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Senior Writer/Narrative Designer/Consultant for Games | Horizon Forbidden West | Destiny: The Taken King and beyond | IRON MAN VR | Guild Wars 2 | Forza 7 | Fable 2 | Lily's Garden. Husband, Marathoner, Cat Wrangler, BAFTA member. johnryanwrites.com
Reposting this today.
For no particular reason at all.
All those Fanciest Cat competitions.
24.10.2025 01:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And credited with their proper role on the project.
24.10.2025 00:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits - aftermath.site/video-game-c...
23.10.2025 18:59 โ ๐ 81 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Posted by Block Club Chicago: "Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE swarm the city. They pass out to food to people in need."
Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game
23.10.2025 21:30 โ ๐ 2145 ๐ 590 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 28www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgp...
Wait for it.
What's it like inside my head?
23.10.2025 21:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2I'm absolutely in awe how we don't have a representative government anymore.
23.10.2025 21:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.
23.10.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 3328 ๐ 704 ๐ฌ 89 ๐ 15Everything about gaming right now feels like it is determined to drive me away as a consumer and a creator.
23.10.2025 17:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Blue-collar crime, maybe.
White-collar crime? That never shows up on cameras.
irl employers wanna recreate the joja cola hellscape from the intro to stardew valley
23.10.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 368 ๐ 56 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 1Because the press
A) Wants to still have access to the WH, because ratings
B) Have owners who are cool with the fascism and slop
C) Are terrified that even the tiniest of Trump criticism will be met with some MAGAn with an assault rifle in their lobby
D) is going with a combo of the above
I think - and stop me if I'm in error there - he just talked himself out of getting the money.
Maybe he wants to lose this deal. Maybe he wants to cry victim tears that "he got sabotaged by woke" so he can walk away from something he knows deep down he fucked up.
Absolutely fuck all of this.
23.10.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Powerwash Simulator 2 Day to all who celebrate it.
23.10.2025 16:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I donโt know if thereโs a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramountโs new โlocalizationโ and โcustomizationโ technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
23.10.2025 08:13 โ ๐ 3359 ๐ 1047 ๐ฌ 89 ๐ 272Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise?
Yeah.
A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes itโs early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good nightโs sleep does wonders.
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
โLook how hard my team worksโ no dude youโre just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
so sorry to the devs who have no control over this decision. this sucks absolute ass
23.10.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The X-Files, even in their most daffy, unhinged conspiratorial moments, never descended to this level of unhinged lunacy.
23.10.2025 04:26 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I donโt talk about it much because the situation doesnโt really change but itโs still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.
23.10.2025 02:42 โ ๐ 3134 ๐ 584 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 37Hello new followers! I'm Hazel.
๐ Chicken keeper ๐ Tripod dog owner ๐ Writer ๐ฎ Senior Narrative Designer ๐ Baker โช๏ธ Amateur medievalist ๐ฑ Gardener ๐งถ Knitter ๐ PhD in English lit
Previously: ๐โ๏ธ Blizzard ๐๐ซ Bungie ๐งก๐ Arkane
Looking for my next role!
Find my work on my website: www.hazelmonforton.com
This should be pre-marriage counseling.
Well, this and do you together constantly give Paul Hollywood shit on GBBO?
Updating my LEGO White House
23.10.2025 02:51 โ ๐ 46159 ๐ 10818 ๐ฌ 743 ๐ 421Partial to the first Superman and the first Incredibles as well, but damn the first Spider-Verse is up there.
23.10.2025 03:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Best superhero film in 10 years, easy.
23.10.2025 03:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0