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7 Dec 2022
Five months ago I started ALL CAPS. This morning, we had our first major project featured in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/12/07/nyreg…
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A great lesson in the importance of being a good person instead of accepting the genuine insanity of unchecked capitalism.
This is essentially how I left EA. When we finished development on the first Alice game, I went traveling. While on vacation in India I got the news that EA had laid off my creative partner, RJ Berg. And that they'd pulled the console development contract from Alice developer, Rogue Entertainment (which killed the studio).
I was asked to come back so that I could begin my next phase of existence at EA - being put into some sort of VP training program. Onward and upward!
It was "We're firing all your buddies and promoting you."
So I quit. Left San Francisco entirely. Just said, "I'm done."
Many (MANY) of my friends at EA at that time called me to tell me I was "insane" "crazy" and demand I explain wtf I was doing. For a lot of them, explaining that I felt moving up the ladder on the backs of my fired friends was unacceptable, just made no sense. "That's how the game works." "Stick around and you'll be rewarded."
Well, the reward is that I am sitting here 25 years later not feeling like a jerk for taking the wrong path.
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May 28
While we're here, let's talk about how insane and backwards it is that the woman who was pulled over has her full name in this headline but the officer in the wrong isn't named. Just "the officer." Okay!
Kathleen Thomas was issued a citation in February after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy pulled her over for allegedly using a phone with her right hand. But Thomas doesn't have a right hand. This week, the officer requested that the citation be dismissed.
Here's bodycam footage of the traffic stop.
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I've been incredibly impressed by how fucking stupid nearly every response is to A WOMAN WITH NO RIGHT HAND being cited for USING A PHONE WITH HER RIGHT HAND.
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May 29
The stunning realization that I quit my career and started a company to be independent and rely on myself.
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May 28
This woman is amazingly polite with a man who is clearly in the wrong but absolutely refuses to admit fault. Can't imagine a more emblematic representation of dealing with the police.
Kathleen Thomas was issued a citation in February after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy pulled her over for allegedly using a phone with her right hand. But Thomas doesn't have a right hand. This week, the officer requested that the citation be dismissed.
Here's bodycam footage of the traffic stop.
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Hitting a Verge paywall on a press release rewrite blog post about a Star Fox remake with a wildly misleading headline about a "new Star Fox." You genuinely can't make this shit up.
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What's the term for people whose entire personality was shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, and now they spend all their time nervously watching for the next pandemic/getting upset that other people aren't constantly nervous?
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Apr 23
I was in the Stumptown in the West Village this morning waiting in line when I overheard three young women sitting around laptops trying to figure out how to embed a Substack and it made me so deeply sad that words cannot express.
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Apr 23
I will be getting PR emails from video game industry PR firms for the rest of my life, huh?
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Apr 22
Missed 4/20 by two days ya dummies
SCOOP: The Trump administration is expected to reclassify marijuana as soon as today axios.com/2026/04/22/trump-m…
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Apr 14
Absolutely wild that anyone chooses to be a PR person for a living.
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Feb 17
When did the Fad Food Era begin in New York City?
Certainly before I moved here in 2010, but this constant churn of fad pop ups hasn't been the standard forever. Maybe early 2000s?
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Feb 17
The first major Fad Food cycle I can remember was sparked by Magnolia cupcakes and it spawned the subsequent cupcake fad.
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Tuned in to the halftime show for just long enough to be confused by Lady Gaga.
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What a fucking loser 😂😂😂😂
Feb 8
Not familiar with Bad Bunny so don’t know if his music is good or bad. I’m just going to watch what I know Lee Brice, Kid Rock All-American Halftime Show.
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Truly embarrassing and insanely frustrating seeing recently fired journalists discussing Substack as a lifeboat. Presumably one of the podcasts you shouldn't have started has a promo code for Squarespace, where you can start your own fucking website very affordably?
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"Then how do I make money?"
Start by *controlling your own creative output*. Consider business models that could work for your situation. At a MINIMUM you've now got a home for your work that isn't dependent on some large corporation continuing to exist.
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If you have the infinite luxury of having enough money to live for a month without being put on the street, TAKE THE TIME to breathe, think, and brainstorm. Talk to colleagues who built their own ventures.
YOU CAN DO IT. You want to build a newsroom? BUILD ONE.
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