spooktober ryn ash 🎃

spooktober ryn ash 🎃

@espressocat.bsky.social

Screenwriter & Poet + Game Designer & Director • Creating immersive narrative experiences across games, Film/TV, & Location Based Experiences ☕️ • Genres include Science Fiction, Fantasy, & the Supernatural ✍🏼 ✨ she/her/cat 🌱 https://linktr.ee/laurynash

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Bioware was and always will be one a core memory of the people who inspired me to think games was something I could do (and I actually did!). Its legacy lives within us all.

Jonathan Ore@jonore.bsky.social

On Bioware's closure, and how its legacy lives on in games they inspired. feat. @adashtra.bsky.social @alyssamerc.bsky.social @osamadorias.bsky.social @heartimecia.bsky.social ( & thanks to @silvarils.bsky.social) www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

I just met a 6’ queer woman who’s writing who lives in the mountains. The con only gets better

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At world fantasy con for writers and there’s already: - tentacles - free coffee - a bag of six books included in my ticket - and people swapping historical facts about time travel into the 1930s ✨✨✨✨✨✨ mah peeple

At world fantasy con for writers and there’s already: - tentacles - free coffee - a bag of six books included in my ticket - and people swapping historical facts about time travel into the 1930s ✨✨✨✨✨✨ mah peeple

Going to world fantasy con this weekend in Oakland and wondering if I’m supposed to do some sort of post online like “Hey! I’ll be here! Come find me!” But struggling to combat the urge of “Don’t perceive me. Leave me be.” Decisions. Decisions.

One pf my favorite moments in the book and overall an amazing thread that will have me rereading neuromancer now

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Protagonists spending the inciting incident zonked out in the nude after major Unfuck Your Body surgery while the leading ladies go "Despite everything, I'd hit that"

Not to be Deborah Downtrodden but every time I read a news headline it gets translated into global norms or absolute sarcasm in my brain. PS: No heat on human journalists or human-editors trying to write bylines that won't get them fired. Writing online is tough enough. Humor only.

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Not to be Deborah Downtrodden but every time I read a news headline it gets translated into global norms or absolute sarcasm in my brain. PS: No heat on human journalists or human-editors trying to write bylines that won't get them fired. Writing online is tough enough. Humor only.

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It was Shigeru Mizuki - comic artist, antiwar activist, folklore archivist, and general cultural titan.

I met the COOLEST 80 year old writer who completely analogs everything and is looking at somehow creating a self published hand written work and just 1000/10 post-tech vibes world.

spooktober ryn ash 🎃@espressocat.bsky.social

Attending the SF literary festival today and somehow only now getting my first cup of coffee.

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Usually the writer of Don't Create the Torment Nexus and the creator of the Torment Nexus are different people.

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This is entirely the plot of Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illsutrated Primer and while I am not surprised this may be in fact the first we’ve seen of a science fiction writer bringing about the futures they’ve told rather than eschewing them?

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Neal Stephenson: In my book I invented the Diamond Age as a cautionary tale. Also Neal Stephenson: At long last, we have created the Diamond Age from my classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Diamond Age.

spooktober ryn ash 🎃@espressocat.bsky.social

This is entirely the plot of Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illsutrated Primer and while I am not surprised this may be in fact the first we’ve seen of a science fiction writer bringing about the futures they’ve told rather than eschewing them?

This is entirely the plot of Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illsutrated Primer and while I am not surprised this may be in fact the first we’ve seen of a science fiction writer bringing about the futures they’ve told rather than eschewing them?

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis.me

Got a press release for Neal Stephenson's new company (AI UGC stuff of course) and its premiere project is...Pride & Prejudice in Fortnite through UEFN.

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Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

Play games these are great 100/10 ✨hunt the boyfriends, dungeon the moon, become one with the game until you atomize your own universe inside ✨✨

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

We made these games and they're all on sale! 🍂🦊 Kitfox Fall Sale: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...

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As promised, while we finish up injecting @espressocat.bsky.social with nanomachines, I present to a patreon'd episode, which you will have to pay (not much) for. Or, you can just message me with a sob story, and I'll unlock it for you. www.patreon.com/furidashi/po...

patreon.comKojima's Character Arcs | FuridashiAnother solocast in which a cishet white man tells you all you need to know about the motivations of female characters. More specifically, N

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Mamdani is 100% right here, despite some people reading into this things that are not said here. Antisemitism is a scourge upon the world. Doesn't need any qualification or quantification or caveats or what-abouts. Any antisemitism is too much antisemitism.

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Yes I was lost in the wilderness and then stranded in sickness but now I am back at mother base.

nicholas theisen@academicality.bsky.social

Happy to report that we have Fulton recovered @espressocat.bsky.social, but she is still being debriefed by our agents. In the meanwhile, join me on journey into revolutions and deterrence in 2010's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker! open.spotify.com/episode/235O...

Note. I haven’t finished the story yet but am eagerly plugging ahead rebuilding all the roads I can. And people are using them! 🥹 Who needs transponders when you have an insane desire to pave along in your Tonka truck?

nicholas theisen@academicality.bsky.social

Ladies, Gentlemen, and NB Friends! May I introduce to you a podded cast of Metal Gear Solid 7 - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach! In which, gameplay is 😀 and story is 🫠! ...with yours truly and the great, the only @espressocat.bsky.social ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

OFFICE HOURS WITH NICOLAS ARE THE BEST! Come!! Engage!! Inspire!!!

nicholas theisen@academicality.bsky.social

And if that's not enough for you, I will be holding office hours over on Youtube, Fridays 6-8 CDT/CST, if you need help with your Metal Gear homework! I'll be there if a hundred people show up or none at all! Just like my office hours when I was teaching! www.youtube.com/channel/UCIm...

I don’t know why, but at some point in my life I stopped accurately talking about how stressed and overwhelmed I was. Everyone around seemed “more” like some sort of sick cyclical corporate competition and I bowed out. If I didn’t talk about it, it didn’t exist. Well fuck that. It still exists.

But did this teach me how to play the game …… yes. Yes it did. ( ´Д`)y━・~~

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Playing death stranding 2 spoilers (mechanics only): - man I’m a big fan of the dialogue choices. COOL! - wow I am not a fan of the hard cutscene reset let me skip it - WOW certainly not a fan of not being able to go back to the original options - WELL CERTAINLY DID NOT EXPECT TO REDO THE TUT

Playing death stranding 2 spoilers (mechanics only): - man I’m a big fan of the dialogue choices. COOL! - wow I am not a fan of the hard cutscene reset let me skip it - WOW certainly not a fan of not being able to go back to the original options - WELL CERTAINLY DID NOT EXPECT TO REDO THE TUT

Death Stranding was my absolutely favorite metal gear. I wish we had longer to talk about it!

nicholas theisen@academicality.bsky.social

It's that time of the month, when @espressocat.bsky.social and I commune with the Kojima only to discover that he can't stop making Metal Gear games, even when he thinks he has! Death Stranding represents not much a departure as a new inflection point. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...