Starting my GDC week off with a bang! I have just been notified that my contract at Rookery Interactive will not be renewed in 2 weeks, so I am suddenly #OpenToWork! Please keep me in mind for any writing or consulting roles. If you're at GDC & would like to meet, lmk!
I’m open to remote roles, or positions in Bangkok!
I've worked on a ton of games, comics and books, and am available for writing, consulting & editing outside of games.
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#QuestionOfTheDay what's your comfort media thing when you're stressed or scared or need distraction? Like a show or episode of a show or book or chapter of a book or movie, music, game, comic, anime, manga, YouTube video, whatever
If you'd consider your life a story, a book or book-series. Even if you wouldn't find it relatable or enjoyable, do you think it is well written?
Feel free to comment with other takes about the authors writing capabilities.
(boost to help me survive)
Hey everyone 
take a listen to another book reading from within the Elder Scrolls world, this time from Skyrim on the topic of the ever-elusive Nightingales 
Unlike the first two reading videos (which were clips taken from recent live streams), today, I decided to see how recording it from scratch would feel. I went through the text of the book itself to weed out various errors, recorded it in a way that minimised recording errors, and then further added a little treatment to clean up the audio 
[Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWh6PMG6Gg
If you'd like to help keep food on my table, monthly donations on kofi are especially helpful 
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I'd love to hear what you like or dislike about the book readings so far as well as any ideas you might have 
There's nothing quite like the taste of stale russian despair... 
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A little library humor to brighten your day. Seen at my local library.
Thank you, mysterious Cathy.
Yes, i am feeling a little sad. Yes, that does mean I’m rereading Emily Austin’s Everyone in this room will someday be dead.
Yes, i am sure that will help
@pluralistic I’m reading chapter 12 of Chokepoint Capitalism and it’s really sad to see how we are very far away from fair antitrust policies, especially now with an oligarchical government run by the Big Tech. It’s somehow disheartening.
#bigtech #monopoly #monopsony #uspol #ChokepointCapitalism #books #reading @bookstodon
Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html
I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.
Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog)
@molly0xfff Oh, no! Did you not like it? I admit, it’s tough to get into… you might like his “Final Architect” trilogy better. I found that a much easier read.
Disclaimer: I •••LOVED••• “Children of Time”
Further publishing and promotion of "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism," by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, must stop immediately, according to an arbitrator's ruling in a case Meta brought against Wynn-Williams and her publisher, Flatiron Books. Wynn-Williams must also stop making disparaging remarks against Meta and its employees. @theverge says it's unclear if the arbitrator has authority to halt publication, or what can be done to put the genie back in the bottle, given that the book was published this week and is already available in stores. Meta says that the ruling "affirms that Sarah Wynn-Williams' false and defamatory book should never have been published." Wynn-Williams left Meta eight years ago; the book details alleged claims of sexual harassment, including by current policy chief Joel Kaplan, as well as a culture of irresponsible, power-hungry leadership and promoting misinformation.
Well, if you need something to do to keep your spirits up during these trying times, why not learn to draw with this 1913 book.
https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz
Via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
Believe. And buy her book, you filthy hippies.
“The Onion’s best satire has always been based in both emotional honesty and clearly stated, well-researched facts — in other words, the truth,” Wenc writes. “Its writing staff has now given us decades of brilliant, compassionate, blunt and hilarious critical thinking about news, the media and human nature — and a lot of fun and silliness too.”
https://wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/funny-because-its-true
Took the day off to catch up on some reading and listen to records.
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Review: The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao
https://nullrouted.space/2025/03/07/review-the-legend-of-meneka-by-kritika-h-rao/
WAYNE'S 2025 BOOKS: BOOK 5
Picks and Shovels
by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)
Huzzah! A new Martin Hench book! I was a proud backer of Cory Doctorow's Kickstarter to publish this work without the anti-consumer and anti-writer practises of the usual purveyor of the written word: our old frenemy Amazon. I chose the epub version (which I read using Calibre on my Android phone), and the only reason I didn't buy a physical copy is that I'd like to get all the Hench novels in paperback, and this book isn't in that format yet.
Anyway, Picks and Shovels takes Martin Hench wayback to the late 80s, when computers had to be programmed without monitors (the horror), when mobile phones were something seen only on Star Trek, and when Martin - sorry, Marty - is a boo-boo baby proto-accountant feeling his way into the big bad world of finance by way of the silicon highway introduced by personal computing.
It's an origin story both for Hench and Silicon Valley, and a great read. With a company whose founders read like the opening to a bad joke (a rabbi, a priest and a Mormon elder) and a rival company locked in a battle for dominance, Picks and Shovels shows us that consumer capture, enshittification, and hostile design has always been around, even when computers were beige and bulky.
As with all of Cory's works, you read and you learn and you have fun, all at the same time. He has a way of distilling some bigbrain ideas into smaller morsels for the rest of us to understand, and be entertaining at the same time. I smashed this book in a few days as it was eminently readable, and I just wanted to see what happened!
You don't have to read the first two Hench books (Red Team Blue and The Bezzle) to enjoy this one, but you really should anyway as they're all neat and Cory is the kind of writer that we should all be supporting in these uncertain pre-technofeudal times.
TRULL. A soldier or a tinker's trull; a soldier or tinker's female companion.--Guteli, or trulli, are spirits like women, which shew great kindness to men, and hereof it is that we call light women trulls. RANDLE HOLM'S ACADEMY OF ARMORY.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#QuestionOfTheNight if you could own one fictional vehicle that could fit in a 2 car garage, what would it be? assume that powering it is somehow not a problem, and there's no issues with legality
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