Ryan McDiarmid

Ryan McDiarmid

@ryanmcdiarmid.com

Cutscene Designer @ Riyo Games Narrative + Game Designer, Writer, Visual Artist. He/Him. Vancouver, BC. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Prev: Sky of Tides, Goodbye Volcano High, Hardspace: Shipbreaker https://ryanmcdiarmid.com/

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this image was clearly made with such burning hate and yet over the years these two have become warm friends. they tapped into something real and true. me when i find a cool stick

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sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

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Replying to @00orz00orz.bsky.social

Like don’t get me wrong I’d love to see the Indian Act replaced by something written & defined directly by First Nations people but —given this government has repeatedly treated Indigenous consultation as an obstacle/nuisance to their national designs— I don’t think that’s what this is…

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"unable to complain" is just so, SO telling, to me

John Michonski@john.gamesline.net

Reading this Famitsu interview Uchikoshi did and it seems that the reason the Crash Keys game was canceled was because *Uchikoshi* wanted to use AI, not the publisher. This snippet is driving me nuts. Makes all the posturing with Hundred Line read extremely shallow.

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The world's too small for nation-states now, is the thing.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

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Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.

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oop a small number of heart charms were found AND the worm drop has been listed! get em while the getting is good!

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Shadow ecology of dogs taking waymos to the park at midnight. Not a single human knows

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Specifically, everyone involved in the disqualification of Anjali Appadurai needs to be cleared out This election was a slow moving disaster that began at the last leadership race

Breen Ouellette (he/him)@breeno.bsky.social

COPE has become the model of cooperation that is the antithesis of how this provincial election was called and managed. Delegates to the next BC NDP Convention need to organize now to clear the leadership of every person who backed the snap election.

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David Eby’s legacy = human rights violating military raid on Wet’suwet’en as AG, cheating in the leadership race to become Premier, simping for LNG, colossally failing to uphold DRIPA, worst snap election in Canadian history

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Replying to @ianboudreau.com

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

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I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

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Just want to point out, that with preliminary numbers, the only party to increase the # of votes is @bcgreens.bsky.social. Both Conservative and NDP lost voters. And those complaining of vote splitting, they each lost more than the Greens gained. Apathy won this election.

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Replying to @melwoods.me

I appreciate passion and support from folks outside of B.C. But we actually don’t really know what happens next. And stoking necessary fear over hypotheticals is going to hurt the actual organizing that needs to happen to make things better for people here.

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Seeing a lot of fear-mongering on my timeline tonight from trans folks and allies outside of B.C. Yes, this result is what it is. But this is not a “stockpile your HRT now” situation. And I think suggesting people do that is uneccessary and actively harmful to people who actually live here.