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Kris 🎃 Lorischild

@direkris.itch.io

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Game writer, editor, localizer, project manager. Looking for work! I wrote YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS and half of COZY GROVE. no pronouns or they/them

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · Jul 13

Periodic reminder that I am open for work!

Specifically I am looking for:
-Writing roles
-Editing roles
-Project management roles

I have a decade of experience in all levels of journalism and seven years as a game developer and localizer

A cover for Cozy Grove, for which I was narrative co-lead and localization producer.

League of Legends, for which I served as an archival editor.

Honor Bound, for which I served as copy editor.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 18h

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 16h

My friend and I developed lower back pain when we played, so much we could barely walk

Call that Baldur's Gait

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 23h

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 23h

For one more day, my new book Star Sword Nemesis is 10% off its normal price of $5! On the edge of the solar system, a group of dreamers and believers in human transcendence fight against the tyranny of the Earth Sphere, to protect the Voyager 1 probe that NASA sent into the stars so many years ago.

Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

loveconquersallgames.itch.io

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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dr. kirk hamilton III, esq. @kirkofdoom.bsky.social · 3d

Saw this stump in Ghost of Yōtei and knew what I had to do.
@erikaishii.bsky.social

Screenshot from the game Ghost of Yōtei. Atsu (played by Erika Ishii) is crouching on a stump like a little bisexual gargoyle.

Screenshot from Game Changer with Erika Ishii crouching on a stump like a little bisexual gargoyle (as noted in the closed captions on screen)

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

These days most people know that Christopher Columbus was a genocidaire and that celebrating him is a disgrace. But did you know that he was also mediocre sailor nearly forgotten to history? @edburmila.bsky.social explained the Columbus myth back in 2017. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

www.thenation.com

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 1d

Happy birthday, Chris Carter

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Rainer Sigl 🇪🇺 @rainersigl.bsky.social · 1d

My pocket calculator has developed a shocking sexual deviancy, desperately demanding "B00BS"

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

An AI became a crypto millionaire. Now it's fighting to become a person

In the past year, an AI made millions in cryptocurrency. It's written the gospel of its own pseudo-religion and counts tech billionaires among its devotees. Now it wants legal rights.

www.bbc.com

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 2d

Iridescent black🖤

#bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian
#feather

A raven with colorful reflections on its feathers

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 2d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

I wonder, back when people were sticking radium in everything, if there was also a tenor of "if you are against radium you are anti-progress" and "not wanting radiation poisoning is ableist"

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 3d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 3d

most annoying part of having a baby is how everyone you know is all "can I see the baby" "where's the baby" "I don't see the baby" "is there actually a baby" "I don't mean to imply anything" "it's just that... You've been different lately" "ever since you fainted during that weird electrical storm"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 3d

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 3d

I mean, this is the "empathy is a sin" crowd so

Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 3d

Always have been

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew furries would be the vanguard of the resistance?

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 3d

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 4d

Anyway, it's Spooky Month, so play my (free!) spooky game about a spooky cat direkris.itch.io/displacer

Displacer Beast by Kris Lorischild

There's something wrong with your new cat.

direkris.itch.io

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 4d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 3d

This shoe is on the other foot and I don't like it!