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Procrastinating on the future, senior reporter for The Verge.

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    18 hours ago

    I built a text-based reboot of the classic cyberpunk game Deus Ex, based on modern internet conspiracy theories. It’s called DEUS EX: DARK PATTERNS:

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  2. 17 hours ago

    Oh the game also has a secret ending, by the way. I can’t tell if everyone will find it or nobody will, but it’s probably going to be one of those two.

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  3. 18 hours ago

    Special thanks to for giving me time to work on this during our hack week last month, while everyone else was making legit useful things like the “This Week In Elon Musk” newsletter.

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Extra features: Technically functional on mobile browsers! Sort of maybe 30-45 minute playtime! But you can speedrun it in 15! Possibly lots of bugs? Who knows!

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  5. 18 hours ago

    DUCTS. Enter the complex, duct-riddled world of a classic immersive sim — without that pesky third dimension!

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  6. 18 hours ago

    CUTE DRONES. Befriend modernized drones based on sort-of-real-life animals. Featuring 35% fewer electricity-shooting spider monsters than the average sci-fi RPG!

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  7. 18 hours ago

    CONSPIRATORIAL THINKING. Who really runs the platform superpowers? What's inside an abandoned underwater arcology in Brooklyn? Who is Q? These and other questions may or may not be answered!

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  8. 18 hours ago

    NEXT-GEN TWINE 2 GAME MECHANICS. Did you think you were safe from quicktime events in Twine? Think again!

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  9. 18 hours ago

    PLAY IT YOUR WAY. Solve problems with six unique tools and augmentations, like: sci-fi lockpicks! sci-fi guns! and hypnotic holographic kitten decoys!

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  10. 18 hours ago

    The year is 2052. Platform superpowers have united the internet, rogue social media networks deal in hypnotic user interfaces, and a mysterious virus ravages the net. As cyborg content moderator JC Denton, enter a world of conspiracy... and ducts. FEATURES:

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  11. Sep 14

    That last one turns into a full-on dissertation on visual novels and interactive fiction, including references to Emily Short’s IF theory work. I am unironically really happy to see someone put this much effort into analyzing a sex game about working at a lingerie store.

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  12. Sep 14

    the reviews for steam’s “first uncensored sex game” are really pure gold

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  13. Sep 14

    send help, i got sucked through a wormhole into 2012

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  14. Sep 14

    The president just claimed that his political opponents fabricated thousands of deaths to make him look bad. I’m not sure a super-realistic fake video of some politician is going to damage public discourse more than that.

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  15. Sep 14

    If you’re a government agency trying to figure out whether Obama actually flipped off Trump or something, you’ve got the resources to check context. If you’re a really serious information-monger, you’ve had the resources to make deepfakes-style videos (or photoshops!) for a bit.

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  16. Sep 14

    People are beating strangers to death because they got a Whatsapp forward with a staged video of a child being kidnapped in a totally unrelated location. When your bar for believing something is buried several feet beneath ground, why even put the effort into deepfakes?

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  17. Sep 14

    I get the argument that deepfakes proliferation could be dangerous, but on a gut level I don’t see how anyone thinks the average person has such rigorous fact-checking principles that all these bad things haven’t already happened.

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 14

    And yes, NYS is all about voter suppression. But I have a hard time believing that people were selectively purged from the rolls to prevent them voting for Nixon, and a much, much easier time believing our system is poorly maintained and randomly purges people.

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  19. Sep 13

    oh good someone in the office brought back the horror cat

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  20. Sep 13

    To add to this anecdata, I am currently not listed in the NY voter registration database. I was in the database two days ago, confirmed my registration at the DMV two months ago, and voted in the midterms earlier this year.

    Guess who wasn’t on the rolls this morning at the polling place I’ve voted for four years?
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