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William B Hill

@wbhwrites.bsky.social

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Freelance Writer - Sci-fi and general nerd noise. I guess I also make games? Sort of? I also talk about Final Fantasy too much. I am very sorry. https://wbhwords.wordpress.com/ https://wbhwrites.itch.io/ Contact: [email protected]

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 11d

It's (not) finished!

Deadline is at 6PM, but I sleep all day today, so this is as much as I could make in the 70 hours that I had to work on it. All art, code, and sounds were done by me and me alone...which is why it's as rough as anything that I make.

wbhwrites.itch.io/skyhand-ludu...

Skyhand (A dodgy Ludum Dare 58 Submission) by wbhwrites

An arcade style UFO abduction game!

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Me when the code works.

a cartoon of a man saying it 's moving it 's alive

Alt: Mr Burns having a Dr. Frankenstein moment, screaming "It's moving, it's alive!"

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, this is why people should follow my account that is better than the official White House account - I post dodgy pixel art and talk about games I'm trying to make.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

A sneak peek that should tell you what I have in mind...

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Alright, let's punch the new prototype some more...

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

I should take a second spin through that gem of a game...

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Because of a block list I used ages ago, I didn't even get the pleasure of blocking them myself.

A screencap showing the official White House Bluesky account already being blocked on my account.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 7h

How was this never a Scott the Woz opening gag…

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Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 10h

What the fuck, Grant?! I’m glad he’s stopping, but what would he need AI for? He’s a far better writer than me, and I wouldn’t be caught dead using that shit.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Someone please stop me, I started another Game Maker Studio project.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Post your favorite Pokemon, wrong answers only

Jack Frost from the Shin Megami Tensei series. Hee-Hoooooo

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 1d

*poke *poke harder.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Theoretically, how large of a needle to I need to pop the AI bubble? Or will a small one do the job? I just want to do it quick, rip the bandaid off, and rid our lives of the trash.

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like Pain of Salvation’s Entropia is overshadowed by Remedy Lane and The Perfect Element, but this was the album that fully encoded the things I sought out in music from then on: melodic, deeply felt, usually somber, tonally diverse, conceptual.

youtu.be/Cy_e0Ig3Fmo?...

People Passing By

YouTube video by Pain of Salvation - Topic

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 2d

It’s such a damn fine record. I still like a lot of their later stuff (I’ll gladly defend The Astonishing because I’m a freak), but this was their most mature record.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I guess I could have noted that I meant the 1963 Robert Wise adaptation, but I don’t know that anyone would have assumed that I meant the 1999 version.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

—The Haunting
—Invasion of the Body Snatchers (78)
—I Saw the TV Glow
—28 Days Later

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 2d

This week has been terrible. Time to repair it with the best damned Italian food in town.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 3d

New fiction in progress. Still early, obviously, but...new fiction in progress.

A Libre Office word count reading 1165 words.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been over thirty years, and I’m still salty about this.

Mario 3, 6-5, the path to the exit is blocked by two enemies and a pair of bricks.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Scott Walker is a damn fine choice.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4d

FFT, no contest.

(Yotei is probably good too though.)

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Aside from Fire Emblem…yeah, kinda.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Other than dwelling in self loathing, I managed to fix a couple of issues with my turn based combat prototype, including a missing meter, an error causing the game to crash, a draw issue, and also the menu selector problem from last night.

Still not much of a prototype, but it’s coming along.

William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like today is just going to be a depression day. Fucking lovely.

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