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c / gibbous🌔

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human-shaped ESA / multimedia artist / musician / game dev / pack animal / trans dyke / part-time werewolf / guest in xučyun in northern california / former backend tech lead on blaseball (RIV)

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hi it's me christine! i like using ink, paper, steel, photons, comics, music, words, magnetic tape, found objects, machines, monsters, instruments, artifacts, rituals, and games to tell stories about speculative worlds full of harmony and noise and weird lil creatures.

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Had a blast talking the weirdness of community management with Brendan and Nic. We were also plagued by a tuba in the background for most of the recording. Listen for honks and blaseball

brendan mordheim@brendanmcleod.dev

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, we talk with Bria Davis @thevoidencore.bsky.social about Blaseball, discord servers, different types of communities, and the work of passing on lessons learned. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

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This is the best explanation for why this game means so much to me. I'm deeply invested in a continuation of a story that captured my imagination 30 years ago, but what's made me a participant, rather than a consumer, is the desolate romance of a truck abandoned on a hill. Thank you @goosepimple.moe

Bullet Points@bpmonthly.bsky.social

"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...

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Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

Andboo Haunton 😷🎃@andrewhinton.bsky.social

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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your focus, and how much focus you allocate, should scale proportionally with how much you are able to affect whatever you are focusing on this is not an ethical compromise or a political concession, it is the most essential and effective practice for living while making the world better to live in

tonight's tragedy: dropped from watching Frankenstein to get to the Lightning Bolt show, and only discovered after I got to the venue, on the other side of the bay, that the show in question was actually yesterday ;vvvv;

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the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)