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Diana
@dianashrike.bsky.social
Narrative Designer @ RuneScape 3. Mostly quests.
Opinions my own.
Writes a great deal of fantasy nonsense.
Piecing together information about Olivia whats-her-name and why everyone is talking about her today like I'm playing obra dinn all over again
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A very wise person once told me 'Don't stress, nobody had a single original thought in their twenties'

Well guess what I'm turning 30 next year and somehow my writing brain is kicking back into gear
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
sunny day + solar panels + wfh + design ideation process that requires me to Make Things With My Hands = WE'RE DOING STOCK FROM SCRATCH TODAY BABAEYYYYY
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:

forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Finally getting through the left hand of darkness and I think it's going to be one of those books that Changes Me fundamentally as a writer
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):
A brief defence of dialogue choices
In games, the player needs to have something to do.
medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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mostly on RuneScape
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Ten thousand words in babeyyy!!!!

Usually I've fallen off the NaNo train by this point in November but somehow this year it's actually happening!! Yeehaw
It's the novel writing month that we dare not name!!

My typewriter is beribboned and I'm procrastinating over the first words. Let's fucking go
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Australia has so much #solar power that it's giving it away for free 🇦🇺
Lithuania has more than #halved its suicide rate 🇱🇹
in Japan #litter-picking has become a competitive sport 🇯🇵

and more – in our new issue 👇
Free electricity in Australia, Lithuania halves suicide rate, litter-picking becomes global competitive sport - Squirrel News
We're closing out the week at Squirrel News talking about how Australia is planning to give away free solar power due to a national surplus, Japan's litter-picking scheme becoming a global sport, and ...
squirrel-news.net
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Particularly pleased to see the passing of the Renter's Rights Act in this week's newsletter. I got hit with a no fault eviction a few years ago and it was brutal. Now they're banned :)
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Alan Wake 2
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It's the novel writing month that we dare not name!!

My typewriter is beribboned and I'm procrastinating over the first words. Let's fucking go
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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A new #month is on the doorstep, so it’s time for a look back at the stories that caught our editors’ attention over the past four #weeks 👇
25 stories of progress and solutions from October 2025 - Squirrel News
A new month is on the doorstep, so it's time for a look back at the stories that caught our editors' attention over the past four weeks! From concrete data that suggests people are feeling safer and m...
squirrel-news.net
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is how your email finds me
Skeleton draped in a shroud Northern France, c. 1600

(Musée du Louvre)
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A really good one this week: summary of progress against the paris agreement (where we were vs. Where we are), global extinction slowdown, and a new waste cutting design for the common zipper!
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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gamedev
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks...
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM