rose v dale ✨

rose v dale ✨

@rosevdale.bsky.social

photographer, writer, game developer, musician, maker of silly gadgets croatian-american; from dc, in tokyo (sometimes kyoto); they/she 🏳️‍⚧️ rosevdale.com

150 Followers 249 Following 165 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 weeks ago
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2 months ago

RIP Mozilla

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5 months ago

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

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7 months ago
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

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7 months ago

the reason I apologize fifty times in every conversation is because every conversation also feels like it's full of razor blades

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7 months ago

fuck yeah. (dabble is great. bit pricey, but fantastic as a minimalist, distraction-free writing app without 1000 unnecessary features)

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10 months ago

prompt: draw the hottest lesbians you can imagine

straight guy: *draws a naked woman with huge tits slobbering all over another naked womans feet*

lesbians: *draws a girl in a mechanic jumpsuit with her hair tied back and grease smears on her face diligently tuning a blushing girls cybernetics*

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1 year ago
A hairless cat covered in 20 dollar bills, winking

This is the money puss, repost for more money and/ or puss (or don't, nothing is real, Sundays are scary)
#artsky

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1 year ago
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taking care of it 🔨 (2023)

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9 months ago

Don't buy Oblivion
Don't buy Doom: The Dark Ages
Cancel your gamepass subscription
Do not give Microsoft another red cent that they don't pry from your dead fists

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10 months ago

Pineapple Hangover

...damn that's pretty good

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11 months ago

i started raiding my dad's sci-fi collection at an early age; i must have read this one three or four times.

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11 months ago

Repost with a favorite book from childhood.

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11 months ago

sometimes writing is carefully removing each of your teeth, one by one, with pliers and putting them in a tidy little line and waiting to find out if people like the order you put them in

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11 months ago
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Exhibition 2025: rose v dale ローズ・デール | KG+ Alone In A Crowd: Urban Wildlife & Me / Autistic, transgender, an immigrant, rose v dale has never quite fit in anywhere, always feeling alone in a world where nothing quite makes sense to her. Often ...

so hey i'm doing my first photo exhibition soon!

kyoto, april 11 - may 11, fri/sat/sun. at a cute lil gallery in a quiet corner of higashiyama with a cozy cafe on the first floor. come check it out. :D

kgplus.kyotographie.jp/en/exhibitio...

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11 months ago

This gets at what bothers me about ChatGPT too: there's no variance in tone, no shifts in emphasis or contrasting complex paragraphs with blunt single-sentence statement grafs, no sense of how it all lays on the page. It's just a fucking relentless drone that fills any amount of space until it stops

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11 months ago

I really despise how algorithmic censorship has caused so many people online to speak in infantile euphemisms.

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11 months ago

ugh I hope nobody leaks one of these to a reporter! especially not one with Signal, such as meganfarokhmanesh.76, at a publication with great policies for protecting sources, like WIRED

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11 months ago

can't wait to see it :D

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11 months ago

ngl you had me at "two trans girls on the moon"

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1 year ago

...😳

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1 year ago

I love sunlight. It's the most beautiful, precious accident of cosmic placement. It makes photography possible. It warms my skin and makes things grow. I love how it colours the clouds and renders every cloud different. I love the shade of green that leaves take on when sunlight gets 'em from behind

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1 year ago

Our new game was just announced in State of Play - Dreams of Another! We use point cloud rendering to create an abstract world where you use weapons to not destroy, but create!

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1 year ago

whooooa it looks so cool! 🤩

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1 year ago

i love the implication that mathletes are a thing in this d&d setting 😂

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1 year ago

I think a lot of (cis) people simply do not understand that being trans isn’t just a sex thing. The idea that one might transition to be happy (and not purely for sexual gratification) legitimately doesn’t occur to them.

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1 year ago

i remember life pre-transition as interacting with the world from inside a prison of frosted glass; every interaction was mediated by a translucent yet impermeable barrier. shattering that glass left me covered in cuts and scratches, but i'm out in the open now, vulnerable but free.

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