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@ironiciconic.bsky.social

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Award-winning writer, game designer, & programmer. Wrote for Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys & BAFTA-winning Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. Partner @ Talespinners. Cat sorcerer. Canadian. (He/They)

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · Apr 23

Time to update my intro!

I'm Chris Tihor, a game writer and designer, and founder of @ironiciconicstudios.ca. I've worked on a bunch of things but may be best known for working on Nancy Drew and Poirot games. More recently I worked on Monaco 2 and (the sadly cancelled) Life by You.

A group shot of the main characters of Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys with game title in the lower center of the image.

A game cover depicting the figure of a young Hercule Poirot striding forward with other mysterious characters surrounding him.

An image depicting 4 bands of colour with the silhouettes of the figures of security bots chasing Pockets in front of them. The title Monaco 2 is also silhouetted across the coloured bands.

A depiction of a sunset on a tropical island with a blue car driving along a road and a couple holding each other and gazing at the sunset. The game title "Life by You" hangs in the air.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1h

Or you could watch The Good Place. Maybe both?

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1h

A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times

Above, you can watch 81 video lectures tracing the history of philosophy, moving from Ancient Greece to modern times. Arthur Holmes presented this influential course at Wheaton College for decades, an...

www.openculture.com

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1h

(Not bragging, just pointing out that can happen and there is no reason that it can't happen more if game companies allow it.)

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1h

It *can* happen. I'm a freelancer and work for clients remotely while living in a city that's not a game dev capital.

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 1h

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 12h

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses

www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

Owlcat Games sets up educational resource hub for game devs

Studio partners with Fireshine Games, 11 Bit Studios, Gaijin Entertainment, and Midwest Games to build database of over 350 learning resources

www.gamesindustry.biz

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1d

The Signal: Stranded on Sirenis looks like it's right up my alley. Gonna have to try out their demo on Steam.

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1d

UI pet peeve: I click a "Log In" button on a website and it pops up an account registration page where I have to click a second "log in" link in order to actually log in.

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 1d

At least with a cool dream:
1. An actual person had the dream
2. An actual person is telling the story of their dream

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

Even putting aside the fact that AI can't do this and will never be able to do this

Who would *want* this? Who wants a bespoke personal TV show? That they can't meaningfully engage anyone else with? That no human had a hand in crafting? You might as well tell someone about a cool dream you had.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 2d

Are we certain that those are actual tech bros in the photo? They look like they're AI generated from a prompt. Even their names seem AI gen.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 3d

“Changing narrative is easiest”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5d

Somehow we had a successful game launch in 2025: A thread 🧵

We launched Little Rocket Lab this week, and it's been mega for us. Which is amazing, because well, the industry is bad right now!

So I wanna go through the things we did, in the hope that something here can be helpful to someone here

➡️➡️

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Josh @joshmlabelle.bsky.social · 6d

Just announced! I've been working on an interactive novel in the Hunter: The Reckoning franchise!

Day For Night lets you play as a veteran Hunter fighting back against the monsters of Hollywood over one blockbuster summer.

store.steampowered.com/app/3133670/...

Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night on Steam

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World o...

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 6d

I'm so happy to see this finally completed!

New $38.1M Indigenous Law wing opens at UVic share.google/1TLeIREfb1MB...

New $38.1M Indigenous Law wing opens at UVic

The University of Victoria is celebrating the opening of its new Indigenous Law wing, which spans a whopping 2,440-square-metres (26,264-square-feet) and connects to the Murray and Anne Fraser Buildin...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7d

Some days I just want to nap.

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Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 7d

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7d

🇨🇦's Cybersecurity bill is back! Bill C-8 is Bill C-26's twin. 👯‍♀️ Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don't let #BillC8 fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bsky @openmedia.org

Fix Bill C-8: Stop the Fast-Track of a Flawed Cybersecurity Bill

Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let it fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 https://openmedia.org/FixBillC8

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 7d

For sale: cute widdle iddy-biddy baby shoes! Also someone died? idk...

#FirstDrafts

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 8d

I would fly to Toronto for this. Good luck!

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

Telus:
- plays a bad song
- plays a 2nd bad song
- interrupts 2nd song for an announcement
- starts playing 1st bad song again
- repeat ad infinitum

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 9d

If Telus were really for mental health then they wouldn't be subjecting me to this on-hold support line hell right now.

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The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 10d

Oh gods. That damned song!

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 10d

I've never seen Titanic.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 10d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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