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Oct 17

⚠️➡️ new KITSCHFORK ⬅️⚠️

@lastyears_model

& i bring special guest

@HCMJmagic

@ddsnuwrld

to talk on an album that influenced him greatly (& a famous Pitchfork 10): 2002's "Source Tags & Codes" by art rockers ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead kitschfork.podbean.com/e/12-ride-the-

Nov 10

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@lastyears_model

& i talk about a DIY bedroom pop progenitor, former K records twee indie songwriter, and openly queer artist in a time when there was a lot less of that: Mirah, and her very autumnal 2002 album "Advisory Committee" kitschfork.podbean.com/e/13-twee-and-

The Emerging Artist Named Zach

same here. all i can say is, if you want to receive updates on things i've done, by far the best way is to do that is subscribe to my Patreon: patreon.com/ellaguro

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@zachhazard

I’ve been seeing a lot of bullshit about telling artists to “diversify their social media presence”, which like, do you want me to make art or not? Because just posting here and Instagram and discord already takes up a lot of my day.

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Nov 10

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@lastyears_model

music seems to welcome this massive gulf between "superstars" and "everyone else" more than any other medium as well.

i do think music is the most taken for granted and overall devalued form of media, in spite of being so central to people's lives. because again... people just expect it to always be there. they can't seem to see it through the lens of the emotional energy it actually takes.

the thing with music is everyone just expects it to be always there, but very few people seem to understand the amount of actual work it takes to make. so many people seem to think making music is this fun wacky experience and not something that is really intense and draining.

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it should tell you something that i ended up finding blogging to be a more fruitful enterprise than trying to compose for games, which is what i originally intended when i entered the space. no one reads blogs anymore!!!

i wish more people cared about this discourse. if for no other reason than so i don't have to explain to people over and over again why i gave up trying to compose for games while they give me puzzled looks

sound is almost always the most neglected/mistreated/misunderstood part of game development from my experience. everyone takes it for granted and there's little stability. composers and sound designers almost always seem to be contactors even in the most successful cases

i could go on about this. game devs often seem confused/taken aback when you want to work closer with them and get specific info about the game in order to help establish the tone of the music. the attitude is often like: "can't you just spit out a bunch of tunes?"

if this is how Mick Gordon, one of the most successful video game composers there is, is treated... you can imagine how a lot of other game composers are treated.

oh man... a lot of stuff here feels eerily familiar. this is 100% why i don't try to compose music for games outside small/friend projects. people treat composers like shit & expect you to be a magic music machine who can intuit everything they're thinking

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Mick Gordon

@Mick_Gordon

Marty Stratton, @idSoftware Studio Director, lied about @DOOM Eternal's OST events in a Reddit post that used disinformation to blame me entirely for its failure Later, he offered me a six-figure sum to never speak about it The truth is more important. link.medium.com/USjGbPeBOub

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activision blizzards ceo threatening to m**der an employee, insane crunch leading to employees being hospitalized, predatory gambling targeted to the neurodivergant & children, deceitful harassment campaigns targeted to anyone who speaks out or dares to unionize. fuck all of it

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mick gordon coming forward to shine light on all the abuse, crunch, and death threats he went through because of id softwares studio directors flat out lies is just. fuck this industry. theres no surprise that its bleeding talent.

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Wesley

@WesleyLowery

striking how disconnected the dominant political media narrative of this election cycle - a red wave driven by inflation, “defend democracy” not being a mobilizing message, and voter fear of rising crime and defund the police demogauging - seems to have been from reality

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my point is i'm not sure how much this is the GOP itself as much as mainstream celeb/pop culture moving more towards the right because class lines are becoming more clear?

my theory with this is - people are overidentifying with increasingly diverse celebs who preach hustle culture and are going in an increasingly right wing/anti "cancel culture" direction - increased scapegoating of LGBTQ people - conspiracy shit growing

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

it is wild to me that they are doing this while running the most blatantly racist campaign since idk, Wallace in 1968? but it's working jacobin.com/2022/11/gop-ri

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classic quality Ross's Game Dungeon episode here. also this is the most 1999 game in existence.

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Accursed Farms

@accursedfarms

Trickstyle! youtu.be/JMtd1GP9-as

i voted. polling place was pretty empty, as it has been the last few times i've voted. i assume cuz of all the early voting here and the fact that it's the middle of a weekday in a less high density neighborhood. but yeah. plz vote if you haven't.

