I've already seen JNCOs in the wild several times this year!
Actions Speak Louder Than Words ✍️ Systemic Narrative Designer 🧭 Quest designer and world builder 🧠 Psychology and Sociology in #GameDesign 🧙♂️ Wizard in need of a pointy hat Currently @ Unemployed He/Him
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I've already seen JNCOs in the wild several times this year!
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Yall. I am too unemployed to be this tired!!
Does this imply we're all just heaven vampires?
Who eats paint chips? Just drink it straight from the can like a normal person
Do vampires have to be invited into the pearly gates?
It says something about me that immediately I can start to assign every single thing I like onto this graph...
I have this
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
OOOH. BANANA!
Ok yeah. On my phone this looks like maybe BlueSky compression made Charlie look like that. I assure you. No. This is exactly how it is on my TV screen.
I have no idea if this comes across in the photo, but this looks like someone ripped a bootleg VHS and ran it through 15 different jpeg compressions.
Low-resolution Charlie isn't real and cannot hurt me. Low-resolution Charlie isn't real and cannot hurt me. Low-resolution Charlie isn't real and cannot hurt me.
Truly a technology made for and by ideas guys.
I definitely appreciate the finite list. You get 100 posts and if you want more you have to refresh. Good doom-scrolling counter!
Piracy is critical infrastructure. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
just wait for Viper!
Yeah I really don't get why we're still doing Tron.
To all the aspiring game writers on here, know that you'll never write a combat bark as descriptive and thrilling as "pocket sand!"
YOU DIED
Dang, you nailed the likenesses!!
NEW BLOG POST! This time I'm diving into Donkey Kong Bananza and arguing that it is, in fact, a Pixar film! I describe some of the narrative techniques and elements the game uses and how that echoes Pixar's approach. Check if out if that sounds interesting! www.nathansavant.com/post/a-narra...
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
looking forward to the design of Qud in 3525
Hey, you hit on it really well even just from the AI side. It really is a synergistic design, doing lots of interesting stuff with every part of the game it can reach.
This will be followed by a more general analysis of the specific techniques Bananza uses and how that can apply to your game. Expect that in the coming weeks or months, as free time allows.
NEW BLOG POST! This time I'm diving into Donkey Kong Bananza and arguing that it is, in fact, a Pixar film! I describe some of the narrative techniques and elements the game uses and how that echoes Pixar's approach. Check if out if that sounds interesting! www.nathansavant.com/post/a-narra...
The fun part is it's this very ideology that creates liberalism. They believe they can and must crush their childrens' spirits, and in doing so they teach the kid not to be like them. Love a self-defeating cycle!
Oh wow, AI and Games got to it before me, but this is a great video analysis of the narrative design prowess shown off in DK Bananza. I'll be putting out my own blog on this VERY soon, but for now check this out!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGY...
Multiplayer confirmed!!
Genius. Energy storage via a big insulated bucket of sand, with 90% efficiency and months of storage time. Finland is also the country that was recycling on an industrial scale in, like, the 60s
AND GRAVY?!!?? 🥺🤤
It me
Is it too late to change my answer?
at the most basic level, writing is the practice of making your thoughts known to others--giving them a window into the innermost parts of you. when you turn over that skill to AI, you're only isolating yourself further, putting one more middleman between you and every other human being
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
All UI work is cursed
If I ever get truly famous I'm just going full Poison Ivy/Lorax. The earth is angry [cocks gun] and I speak for the trees.
Also blessed with the coolest friends who will just show up to my apartment and do a fully professional VO session on a casual Wednesday night.
My new portfolio piece is getting very very close to finished and y'all. I am so proud of this thing!! I may not have shipped anything in my narrative career, but I've learned all the lessons possible!
i imagine a future in which we are all okay
Tom Clancy's Pounded By President Bigfoot
*opens up your fridge and sees you have 2% milk* hey bro you need to charge your milk
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
AUTHORS!! 📣 If AI trained itself on your book, you can be part of A class action lawsuit now. More here: lithub.com/did-anthropi... Spread the word, please!!
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Ok, but what flavors is he serving?
You can't convince me this isn't a shot from a horror movie
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
Quick and simple video talking about this person's technique for writing out of order. I like the framing she's using, and the visualization! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmig...
