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William J. Meyer

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writer director so forth // The Orrery of Tomorrow • The Transposition of Chloë Brontë #AudioDrama : byWilliamJMeyer.com // #Theatre : https://newplayexchange.org/users/24949/william-j-meyer // #GameDev : https://bywilliamjmeyer.itch.io

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

Wrote a novel in 2020 about a man who invents cryosleep to avoid uncomfortable politics. Every four years he checks in on the politician morphing a border control agency into a personal paramilitary religious cult. Last time the man wakes up, his daughter runs the agency at the dictator’s righthand.

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1h

yeah, I’m finding the first two rooms to be pretty intensive, as far as setting up basic parameters of the game, but this exercise using Inform is also a really fun way to rethink narrative in general

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1h

been listening/watching documentaries about Infocom, always admired the group, never really appreciated how small/spunky it was— jealous, really, would love for my writing to develop in that kind of environment— TRINITY by Brian Moriarty influenced my young self as much as Tolkien/Lucas

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1h

when you initially posted thought I’d give it a shot, won’t make the deadline, but started my first Interactive Fiction nonetheless

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 14h

new thing won’t touch the original thing —> original thing might need to be damaged, but only a little —> guess we have to remove a sizable portion of the original thing —> oh we are replacing the original thing entirely … whether a building or Democracy itself, same well-worn historical strategy

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 15h

the thing about being evil I just don’t understand is it seems so exhausting

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 17h

congrats!

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 21h

really wish there was an alternative term for Infocom “feelies” —makes me think of insect cilia #if

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

“Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.” —Irving Thalberg

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

“You might also like… the book you wrote.”

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

I agree with you. Public disclosure without consequence is a component of authoritarian self-adulation.

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

even the first two minutes are like whaaaaaaat

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

the nation’s lack of will to defend itself after january sixth was truly astounding

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

yes, still working on it, criss-crossing memories and confessions, a (fictional) priest that worked with O’Flaherty meets a woman in the French Resistance and an African-American GI, somewhere in late 1944 France

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

the hats

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 1d

first learned about him earlier this year researching for a play

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 2d

what unites the rich and the poor is that their talent and work ethic have no relationship with their bank account #ubi

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 2d

fascinating conversation with Mike Dornbrook about the history of Infocom … including his creation of InvisiClues and the disastrous first meeting between Infocom and Apple

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

luv the zig-zags

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

not as in “I believe that stupid goofy video is real” but rather “ah that incriminating evidence is really just genAI dontcha know”

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

I agree— also in Hannah Arendt’s observation (in a broader sense) genAI seeks to obliterate distinctions between fact and fiction, a “substitution of lies for factual truth” … “the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world,” these will be destroyed. We already see it deployed as a shield

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 3d

One of the reasons I’m convinced generative AI is a bubble is that the aesthetics of AI art are deeply right-wing coded, and therefore profoundly uncool.

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William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

Syd Dale

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

besides BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and DR STRANGELOVE what other movies end with the destruction of the Earth

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 3d

wish I could find a cast list for the 1961 Hazel Barnes ‘Self Encounter: A Study In Existentialism’ program— the guy playing Zeus in the Sartre play really sends me, got a real Tyrone Guthrie vibe

William J. Meyer @bywilliamjmeyer.com · 4d

I am disturbed when I dream of famous people. Is there no respite from celebrity lol [weeps].