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Gregory Avery-Weir

@gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social

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I make games and write. I don't care for kyriarchy. I'm part of @futureproofgames.bsky.social.

Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In the latest Before the Future Came, we talk about two episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series. I bring up an old Discordian parable about how paternalism is insufficient to produce a moral culture. Later, we applaud and lament James Doohan's voice work. beforethefuture.space/podcast/s01e...

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

When you decide the placeholder copy was good enough (and are correct):

The header for Steam's page for the Steam TPS Fest. At the bottom is the text "It's a fest full of games in the third person. And those persons are shooters."

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Reading a foundational (and problematic) Discordian text, Camden Benares's Zen Without Zen Masters. This passage felt pretty useful to me today. Your identity is independent of others' opinions.

ZEN SENSE
Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense and meaningless in another sense. A working knowledge of this concept is a useful tool for staying relaxed. For example, if someone says something about you that is untrue, you should not get upset regardless of whether you consider the statement positive or negative. It is true in the sense that it is what one person believes to be true about you; it is that individual’s truth. It is false in the sense that it does not represent your truth. It is meaningless in the sense that it does not change who and what you are; your identity is independent of others’ opinions.

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Very Important People from Dropout is one of my favorite TV shows right now. It's a silly ha-ha costumed improv interview show featuring the peerless @vicmmic.bsky.social as the crushingly tragic host, their awkward narcissism trapping them in their lonely and loveless existence.

Vic, a nonbinary person with long brown hair wearing a tan suit over a flowery blouse, stares directly into the camera with a rictus of grief and agony unsuccessfully masked by an attempt at a winning smile.

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Consider this your personal Kobayashi Maru. Before the Future Came takes a look at 2000's Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. Some of us were nostalgic. Some of us threw up. And Lucy wrote an ode to Jefferies tubes. beforethefuture.space/podcast/s01e... How does utopia look in a video game?

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Gregory Avery-Weir @gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In our latest episode of Before the Future Came, we compare the femme outfits from Enterprise's mirror universe episode to the ones from The Original Series, which are somehow less sexist, in part because the dudes also show skin. beforethefuture.space/podcast/s01e... #StarTrek

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