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Chris Adamson

@invalidname.me

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I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. Working on docs for 🍏. He/Him/His. Also https://mastodon.social/@invalidname (follow via BridgyFed for BlueSky: @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · Oct 19

Reintro:
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 4h

Is it that older voters are more likely to have disposable income to donate?

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Lynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 4h

ANN's editorial department has a six-month, bi-weekly column in the works. If you can gacha with the best of 'em, check out our freelance job opening here.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

a cartoon girl is standing next to a jukebox with a crown on her head .

ALT: a cartoon girl is standing next to a jukebox with a crown on her head .

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 4h

Oh gosh. I remember asking Zac at the Otakon panel if he could find “the Heidi of gacha games” because that would be a great topic to cover regularly.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 10h

I will have Helena kick somebody in the face tonight in his memory.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 10h

Minigames, achievements, and statistics.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 10h

So snarky…

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 10h

So, Apple needs to hire the Carrot Weather guy?

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 10h

“IS THERE A PLACE in the Republican operative class for people who “love Hitler”? How about those who like making jokes about black people eating watermelon?”

Yes, it’s called “The Republican Party”

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Plato would like a word.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 1d

It's unsurprising but so funny that the lesson they're taking here is "Tron" is the problem, and not that everyone fucking hates Jared Leto

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

gizmodo.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 1d

Localize the damn title. I’m sick of having to memorize a long run of syllables in a language I don’t speak.

unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

a girl with blue hair and a yellow hair tie in a red jacking, rearing back to punch someone with an angry expression on her face

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

Young Republicans keeping the local Big & Tall stores in business.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

They really need to release Tron Blu-Rays with a music-only audio option, so you can turn the whole movie into one long music video.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 2d

From Wendy Carlos to Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails, electronic music pioneers define the Tron franchise like nothing else

The Tron franchise is always at its best when music does the talking

The Tron franchise boasts soundtracks from electronic music pioneers that are as important to the series as the Identity Discs.

www.avclub.com

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

Interesting. Judy Kuhn just posted on Facebook that the 1988 Broadway version of “Chess” is now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify. It’s never been available in any digital version until now. Presumably prompted by the revival opening in NYC tomorrow. music.apple.com/us/album/che...

Chess (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast on Apple Music

Album · 1988 · 21 Songs

music.apple.com

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

Oh boy, do I have news for everyone in this thread.
music.apple.com/us/album/che...

Chess (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast on Apple Music

Album · 1988 · 21 Songs

music.apple.com

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 2d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Time for Timer!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJiU...

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 2d

OK, that’s impressive. I didn’t know that someone had ripped the original afterschool special and put it on YouTube.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

Have you looked into DIY options? I went with the kneehighs and rice option for my last few crossplays and it worked well enough.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

For the young people following this thread: the implosion of “Cerberus” was our generation’s equivalent of “Sinfest”, except that Sim was obsessed only with misogyny, and not the full Skittles rainbow of MAGA crazy like Ishida.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

Although I did once do the mirror moment in a fanfic just as a self-indulgent flex.

Prose text:
“doorway, and went out to the hallway. He found her standing at the entry to the bathroom, looking inside.“Look,” she said.The light was already on, and Noah could see something on the mirror. He walked into the bathroom, and saw the word on the mirror, spray-painted black in three-foot tall letters:“TRAITOR”“What does it mean?”, Adrienne asked.Noah looked straight ahead into the mirror, seeing his own reflection cut off by the vandals’ message.“It means this wasn’t random. This is about me.”“But how? Nobody here knows anything about you.”

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

For me, mostly pacing? Just to have something to drive towards, something to then come off of, and something that changes the stakes (even if it doesn’t fundamentally change the nature of the conflict) helps the second act not be such a long stretch of how-do-fill-this-all-in?

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

Anybody remember the Gundam store at the Metreon in San Francisco? Anyways, looks like it‘s Chicago’s turn. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gtm...

Announcement for “The Gundam Base Chicago”, showing a Gundam and announcing that the store opens Winter 2025 at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago.

Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 3d

Three Act has served me well. I do try to really spike the midpoint hard so the second act doesn't drag.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 4d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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