Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji@mastodon.social

I'm having a blastodon on Mastodon

What is your favorite absurdity of the English language? This is one of mine, and the reason you can't find-and-replace her/him:

Her phone is hers.
His phone is his.

Give his phone to him.
Give her phone to her.

Woke up at 4am from a dream that Valve had issued a diss track *as* Steam, so here you go

After your Kickstarter is over a year late there's no need to keep apologizing. In fact it becomes awkward to bring attention to the fact that there was a plan at all

Cultures of the world: Irony is suffused into life, and comes in innumerable forms and subtle shades across time

Americans, for some reason(?): A thing either ironic or not. If it is not ironic then it is 100% sincere. If it is ironic, then the exact opposite is 100% true

Why You Left Social Media: A Guesswork https://catapult.co/stories/why-you-left-social-media-a-guesswork

I just searched a document for a word and found one instance of it, which was when I typed the word into the document instead of the search box by accident a few seconds prior

Sometimes I feel like it would be good to share more process notes for writing and compositional activities on social media as they happen, but I never know what to say. There is nothing particularly insightful about any given moment.

One of my favorite* artistic anxieties is thinking "what if the process we used successfully in the past for everything abruptly stops working this time," every time

*you know what I mean

It occurs to me that I'm going to play Dark Souls Remastered so I can relive past glories mired in ever-fading memories of a better time, exactly like a Dark Souls character

My therapist thinks the big game company in Bellevue that makes Steam is called "Verve" and I've never corrected her

3. The novel is consistently overlooked as a way to capture systems; Ferrante's Neapolitan series for example is as much a detailed description of the systemic operation and devastating consequences of massive corruption and misogyny at a societal level as it is a personal story.

2. People who are expected to work with well-understood but complex systems professionally, say electronics or technology workers, are provided with a totally linear sequence of words that describes how the system works (a manual) for a reason.

1. Many people who have made a game and then read a forum for that game quickly learn that most people are actually pretty bad at back-forming how systems they interact with work under the hood. Superstitions develop quickly and are difficult to stamp out.

I finally spotted the Seattle anti-Amazon tamakeri poster in the wild

Me when I pitch: Don't you DARE ask me what "the hook" is. Take this concept as a gestalt entity or not at all. It will be special because of ALL of it, not some fake reducible essence

Me looking at others' pitches: So what's the hook here

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

I wrote about games and "art," since people were talking about that again briefly last week. The process-oriented view of creating is something I've felt for a while, though, and hadn't expressed until now. http://gamasutra.com/view/news/316623/A_slightly_different_way_to_think_about_games_and_art.php

Been having this recurring dream where I take a bite out of my iPhone, crunching the glass between my teeth... I'm sure it doesn't mean anything

Jelly Mario is my kind of humor http://jellymar.io/