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@scarredkaizen.bsky.social

Technical Narrative Designer, D&D Dungeon Master, Mixed Media Artist, Writer (she/they) Currently working on: Wyrm Saga

58 Followers  |  135 Following  |  156 Posts  |  Joined: 05.12.2024  |  1.9269

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Once you start a dehumidifier in your house, you're perpetually dehydrated. I feel as a shriveled old sponge. Parched. Baked.

16.01.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The tension >>>>>

05.01.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

03.01.2026 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1824    πŸ” 358    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 8

Awfully cryptic to leave it at "price" - I await the answer earnestly.

27.12.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Humans: "humans are trash, I hope we all die"

Literally all other animals: "shit, I need some help, I should go find one of those giant terrifying apes, they'll fix it for me, cause that's what they do"

23.12.2025 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 366    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

23.12.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10888    πŸ” 2169    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 75

AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl

23.12.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1129    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 34

If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.

21.12.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1812    πŸ” 768    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 24
So many people have inspired me to be nothing like them. Says Skeletor thinking of a few particular people who inspired him the most.

So many people have inspired me to be nothing like them. Says Skeletor thinking of a few particular people who inspired him the most.

20.12.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1055    πŸ” 381    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 11

After this week's Larian debacle and the ensuing discourse, this is so refreshing and such a relief. I really hope more people take a stand like this. Generative AI has no place in video games (or anywhere else for that matter)! Also, wild that Sandfall probably lied, which led to the retraction.

20.12.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The act of researching, collecting reference material, writing a brief, or actually making (not generating) a rough sketch as a non-artist helps you hone in exactly what is important to share and what is open for the artist's interpretation

Shortcutting this via genAI makes for lazy communication

18.12.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Regarding the April 2025 interview, that was 8 months ago! Things change, new information becomes available, people form opinions. I would hope 8 months is long enough to come to the conclusion that tools aren't useful and you should stop. Especially they're worried about "agility" and "keeping up".

18.12.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't this the place where people were going to the hospital from crunching too hard?

18.12.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's settled! πŸ’•

18.12.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Characters like Superman or Sherlock Holmes are very entertaining and fun to read about despite not really changing or growing as people.

17.12.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I appreciate when there's an audience backlash to this because what's happening from a dev perspective is that its gradually being normalized across many studios, through similar thinking and top-down culture-setting as revealed by these interviews.

17.12.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People wonder why a lot of games use dialogue to just spell out the plot or character motivations β€” this is often why. Because you’ve cut off the writer’s ability to use action, setups and layoffs, visuals, etc if you lay out a whole level and THEN bring them in

17.12.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Any game that has the least bit of generated AI in the art, text, voice acting, or promo materials - should never win awards.

but here we fucking are lol

12.12.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

My brain still gets hooked on individual pieces of concept art from #DragonAge or #MassEffect, because they weren't just a Cool Image for the sake of cool imagery: they were an additional window into the world of the game, created by someone who understood how that world could grow.

16.12.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

16.12.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5060    πŸ” 1514    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 20

I feel as though I've used up all my creative energy for the year which means it's time to play inspiring games.
I have my eye on Torment: Tides of Numeria and Cipher Zero. Which one should I try first?

16.12.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And the entire Chat lost their minds. #DragonAge #DragonAgeDay

05.12.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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when I tell you this made me tear up πŸ₯Ί thank you @jeffberg1.bsky.social for speaking out about it, it's so important πŸ’œ

04.12.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

23.08.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Meditations in an Emergency
Cameron Awkward-Rich

I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits.
The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There's a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

Meditations in an Emergency Cameron Awkward-Rich I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There's a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

05.07.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyday for a month I'm like this

27.04.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels more nefarious/worse when there isn't a big to-do about smaller layoffs. Just quietly dumping people into the LinkedIn pile feels bad, man.

31.03.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tbh this is how all high ranking military use signal. I got added to texts like this all the time and you'd be lime O_O "Col XYZ this is not a SCIF"

24.03.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am so drained of life. This cat has no idea it's my pool noodle in the ocean.

20.03.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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