the dread pirate Khan

Please come find me on BlueSky at @dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social as I will be deleting my Xitter account once I've wrangled my archive download.

[the dread pirate Khan @Ethnicmutt]

So er this is a thing that happened this week!

[The Game Awards @thegameawards]

Khan joins us to talk all things Dead Island 2 (@deadislandgame)! #OpeningNightLive

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

When you’re too full for dessert and you’re asked if you’d like to see the dessert menu:

1. Pat your stomach, chuckle, say “ooh, I’m quite full, but go on, we’ll have a look!” Chuckle again. Act as if you’re doing something very naughty indeed.

2. When the waiter is gone, say “did you actually want a dessert?” and “no, me neither” to each other.

3. Wait for waiter to return, say sorry, chuckle again, confirm you really are very full, although “it all looks lovely!”

4. Ask for “just the bill, please”. Sit and wonder why you did so much chuckling.

[the dread pirate Khan @Ethnicmutt]

There is a lot of crossover here with narrative design portfolios.

Good solid advice in this thread, and I'm not just saying that because it echoes my advice! 😁

https://t.co/LxQQHSuA24

[Mikko Rautalahti @MikkiHEL]

I have recently been going through a lot of job applications for a writer position in the games industry, and I have thoughts about writing samples. I figured I'd put together a bunch of practical advice about how to handle them if you're applying for a job.

Here we go...

[Mikko Rautalahti @MikkiHEL]

If none of your samples are about games, consider whether you are sufficiently prepared to apply for a game writing job. How's the reader to know whether you DIDN'T write a game sample or you CAN'T write one? Demonstrate competence with the medium!

[Eric Thompson @EricTAuthor]

when i was a kid we had to go to a church food bank to receive free ramen, mac & cheese, hamburger helper (without the hamburger) & other such items. I never felt "less than" but I also never knew who provided what we were gifted.

The church bought my mom a car one time when she didn't have enough to replace the one that broke down. It was an old, green chevy nova (now it would be a classic, but at the time it was "ugly".) I never knew who did that either.

Someone once bought me a pair of pajamas simply because they thought i should have some and another person bought me a backpack so I could join my friends camping. They saw me. They didn't put me or my mom down. They saw me and they wanted me to have something good.

Today I saw posts of people questioning moms who use foodstamps and yet have their nails done. My mom was mistreated by her grandfather, her father, and my dad who left.

Now I find myself thinking back and if my mom had makeup or nice nails, I would look back at her now and say "good. you deserve it. life has kicked you down and you deserve a little something to hold your head high about. Go on and feel pretty. Because you are beautiful to me."

So you can sit there and judge that woman using food stamps and having nice nails. Or you can ask her if there's anything she needs or simply just tell her she looks nice. Chances are she needs to hear it.

Dignity - everyone deserves it. Spread a little

[🦋The Other Happy Place🦋 @otherhappyplace]

7. fine for you if your fantasy world doesn't have disabled people. fine. whatever. sounds boring but okay. but you don't get to tell tons of people that they should never see anyone EVER like themselves in fantasy because it RUINS YOUR IMMERSION. cause man, you ruin our lives

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

Screamed for attention and then also screamed about the nature of the attention I screamed for in the first place

[Peter Chiykowski @rockpapercynic]

A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see.

Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.

It takes a few seconds to spot a fake and stop the spread of disinformation. Let's learn how! 🧵(1/5)

[Peter Chiykowski @rockpapercynic]

Most important: THINK CRITICALLY

AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes

Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy

If you're not sure, don't share. You might be spreading misinformation! (5/5)

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

So they tell me “No, Jorts!” every time I do an activity and then they say “Jorts you laid around all day!” ok make up your mind

[Owen K.C. Stephens has a Patreon! @Owen_Stephens]

Early in my career, a wise elder told me to settle on my "Fuck You Rate."
This was an amount of money so high, that if I had given this rate in reply to an offer, rather than saying "Fuck You," and the client met it, I'd be so thrilled at the money I wouldn't mind.
1/2

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

have office landlords tried eating less avocado toast

[Steven DeKnight @stevendeknight]

I call massive bullshit. These miscreants are going to try to pass the blame of their bad decisions and poor management skills onto the writers' strike for the next decade.

[JC Lau @drjclau]

Hey gamedevs, you could do something similar in a few weeks at the Game Awards and use your platform like this, I’m just saying 🤔

[Todd Vaziri @tvaziri]

Maybe if people who own office buildings ate a little less avocado toast they wouldn’t be in this mess.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Could it be that there’s a ubiquitous form of violence that is overwhelmingly committed against women and girls, the healing from which is inhibited by stigma, victim blaming, and widespread social indifference to or support for perpetrators? No; it’s that women have bad brains.

[annie @soychotic]

Telling every man in the office I like their shirt then tallying the frequency at which they each wear it over the next quarter to calculate my individual influence to adjust the amount of seconds I look into their eyes accordingly

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

this is an absolutely UNHINGED way to open your book on the history of medicine !!!!!

[Robert Ciccolini @RobCiccolini]

TTRPG meta rules I look for in a game: As much as possible, divorce character aesthetics from player power. Players shouldn't be forced into a narrow aesthetic choice because the game wildly favors those choices in power or functionality.