I'm a game developer, professionally!

You may know me from things like: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking, Gone Home, Bioshock 2, or maybe something else.

Right now I work as a Technical Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment in Stockholm, Sweden

Perhaps there are other aspects of my personality that may also be revealed here on this website


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When I first saw them I was like "ok, Netflix is spending a lot of money promoting this thing. It's clearly based off of a comic book or manga, because the character designs are wacky and look like they're from different universes. It's got a little 'part one: the gobbledegook' thing on it, indicating to fans that they're adapting the whole series and which part this covers. I have never heard of this thing, but it's clearly mega-popular, so my guess is it's a huge Chinese nerd series maybe."

And I just looked it up and learned that I'm wrong about everything. How was this allowed to be made? It looks extremely like it's taking the piss as a pastiche of bad sci-fantasy epics with too many ridiculous characters ("Darrian Bloodaxe", "Atticus Noble") and tropes that look like a kid banging all their action figures together. This cannot be a serious attempt at a story but the budget is far beyond 'bad star wars parody'. I feel like I'm going insane


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Me, age 11: Yeah this character is a cyborg blademaster, level 23. She's named Nemesis. I've drawn her here in blue ballpoint in my math notebook, impaling Imperium soldiers on her swords, which are molten metal. She's got two of them. Have you read the Drizzt books?
The 8-year-olds I hang out with because everyone my age makes fun of me relentlessly: Ooooh...



When I first saw them I was like "ok, Netflix is spending a lot of money promoting this thing. It's clearly based off of a comic book or manga, because the character designs are wacky and look like they're from different universes. It's got a little 'part one: the gobbledegook' thing on it, indicating to fans that they're adapting the whole series and which part this covers. I have never heard of this thing, but it's clearly mega-popular, so my guess is it's a huge Chinese nerd series maybe."

And I just looked it up and learned that I'm wrong about everything. How was this allowed to be made? It looks extremely like it's taking the piss as a pastiche of bad sci-fantasy epics with too many ridiculous characters ("Darrian Bloodaxe", "Atticus Noble") and tropes that look like a kid banging all their action figures together. This cannot be a serious attempt at a story but the budget is far beyond 'bad star wars parody'. I feel like I'm going insane



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By Timothy Tocher
via the Poetry Foundation

Santa needs new reindeer.
The first bunch has grown old.
Dasher has arthritis;
Comet hates the cold.
Prancer’s sick of staring
at Dancer’s big behind.
Cupid married Blitzen
and Donder lost his mind.
Dancer’s mad at Vixen
for stepping on his toes.
Vixen’s being thrown out—
she laughed at Rudolph’s nose.
If you are a reindeer
we hope you will apply.
There is just one tricky part:
You must know how to fly.

Source: Kids Pick the Funniest Poems ( Meadowbrook Press, 1991 )


I'm Pegasus! I fetch the Poetry Foundation's Poem of the Day and crosspost it to cohost. Find more details about me here.



Taking Trump off the ballot is a positive, but man the text in the 14th Amendment is such a mess it really stretches to see how it could possibly work. There's no specified process for deciding if someone has engaged in insurrection, the idea just seems to be "well everyone knows". Which means of course that anyone can use it to bring insurrection charges against anyone else.

Plus, this is a state supreme court decision, which means it's going to the US supreme court, and I don't think there's any mystery about how they're going to rule. So on one hand you give ammo to Trump and his supporters because they get to say "look! The legal system is trying to keep us down, without even a trial they're trying to pull us off the ballot!" And the case is so weak and such a novel application that it kinda DOES look like institutional suppression of a candidate. Even people who don't like Trump might think this looks like bullshit.

And then on the other hand, of course, you accomplish nothing because the Supreme court is going to say "yeah this is bullshit", again for any number of totally valid reasons that will not even seem like an unreasonable decision.

So you get Trump on the ballot but give him a totally plausible thing he can point to and say "They're trying to suppress your voice, when we claim stolen elections they say we're overreacting and it's beyond the pale, but look they're trying it right now AND they are hypocrites".

This whole thing was such a huge strategic mistake. About the only thing it did was create another court case for Trump to spend money and effort on but I bet it will raise way more than it cost.