Matthewせいじ
@matthewseiji.com
Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer and director who works on game-like things and other things.
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
Author of the novel Process and the visual novel Eliza.
https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/process-a-novel
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Matthewせいじ
@matthewseiji.com
· Apr 25
Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.
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Hi, I’m Matthew Seiji Burns. You may know me from such tweets as “They call him Big Hat Logan because he wears a big hat” or “Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there's banana bread in the kitchen.” Check out my debut novel, about a guy who has a bad time.
[Persuasion] What do you think about dialogue choices in games? I’m interested in your opinion.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
[Persuasion] What do you think about dialogue choices in games? I’m interested in your opinion.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
[Failed] Maybe some other time. For now, focus on getting the key to that warehouse.
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Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
Celebrity doing game vo take 1:
Lava is too hot. "Ow."
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Celebrity doing game vo take 1:
My name is Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a famous poem about me when my statue was looted for England by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, a 2-meter-tall Italian hydraulics engineer and former circus performer, who figured out how to load it onto a boat, after an earlier failed attempt by Napoleon
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My name is Ozymandias. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a famous poem about me when my statue was looted for England by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, a 2-meter-tall Italian hydraulics engineer and former circus performer, who figured out how to load it onto a boat, after an earlier failed attempt by Napoleon
Chotiner: So you decided you were going to make a joke post—
Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.
Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?
Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.
Chotiner: Sure.
Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.
Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?
Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.
Chotiner: Sure.
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Chotiner: So you decided you were going to make a joke post—
Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.
Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?
Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.
Chotiner: Sure.
Me: —in the form of a Chotiner interview. That’s correct.
Chotiner: And you thought it was funny?
Me: I mean, I didn’t think it wasn’t funny.
Chotiner: Sure.
Halo on PlayStation isn’t as weird to me as seeing the assets in the Unreal test levels
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Halo on PlayStation isn’t as weird to me as seeing the assets in the Unreal test levels
You’re learning Siddhaṃ calligraphy for Buddhist reasons, I’m learning Siddhaṃ calligraphy for ninja magic reasons, we are not the same (actually, it is the same)
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
You’re learning Siddhaṃ calligraphy for Buddhist reasons, I’m learning Siddhaṃ calligraphy for ninja magic reasons, we are not the same (actually, it is the same)
Me: Ugh... where am I?
Me: ...
Me: If only I could find a 🗺️map...
Me: ...
Me: If only I could find a 🗺️map...
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Me: Ugh... where am I?
Me: ...
Me: If only I could find a 🗺️map...
Me: ...
Me: If only I could find a 🗺️map...
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Spent most of my weekend devouring Process: A Novel and loved it. Print version is easily one of the nicest books on my shelf. I'm not gonna say too much about it but if this speaks to you at all go check it out. www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
Process: A Novel (softcover edition)
Process, the debut novel from author Matthew Seiji Burns, takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character Lucas Adderson is a ...
www.tuneandfairweather.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Spent most of my weekend devouring Process: A Novel and loved it. Print version is easily one of the nicest books on my shelf. I'm not gonna say too much about it but if this speaks to you at all go check it out. www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
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@matthewseiji.com oh my fucking GOD DUDE
October 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@matthewseiji.com oh my fucking GOD DUDE
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If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged
yes. put us together in a box so we can make each other increasingly deranged
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you hire me AND bruno, you could get two long-time collaborators who will make your material, whatever it is, *alarmingly* unhinged
WarGames (1983) remade for modern day would switch out the supercomputer playing tic-tac-toe for Deadlock, and at the end it’d print “A strange game. The only winning move is [10 pages of incomprehensible meta]”
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
WarGames (1983) remade for modern day would switch out the supercomputer playing tic-tac-toe for Deadlock, and at the end it’d print “A strange game. The only winning move is [10 pages of incomprehensible meta]”
Hot New Japanese Trend Has Tokyoites Exchanging “Denwa Bango”— Here’s What It Means
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hot New Japanese Trend Has Tokyoites Exchanging “Denwa Bango”— Here’s What It Means
PlayStation Pro’s always been a funny product name to me because they started with a play on the word “workstation” to turn it into an idea centered on “play,” and then they added “professional” to it to turn it back into work
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
PlayStation Pro’s always been a funny product name to me because they started with a play on the word “workstation” to turn it into an idea centered on “play,” and then they added “professional” to it to turn it back into work
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Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Process takes readers on an intense psychological journey into the dark heart of Seattle’s tech startup world. The main character is a young man driven by an almost animalistic need to find outsized success creating the next unicorn tech juggernaut.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/pro...
Buddhist LinkedIn like: Innovation Leader, Sahā World | ex-Nāga | ex-Preta | ex-Cow
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Buddhist LinkedIn like: Innovation Leader, Sahā World | ex-Nāga | ex-Preta | ex-Cow
Wim Wenders: [sharing grandly philosophical thoughts in German-accented English over lingering shots of 1983 Tokyo]
Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up
Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower
Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up
Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower
September 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Wim Wenders: [sharing grandly philosophical thoughts in German-accented English over lingering shots of 1983 Tokyo]
Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up
Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower
Me: Impeccable vibes... this could only be topped if, like, Werner Herzog showed up
Wim Wenders: Then I ran into my friend, Werner Herzog, at the top of Tokyo Tower
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The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
Process: A Novel
“Matthew Seiji Burns has done the nearly impossible. He’s thought deeply about the systems and technologies warping the human experience, and embedded them in a moving, nuanced, weird, and superlative...
www.tuneandfairweather.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
Process: A Novel
“Matthew Seiji Burns has done the nearly impossible. He’s thought deeply about the systems and technologies warping the human experience, and embedded them in a moving, nuanced, weird, and superlative...
www.tuneandfairweather.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The novel PROCESS is the tragicomic story of an embittered failed tech entrepreneur in his own words. It’s published by Ireland-based independent press Tune & Fairweather. I even read the audiobook. You can listen to me.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
Men Are Sharing What They’d Do If They Awoke One Morning from Uneasy Dreams to Find Themselves Transformed into a Giant Insect and It’s Adorable
September 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Men Are Sharing What They’d Do If They Awoke One Morning from Uneasy Dreams to Find Themselves Transformed into a Giant Insect and It’s Adorable
If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.
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Thinking About Game Difficulty
Periodically a wave of discussion about game difficulty occurs in game developer spaces, so I wanted to share some thoughts that Zach Barth and Keith Holman of Zachtronics [http://www.zachtronics.com]...
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September 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.
web.archive.org/web/20250107...
web.archive.org/web/20250107...
Dorian (2021): In this modern take on the Oscar Wilde classic, young Dorian Gray mints an NFT of his famous portrait, which records all of his sins on the blockchain. What could possibly go wrong? Rated PG-13.
September 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Dorian (2021): In this modern take on the Oscar Wilde classic, young Dorian Gray mints an NFT of his famous portrait, which records all of his sins on the blockchain. What could possibly go wrong? Rated PG-13.
(2020) Welp, stuck at home for a bit, so I suppose what I’ll do is a massive amount of drugs and stare at algorithmic social media 24 hours a day
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
(2020) Welp, stuck at home for a bit, so I suppose what I’ll do is a massive amount of drugs and stare at algorithmic social media 24 hours a day
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What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What’s this about a thought living “rent free” in your head? Are you telling me you normally charge your thoughts rent? That you’re the landlord of your mind?