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Visual novelist, 3D graphics artist, and solo indie game developer.
Runs Date Ariane Games, and arianeb.com and dateariane patreon. Loves video games, any kind of art, photography, science, and history.
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Love this video and a spot on analysis of Doctor Who's fascination with the medium of television.
Trump and his cabinet of Fox News stars is also fascinated by television the same as Doctor Who.
Someone needs to make a video essay comparing the two. Anyone willing?
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I have over 800 followers here, mostly "game developers" like myself. So if I have something to post that would appeal to other game developers, it goes here first.
That's how I separate "Blue Sky" posts from "Facebook" posts.
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It's introduced as "This is how I see myself", and that is partly why it's a work of art. Now I wish Baz Luhrmann had made "Elvis" as an ape.
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Democrats shouldn't listen to Ezra Klein or anyone else at the NYT. Listen to David Hogg, AOC or the Squad instead. All Boomer Dems who voted for neo-conservative principles need to retire or be primaried.
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Explanation: Indie artists didn't have the game making tools 20 years ago, so we made crazy web sites with HTML, GIFs, and Flash.
Now we have Renpy, RPG Maker, Godot, and Unreal Engine, so we moved to crazy games.
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"Popular culture" is the key word here. It's been in decline for a while. "Popular" books and movies are all repetitive "heroes journey" and "save the cat" plots. "Popular" music is all retro pastiche.
"Folk/Indie" and "Non-American" are just getting started.
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AI has no "killer app" to make me want to use it, and that's why I'm playing Oblivion instead of making pictures of big breasted Garfield. Games >> AI, not sure what the investors are thinking.
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The guy has two obvious tells, he clears his throat or plays with his glasses before every lie.
I'd love to play poker with him.
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More like several decades ago. Aired on cable in the 1980's.
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Not a fan of "Everyone's on the Spectrum" talk. Level one autism are people that struggle, but can live on their own. Level 2 and 3 need more help, but RFK is 100% wrong on the topic.
The whole community is mad about them making "lists" of us. RFK has weaponized ableism. He deserves a good punch.
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Some games I'll try pacifist play throughs, that usually end with a bullet storm in a mission where "pacifist" is too hard.
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Showing mics in videos is how they prove that the video is a human talking and not AI. It's what most video essay people on you tube decided to do to fight AI slop.
The eating thing I agree with.
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According to Wiki, the word in it's current context originated with Dizzie Gillespie in the 1940s with a song called "Groovin' High". 1964's "A Groovy Kind of Love" is the first use of Groovy. It was a popular term for "awesome" often a pun for vinyl LPs no doubt Marvin Gay got called that a lot.
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At some point Bondi is going to lose her law license.
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Except maybe The Altantic and Wired, both monthly magazines so not built for daily coverage, all the best reporting of what's happening in the US and the economy seems to be coming from Canada and Europe.
The American mainstream press are too afraid to report what needs reporting.
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Babylon also came up with the 7 day week based on the number of visible stars in the constellation Pleades which makes no sense at all. The Bible's 7 day week was cribbed from the Babylonians.
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The length of time it takes to set up factories here, typically 5 to 10 years, is also a disincentive. America is either going to be radically poor or radically leftist in 5 to 10 years.
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Russia considers Iran an ally, and has been using Iranian airfields to transport cargo between Russia and Northern Africa ever since Syria had their revolution. US bombing Iran could start WW3 real easy.
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"Playing Chicken" is what they tried with TikTok. It completely failed.
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In response, Hegseth just described his time at Fox News.
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There are some sensible 230 reforms I'd like to see, like a ban on algorithmic generated content feed without a way to block it or control it would be nice, but a "sunset" is a horrible idea.
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A lot of commentaries are saying Dylan's story may be over after episode 9.
I believe it might be just getting started. The Dylan twist is he hates his outie self, so does his wife, and he may be the first to want to erase his outie, be a permanent innie and Hele might start debating it too.
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Watched The Outer Worlds video on Nebula. Seems like you've been going through a lot of my same emotions over what's happening.
My game's Watch Dogs Legion, set in fascist London. Not as well written, but beating up fascists is cathartic. The big bad is a tech genius who took over law enforcement.
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MBTI is a test in which you answer a number of personality questions, and the result of the test is that you are grouped into one of 16 categories with people that answered the same personality questions roughly the same way as you.
It's better than a horoscope, but not by much.