Hey! My name is Harald and #IamPOCinPlay. I'm a Norwegian-Indonesian writer-narrative designer, doing freelance game story things for about 6 years now. I revel in good prose, martabak, and julegrøt -- what can I say? 🇮🇩 🇳🇴 🏳️🌈
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Writer & Narrative Designer | he/him | Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows, The Stillness of the Wind, NEO Scavenger, and others | Not Under 30 | A tenant in FFXIV
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People with chronic illnesses will have stomach cramps, headaches, joint pain, muscle pain, fatigue, nausea, dizziness and more every single day... and still act completely normal in public. Remember you never know the pain someone may be in just by looking.
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Boris Johnson wants to talk about his legacy. Okay, let’s talk about his legacy
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Keep thinking about the surreal phenomenon of being in a room full of writers, listening to someone recount an awful time they had during development, and feeling the collective trauma energy spike as everyone visibly aches from a separate but similar event of their own.
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THIS is The Good Place. 😀
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Tube on strike, I dawdled to Paddington on Friday. Passing the old wrought iron sign for Pizza Express, I was reminded of an event 30+ years ago, when I got caught up in a drama that resulted in a divorce, two marriages and many changed lives.
It began with a heart attack 🧵
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"I don’t think video games will save the world. I’m not even sure we can save ourselves. But maybe that’s okay. The truth is that all the futures I imagine in which video games exist are dystopian."
Here's the text of my depressing but hopeful?? talk!
medium.com/@betterthemask
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My talk about living, working and designing games, amidst the crises of empire and capital at #CHSA will be live-streamed on twitch. I’m so excited to share my thoughts with you later today 
twitch.tv/cgsaacej
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It's telling that Asian developers can feel like they have to second-guess whether representing themselves authentically is going to alienate a Western audience when little is often said about Western developers taking from Asian cultures...
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Our second major update for GoT: Tale of Crows is out now.
This update introduces the Red Priestess storyteller and with it some new and dark tales. In this one we experimented more with our systems to create a murder mystery 🥳
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Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows ‘Red Priestess Update’ brings you to the Red Temple, where you’ll hear another side of the Night’s Watch and its long, shadowed past.
Play five new legends and 700 new encounters only on @AppleArcade!
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The gaming world wouldn’t be what it is today without the work of Black innovators within the industry #BlackHistoryMonth
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Oddly lucky.
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Can this mean 2022 will be less shit please.
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It's 2022 and I'm still so tired.
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I got jabbed.
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Where The Water Tastes Like Ass
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Ruin a videogame by replacing one word with "ass"
Ass Crisis.
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Tomorrow, Endwalker begins. I'm so damn hyped. No, I really am. I just don't look like it on account of burning out from 2021's general world proceedings.
But this story, my shriveled soul will devour.
Fuck it, let's go to the MOOOOOOOOOOON 😎
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To celebrate #Endwalker, we collaborated with multi-platinum superstar on a tribute to our Warriors of Light. #FFXIV
Watch on YouTube: sqex.to/g0EfT
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New print coming soon!
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Here is @waneella_ 's new piece "False Memories"!
Available this weekend in a limited edition of 30 + 3 AP.
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Tfw you're pretty much FFX Yuna energy but wishing you vibed more like FFX-2 Yuna.
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There’s a few of you out there who need to read this.
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Waking up today:
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Game Writers & NDs! Did you love Disco Elysium? Well, ZA/UM is looking for a writer for future projects. No games experience needed, but they're "looking for ambitious and highly experimental individuals." FT, willing to travel. #GameWriting #GameDevJobs
zaumstudio.com/jobs/writer
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Cluster fucks and cluster headaches have a very strong family resemblance, don't they. The steely jaw, the piercing eyes, the way their laughter fills the room. They share a heart, spontaneous by nature. A lover of surprises!
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Tired: losing your hair
Wired: regaining your scalp
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"Live the kind of life that they write novels about."
lol bro nah i'd rather find stability, security, and just chill
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I just want to be an interesting person again instead of one whose daily existence revolves around "how bad will I feel today and for how long?"
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If everyone who clapped for the NHS signs and RTs this petition to improve working conditions for staff we’d reach 100,000 signatures in no time
It will take just 30 seconds of your time and could help change the lives of 1.3 million NHS staff
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I cannot WAIT to live 10 minutes closer to a grocery store.
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"What are the dimensions of a miracle?"
They return a look, holding a realisation that came before the mystery, an answer before the question. A single hopeful moment a thousand years long.
"Three little words."
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We're looking for a Junior Editor (Part Time) for Fallen London. If you're interested, the role closes tomorrow - so don't hesitate!
You need to be based in the UK, and the rest of the details are on the blog: failbettergames.com/were-hiring-ju
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From now on if a project calls for team photos, I will forego the classic Smile In Front Of Some Shrubbery and politely request a proper gif introduction: Overdramatic Opening Credits Turn-And-Look.
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Before, I joined y'all in the Annaliese Keating Picks Up Handbag And Gets Up To Leave gif.
Now, I've finally found something that's much more my vibe. Skeletor Vanishes Into Mirror Then Punch-Shatters The Mirror So Nobody Can Follow.
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::sigh:: I wrote about Chappelle, the Hollywood Bowl doc screening, and how bored and tired whining about "cancel culture" is
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