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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

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Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others) Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ ) Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc. https://metasynthie.itch.io/ Opinions are only my own!

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 13h

can't believe i'm about to get a flood of support calls from people who don't even know how to turn a computer on

innes @innes.bsky.social · 15h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 14h

I've noticed a huge number of releases this year but of varying scales and started in various years. It's like a convergence of streams, somehow

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty hard not to see the validity of @platanoranger.bsky.social's argument:

bsky scroll with post asking for aid showing person sitting on gazan rubble right above a post by moises taveras on battelfield 6's destruction mirroring images from gaza

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 18h

How Research Actually Works
1. something washes up out of the endless muck of memory
2. "where the heck did this float in from?"
3. dredge to find answer
4. cite it

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 19h

I traced the exact provenance of the long-term memory reference which unexpectedly surfaced yesterday to influence this pumpkin. It turns out it's page 33 in the appendix to the instruction manual for Sorcerer (1984), the Field Guide to the Creatures of Frobozz, which I viewed once in the late 80s

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 23h

Ugh and I guess the joke author, Gillen

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 23h

P.s. please forward gay residuals (one toast soldier each) to Lumpley, Care Boss and Alder

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 23h

I'm putting the mailing label on your bonus "knowledge production" toaster right now

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

11-year-old me, insufferably: "A grue only has two jobs that I know of: caring for baby grues and waiting two turns to eat adventurers. However, most of the time an adventurer leaves the dark or turns on a light after one turn. Therefore, grues mostly wait around and must be very bored."

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Yeah, it's centripetal enough that it would be simple to just stick it into the indie RPG study & design curriculum at NYU, effecting compulsory understanding for 16-18 new people annually, right @sharangbiswas.bsky.social? Thus descends the patina of immortality for the micro-conceptual

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Now that I consider this in daylight, I'm almost certain this is my semi-conscious impression from childhood of what a grue looks like, a topic I spent a decade thinking about from 1983-1993

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

did a 2025 mood pumpkin

Photo of pumpkin painted black with tired eyes and a bloody mouth

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Yeah definitely, long ago

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Thanks Sharang!

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Oh and half-enjoyed Kakegurui, that's probably low hanging fruit at this intersection

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Semi-annual request for anime recommendations for a pair who've only enjoyed: Great Passage, Princess Jellyfish, Citrus, Yuri on Ice, Madoka, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, and Danganronpa (all). No isekai, space, 2nd world fantasy, mecha, shonen! Tall order but maybe you know something good.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

Donut... county...

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 1d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

did a 2025 mood pumpkin

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

I think about this a lot lately as I recall Obama's attorney-general, Loretta Lynch, making a full-throated defense of trans people against transphobic state laws in 2016.... She'd clearly studied and understood. But in what way did those who heard and took note end up supporting?

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

I do think it's worth talking about a certain kind of virtue or support as brittle or less durable, however. If people get the idea that the "right thing to do" has somehow changed by decree of an authority and they mostly want to get with the program... That's fine? But could change too, too easily

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

All these labels are worth exercising caution around, right? Some people have hesitant or thin support for an issue because they've just begun learning, or they're not part of a supportive community, they're afraid of doing it wrong or have material fears. So all support for a worthy cause is worthy

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

But there are plenty of useful terms right in the neighborhood: if someone comes across to you we not really believing the thing they claim to support, you can say they're insincere. If they've actively demonstrated it maybe they're a hypocrite. If their support is weak, a dilettante or milquetoast?

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

The term "virtue signaling" is, as many have noted, mostly useful for signaling that you're game for (or self-promoting) as some sort of opposite badass -- an edgy dirtbag dealing in uncomfortable truths, tough on [ thing you declare is bad which supposedly some people think is good ] etc etc

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 2d

That's the guy