Max Folkman

We’ll take’em! 🫴🏻

I’m so glad I saw this thread today. One if your best works, Kate

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

FREAKON TOMORROW, FREAKS! Come see our talk that we’ll NEVER speak of AGAIN! Don’t even ask!!!

Crossing my fingers! Gonna hang out no matter what

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

RIP sweet prince. May you sploot forever more in the giant cardboard box in the sky 🫡

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Questionnaire

working on something a little different than usual! looking to speak with women of all ages and backgrounds about their life experiences. short questionnaire here, shares very welcome docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

Hmmm both of these lists are making me feel like you might like Soderbergh’s Solaris

Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that

Spidey clutching his head saying OMG

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?

Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director — without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.

That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer — you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.

And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there — I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Looks so good, Eka!!!

How dare Nintendo put in a great lil slow jam for when you set up the Switch 2, and yet still deny us eShop music

Hello hello! We're back with @blendogames.bsky.social & @lmichet.bsky.social this week to talk earnestness in storytelling, working w/ external writers, when to overexplain things, deranged subreddits, and in this clip, making a comedic immersive sim! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...

I’m always recommending it! And I love how the season 2 score isn’t just a retread of the first one

I saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button again last night. Never gets old.

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

Is that frog hand embroidered? 😮 or is it available anywhere?

Hell yeah, Laura! Congrats on the launch. Gonna start playing today finally 😈

Anytime your articles came up, Nicole, I knew they'd be worth the read (especially your Rise of the Video Game Union zine, which I still pass along). I'm so sorry these ghouls couldn't see the same.

The Three States of Employment:
- Laid Off
- Waiting to be Laid Off
- Executive

So happy for y’all, Brendon!!! Can’t wait to dive in and pick glass out of my feet

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On site in Guildford.