Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void

Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void

@nathanblack.com

Factotum, Flâneur, Strawhat sympathizer Big Bad Con Community Coordinator Mugs and games and games on mugs: https://www.sassys86.com

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I think the average person has no idea how a video game is made and so it makes sense they would focus on wanting to save an IP and not the devs behind it. Being on an AAA team means there are a handful of chosen speakers at the top, and the average worker can’t speak out or risk losing their job.

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“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

What made Austin the cultural hot spot that it was in the 70s and into the 90s was cheap rent. Being able to work part time flipping burgers and spending the rest of your time playing music on the porch with your friends or making art in a cheap studio space It’s also the key to a happy life

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

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This is Carolyn Marvin, the writer of When Old Technologies Were New. A very sick move by a theorist of technology.

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Good news, #ttRPG fans! Fiasco 2nd edition is back in print! My copy just arrived from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social

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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Replying to @meghna.bsky.social

video games are an artistic medium which is specifically suited to asking what it is like to step into another personhood — which is to say another’s agency, or even unusual or unexpected forms of agency, which is a primary affordance. the video game *can* be a mirror but it is also always a portal

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Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Sounds like comic book and Star Wars films and shows tbh These are not places of honor. They are the last of the crusty toothpaste being squeezed out of the tube

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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In complete sincerity this is the way

Kallidora Rho@kallidorarho.bsky.social

The author's brazen fetish, presented with such hedonistic flair and and open pride it makes you feel a little embarassed for needing to hide your own passions behind self-effacing jokes in order to preserve a sense of safe, pseudo-ironic detachment

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I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Back when I worked in video games, there would inevitably be groups of high school kids brought through on a tour. They would ask how to get into games and I’d always say “be interested in literally anything else”

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Have a broad set of interests and a curiosity about how the world works. If your only interest is games you can only recreate existing games. Which I guess was fine for video games for a while, but you will only ever work on other people’s games.

A stunning indictment of modern cities. Witness Austin, TX, a city that has become a theme park of itself. It went from being the inspiration for the movie Slacker to a tech hustle city. Now service industry folks can’t afford to live there and the tech bros complain about how it “used to be cool”

Bob Johnston@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social

"A city doesn't get hollowed out by too many visitors. It hollows out when too little of the city remains underneath them, when the thing they queued to see has been quietly sold off around them while they queued." Great piece on #Dublin by Conor McGuire in Western People.