Kate Barrett
@thewaether.bsky.social
"Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at https://thewaether.itch.io/
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main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/
https://www.patreon.com/amyrot
https://ko-fi.com/thewaether
main blog at: https://katebnormal.tumblr.com/
reimu fumo
which citizen of video game land deserves a macy’s parade float
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
reimu fumo
thats called making the most out of an opportunity
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
thats called making the most out of an opportunity
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
while I'm at it I hate that the idea of going to mars is now uncool, and musk somehow made it uncool despite not even actually doing it
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
while I'm at it I hate that the idea of going to mars is now uncool, and musk somehow made it uncool despite not even actually doing it
it was NFTs, then the metaverse, then AI, and honestly I'm starting to suspect that the wagon most tech guys feel they missed was not the internet or the iphone, but video games.
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it was NFTs, then the metaverse, then AI, and honestly I'm starting to suspect that the wagon most tech guys feel they missed was not the internet or the iphone, but video games.
I think you can use a text generation system if you make it and the text in it yourself. I toyed with making one many years ago, but someone sucked all the fun out of it
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think you can use a text generation system if you make it and the text in it yourself. I toyed with making one many years ago, but someone sucked all the fun out of it
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my biggest takeaway from the new Defunctland is we knew Disney was a trash person but holy shit the balls on the man
casually pushing an ACTUAL FUCKING LIVE TIGER off his desk for a promo video like it's an obstinate housecat
casually pushing an ACTUAL FUCKING LIVE TIGER off his desk for a promo video like it's an obstinate housecat
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
my biggest takeaway from the new Defunctland is we knew Disney was a trash person but holy shit the balls on the man
casually pushing an ACTUAL FUCKING LIVE TIGER off his desk for a promo video like it's an obstinate housecat
casually pushing an ACTUAL FUCKING LIVE TIGER off his desk for a promo video like it's an obstinate housecat
there was a period in "scooby doo!" where they kept adding new dogs. they didn't stop at scrappy. they were trying to add dogs til they found the correct amount of dogs to make the show popular again
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
there was a period in "scooby doo!" where they kept adding new dogs. they didn't stop at scrappy. they were trying to add dogs til they found the correct amount of dogs to make the show popular again
I think movie studios vastly, VASTLY, VASTLY overestimate how many people actually play fortnite
A narrative sequel to Kill Bill is premiering in Fortnite later this week, over 20 years after the original film
www.eurogamer.net/a-narrative-...
www.eurogamer.net/a-narrative-...
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I think movie studios vastly, VASTLY, VASTLY overestimate how many people actually play fortnite
tomorrow I'd better see the gif of the barney thanksgiving balloon bursting. not even because I hate barney, it's just satisfying to watch
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
tomorrow I'd better see the gif of the barney thanksgiving balloon bursting. not even because I hate barney, it's just satisfying to watch
if you're in the UK and you didn't give discord your ID when it asked for it a few months back, you missed your chance because now it just doesn't load that screen at all
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
if you're in the UK and you didn't give discord your ID when it asked for it a few months back, you missed your chance because now it just doesn't load that screen at all
looking at the game award website and I forgot that anyone can just vote on these even if they haven't played them
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
looking at the game award website and I forgot that anyone can just vote on these even if they haven't played them
lrt: npc dialogue is not only a "fun part" but there's something about it where it's one of the places you can see the idiosynchracies of the writer. toby fox, tim schafer etc, write NPC dialogue that you feel like only they could write
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lrt: npc dialogue is not only a "fun part" but there's something about it where it's one of the places you can see the idiosynchracies of the writer. toby fox, tim schafer etc, write NPC dialogue that you feel like only they could write
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
actually enraging that michael bay has stolen the rights to skibidi toilet, regardless of what you think of skibidi toilet
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
actually enraging that michael bay has stolen the rights to skibidi toilet, regardless of what you think of skibidi toilet
I'll sometimes check in to r/zillowgonewild and it never disappoints
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I'll sometimes check in to r/zillowgonewild and it never disappoints
the third-worst disney movie I've ever seen? the Rise of Skywalker, no other movie is a prefect summation of where disney is now: its overreliance on audience metrics, its reliance on formula, and its status as "content"
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the third-worst disney movie I've ever seen? the Rise of Skywalker, no other movie is a prefect summation of where disney is now: its overreliance on audience metrics, its reliance on formula, and its status as "content"
I am in many minds about steam at this point. I have considered putting a game on it at some point but also: 1. I want my 30% and 2. I want to see if itch can be built into a powerhouse with exclusives
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am in many minds about steam at this point. I have considered putting a game on it at some point but also: 1. I want my 30% and 2. I want to see if itch can be built into a powerhouse with exclusives
continuing what I was saying about "horses" last night- I saw a comment section full of gamergaters or whomever who were saying it should be banned for obscenity, and indeed it wasn't a one-off, this seems to be turning into a whole thing
Aah, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm already seeing the Horses/Steam issue turn into a culture-war flashpoint.
Seeing talking points form now and being parroted by the worst people online, that IGN is a nest of pedophiles trying to force perversion onto innocent gamers with Horses.
Fun.
Seeing talking points form now and being parroted by the worst people online, that IGN is a nest of pedophiles trying to force perversion onto innocent gamers with Horses.
Fun.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
continuing what I was saying about "horses" last night- I saw a comment section full of gamergaters or whomever who were saying it should be banned for obscenity, and indeed it wasn't a one-off, this seems to be turning into a whole thing
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'Horses' doesnt contain anything more shocking than some well-known horror movies but because it's a video game, which people increasingly see as Content Delivery Software instead of art, people are confused by this
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
'Horses' doesnt contain anything more shocking than some well-known horror movies but because it's a video game, which people increasingly see as Content Delivery Software instead of art, people are confused by this
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steam staff and... the comment section I just read... seem to have forgotten that horror is supposed to have unsettling themes, that's why it's called horror
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
steam staff and... the comment section I just read... seem to have forgotten that horror is supposed to have unsettling themes, that's why it's called horror
I have long maintained: disney never recovered from shrek. shrek fucking destroyed them so hard that they had an identity crisis for 20 years
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I have long maintained: disney never recovered from shrek. shrek fucking destroyed them so hard that they had an identity crisis for 20 years
the second worst disney movie I've ever seen is "wreck it ralph breaks the internet"
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the second worst disney movie I've ever seen is "wreck it ralph breaks the internet"
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zootopia, or "zootropolis" is "the worst disney movie I've ever seen"
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
zootopia, or "zootropolis" is "the worst disney movie I've ever seen"