I'm a game developer, professionally!

You may know me from things like: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking, Gone Home, Bioshock 2, or maybe something else.

Right now I work as a Technical Narrative Designer at Remedy Entertainment in Stockholm, Sweden

Perhaps there are other aspects of my personality that may also be revealed here on this website


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When I first saw them I was like "ok, Netflix is spending a lot of money promoting this thing. It's clearly based off of a comic book or manga, because the character designs are wacky and look like they're from different universes. It's got a little 'part one: the gobbledegook' thing on it, indicating to fans that they're adapting the whole series and which part this covers. I have never heard of this thing, but it's clearly mega-popular, so my guess is it's a huge Chinese nerd series maybe."

And I just looked it up and learned that I'm wrong about everything. How was this allowed to be made? It looks extremely like it's taking the piss as a pastiche of bad sci-fantasy epics with too many ridiculous characters ("Darrian Bloodaxe", "Atticus Noble") and tropes that look like a kid banging all their action figures together. This cannot be a serious attempt at a story but the budget is far beyond 'bad star wars parody'. I feel like I'm going insane


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Me, age 11: Yeah this character is a cyborg blademaster, level 23. She's named Nemesis. I've drawn her here in blue ballpoint in my math notebook, impaling Imperium soldiers on her swords, which are molten metal. She's got two of them. Have you read the Drizzt books?
The 8-year-olds I hang out with because everyone my age makes fun of me relentlessly: Ooooh...


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looking at the first sentence of the wikipedia article

directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten, based on a story Snyder conceived.

yeah that explains everything.

They got Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins to play a robot with antlers and a cape.

But yeah, Snyder pitched it to Lucas Films as "Seven Samurai in space", they went "...we've done that already", so then he went to Netflix and the most bizarre case of hubris set in.
I'd watch it for that, but the trailer caused me psychic damage and my meds are working so...

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