Lester
Game Designer/Producer. Canadian Theatre Artist, Stage Manager/Technician. Artist. Writer. Gamer. DM. All nonsense writings are mine alone. Online as: Ravynn. He/Him Desert Bus and Brew Crew Mod. Formerly w/ SQEnix. Also: @ravynn.bsky.social
- I have just learned that my Grade 3 teacher, Mrs. Rokne has passed away. She was extremely beloved in my elementary and personally, she is basically entirely responsible for my love of fantasy books.
- She used to read to my class for a half hour every day, a variety of books. One day, she read to us Brian Jacques' Bellmaker. The class did not like it, or more accurately the class couldn't really follow along and fell asleep here and there, but I loved the book.
- When she decided not to read it anymore, she leant it to me because I was enraptured. I spent the rest of the week and the weekend right after, plowing through the entire book, something like 350 pages.
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View full threadI hope wherever she is, she can see the effect of what she taught me and how I'm a professional writer now too. Chasing dreams and creating worlds at a keyboard because she gave me gentle first steps forward into being inspired.
- This is beyond infuriating and demonstrates how everyone should really consider their exit strats away from SAAS systems...
- "my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind." YEAH NO SHIT. Even academics can be really really fucking stupid. #noAI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Powerful. Republicans are monsters.
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- Your AI avatar will be healthy as long as your pocketbook is. You however. You die.
- Not enough people on some platforms exist to call out this as utter insanity. Literally makes no fucking sense and this man gets to have his inane delusions in broad daylight with no one going "That's ridiculous"
- And he's right. If you're in a position of government in Alberta, and you take money from a foreign state to overthrow the government and separate, that's LITERALLY TREASON. Jeffery Rath is a literal traitor. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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- They are actively planning eugenics.
- It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
- Capitalism is the weirdest mind drug. Do they think that because they're 'consumers' they are wholly innocent? I guess they do. I guess they literally in fact do.
- Hell yeah Ava. All the people who said "They probably just released her because she wasn't progressing fast enough" can go fuck themselves.
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- What the... You know what makes me mad. Studios like these somehow still survive and meanwhile workers doing actually good work are being laid off.
- I'm using 'survive' very loosely here because I'm actually sure this place is funded entirely by one rich guy with a megalomaniacal narcissistic complex.
- I'm having a really fun time settling into Endfield, but I'll be really honest, I have no idea what this game is going to look like in 6 months. It's such a fascinating mix of genres and systems, it seems wild to conceive of where it is going.
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- Reposted by LesterWhile we've gotten affirming feedback on Engine Angel, pitching unfortunately hasn't been successful. As a result, we've had to make the hard decision to lay off five team members. Each of these devs are incredible: if you have a place on your team, or know someone hiring, please keep them in mind!⬇
- Reposted by LesterNow this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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- I'm not watching the Rumble (and I haven't really been watching WWE in a long while) but this caught my attention about them still being really shit to their female talent. Even the smallest, cheapeast dance or theatre troupe pays for costume changes/alterations. The Fed can't? Please. #wrestling
- Pressure works. On to the next fight now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by LesterWe’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶 Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨
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- I was reasonably sure before this moment that rendering a person stateless was already a crime?
- It's like someone really did see Motion Smoothing and went "I want all of that everywhere and also a whiskey commercial"
- I believe a good descriptor would be 'catastrophic' for the business.
- Hi, fun fact. There is no statute of limitations on murder. You can ALWAYS be prosecuted for murder loooooong after the fact. Always. Just thought you'd like to be aware of that. Also, unrelated. There's no such thing as absolute immunity.
- Because one friend messaged me: This is true in Canada. This is ALSO true in America. (I imagine this is true in much of the world)
- Literal goddamn treason.
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- "What radicalized you?" "Nothing. I was a normal guy and I watched two monsters on tv celebrate being monsters and said, no more." #politics
- The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
- This is awesome. But as a Canadian familiar with both cold and snow stuck vehicles, someone get this mayor a hat. You lose a lot of body heat through your head.
- Would someone explain it to me as though I am 5 why this calls out 'Data Centers' and not say....'hospitals'? Try. Please. #politics
- "The US is going to save Greenland from Cancer with our healthcare system" is absolutely not the wild take I was prepared to read on a sunday morning, and I was ready for some truly off the wall BS. #politics
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- Ah. Now the directly line for voter interference plan laid bare.
- Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
- Just saying: Quoting Andrea Pritzer, "The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."
- I just want to point out. In literal actual war, you are not allowed to disarm an 'enemy', beat them up, tell them to lay face down on the ground restrained, and then shoot them in the head. And then shoot them a FURTHER NINE TIMES.
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- Body Cameras? BODY CAMERAS? TO SUPPLEMENT THE FOOTAGE OF THE OTHER OFFICER WHO CAPTURED IT ON HIS OWN CAMERA OF HIS PEER SHOOTING THAT WOMAN IN THE FACE THAT HE'S PROUD OF AND SHARED HIMSELF? BODY CAMERAS WILL FIX THIS? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.
- Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE: -restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion -$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/ www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- So they were so worried the Chinese was going to collect all this data that we're now supposed to be relieved that the Americans are collecting even more while they are *checks notes *looks at ICE *gestures broadly
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
- Stay warm everyone, and solidarity with the General Strike in MN
- It is so painful how deeply uneducated they are. Like, it causes me physical anguish to know these people are trusted with anything more than a bowl of chips.
