Ken Strickland

Lead Game Design@ Question. Voracious reader/cookie-eater. Possibly a cloud-based GAN for generating alarming non-sequiturs. He/him. BLM. Prev@ Ubi/Hmx/sqrt(-1)

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@OccultGameDev Oh hell. I hope it's the kind of news that can be treated/ mitigated. We're all thinking of and rooting for you.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@Lulu @zusty @vaalkerry Artificer ✅
Barbarian ❌
Bard ✅
Blood Hunter ❌
Cleric ✅
Druid❌
Fighter ��✅
Monk ✅
Paladin✅
Ranger✅
Rogue ✅ ✅✅
Sorcerer❌
Warlock ✅
Wizard ✅✅✅✅
(this took a lot of remembering of one-shots and ancient history to arrive at entirely predictable conclusions 😄 )

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@zusty @vaalkerry @stevepowers @Lulu Not exactly on point, but when I read that I immediately pictured some reverse Halloween event where everyone's parents went trick or treating and their adult children stayed home, watched the Great British Bake Off, and occasionally handed out hard candy.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@Lulu @postRobocop I am extremely jealous. I'm never fast enough to catch any of those.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@zusty @vaalkerry I present to you Effie the sink goblin

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@Atheris @DeadByBHVR @nullspeak @AdrianBalanon How dare you use a 100% unedited actual picture of me to prove your point.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@WarrenPrice That game gets its hooks in me about once a year, and that skill tree is the reason. I hit a wall the first time I played tho; lmk if I can help with builds or questions.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@dphrygian On one hand, ugh.
On the other, it's convenient when someone is such an insufferable tool that their opinions / existence can be comfortably excised from the realm of the human.
"Sorry you chose to live in the Choad-Bog, let us know if you ever put the mammal skinsuit back on."

[William D. Lopez @lopez_wd]

No one:
Me: 2022 Oscar Outfits as Public Health Graphs

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

If you're in the area and want to say hello, just reach out! I've got a shadow agenda of delicious meals and seeing hole-in-the-wall places in Oakland that I miss dearly from when I lived there.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

I'm usually pretty comfortable with my decision to treat Twitter like some highly-radioactive isotope that can only be looked at for a few minutes each day, but that means I also forget to use it when it's actually useful. I'll be heading to SF for the GDC week.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

This is actually 90% a social visit; I'll be seeing some coworkers that I haven't physically seen in years, and others than I've never met in the flesh --- which is such a strange thing to say. Still, I'm really looking forward to it.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@KTallguy @unseentokyo KEEEENAN you're doing the thing! Congrats, man. I'm super excited for you.

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨To mark 2 yrs of the pandemic, I wrote about the sheer scale of death, and how/why so much of the US has normalized to it.

The official toll nears 1 million. The NYT called 100k deaths an “incalculable loss”.

What is 10 times incalculable? 1/

https://t.co/CZr7fKThHK

[Onion Inc Union @OnionIncUnion]

UPDATE: The seven A.V. Club workers in Chicago have decided to take their union-contract-protected severances rather than move to L.A. without a cost-of-living adjustment. A statement from the union (1/X):

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@InkInAsh @dphrygian +1 for wanting to know delicious veggie sando secrets.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@TheMarkVernon Thanks, man! Boston did indeed treat us well; we recently followed a visiting professorship for Catherine to Ohio, which was a huge culture shock, lemme tell you. Regardless, glad you're doing well and still with Ubi. Happy holidays! Send everyone my regards.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

First trip back to the West Coast since the pandemic began, and the new kitten was having none of it.

[Ken Strickland @DocCatastrophe]

@TheMarkVernon Til the 27th. We've done the works (rapid testing, boosters, N95s, all the sanitizer one could bathe in), but I admit the first air holiday travel in ~2.5yrs had me a bit nervous. Still, I'm having some serious happy-nostalgia walking around Oakland right now. How're you?