Ali Lanier
@alilanier.bsky.social
Writer @ CD Projekt RED
words @ Ms, Bust, Boston Hassle, Origins, Atticus Review, + elsewhere
Video games and comics and all around sapphic shenanigans
🏳️🌈📝🎮
She/her
words @ Ms, Bust, Boston Hassle, Origins, Atticus Review, + elsewhere
Video games and comics and all around sapphic shenanigans
🏳️🌈📝🎮
She/her
Very important news everyone
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Very important news everyone
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Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.
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Mamdani wins
Live Updates: Mamdani Wins N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race After Highest Turnout in Decades
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Mamdani wins
Carrying on the proud tradition of utilizing the office swords as part of my Halloween costume
#SwordsBeforeLords
#SwordsBeforeLords
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Carrying on the proud tradition of utilizing the office swords as part of my Halloween costume
#SwordsBeforeLords
#SwordsBeforeLords
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Color me shocked.
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Color me shocked.
The annual village scarecrow contest is up and running!
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The annual village scarecrow contest is up and running!
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
I’ve never seen game devs run as fast as when someone says “last call for the coffee cart”
a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his mouth open
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his mouth open
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’ve never seen game devs run as fast as when someone says “last call for the coffee cart”
I originally read this as “Y2K/90s rusty skater cords in gay”
…which, also yes.
…which, also yes.
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I originally read this as “Y2K/90s rusty skater cords in gay”
…which, also yes.
…which, also yes.
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sci-fi shows and games did not predict 2025 correctly
October 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
sci-fi shows and games did not predict 2025 correctly
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Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.
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You can't insure it. It hard to drive. It's ugly. It's a hard to park as a real truck but can't do truck things. It falls apart. It rusts which is why you rarely see an unwrapped cybertruck. If someone *gave* me a cybertruck I'd junk it for metal and use that money as a down payment on a Honda
Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck #Climate
Americans Raced to Buy Any EV They Could Last Month — Except for the Cybertruck
heatmap.news
October 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
You can't insure it. It hard to drive. It's ugly. It's a hard to park as a real truck but can't do truck things. It falls apart. It rusts which is why you rarely see an unwrapped cybertruck. If someone *gave* me a cybertruck I'd junk it for metal and use that money as a down payment on a Honda
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
Sure is October in a New England village
October 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sure is October in a New England village
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So great to see this profile of Andrea Bartz in her (and all authors’) fight against Anthropic.
The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So great to see this profile of Andrea Bartz in her (and all authors’) fight against Anthropic.
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The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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Every single game that ships is some kind of miracle.
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Every single game that ships is some kind of miracle.
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We were supposed to have a Song of the Lioness series and I’m so angry at this timeline 😩
www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...
www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...
This Canceled Fantasy Adaptation Should Have Been the Next Game of Thrones
Despite a TV adaptation announcement, Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet never made it onscreen - but it should have.
www.cbr.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
We were supposed to have a Song of the Lioness series and I’m so angry at this timeline 😩
www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...
www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...
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not exaggerating to say this show is probably why I'm an author and also part of why I'm a curious person. this is good 💓
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
not exaggerating to say this show is probably why I'm an author and also part of why I'm a curious person. this is good 💓
My roommate’s cat and I have developed a fun new game:
She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.
She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My roommate’s cat and I have developed a fun new game:
She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.
She fixates on lantern flies through the screen, and I go out and smash them.
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JUST NOW AT THE UN…
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
JUST NOW AT THE UN…
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this is so lovely
He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.
CREEP’s Mark Duplass Launches Found Footage Fund For Trans Filmmakers
He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.
dlvr.it
September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
this is so lovely