for the purpose of pinning, here's a semi-regularly-updated collection of links to longer form posts i've made on this site - i'd make zero claims that these are my best posts but they are the ones i used my brain on longest.
tech criticism / politics
- the world needs many more things that are good but not highly profitable
- Policy as Product: the roadmap to IRL "evil AI" (fig leaf for technoauthoritarian power)
- the "computable -> inevitably-practically-mass-computable" fallacy
- in reply to @DecayWTF's "Proletarianization of Software Developers"
- theoretical near future news cycle: the piss house
creativity and storytelling
- blueprinting and bricklaying
- runaway recursive trailerization leading to the Great Bwaah of '27
- collaborative creative work habit: picturing someone else's brand new idea in your head
- thoughts on how art does or does not influence politics
- low-effort everything is sacred
- at this point in my life i think my main drive to engage with culture is to experience creative decisions that other humans have made
- against calling certain parts of a game's story "Lore"
- no one knows who they were or what they were doing
game design / development / history
- the market is not the medium
- raise a glass to Team Zarth (old dev team photos thread)
- thoughts on tools, quality, and "value" in game development
- remotely fair: a slightly-less-hard-than-nightmare zdoom mod
- the 3 central "lineages" of my game development career, and others
- {GRATE_ACFLOOR2 (alt universe fiction)
- a 3-parter on Satisfactory's world, play-aesthetics, and mechanics
- rejected power fantasy idea #933: a livable planet
games miscellany
- the lone, contemplative cacodemon of Baron's Banquet
- the boys getting rowdy out back with their sabers
- Doom recreations of real life malls: Herian 2 MAP14
- the Gilliam's Brazil + Dark Forces Imperial City level link
- "This castle is a creature of chaos" (Symphony of the Night level editor)
- stuff that sticks in my brain, item #7978: Inda Glop Oda Krell
computing
misc nerd stuff