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/work-3 #smbc
Mother Nature saw how every dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved has the spikiness slider ramped up to 500%, and said “Nah mate, we’ll beat you to it with this one”
The problem with being a technical designer is that sometimes I use math and have to admit that maybe learning algebra had some amount of value in my life at all. Disgusting.
Hype!!
my dog won't stop FRACKING he spends all of his free time FRACKING
Hey sweet cheeks, are those your real eyes or did you make a pact with a sea witch to exchange them for enchanted gemstones that see only the deepest desires of men's hearts and the ruinous future those hearts will create cause that sounds like a difficult curse to bear and I just hope you're ok
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open
Deranged man. Why would you do this to yourself?!
Love this framing, and am absolutely going to be borrowing it for communicating this philosophy going forward, thank you!
“The meaning of a game is not contained within the signifiers it transmits to the player. Neither is it is contained within the structure of the game’s system of rules…. Meaning is the residue of experience.” — Brian Upton, Situational Game Design
Got any good treasures to share from the bottom of that rabbit hole?
I feel like the unspoken fourth line of this one is that it's impossible to please everyone and if your only goal is to hammer down every feedback mole that pops up you will end often with everyone unhappy. Have your audience and creative goals in mind. Not everything NEEDS fixing
Meta-perceptions matter -- they drive behaviour and sometimes lead to spirals of silence.
Ethicists say Seinfeld characters might be sentient and capable of feeling pain. When Elaine is told “no soup for you” she looks genuinely distressed about being banned from the soup shop for one year
Yeah I started out like "well it's just giving info you can find freely online, I wouldn't wanna ban that part" and then it started applauding the suicidal person for doing the right thing......
"Sure, yeah, there were 20 innocent civilians in front of it, but there was an evil camera!! What were we supposed to do?!"
CW: suicide Please take this to heart in your life going forward: Telling someone what they want to hear, without considering the impact that will have on them, is destructive. Let this be the lesson we learn from AI.
New research: spending money on physical #CardPacks is also linked to problem gambling. 🎰 We answer an FAQ: enough about video game #LootBoxes; what about Pokémon / Magic: The Gathering cards? 🃏💳 We surveyed ≈2,000 card game players in English-speaking Western countries: doi.org/10.1037/adb0....
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
"they adopted" there ya go, Snoop. End of explanation.
What a beautiful way to do this. Thank you for posting it.
The good news is that regaining your mind from the intrusive technospirit is as simple as watching literally any single piece of media actually made during the 1980s.
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding
Intelligent Design? Wait no, hang on...
Apply this same energy but with 'outdated' game design and 'bad' graphics
Ya know, I think it's Matilda. I never had much for role models growing up, and Matilda showed me that even a kid can stand up for what's right, even if the person they're standing up to is their own parents.
Yeah I'm firmly of the belief that the DM is just there to ensure the derailments are thematically appropriate, even if dumb as hell. Which the YMCA line dance absolutely was!
Introduced my improv group to D&D today with a ghibli-inspired story in the veins of Mononoke. Man v Nature, forest spirit guardians, all that stuff. Ended with a scene of our Barbarian leading some farmers and a 20ft tall demon crow in a line dance to the tune of YMCA. Good night, overall!
A whole lot of the "teenagers hate their parents" trope is just because the parents are doing a bad job. Clearly you are not!
With rising neo-puritan censorship regimes, it's never been more valuable to be open about being a pervert. They start with porn because they know you're embarrassed to defend it. They use that weakness against you to police your life. Being unapologetically horny is a public good. I'm not joking.
their best move after backing themselves into the dumbest corner available
Intel seeing the AI bubble imploding, realizing it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over-indexed, and getting wildly desperate.
Gee, I wonder if any other things are impacted by that same mentality. Eh, probably not. Probably fine.
An excellent game if you like puzzles with many solutions and that don’t punish you for messing around. Also one of the funniest and most charming games. And now: cheaper!
No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.
I like that "opinion" articles now exist solely to peddle some utter nonsense from someone who knows absolutely nothing about how anything involved works.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
this came to me in a dream
(nodding) night corn
"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard
Yeah it's never been about the tech, it's always just them dodging accountability. They enjoy ruining peoples' lives, they just wish they couldn't be yelled at for it.