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lol... honestly the conflation does feel more and more accurate these days, although arguably the gaming-gambling distinction has always been on a spectrum

love when they call it the "gaming" industry. i love rolling it around in my mouth like a marble and try out the other ones; the watching industry, the reading industry, the listening industry. yeah, very serious industry here.

ha god i'd finish my tasks early and then play games on my phone while waiting on being given more tasks, then get reprimanded for being on my phone. ok give me new tasks faster then

of course doing too much work will fuck you up eventually, but assuming burnout is only a matter of workload is naive. in my opinion *and* experience, it doesn't matter if your workload is small, it's still gonna make you wanna kill yourself if the work itself feels meaningless.

crazy when you see "anti-burnout measures" that are all about limiting people's agency wrt how much work they can undertake... when i burnt out working a shit job ten years ago it wasnt so much the workload but everything around it making me feel disempowered, making the work itself unfulfilling.

thanks tom!

stuck with whatever OS it is in ouroborous incident

i feel like bruno ganz's character in wings of desire when he stops being an angel and experiences being human for the first time except it fucking sucks

RIP to my streak of not getting sick 1994-2026

brolga dancing in a field

purple swamphen in its natural habitat, the swamp

willie wagtail on a fence

plumed egret about to land in water

portrait mode

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com

meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

spam email saying "Ignoriest du das, Richard?"

getting mixed signals from this german spam email using the informal form while also calling me by my last name

Très heureux de partager la première version utilisable par toutes et tous de Loreline, langage open-source pour écrire de la fiction interactive et des systèmes de dialogue !

Un thread pour expliquer ce que c'est et tous les liens pour l'essayer 🧵↓

#interactivefiction #writing #gamedev #indiedev

scribble in the book that says "l'histoire coloniale française" (french colonial history)

got someone's scribbled-in copy of perec's la disparition at the brunswick secondhand bookshop which i found out has a single relatively well-stocked shelf of french books. wonderful.

perfect weather for a bike ride!

@tiredfoxtrot.bsky.social cant reply to your post but yea i noticed that and wanna fix it. thanks for the heads up!

lol @dhtencate.bsky.social i did think of you when formulating this thought

call me climate conscious the way im recycling locations in this game's narrative so we have fewer scenes to design from scratch

this rips thanks for sharing jack

grey currawong

king parrot munching on a leaf

brown thornbill

superb fairywren but male this time

i take: more bird pics
you receive: more bird pics

hell yeah. team earth babey 🌏

yeah hmm i should do this

no. i only want to do free work for shit that doesnt come out. it's capital that i replicate in the workspace the ritual of every morning on the toilet

HELLO???!!!!!

i acknowledge though that i am a peculiar type of bastard because i dont generally trust people who insist on presenting themselves as benevolent. i dont know why!

i like that the framing isnt even like, a collaborator or whatever. it's gotta be happening within the fraught hierarchy of The Internship for some reason. like you dont even have a friend who'd help you out for fun and for love. lol

thinking of doing an unpaid internship for someone's commercial game so i can finally get a taste of Real Industry Experience by being exploited

Do not do unpaid work for someone who will profit off of your labour, and do not trust anyone who is trying to frame that dynamic as acceptable or woke.

all weekend i kept seeing new holland honeyeaters and literally all of my pictures of them are not good enough. absolute rubbish. next time i hit my head real hard i KNOW there's gonna be three of them circling over me comedy-style.

king parrot

brown-headed honeyeater

superb fairywren

grey butcherbird

a few birds from the weekend