Alina B

Born to make props for Alien, asked to design a fountain.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

I used them to filter out all the polyester crap, being 99% of all the products in store. Now I have to spend hours to find an all-natural t-shirt. Thanks!

Have you noticed that with enshittification of clothes many online fashion stores removed "fabric type" filters from their websites. I'm talking about Zara, H&M, Asos. Those filters existed not so long ago.

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Will there be a games showcase this time?

Issuing a seasonal reminder about how important the themes are in your stories. Never gets old.

"Hello LA, you're up way past your bed time, aren't you?"

YES HAHA YES

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Not to mention that the publisher who owned *that* publisher is now filing for insolvency. What a day to be alive!

Folk Horror Title The Fading Of Nicole Wilson Pulled From Steam Due To A Legal Dispute The publisher is hoping for a quick return

I can only share this piece of info I found since it's public knowledge. But I have no idea what any of it means.
www.well-played.com.au/folk-horror-...

Thinking about how much human potential gets wasted with projects being canceled causes me eternal grief.

Like what the actual fuck

Today I learned that the game I spent 1 year writing as a Narrative Director was pulled from Steam by the publisher and might never come out for reasons I don't know.

I departed from the team a year ago after completing my work, and now they can't tell me bc NDA.

My legs are jelly

I'd really like to see Steam make changes to their 30% platform fee. I understand they have no incentive to do so, but even a small change to say, the first $100k of gross revenue would make a massive difference to indie developers.

Maybe leave links to the app?

I shit you not, it worked

My favorite cheap trick is using "loud" words to make sure the reader is paying attention - like SNAP!

This is from The Boys pilot:

And here's LOST (1x12) for you.

I remember seeing their script for cold open of S2, and it literally said something like "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Season 2" -- IN THE SCRIPT! 😄

So yeah, scripts don't have to be boring.

One of the big revelations of 2025 was that a script/story doc can - and should - not only be interesting for the target audience, but also engage the team who uses them (in both TV & games); opposed to being just... technical.

For example, look how Better Call Saul is leading reader's attention:

aaand this goes straight to our lore!

WORKING ON A GAME PITCH?
I help teams prep & rehearse their pitches.
I pitched the The X-Files game to FOX as my 1st project - and got it signed 10 years ago.

I also worked on the receiving end as a Head of Game Publishing reading through 300+ pitches every month.

DM me or >> www.alina.dev

This bullshittery with the doctors got so bad I chose ChatGPT to diagnose me based on all the symptoms - and it turned out to be correct. Twice.

(typical disclaimer that I wouldn't advise self-diagnosing to anyone but it literally saved my life last time)

I've been told the same thing for over 10 years by different doctors, on different occasions. And 99% of the time it was something else - like a real disease they didn't put effort into diagnosing. Stress was just a backdrop for lower immunity.

at least they'll know it wasn't chatgpt

Tough time to be a writer. Every time I try to invent an unimaginable crime for my in-game billionaires and CEOs - turns out they did it already.

This looks sick! Never heard about it

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Can't even use satire anymore, because satire suggests some level of exaggeration.

Tough time to be a writer. Every time I try to invent an unimaginable crime for my in-game billionaires and CEOs - turns out they did it already.

I really like the contrast between different levels of detail (body vs face)!