One of the things we're doing on Waifu Death Squad is occasionally coming up with rules the player will never see, just things that provide some level of structure to the storytelling.

A lot of those silly angry kids yelling at me about lore were like "but lore is the rules"

NO like, here's a rule that isn't in WDS just so I am not spoiling anything: I once wrote a story where I had a rule that I would never name the city the player character was in. Ever. It is never named.

That's not lore, heck, maybe it's anti-lore!

dusk is breathtaking in genshin why does this look so much better than most games? it's really easy: atmospheric distortion.

don't get me wrong, there's actually a LOT that goes into making this look good, but atmospheric distortion is a huge part of it.

a big issue w/ games is that everything is -clear-

I'm miserable because of my physical pain but I'm watching Seven Samurai with the boys for the first time HES SO FUCKIN HOT

As someone who hires writers, let me tell you: I will not hire a single writer who uses tools like this. It makes you unhireable.

https://twitter.com/jamesjyu/status/1658933765824192512

working with AI on a professional level is you saying "I can't do this shit myself, I'm not good enough." Okay. Well, I'll believe you. If you need AI to make better stories, you aren't qualified to work for me.

dentist office in january: hey are you gonna use this money or should we pay it back? it's like $295

me: pay it back please

me: *in march* so... when can I expect it?

them: she'll call you end of next week

me: *two weeks later* so uh... about that $295

them: it's $13 me: pretty sure it's not

them: oh right my bad. next week?

me: *in may* so where's my money

them: we mailed it to you

me: I have received nothing

them: oh. okay let me put it on your card actually. it's $279.

Thinking about how those students at smu tried to harangue me because I pointed out that within a capitalist system, artists must be paid, and they basically were anti artist.

Their reasoning? They weren't artists and didn't want copyright to prevent them from stealing

https://twitter.com/frogkaro/status/1659052001584619521

It was the same logic as "artists are gatekeeping". You can become an artist, no one is stopping you. But people who weren't artists and calling themselves communists wanted to profit from the labor of others and were angry that labor was withheld.

I am in extreme pain right now. The only thing keeping me going has been medical care. Thank you to the people who appreciate my work enough to help me out. For everyone else, I would appreciate your patience during this extremely rough process Basically they're giving me pills to make my liver work better and the process is excruciating

I've been using this one for years! Wehraboos slip into Nazi sympathizing because they find the aesthetics ("the tiger tank is beautiful! Hugo boss!" That shit) and mythology (leni reifenstahl's work) compelling. It's like how ironic enjoyers become true believers

https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/1658916772215496787

one of the big things these guys do is buy into specific fascist myths that sound awesome.

as an example, the tiger tank is often described as being really badass because it could "take on three shermans" or whatever (i'm sick don't expect me to remember the exact number)

i think about this a lot as I write waifu death squad

bloodknife.com/everyone-beaut… i also think about this scene with harrison ford in working girl

a bunch of incredibly attractive antifascists don't know they're antifascists yet

https://twitter.com/ISamOmega/status/1641158540457852946

I think this is gonna be one of those things that people will go "huh? I don't see it" about for a while, since I know where the fascists need to go in the story for the story to be good.

Waifu Death Squad (previously known as Waifu Death Squad Zero) has been signed! in case you were wondering why I'm in a good mood.

https://twitter.com/mischiefdevelop/status/1641184923158712323

just as a reminder, waifu death squad, which we were pitching for a while but decided was too ambitious, is now waifu death squad 2, so if you search that name you'll find some stuff that definitely isn't gonna be in the game currently codenamed waifu death squad

depression is an annoying illness to have because i'm actually pretty happy right now and depression is like some guy across the hall yelling "stop it! stop having fun!" my dude i am about to have more fun than you could possibly imagine Writing a game is an act of magic. Nobody writes stories or plans games like we do, it seems. I want to make the act of making and expressing ourselves joyful.

I remember feeling like this way earlier on in my career and it took forever to mature past this mindset. the easiest way to get past any of this is go "okay, why is the player interested in my game RIGHT NOW?" and if you can't do it then you should probably cut that part