Eva

@evacide

There are a lot of interesting things going on in this thread, but one thing I would like to highlight is that this is a story about how engineers refused to build a privacy-invasive product for advertisers AND IT DID NOT GET BUILT.

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Steve Krenzel

@stevekrenzel

With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.

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i guess i just think about the year 2013 a lot, and how it felt like that was the turning point for a lot of stuff. not that it can't be turned back... but we're def not on the right track at all right now.

Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game

anyway that's why i can't find stuff like this surprising anymore. a lot of these people really acted like they were gods who would be immortal. there are several who i think are really capable of any and all insanity like this -

vice.com

The man who created the Oculus rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.

when i lived in the SF Bay area in the early 2010's it definitely felt like there were a lot of (at the time still) celebrated tech figures who were about 5% away from going into full fascism and it felt like no one with any proximity to that world wanted to acknowledge it at all

sorry if you can't face it, but that's the truth. people do these kinds of things to their own children behind closed doors way more than you think you do. people's inability to face this means that we have a society constantly searching for new unrelated boogeymans to target

after coming to terms with being a CSA survivor myself in my early 20's... it just made me more aware how common it was, and how in almost all cases i heard from other people who were sexually abused it was their parent (or close relative) who did it

the point is that it's not just about trans kids. it goes way beyond that. it's about parents wanting to control their child's life, and being unwilling to face that they are by far the most likely cause of their own child's suffering.

@chican3ry@social.transsafety.network

my parents have never really even admitted to being abusive in general, let alone this kind of stuff. i think a lot of this moral panic about trans kids and "groomers" is parents unwilling to face they are by far the most common abusers of kids

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Nov 4

My hope for parents who abuse or neglect their trans children in the hope that they desist is not that they face revenge or suffering but that they come to understand the harm they've done and find the courage to tell others about it.

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a lot of those people changed their tune once the money started drying up of course. which... i know having principles doesn't seem to get you anything in this world, but at least i get to publicly shame these people for the way they got in bed with morally dubious tech figures

currently thinking about the amount of successful indie developer dudes who preached ideas of meritocracy in order to wield against anyone who was critical of the landscape while receiving support behind the scenes from various rich tech people.

my tumblr is ellaguro.tumblr.com btw

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ellaguro

i also am attempting to use cohost cohost.org/ellaguro i have a mastodon acct from years ago but apparently it's on the wrong instance or something according to other people and now my home feed doesn't even load. masto is not for me! lol

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@ellaguro on cohost

is anyone on here still using tumblr? i haven't upadated mine in forever but maybe i should start checking it again

The Emerging Artist Named Zach

same here. all i can say is, if you want to receive updates on things i've done, by far the best way is to do that is subscribe to my Patreon: patreon.com/ellaguro

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transgender marx

@JUNlPER

as much as i dislike democrats, if you haven’t yet it’s probably a good idea to vote for them tomorrow. i don’t want to see republicans winning and feeling emboldened to legislate trans genocides like they’re trying in places like florida, if you value trans lives please vote

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TrickyC

@trickyc66

Oct 29

That's why conservative social media sites always suck, are always an absolute joke; without the ppl making genuinely fun & sexy culture, all they have are MLMs, gold & survivalism scams, and an endless sea of catfish bots. They've always wanted YOU, just, without the YOU part.

TrickyC

@trickyc66

Oct 29

The reason why conservative dipwads won't be happy if all the "blue hair gender hippies" leave twitter, is becos their whole ideology needs someone 2 confront & abuse. They don't want a placid society. They want ppl to offend by "not being PC" & harass ppl they wanna fck in DMs

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this is really sad to hear =(. Vangers is an absolutely one of a kind game

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Tegiminis

@tegiminis

Nov 6

the head developer for vangers and perimeter has died in an accident in kaliningrad. he was a legendary figure in russian gamedev circles, and both of his games are masterpieces. a real tragedy dtf-ru.translate.goog/life/1430918-p

anyway this is why it's important for us to do all we can to make the Elon Musks of the world who have failed upward towards the stratosphere be a miserable living hell

if it's consistently the worst people who seem to have success and be celebrated in this world vs. those with actual principles, more and more people out there will emulate them in order to do what they feel they need to to survive