joel a clark 🔜 GDC

woof.
as if my anxiety about going wasn't bad enough...

anxious about heading to GDC, honestly. the older I get, the more I want to make games but the less I want to be a part of the industry.

I’m excited to see many of you, though, that’s always the saving grace of these things

my archetype is Victim of the Murder Mystery

an except from Ursula K Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” reading: Even when a corn-borer was squashed, a mosquito swatted, a branch broken, a flower picked, the formula was muttered in its ultimately reduced form: arrariv, “my word[s].” Although this one-word formula was spoken as mindlessly as our “bless you” to a sneeze, it was always spoken. The speaking of it maintained and contained the idea of need and fulfillment, demand and response, of relationship and interdependence; and this idea could be brought fully to mind when it was wanted. The stone, as they said, contains the mountain.

(arra) RIV

you, on video playing Gardens:
“mm. yes. so so good. what a product.”

god damnit McDonald’s. now you’ve started a whole genre of putrid CEO videos

currently cranking out the most jank character animations known to mankind. these unholy clusters of keyframes only loosely resemble human motion

it did not miss

what’s the biggest small number

hey i need a 30 second or so clip of someone valiantly playing the trumpet or similar instrument. must be you playing. must be valiant. does not need to be good. will Venmo you $5 if I like your clip. if you send me an AI clip you must Venmo me $5. thanks in advance!

johnny weir, softly into his microphone: this music by Mazer Lazer represents celebration, relief, a willingness to engage in party

me: So stupid how the announcers have to explain what every part of the Olympic ceremony symbolizes

also me: WTF DOES THIS SHIT MEAN

I REALLY enjoyed being offline for a couple years. I’m already feeling the negative effects of being back online. but alas, it’s sorta necessary for someone trying to find funding & eventually market a game

it always takes me a week or so after traveling to remember how to cook food for myself

POV of a lap cat curled up on a pillow between the camera and a desk setup.

Fudge and I have worked out this daily arrangement. it’s generally good for both of us — it only comes at the expense of my back

hello hi

i can get invested into any sport

also, it’s diabolical that GDC is so quick after DICE

dice was great, had many great conversations about new project (🌿) and the industry as a whole.

yesss

and that’s, like, the baseline

casinos are so absurd
I just ate a $30 meatball sub while Pink Pony Club blasted and some guy smoked a cigar a few feet away

hang in there

drake maye, drake maye not

pokemon

luge needs a minimap & ghost racers

for real. very Un-Fresh of them, I would say

we all cheat. that sunfresh parking lot is a shortcut first, parking lot second

the Olympic drone shots are cool but the constant drone screeching sounds are not cool