Athul Prabhakaran

pop culture hoarder.

[Rurikhan @Rurikhan]

Due to some strange oversight, #TheGameAwards forgot to make a highlight clip of @LarAtLarian - Swen Vincke's Speech on the official channel.

Surely this wasn't a deliberate mistake, so I made one myself. We should probably retweet and repost it far and wide for good luck.

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

@jesushhere By myshkkin nu miss panitiye

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@PoorlyAgedStuff And then Dan Houser left rockstar, plus here we are.

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Alter ego @athulprabh acts in one of his most fulfilling short-ish films with @anirudhsriraman @rinibot @KShyama99 + @thiruppuu ❤️

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

@thiruppuu So excited for this run!

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

@eddi_pilla1 What if you look like maya erskine from blue eye samurai :o

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

@eddi_pilla1 Binged all of it

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Oh dear.

[Sonic The Hedgeblog @Sonic_Hedgeblog]

Knuckles appears in the new Paramount+ Super Bowl commercial.

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Cinema

[Alex Previty @alexprevity]

This is one of my favorite sounds I made for the game! The heartbeat sound is actually my daughter's heartbeat while she was still in the womb - I recorded it via the 3.5mm output of a baby doppler. The longer tonal elements are from a children's choir warming up in a gymnasium!

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Hall of fame “perry subplot” tweets

[ben @PunishedBenn]

phineas and ferb: we're building a rollercoaster today
perry's subplot:

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Wishing you creatives some stupid bravery 🔥

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen.

It perfectly demonstrates something known as the "Creativity Faucet."

When you go to the studio, John Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?

“Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because

it requires a stupid bravery all the time.”

He strums a couple chords without singing. A nice melody begins to form—“you can sit here all day [doing this] and go, ‘Okay, maybe that’s something.'”

“But if you don’t go,” and then he improvises vocals,

“Sunlights beating on the corner of the walls / and I’m a Mr. know-it-all / heaven calls / get yourself right / get yourself right,” he stops playing, raises his finger to his mouth, and explains, “if you’re not ouija boarding immediately, you’re wasting time.”

“You just stare at the corner of the wall,” he says, before he improvises some more,

“Stare at the corner of the wall / try to get it going on / but I can’t sometimes / you just keep going 'til you get something / maybe I’m a little bit shy / maybe someday I’ll tell you why,” he stops singing, “you gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.”

“It doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mouth]...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless…It’s hard to do.”

Takeaway 1:

In the clip, we see John Mayer's ability to generate vocals steadily increase.

It's a perfect display of what Julian Shapiro—who (among other things) is incredible at deconstructing how things like creativity work—calls the “Creativity Faucet.”

Essentially, creativity works like “a backed-up pipe of water,” Shapiro writes. “The first mile is packed with wastewater. This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.”

At the beginning of a creative session, almost always, bad ideas come out of the faucet first. The John Mayers of the world have the discipline and “a stupid bravery,” as Mayer said, to get through the backed-up pipe of bad ideas, to empty the wastewater, to “just keep going 'til you get something,” as he sang.

Takeaway 2:

To let out bad ideas, to empty the waste water, Mayer said, you have to “get fearless, fearless, fearless.”

In another interview, Mayer was asked how he defines writer’s block.

“Writer’s block,” he said, “is when the two people inside of you—the writer and the reader—when the reader doesn’t love the writer. Writer’s block is not a failure to write. It is a failure to catch the feedback loop of enjoying what you’re seeing and wanting to contribute more to it.”

A creative block is not a failure to create. It is a failure to accept that you must empty a lot of bad ideas before good ideas can flow. It is a failure to get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.

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“You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.” — John Mayer

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[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

.. and the Best Ongoing game goes to Cyber..

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@JustinefromG2A Playstation 5

[Justine from G2A @JustinefromG2A]

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[FutureGamesShow @FutureGamesShow]

Is 2023 the best - or worst - year for games?

"Honestly, are we going to get serious?"

Final Fantasy XVI actor and passionate gamer @The_Ben_Starr gets real about the complex state of the gaming industry

[Tom Henderson @_Tom_Henderson_]

"Best Ongoing Game" going to Cyberpunk after announcing they are moving on from it is *something* when Fortnite just had one of the best years they've ever had lol

[Emmett Watkins Jr. 🦋 (@ejsponge61.com) @Ejsponge61]

can we NOT play walk off music after giving a non-native English speaker 20 seconds to give their acceptance speech. like that seems like the bare minimum

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Ouch. I do think in particular that speeches with translators should have been given extra time. That’s on top of the extra time every other winner deserved!

[George Crudo @GeorgeCrudo]

didn't know game dev award acceptance speeches were also subjected to crunch

[Athul Prabhakaran @archerx01]

Itching to get back into Alan Wake 2 and I might have just found my way..

[Bob Marshall @bobmarshall]

Horror Game: Adjust your TV brightness so you can barely see the object

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