Jade Fae Britzman

“Not they fault”

I want to live the kind of life that earns me eulogies like that.

I feel like this thing makes a sort of bubbly sound as it zooms past

I sorta wanna polish off the final patch quests of FFXIV Endwalker, but I’m still in game married to my ex and also the game kinda makes me sad now…

And I left my FC ugh… man.. it’s frustratingly poetic to not quite be able to walk to the end of Endwalker due to life falling apart unexpectedly

That’s nice :)

One thing I believe more and more as I push myself creatively is that you don’t need to, and nor should you, intentionally write metaphors into your work.

“Metaphors are real. Human philosophies meet nature and make metaphors”

They’ll just show up. The best ones show up, and you nurse them quietly

Sometimes I forget that I’ve interviewed three professional authors in front of an audience, each for a full hour.

I for real have interviewer experience.

How do I get to do that again?? I want to interview more! I love interviewing!!

My most anticipated game of 2025

I think so often about someone lying that they saw a woman “sorting through her food stamps” at the counter as if they are literal like, postage stamps but for food. People are just lying about seeing people exploit the system and doing so in the stupidest way possible. Bone chilling

Hmmm might be a good next read

“Keep politics out of video games” mfs when the Whitehouse is making their favourite game political.

Not that hypocrisy from the right is even like, worth pointing out any more.

I know it’s stupid to complain about spelling differences between American English and Australian/British English, but from a purely decorum point of view, American English looks baby mode.

Rationalize? Okay little buddy I know you like Zs cus they’re edgy but use an S like an adult.

Color? No. 👶

Brogue is SO cool. It’s easily the best intro to old school style rogue-likes.

Everything about it is so smooth. The fact you can make a game like that and have it feel like it has no jank whatsoever is incredible.

Truly a momentous achievement.

Mm fair, great point.

Connections don't mean shit. I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections. It's a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you're doing, and if you're doing it publicly and he's receptive, he probably hears about it on his own. Don't worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.

been having the music/games 'industry' parallel on the mind all the way through games week, and that always leads back to me thinking about steve albini being essentially my standard for the kind of person i want to be in a scene/community. heres a little something from a reddit ama he did ages ago

I’ve worded it before as “never network, only engage in communities.” And by that I mean that networking is about what other people can do for you, community is what we all do for each other.

It’s because they hate us and want us dead

This post is a perfect example of someone wording a fundamental concept so well that for a moment it feels like you came up with it or that you always knew it, instead of having learned it right then and there.

I’m a weirdo cus my favourite Zelda is ‘A Link Between Worlds’ and you might think “oh I get it it’s the 3DS one, it must be the only one u had on ur 3DS for your age demographic.” But no I played it last year.

It hits different in a different way when ur the granddaughter of a hong konger who you never met but who was also not allowed to teach her children canto and was encouraged to assimilate.

Like oh my god it’s not a culture I’m “not connected to” it’s one that structures in place denied to my family

Actually, elaborating a bit more.

MTG used to be the best way to explore a unique world. Now it’s always the worst way to explore a world you already know.

Don’t buy FF cards when you can just play FF. Same for fallout, same for watching/reading lord of the rings.

But MTGs world building was ABOUT not knowing! It was small windows into a mysterious world that you ONLY COULD LEARN ABOUT through these small windows.

Universes beyond isn’t *unlike* original MTG worlds, it’s the opposite.

And I hate it.

Sorry to MTG post but I just put into words why I left the hobby.

Universes beyond isn’t just “not MTGs soul” it’s literally THE OPPOSITE of what MTG was good at.

The primary reaction they want from IP in Magic is “Oh I know what that’s a reference to.” It’s a world we *already know*

1/2

New “most embarrassing moment of my life” just dropped

Met the CEO of Hipster Whale.

She said “I’m the CEO of hipster whale” while I was taking a sip of my gin and tonic.

I said “Oh my god!” With such surprise that I spat an ice cube onto the ground

Somehow she kept talking to me and it was nice

THATS ME!!

I’m doing a lightning talk at technically games!

Can’t wait! See you there folks!

I truly adore spring so much. It’s not the *blooms* that are amazing, it’s the outpouring of life in general. No season is as drastically new comparatively.

Poorneet is a bit of a rough start to spring with all its wind, it’s true, but there’s another full season of spring before summer proper.

Counter point:

Random pet peeve is the saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

…

Have they heard of dice?

It's literally that easy

MIGW events I'll be at (Say hi!)

Opening Night
Interactive Narrative Social
Freeplay Parallels
Technically Games Lightning Talks
Megadev

And anything else I get randomly invited to! Jade belongs at ur secret party.