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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom

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Writer: Zephon, Endless Space 2 (bryant.francis@outlook.com) Senior Editor: Game Developer (bryant.francis@informa.com) Otherwise: There’s a better world out there. Still looking for it.


Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Just going back and watching this over and over again (Though I do love the coven)

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Don’t precisely know where your words are in Spider-Man but I really loved Miles Morales. (Oh and your ROTJ short story was super fun too).

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Liz England's avatar Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social
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Hey gamedevs! GDC has opened up their call for submissions for core concepts (summits are later). I'm on the advisory board for design so really want to encourage people to submit. Give us some cool talk proposals!

gdconf.com/call-for-sub...

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I’m discovering I might be an outlier here

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone's avatar 🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone @josie.zone
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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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If only there was another template for Star Wars to efficiently revisit a memory from different points of view oh wait

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Carli Velocci (👽)'s avatar Carli Velocci (👽) @carlivelocci.com
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Who wants my pitch "we're on the verge of an extinction event and you can track it with umbilical cords showing up in the fossil record" (this is a joke for two people)

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Yeah that’s the data they’re training on

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Yah! He and Wardle upended an entire submarket (for the better!)

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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(Adding to Ian’s point) newspaper puzzle games also appeal to a different audience and tap into designer skillsets Steam doesn’t always reward.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Hey friends, headed to my first-ever Gamescom in August! Hit me up if you want to say hi, show off a game, dish some hot goss, yadda yadda yadda.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Bad year for the far right 👀👀👀

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Encephalophagy's avatar Encephalophagy @encephalophagy.bsky.social
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Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

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Fruit Freak's avatar Fruit Freak @fruitfreak.bsky.social
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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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just like me 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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“Fspaltd rod trps” might be my favorite one.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Everyone who thinks they know the angle or speech that would work (including me!!!) needs to ask if they are thinking of a useful political strategy or just what would make for a good movie.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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MAGA land ready to immediately pivot to Bokku the Hutt

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Wherever we land on the Biden business “Biden, Harris to have lunch” being breaking news is very funny.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I think Leslye Headland gets it. The complaint "Star Wars directors have been too big fans of Star Wars" is valid but The Acolyte's creative team seems to be striking a solid balance. Still a flawed show but I'm leaning towards it being "good, with great moments" if it makes even a modest landing.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I wrote this just last week and I glanced at Twitter to see a well-backed creator posting race-baiting thumbnails. Not great!

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I knew I was forgetting something!

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Not often I say "stab me please" but hey "stab me please."

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I cracked open that book recently as part of a bit and started reading aloud, paused, and went “wait this prose holds up.”

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Anyone suggested “Miriam?” Keeps the spirit of the name but makes it less jokey joke.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Musing that moves like this may reeeeally show the limited range of AI art/fiction. In theory the fans of a finished series with no inherent skill would want easy extensions of it right? Turns out, very wrong…

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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@jbouie.bsky.social a lot going on right now but I tuned into Unclear and Present Danger for the first time and the First Contact episode was so good. Helped me grok “Hegelian dialectical” a little more than I did before.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Good news—the Redwall fans are revolting against AI.

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Justin Carter's avatar Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social
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Disney you gotta let your streaming shows be 10-12 episodes and at least 40 minutes, we can’t keep doing this. Let television *be* television

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Trying to lean very hard on “I am a silly games writer who does not know what to do or what will happen” to keep the anxiety down but also I have been obsessed with politics since my dad smiled at me and implied being a liberal was foolish because this is an “inherently conservative country.”

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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I’m slowly becoming Kamala-pilled (but that transition has to be *tightly* managed if it happens). I will crawl through broken glass to vote against Trump at every opportunity. One way or another it’s time for the comeback story of the century.

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Wherever the Biden campaign goes after this week I hope it gets a splash of cold water that some kind of drastic change is needed to meet this moment.

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Carli Velocci (👽)'s avatar Carli Velocci (👽) @carlivelocci.com
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I think people seriously underestimate how most people don't really care about the news and just vote based on something like "yeah he seems cool" or "people aren't going to vote for Bernie he's a socialist"

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Michael Hobbes's avatar Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I don't actually think the DNC is all that responsible for Clinton or Biden being the nominee. Primary voters genuinely thought they were the strongest candidate to beat Trump!

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Which, hey, it’d be really funny if he *didn’t* get it…and he had to spend the rest of his life feeling like he was so close to it but missed…

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Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom's avatar Bryant Francis ✈ Gamescom @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social
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Trump’s spent his entire life chasing total immunity—sometimes out of fear but mostly entitlement. Yesterday’s ruling validates his most basic instinct: he is entitled to whatever he wants.

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vortex egg, MLIS's avatar vortex egg, MLIS @vortexegg.regretfully.online
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Americans across the political spectrum are all deeply mired in “apocalypse realism”, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the world not ending. This widespread imaginary just happens to motivate the people who want the world to end while depressing everyone else.

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