Trystan McClellan
@bardcraft92.bsky.social
Who are you people?!
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the pervasive AI, sports betting, and crypto commercials during the super bowl are bleak
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
the pervasive AI, sports betting, and crypto commercials during the super bowl are bleak
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Anyone getting "Fahrenheit 451 surveillance state" vibes from that uplifting lost dog Ring search party ad? Because holy fucking shit.
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Anyone getting "Fahrenheit 451 surveillance state" vibes from that uplifting lost dog Ring search party ad? Because holy fucking shit.
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i don’t care too much about football anymore but one has to know that a patriots win makes both jesse signal AND benjamin netanyahu happy. so i’ll be carrying that with me today
February 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i don’t care too much about football anymore but one has to know that a patriots win makes both jesse signal AND benjamin netanyahu happy. so i’ll be carrying that with me today
A group of hackers works for a cat.
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
A group of hackers works for a cat.
If you can generate a book a day, audience will forget the book with an hour. If you write a book within a year (or more), people will remember the book most likely longer depending on quality. Now, who’s going to win this race?
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
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February 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM
If you can generate a book a day, audience will forget the book with an hour. If you write a book within a year (or more), people will remember the book most likely longer depending on quality. Now, who’s going to win this race?
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Five-year-old me: Oooh, that Batman cartoon! What adventures will he go on today?
*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*
Me: Oh. Huh.
*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*
Me: Oh. Huh.
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Five-year-old me: Oooh, that Batman cartoon! What adventures will he go on today?
*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*
Me: Oh. Huh.
*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*
Me: Oh. Huh.
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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People using Chomsky as a got ya against leftists: He was anti-communist and a poor excuse of an anarchist. No love lost there.
February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
People using Chomsky as a got ya against leftists: He was anti-communist and a poor excuse of an anarchist. No love lost there.
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
Demonschool is getting to the point where it is repetitive in its battles. The battles are varied in enemies patterns. I wish it was varied in objectives than kill X enemies.
February 7, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Demonschool is getting to the point where it is repetitive in its battles. The battles are varied in enemies patterns. I wish it was varied in objectives than kill X enemies.
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AI is not alive. It cannot translate human experiences. It cannot feel for you, and even if it could, it would only be that much clearer that its output is not something YOU made. It has no relation to you.
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
AI is not alive. It cannot translate human experiences. It cannot feel for you, and even if it could, it would only be that much clearer that its output is not something YOU made. It has no relation to you.
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I do not want future writers to have to come up like I did, starving and stealing and hooking and scribbling out a few sentences before collapsing into bed. I want a world that respects them and provides a firm bedrock of social safety while they build their skills and live their lives.
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I do not want future writers to have to come up like I did, starving and stealing and hooking and scribbling out a few sentences before collapsing into bed. I want a world that respects them and provides a firm bedrock of social safety while they build their skills and live their lives.
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I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
February 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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This is not a tool of democratization, artists are not some privileged elite, and all the jargon and references to socialist thinkers and labor theory in the world can't conceal that you're devaluing human skills and helping to gut a field that beautifies and expands the world
February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is not a tool of democratization, artists are not some privileged elite, and all the jargon and references to socialist thinkers and labor theory in the world can't conceal that you're devaluing human skills and helping to gut a field that beautifies and expands the world
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“Screw the platforms. Ignore the stuff that you think sucks. Find books and art you love. Share them. Review them. Recommend them to friends. Make your own art. Share it. Hope it finds people who love it. What else can we do?” — @thelincoln.bsky.social
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Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset
The Washington Post shutting down its books coverage is a reminder that we have to do it ourselves
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February 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“Screw the platforms. Ignore the stuff that you think sucks. Find books and art you love. Share them. Review them. Recommend them to friends. Make your own art. Share it. Hope it finds people who love it. What else can we do?” — @thelincoln.bsky.social
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mark helped out a lot with level design and writing on Blanksword. if you've got one to spare, toss 'em a coin, will ya?
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February 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
mark helped out a lot with level design and writing on Blanksword. if you've got one to spare, toss 'em a coin, will ya?
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this is unfortunately the mindset of a number of working class people in america
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
this is unfortunately the mindset of a number of working class people in america
Oh cool! Everyone on the Switch 2 will discover how boring Fallout 4 was.
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Oh cool! Everyone on the Switch 2 will discover how boring Fallout 4 was.
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this is the crux of what I have always been trying to say. unpopular opinion woman…
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
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February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
this is the crux of what I have always been trying to say. unpopular opinion woman…
I think my lack of interest in Aronofsky as a director was literally a decade ago with mother! I realized I just not that interested in his films.
February 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I think my lack of interest in Aronofsky as a director was literally a decade ago with mother! I realized I just not that interested in his films.
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the way the democratic/liberal establishment kept aligning itself with these billionaires and against any sort of left wing insurgency is always the bigger story to me. it didn't have to be that way. most people who got behind Bernie et al knew exactly what the Peter Thiels of the world wanted
February 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
the way the democratic/liberal establishment kept aligning itself with these billionaires and against any sort of left wing insurgency is always the bigger story to me. it didn't have to be that way. most people who got behind Bernie et al knew exactly what the Peter Thiels of the world wanted
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The best joke in The People’s Joker was a cut to a vertical video of Robert Wuhl during a “news sequence” over an Alexander Knox chiron where he says “I legally cannot participate in this, this is not what Cameo is for”
February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The best joke in The People’s Joker was a cut to a vertical video of Robert Wuhl during a “news sequence” over an Alexander Knox chiron where he says “I legally cannot participate in this, this is not what Cameo is for”
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I mean if we mean "the test of time" that is "gamers immediately set out to turn Morrowind into Not Morrowind and have only tried to shoehorn it into further diluted iterations of later Elder Scrolls to make it tolerable for them" then he's absolutely spot on.
"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that’s the game you want to play again," said Bruce Nesmith, who worked for Bethesda for over 17 years, adding that playing The Elder Scrolls 3 "would not stand the test of time." https://bit.ly/4q4GoKh
January 31, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I mean if we mean "the test of time" that is "gamers immediately set out to turn Morrowind into Not Morrowind and have only tried to shoehorn it into further diluted iterations of later Elder Scrolls to make it tolerable for them" then he's absolutely spot on.
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I legit fear for the overall game literacy of new junior designers in the coming years for various reasons and a big part of that is just, a lack of idiosyncratic games in many diets that aren't, like, tied to insidious monetization loops.
Let people play games that are weird in honest ways, dude.
Let people play games that are weird in honest ways, dude.
"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that’s the game you want to play again," said Bruce Nesmith, who worked for Bethesda for over 17 years, adding that playing The Elder Scrolls 3 "would not stand the test of time." https://bit.ly/4q4GoKh
February 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I legit fear for the overall game literacy of new junior designers in the coming years for various reasons and a big part of that is just, a lack of idiosyncratic games in many diets that aren't, like, tied to insidious monetization loops.
Let people play games that are weird in honest ways, dude.
Let people play games that are weird in honest ways, dude.