Ugh, I might hurl! What's that gnarly smell?
GIZMO: Cold storage, I wager. Farmer Flenser's Automated Abattoir hasn't had electricity for over a week.
[Lights suddenly flicker on; motors purr to life.]

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

For sale: baby shoe. Way too big. We live inside the other one.

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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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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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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 1d

instantly 100x your short story writing prowess by asking yourself these 50 questions every time you write a short story joylandpublishing.com/fiction/50-q...

50 Questions to Ask About Your Story

Does my story have a big enough concept? Does my story have interesting characters? Does my story have interesting set pieces? Does my story have an interesting conflict? Does my story have big eno...

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

everywhere gavin newsom goes he carries an emerald-studded scepter of gold that has visibly extended some sort of system of fine tendrils into his radial artery. probably nothing!

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 1d

more people will soon be eaten by the fake spiders from Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond" and if you ask me, it's about time

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

It's easy for the cryptkeeper to sit there and moralize. Make his little puns about our transgressions. All he needs to do is take care of his damn crypt. His life is simple

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 3, Episode 15

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