chilton 👁
@chiltonm.bsky.social
Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
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chilton 👁
@chiltonm.bsky.social
· Sep 7
"This is what fixes the world. It’s never that pretty."
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Promise Mascot Agency the ultimate anti-cozy game:
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Promise Mascot Agency the ultimate anti-cozy game:
Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round - Unwinnable
The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.
unwinnable.com
Now up on the site!
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sir this is a McDonald's
Trump: "They don't laugh at us anymore. They respect us now, again. And that's what we want. We want to be liked. We want to be respected much more so than being liked. And you know in a certain way they like us better now too. Because the world was ripping off our country. Not sustainable."
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
sir this is a McDonald's
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A closer look at my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. 🌙
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A closer look at my finished marionette/puppet, Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite. 🌙
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my contributor gig at endless mode is drastically changing in november, going from a weekly piece to a monthly one. as such, i’m available to take on more freelance work. i got experience with reporting, criticism, evergreen stuff, consulting, and anything in between.
muckrack.com/diego-arguello
muckrack.com/diego-arguello
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
resharing this for no reason whatsoever
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Autumn Statue: acrylic on linen
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Autumn Statue: acrylic on linen
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sorry it just occurred to me that this is functionally equivalent of a car-free city dweller complaining that it takes far too long by bus to get to suburban shopping or cultural destinations, which is a 100% legit complaint that would be laughed out of any op-ed page in the country
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
sorry it just occurred to me that this is functionally equivalent of a car-free city dweller complaining that it takes far too long by bus to get to suburban shopping or cultural destinations, which is a 100% legit complaint that would be laughed out of any op-ed page in the country
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Drew some house sparrows, one of my favourite birds
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Drew some house sparrows, one of my favourite birds
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By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
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November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...
Apologia for Game Wikis | Mixed Initiatives
mixedinitiatives.net
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...
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New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.
You can’t underestimate everyone
Here is a quick list of features in inkle games which we failed to tutorialise or remind players of enough. The data is empirically backed…
medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.
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fo- five. five shrews tall.
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
fo- five. five shrews tall.
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An interesting example of how it's easy to get trapped in "doing things for the sake of doing them" in gamedev how this thread showcases complex game desgin being done to allow this sort of thing but little examination of how that possibility space affects the world and the player's psychology
Hive mind.. whats the general thoughts on allowing players to brick their games by letting them kill NPCs? Are folk ok with that? any smart examples where it is recoverable?
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An interesting example of how it's easy to get trapped in "doing things for the sake of doing them" in gamedev how this thread showcases complex game desgin being done to allow this sort of thing but little examination of how that possibility space affects the world and the player's psychology
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3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
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Black Mandrakes
new ones on patreon too for just a pound!
new ones on patreon too for just a pound!
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Black Mandrakes
new ones on patreon too for just a pound!
new ones on patreon too for just a pound!
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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From a separate article about how kids are taught to read, but even from the beginning, kids are being failed and taught that being able to understand words and comprehend sentences is too much hard work
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From a separate article about how kids are taught to read, but even from the beginning, kids are being failed and taught that being able to understand words and comprehend sentences is too much hard work
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
www.historicalgames.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
New park chan wook is unreal see it in as crowded of a theater as possible
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
New park chan wook is unreal see it in as crowded of a theater as possible
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
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This was fun. 46 tris, 128x128 texture.
April 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This was fun. 46 tris, 128x128 texture.
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i think i'm just gonna do my first and only subtweet right now and it's for everyone posting about anything. shut da fuck up
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i think i'm just gonna do my first and only subtweet right now and it's for everyone posting about anything. shut da fuck up
I love getting happy birthday emails from the airlines that lost my luggage in the Caucasus. I think every day of my life about how much I hate you :)
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I love getting happy birthday emails from the airlines that lost my luggage in the Caucasus. I think every day of my life about how much I hate you :)