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Dorian Dawes

@doriandawes.bsky.social

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Have you read my icky little book? It features werewolf and tree related violence and a lot of body horror.

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cover for a dream of saints by dorian dawes

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19h

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

Thing is I am currently replaying fatal frame 2 and a lot of the camera angles are varied, not just isometric. some are below the characters, like under a staircase, shoulder height from inside a closet. again playing on the idea of making you feel watched

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

But also I am genuinely not fond of multiplayer horror.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1h

It is different from ISO as you can still rotate the camera. Fixed angles are taking that level of control away from you. They create a feeling of being watched. There is a deliberate choice in which angles to use. Doing this in multiplayer sounds awful tbh

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

you have to kill the devil's advocate in your brain when you're writing, you have to smother the imaginary bad faith reader that lives in your head. Trying to please the voice that tells you the person reading your work is ignorant/malicious is a mind-killer. There are better ways to create cohesion

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 2h

Fixed camera angles remain superior.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 11h

"You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please… You have gone too far. You have married Fester, you have destroyed his spirit, you have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But, Debbie…pastels?"

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · Mar 20

bad guys at the door

illustration for Nox Requiem my story, evil cops at the door to ruin Mercy's day

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 15h

I've seen this and it's always weird

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

Really glad that I have removed this piece of malware from everything I own

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 16h

This game opens up with a narrator talking about how much your main guy loves sex, then less than 20 minutes later he gets his dick chopped off by a maniac. I can tell this one's gonna be special.

title card for the grindhouse inspired survival horror game The Lacerator, featuring a ponytail wearing goateed protagonist with a revolver and a purple shirt that says SEX, while a beefy masked killer wearing a bra and wielding a hatchet prepares to annihilate him

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 21h

Oh for fuck’s sake.

Cozyfication has gotten far beyond ridiculous.

Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

Poster at the library's video section advertising "cozy horror" movies; it's a collage of original posters for the films The Fog, Practical Magic, Misery, Werewolves Within, Let the Right One In, Hocus Pocus, Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton version), Scare Me, and An American Werewolf in London.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 19h

We are not mean enough to the cozy horror people.

Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

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Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know if having unlimited money actually melts your frontal cortex, but this outcome is observationally equivalent.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

We really shouldn’t have wasted “Kafkaesque” on like, the DMV

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Juan (he/they). @mrrodriguez89.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have to explain to you how AI cannot ever create art or even just work and especially how it cannot inject itself into the work it does to make that work mean something more. Something life affirming.

I just have to show you Walter Hill's Streets Of Fire because only humans can make that!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 2d

Art by • MFAXII

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with the fact that you can play as a weird lil furry fella with a dumptruck ass

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 1d

New Atlyss update feels really good to play. The atmosphere of course remains unmatched and it's one of my favorite early access projects to watch and come back to.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Movie Magic Liker @latexmorbidity.bsky.social · 4d

In Prince of Darkness (1987), John Carpenter predicted that pure evil would take the form of slop

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