John Ryan, Last Christmas Contest Casualty

from my cheap seats, I see it if holdouts will see any potential AR wins are “oh no one cares about GenAI” so they will go ahead and use it thinking it’s just an acceptable thing now.

The second-biggest own goal in modern history.

The first being trump‘s re-election.

Which is the reaction i’m about. If AR wins big will there be defiance or acceptance?

Show me a fictional character that altered your brain chemistry.

How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for video game workers

AR ran into a controversy when it got revealed the studio behind it was using GenAI.

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

Commercials are faster to develop and launch than games... so yeah there are a lot of time bombs with slow fuses out there.

That said, ARC Raiders is getting a lot of BAFTA Award attention right now, so for me that's going to be telling if it wins and what the reaction will be.

The executives all champing at the bit to roll this stuff out really have no idea what they're in for

Mulder saying "both claim to have been abducted by aliens"

Scully looking So So tired

That's it. That's the show.

A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

The DigiPen campus in Redmond.

A very big thank you to DigiPen for inviting me once again to evaluate World Bible projects written and assembled by their narrative design students.

Note: Stock photo alert. It was too dark and rainy to take a photo tonight of the campus.

We are not a real country.

We are one of those fake news spots in a Robocop film.

TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series - American Cinematheque

For those willing to make the commitment, the American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social is going to screen all 48 episodes of TWIN PEAKS twice every Tuesday night at the Los Feliz 3 which will take the entire year.

If a real plan exists at all. The plan could just be "eliminate Obamacare."

FWIW, I think that's the point. Atomizing people so they can't collectively bargain for a group discount so all of them can get covered in a collective insurance pool (socialized medicine). Making it a person versus an insurance company gives every advantage to the company.

Preview of news program with title "who should be fed chair?"

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

Waiting for Conservative TikTok influencers to make famine a lifestyle hack.

You will be visited by three spirits.

Skill Tests for Video Game Writers - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association by John Ryan. Game writing tests are crucial hiring steps. Learn what they involve, how studios evaluate candidates, and practical tips to prepare, follow instructions, manage limits, and showcase…

This week on Planetside… Behind every game writing job is a test that measures creativity, narrative skill, adaptability, and discipline. Here’s how to prepare.

Portfolios in Game Writing continues with “Skill Tests for Video Game Writers” by @johnryanwrites.bsky.social.

ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations (RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.

Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."

It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

Also, the OG Nintendo Gameboy will survive about anything and still be playable. Just pop in a cartridge and play.

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

A ★★★★★ review of Casablanca (1942) Casablanca is the movie that everyone claims to have seen and hand waves away any discussion of it as a serious film, or if they’ve actually seen it and don’t have a strong opinion about it, then they...

This is your annual reminder that (canonically) Casablanca (1942) takes place in the wee small hours of December 7, 1941.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.

This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

No, this is neat. Thank you. I feel like some ancient secret is revealed and I can be on the lookout for this now.

Unbite and share, if you want. I'm legit curious.

This is the point in the Bond film where M would look up and say, "Ah, 007. Shut the door, will you. Tell me, what do you know about Elon Musk?"

This is some fucking sorcery right here.