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I could never become a politician. They’d have to swear me in on a copy of the Principia Discordia, and I suspect swearing people in on the Principia might be the cause of our current political situation…

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Often, when two people or organizations are fighting, both of them are awful. Don’t worry: you don’t need to take sides. And, even if you do, saying that one of them is in the right in some circumstance is not the same as supporting everything they’ve done.

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The thing about FMV is that it’s a lot tougher to make a full FMV game all by yourself than it is to make a VN that way. To make a VN on your own, you just need to be a programmer, musician, author, and visual artist.

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Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash

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The best part about Dare To Be Stupid is that it’s not a parody of a DEVO song, but a legit DEVO song that just so happens to be made by Weird Al instead of Gerald Casale.

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There isn’t an end. We’re just gonna have to put a lot of work into becoming incrementally better forever, knowing that if we stop, it’s a failure and we’re letting people down. (That’s what we get for Killing God.)

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It’s one thing to admit that desired behaviors need to be incentivized, & another not to treat this necessity as a problem. We incentivize children’s deeds with the expectation that they will grow up to have their own moral compass.

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Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn’t want to run it, they shouldn’t keep anybody else from running it instead.

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A depiction, if rich enough to be interesting, is bound to have internally contradictory potential interpretations. You control the frame, but the frame can’t be as tight as in (say) an essay.

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If one intends to be understood, one must be careful not to be too clever: a reader will calibrate their cleverness based on their expectation of yours, & any mismatch is liable to produce misunderstanding.

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What’s the difference between poetry and prose? I’d say that with prose, one aims to constrain the set of possible meanings as tightly as possible to minimize misunderstanding. Poetry has the richness of possible meanings that direct experience has.

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Day by day I get closer and closer to being the guy who sea-lions strangers about how the USSR wasn’t communist. I don’t want to be this guy. Please help me not be this guy, by learning it on your own.

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