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eric stirpē

@stirpicus.bsky.social

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Writer. Mostly video games. Currently working on the Max Payne 1+2 Remakes at Remedy Entertainment. Formerly Telltale, Fortnite, MultiVersus, Netflix, others. Just a kid from Rhode Island on a strange adventure in Finland. He/Him.

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  1. Due to a scheduling mixup I ended up needing to deploy an emergency McDonald’s Happy Meal dinner for the kiddo tonight.

    But if that hadn’t happened I would’ve never learned that this delightfully unhinged collaboration exists.

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  2. I have had a day dealing with cats and massive vet bills and the idea of getting involved in a double-dipped discourse stream sounds as appealing as having a catheter inserted sans anesthesia.

    Which coincidentally is one of the procedures I paid to have done to my cat today!

    Good night everyone!

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  3. fascinatingly, I’ve seen a lot of people assume I was posting it about either AI “art” or the question of “are games art” and are trying to debate with me accordingly as though I were Mr. Vonnegut.

    I say “fascinatingly” but what I really mean is “soul-exhaustingly.”

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  4. Had to mute notifications on that Kurt Vonnegut post. It’s broken containment and is now circulating wide enough to be stressful.

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  5. Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

    People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
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