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Cat Manning

@catacalypto.bsky.social

narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.

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Worker owned things will have much better time existing when people will understand that “the rich/capitalists” doesn’t mean “anybody who gets paid (slightly more than me) for their work”

07.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 70    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 0

highly recommend this book even if you don't work on "procgen games". Thinking about how the player experience is assembled is valuable for ALL types of games.

07.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 44    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

07.10.2025 00:21 — 👍 6733    🔁 1072    💬 386    📌 132

I do not how you even deal with this other than social norms of a strength that we have spent the last 10 years proving we can't hold onto. How are you gonna stop the most anti-social teenager in the highschool deepfaking every girl in his class into the most obscene situations he can imagine?

06.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 73    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 1

it's not just that we rejected smart glasses 5-10 years ago, it's that the last attempt to inject them into our lives by google made this obvious: attaching a recording device to your body without the specific context of like skateboarding or motocross or w/e enables pvp globally

07.10.2025 00:38 — 👍 60    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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the almost unsolvable quandary of "this genre relies on you being too scared to fight anyone because a single bullet could end your run" and "it's a bungie game so the guns feel incredible and you want to be shooting them all the time"

06.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

06.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 1652    🔁 229    💬 47    📌 18

The grand unified “Everyone is Twelve” theory is a legit contribution to contemporary thought and critique. We really are ruled by evil adult children!

06.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 798    🔁 120    💬 4    📌 9

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06.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 2057    🔁 543    💬 44    📌 23

really liked this review, and definitely sold me on the game

06.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 42    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Consume Me review - anything but empty calories A teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture – this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat

Played Consume Me. Loved Consume Me. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

06.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 212    🔁 51    💬 3    📌 3

Adjunct: bring back ‘ominous’ as a value neutral statement about the prophetic qualities of an event, not simply for ‘foreshadowing something bad’

06.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

06.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 6795    🔁 1184    💬 52    📌 66

the quantity of wolves inside of you cannot accurately be described with an integer value. hope that helps

24.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 99    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

"there are no atheists in foxholes" is a terrible expression. sure, the things that foxes worship do not resemble our "gods". that does not mean that they are atheists

29.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 379    🔁 87    💬 3    📌 4
From Discord release:

The data that may have been impacted was related to our customer service system. This may include:

• Name, Discord username, email and other contact details if provided to Discord customer support
• Limited billing information such as payment type, the last four digits of your credit card, and purchase history if associated with your account
• IP addresses
• Messages with our customer service agents
• Limited corporate data (training materials, internal presentations)
The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver's license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.

From Discord release: The data that may have been impacted was related to our customer service system. This may include: • Name, Discord username, email and other contact details if provided to Discord customer support • Limited billing information such as payment type, the last four digits of your credit card, and purchase history if associated with your account • IP addresses • Messages with our customer service agents • Limited corporate data (training materials, internal presentations) The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver's license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.

Hackers were able to access copies of IDs, but also IP addresses and usernames/profiles associated with them.

A huge blow for anonymity online and a risk for marginalized communities and politically or legally disfavored groups.

06.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 107    🔁 52    💬 2    📌 13

saw this post (that uses the last moment of kirk’s life as a reaction gif) bouncing around x this weekend & it feels like a perfect encapsulation of how irony poisoned/detached the dominant culture of that platform has become. at the risk of seeming like a dweeb i find it genuinely chilling/alarming

06.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 758    🔁 65    💬 33    📌 9
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

01.09.2025 00:14 — 👍 11030    🔁 3449    💬 230    📌 343

Current level of normality in the discourse:

( ) NORMAL: the football player is footballing wrong
( ) ALERT: some company changed their logo
( ) SEVERE: game has the wrong difficulty
(X) HAZARDOUS: an easily panicked horse has been left in charge of social moderation
( ) WEBCOMIC COMMENTS SECTION

06.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 319    🔁 93    💬 3    📌 1
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Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

06.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 3191    🔁 712    💬 80    📌 62

Just saying, "the book is there to serve me, not vice versa" is a very - VERY odd thing to say when discussing literature.

06.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 113    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 1

like I don’t think we’re any closer to solving it than we were 9 months ago but at least we’re a lot more fed up with it

06.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like that it feels like there’s momentum behind seeing this as a mitigatable problem

06.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

yeah I laughed when I saw your post, truly everyone is thinking it

06.10.2025 10:22 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“I don’t even gaf if the fate of ophelia has the best musical beat ever conceived, as an ACTUAL English major, I refuse to listen to a song that implies Ophelia might’ve reconsidered killing herself if she just dated a quarterback”

“I don’t even gaf if the fate of ophelia has the best musical beat ever conceived, as an ACTUAL English major, I refuse to listen to a song that implies Ophelia might’ve reconsidered killing herself if she just dated a quarterback”

I keep thinking about this from twitter

06.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 339    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 0
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Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene.

Thanks for helping me keep going.

04.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 287    🔁 73    💬 2    📌 0

Consider the subtleness of the sea

06.10.2025 06:47 — 👍 232    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 12
Text tong to fit - it's a list of subreddit memberships for each of the 40k factions. Here's a sample...

r/AdeptusCustodes: gundam (19.71), airforce (19.20), daytrading (16.56), sandersforpresident (9.82), centrist (6.93). Conclusion: Ex-military guys with schizophrenic politics.

r/AdeptusMechanicus: pathfinder_rpg (14.05), adhdmeme (7.27), dankleft (6.07), theowlhouse (5.88), kerbalspaceprogram (5.39). Conclusion: Current stereotypes are pretty much correct.

r/BloodAngels: preppers (15.98), airforce (15.74), menslib (9.04), asktrp (9.01), asktrumpsupporters (8.45). Conclusion: Black Templars got nothing on these guys.

Text tong to fit - it's a list of subreddit memberships for each of the 40k factions. Here's a sample... r/AdeptusCustodes: gundam (19.71), airforce (19.20), daytrading (16.56), sandersforpresident (9.82), centrist (6.93). Conclusion: Ex-military guys with schizophrenic politics. r/AdeptusMechanicus: pathfinder_rpg (14.05), adhdmeme (7.27), dankleft (6.07), theowlhouse (5.88), kerbalspaceprogram (5.39). Conclusion: Current stereotypes are pretty much correct. r/BloodAngels: preppers (15.98), airforce (15.74), menslib (9.04), asktrp (9.01), asktrumpsupporters (8.45). Conclusion: Black Templars got nothing on these guys.

Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction. Astounding. Motion for Deathwatch to be renamed to Hotwifewatch.

www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...

06.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 940    🔁 303    💬 51    📌 60

happy birthday!

06.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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