John Ryan 🔜 GDC
@johnryanwrites.bsky.social
Senior Writer/Narrative Designer/Consultant for Games | Horizon Forbidden West | Destiny: The Taken King and beyond | IRON MAN VR | Guild Wars 2 | Forza 7 | Fable 2 | Lily's Garden. Husband, Marathoner, Cat Wrangler, BAFTA member. johnryanwrites.com
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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
June 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
Eh, not quite accurate, but I'm liking the neighborhood.
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Eh, not quite accurate, but I'm liking the neighborhood.
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Gonna tell the kids this was the 2026 Super Bowl alternate halftime.
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Gonna tell the kids this was the 2026 Super Bowl alternate halftime.
It's proper that a team of birds won the Superb Owl.
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
It's proper that a team of birds won the Superb Owl.
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Seahawks and Bad Bunny defeating evil on this day. Haters and losers in shambles. I believe that we can win 🔥
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Seahawks and Bad Bunny defeating evil on this day. Haters and losers in shambles. I believe that we can win 🔥
Did the Patriots know they were supposed to play today?
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Did the Patriots know they were supposed to play today?
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Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
Mother-in-law texting:
So, why is he a bad bunny? What did he do?
So, why is he a bad bunny? What did he do?
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Mother-in-law texting:
So, why is he a bad bunny? What did he do?
So, why is he a bad bunny? What did he do?
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One of many fave black & white movie?
Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast, Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913).
Made by same studio as Birth of a Nation. Never released for some reason. #FilmSky
Mentioned in Legacy Russells's "Black Meme".
Excerpt here:
youtu.be/U-IdQ9APUHI?...
Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast, Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913).
Made by same studio as Birth of a Nation. Never released for some reason. #FilmSky
Mentioned in Legacy Russells's "Black Meme".
Excerpt here:
youtu.be/U-IdQ9APUHI?...
Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast | Excerpt from "Lime Kiln Club Field Day"
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
youtu.be
September 8, 2024 at 2:21 PM
One of many fave black & white movie?
Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast, Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913).
Made by same studio as Birth of a Nation. Never released for some reason. #FilmSky
Mentioned in Legacy Russells's "Black Meme".
Excerpt here:
youtu.be/U-IdQ9APUHI?...
Earliest surviving feature film with an all-Black cast, Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913).
Made by same studio as Birth of a Nation. Never released for some reason. #FilmSky
Mentioned in Legacy Russells's "Black Meme".
Excerpt here:
youtu.be/U-IdQ9APUHI?...
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Somewhere in writer’s heaven, Harper Lee laughs.
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Somewhere in writer’s heaven, Harper Lee laughs.
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Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
Laura Palmer’s House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
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babe wake up new goatse just dropped
February 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
babe wake up new goatse just dropped
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At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
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LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
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Imagine being so much of shit you can't mingle at the Olympics, hit up a street vendor for some local fare, or have an impromptu romantic dinner with your spouse at a Milan restaurant.
Instead, you require your own white power bento boxes from home because a local would likely spit in your food.
Instead, you require your own white power bento boxes from home because a local would likely spit in your food.
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.
To *Italy*.
To *Italy*.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Imagine being so much of shit you can't mingle at the Olympics, hit up a street vendor for some local fare, or have an impromptu romantic dinner with your spouse at a Milan restaurant.
Instead, you require your own white power bento boxes from home because a local would likely spit in your food.
Instead, you require your own white power bento boxes from home because a local would likely spit in your food.
Sir Ian McKellen
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Sir Ian McKellen
She arrived to reclaim what's hers.
February 7, 2026 at 2:39 AM
She arrived to reclaim what's hers.
Wow, a real-life Mysterious Stranger perk in action.
Physics of a direct hit from an RPG type projectile
February 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Wow, a real-life Mysterious Stranger perk in action.
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
If you haven't, check out the prescient 2008 sci-fi film "Sleep Dealers," which intersects immigrants, border madness, and surveillance tech. Worth your time.
on anti-AI stances as "privilege".
it feels weirdly important to note that many defensive takes do not analyze stories about how workers from Kenya to Columbia have been forced into a digital underclass:
www.dawn.com/news/1949310
it feels weirdly important to note that many defensive takes do not analyze stories about how workers from Kenya to Columbia have been forced into a digital underclass:
www.dawn.com/news/1949310
Behind generative AI curtain is gruelling, low-paid human work
Invisible labellers’ toil has allowed self-driving cars to recognise pedestrians and chatbots to speak in natural-sounding sentences.
www.dawn.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
If you haven't, check out the prescient 2008 sci-fi film "Sleep Dealers," which intersects immigrants, border madness, and surveillance tech. Worth your time.