Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji@mastodon.social

I'm having a blastodon on Mastodon

‪I have a small collection of little translation pet peeves and one of them is “rice balls” for onigiri. I hate it. Onigiri aren’t usually ball-shaped at all, moreover, no food should be called “[something] balls” in English even if it *is* shaped like balls‬

One thing I never understood about vampire lore is why it takes centuries of undying to develop a deep ennui around humanity. I can get that way in like 15 minutes

‪I was describing some characters to an artist who will draw them and said “this guy basically sucks” about one. Later I saw the artist had taken notes and penciled in “sucks” next to that character’s name in the character list, so I’m happy.‬

Want to hear a spooky story? I went to check tweets this morning like normal and I swear I saw a few before I remembered Twitter doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for quite some time— not since the tweet factory burned down twenty years ago... oddly enough, on this very day...

‪I’ve been telling people in person who ask what I’m up to, so I might as well say it here too: I’m working on a larger narrative game of a visual novel-ish type. No details to share yet, though hopefully soon.‬

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Unity’s going all Glenngarry on me

I enjoy reading the TV Tropes pages for my own work... I know others don't like the negative connotation around finding "tropes" in their writing, but for me it's a wonder to see evidence that someone actually paid attention [EXAPUNKS spoilers] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/EXAPUNKS

My soundtrack work for Zachtronics games: https://zachtronics.bandcamp.com/

My personal musical work:
https://matthewseiji.bandcamp.com/

‪My top writing advice is to keep those words firmly on the page. Don’t let them jump out and wander around. They will try to, the impish things. They will scamper and wiggle about and make a mess. Keep them on the page.‬

Happy 25th birthday to Myst, a formative game for me because the making-of QuickTime movie included on the disc was my first real introduction to many concepts in game development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94pzx_9LkVI

Shout-out to this guy in Edinburgh https://goo.gl/maps/P9F9VYa5GKT2

There's something about having been born in the nineteen-twenties and yet vaping before you die that's giving me life right now, I don't know

It's Friday night and I'm reading former Poet Laureate of the United States Donald Hall (b.1928) talk about learning to vape in his late eighties

"Wow, that's dark" is a common reaction people have when I was only trying to give a fictional person's life a more or less realistic series of events, and I'm not totally sure if I'm the one who is calibrated wrong, or if others tend to assume tragedy exists less than it does (as a very understandable defense against it becoming overwhelming)

There is a bad games and art article going around today that is predictably attracting a lot of attention so here is my alternate take on the topic from a few months ago https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/316623/A_slightly_different_way_to_think_about_games_and_art.php

Indie dev: I don’t know if this indie publisher I just learned about is legit or not

Indie publisher’s “about” page: We respect indies

Indie dev: Nice, that’s sorted then

Non-writer friends after I complain to them about having to write: Guess you're just gonna have to suck it up and write

Writer friends after I complain to them about having to write: Guess you're just gonna have to suck it up and write

I used to have jobs of the type where you'd get a ton of email all the time, most of it unimportant but on rare occasions extremely urgent.

I don't do that anymore; I hardly get any email at all these days and it's much better, but I can still feel the small rivulet of anxiety associated with checking my work inbox on a Sunday night in order to prepare (and set up defenses) for the coming week.