Want to write a Discordian sci fi novel about how black holes are used to create megacomputers to simulate consciousness but Smolin’s black holes -> new universes model is correct and the universe is also infinite so impossible complicated weird shit happens as a consequence.
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I am just finishing a story I began during the Fall. Feels juvenile but ambitious, which is probably good. But I am exited to be done with it and I want to share it just to see how it plays for people. I’ve been with it longer than any piece of fiction I’ve worked on, and I suspect the more I stare at it the less I know what I’m looking at anymore lol
It has been a serious endeavor for me, something I hope I learn from.
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I had an essay published about the video game ANATOMY by Kitty Horrorshow this week. It was my grad application essay, but for this I had to cut it down from 5.5k words to 2.5k and, y’know what, I learned it doesn’t take as many words as you might think it does to say a thing.
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I wrote a short essay on my thoughts on how to capture genre (and specific feelings in general) in table top rpgs.
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Hey all I just finished writing something up. It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever written and it’s also about Persona 4. It’s also the first bit of games writing I’ve ever put online, out of myriad discarded essays. I’d really like it if it would be read. I’ve been a lot more timid about this kind of thing in the past anyway. Someone was nice enough to read it in the action button discord earlier and I find myself on some kind of high. Thanks
cw: suicide
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i don’t know if i have much to say found this poignant and rlly relatable on being at a point of high uncertainty!
and welcome to sb! hope you stick around~
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thanks! I’ve been lurking for maybe a month now actually. I appreciate the warm welcome!
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I started writing a blog fairly recently (half a year ago? feels recent in blog age, anyway). It’s mostly been a video game blog so far, though I don’t know that I’m trying to posture it as specifically a games blog. Anyway, my latest post is about driving games:
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new writing jam theme is lists so thinking about compiling a list of some description
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finished my list of the top 100 videogames
http://harmonyzone.org/text/top100videogames.html
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Thinkin’ about dying:
https://procyonic.org/blog/fatherhood-is-a-recurring-confrontation-with-mortality/
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Finished writing the main dialog for liber desperatio. Now I just need to write the Ham radio dialog which will be somewhat harder, finish fleshing in the gameplay details, and I’ll finally have finished the rough draft of part one of what I’ve been fantasizing about for 10 years
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im back bitches
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making slow improvements - now it has a twitter card. next up:
- reclaim nobatteries.in
- set up a mailing list for new posts
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I wrote this blog post prefacing my shift to making maps in Quake with an explanation about what playing in virtual spaces means to me philosophically. It’s technically for a class I am in which is basically about philosophies of making things, where we are reading a lot of work by composition and rhetoric scholars that are citing theorists of “new materialism.” That is a contemporary branch of philosophy by western philosophers which wants to extend the idea of materiality to include things like relationships between things which may appear to not actually be interacting but, on some quantum level or through a complex network of influences, do have material affects on each other. One huge implication of this philosophy is the reconsideration of the relationship between subject and object, where in classical materialism the object is a thing determined by the subject; in new materialism everything is determined by everything, so there are no subjects and every thing (including people!) are objects. But my post is mostly about what it feels like for me to play in virtual spaces, horror, and the intersection of new materialism with my own feelings about anti-humanism. Would love to hear if anybody has thoughts or reactions! It’s for an academic class, but I wanted to make it entertaining and approachable in a lot of ways. I kind of like it :)))
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tried to do a version of that “advice to someone making their first game” thing i saw going around
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I wrote a 1000 word primer on Drakengard 3 and Xenofeminism, though I’m not going to share it yet because it’s for publication.
Also, today I wrote more insane tf smut.
I’ve been writing a lot of insane tf smut and publishing it to furaffinity. DM if you want the link I guess