Game programmer, designer, director; retired quadball player; antimeme; radical descriptivist; antilabel; Moose;

Working at Muse Games. Directed Embr, worked on Wildmender and Guns of Icarus, Making new secret stuffs

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dante
@dante

the thing about being in a public space is that you are in a public space.

one of the advantages of online public spaces is that you can usually block and/or silence people, which is a physical impossibility in non-online spaces. that's pretty neat! but it doesn't get around the fact that you are in a public space. people will do things that you often do not like in a public space.

cohost is a public space. you should act, react, and protect yourself accordingly. this is not "a community" and I sure as hell hope you, reader, never think it is


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in reply to @dante's post:

I remember when there was this idea of the Tumblr "community" -- that everyone was together in being into like, superwholock and homestuck and whatever. (Remember Dashcon?) It was was always a specious proposition, and even ostensible subcommunities like "anime twitter" or whatever are more like loosely associated clusters at best and more often just a constant deluge of opinion with little coherence

Went through this with Reddit once upon a time, I assume (it's been 10+ years) that people around there don't treat each other as part of some enormous secret club anymore but there was a real "if you're here you're one of us" attitude of that place that was intoxicating to new members until you saw it from a distance.