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Kate Barrett

@thewaether.bsky.social
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"Her Generation's Greatest Wordsmith" / I'm the b!tch!! I'm bisexual and I WILL bring it up!! I make games at thewaether.itch.io www.patreon.com/amyrot ko-fi.com/thewaether main blog at: katebnormal.tumblr.com

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 22m
yesterday I was at the mall and I was taking a photo of some of the lousy AI art on the billboards around me so I could bitch about it in the group chat. I was sitting on a bench. as I did so a massive crow swooped down and grabbed my leftovers
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 27m
mind, not talking about AI is sort of like having roaches in your house and it not being the only thing you ever talk about.
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28m
I looked at my posts yesterday and every single post was about AI and it's like, sheesh I always thought I talked about more varied stuff
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 33m
I think all the conflict in danganronpa comes from monokuma forcing arbitrary rules on people in his hybrid school/legal drama/reality show and so it feels like there is literally only one character moving that plot along. and he's boring
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 34m
I think when I found I didn't like dangaronpa I was worried that I was just squeamish- but I think the fact I love Of The Devil which is also full of gruesomeness shows that it wasn't squeamishness it was just that danganronpa's plot just sorta sucks
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 39m
I know I talk about this game a lot but I think danganronpa's problem is that it's wearing way too many hats. I think it's sort of like if you tried to graft tons of genres that don't work together into one game, and unsurprisingly found that it doesn't work
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 42m
I've been really enjoying Of The Devil and I think one thing that's appealing about it right now is how it's walking a tightrope where I have no idea how dark it's going to get
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 49m
I'm "in the zone". I'm in the zone and the haters can't stand it
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 13h
envisioning a game like jak and daxter but with a ton of interconnected areas is the kitchen sink game idea I wanted to make when I was a kid, that pretty much got me started game developing
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 13h
I think seeing people add levels to this game specifically is tickling my brain because it always felt like they were missing. there is so much empty space on the horizon in this game- it would be really cool to see it filled in
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 13h
been looking at what people have been doing with the Jak & Daxter PC Port (which was done back in 2022 by decompiling GOAL, the language it was made in, so without AI)
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This Mod is a TRUE Expansion For Jak & Daxter - First of its Kind!
YouTube video by TheGamersJoint
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 14h
get with the program: "elsa finger family" is the future. in the future everyone will be watching "elsa goes to the dentist". we won't even have to make new TV shows anymore because there's so much elsa at the dentist. don't get left behind
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 18h
even though it's been around for a few years it feels like this is the year AI's consuming fucking everything. I se AI signs everywhere in town. it's all over steam. if there's a breaking point we're hurtling towards it
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 18h
I believe that tony blair, as a board member for "skydance", will produce a movie so bad it will lead to his arrest at the Hague
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 18h
also theyre not doing thier point any favours by having that really well drawn petra parker on the left vs the generic AI trace face on the right
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 18h
second time I've seen one of them use the word "yearning" specifically. the people saying it's an op might be right
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 20h
good news gamers we can finally make space corridor
FINALLY
SPACE CORRIDOR
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 20h
one thing I want vibecoders to know is that just cause your code runs doesn't mean it works
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23h
I also think the enemies are all also monochrome and makes them all blur together and gives the impression there isn't a huge bestiary in this game (there is!)
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23h
I'm pretty sure it's the game that started the trend of black/blue/red coloured games I was seeing everywhere at one point. I think it's more coherent than DMC4 by going back to the series roots of having one or two large locations
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
motivational music doesnt really do anything for you once you've started your project. fewer songs about following your dreams more songs about having the patience to finish your dreams
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
promoting these again: I made TWO browser games in the last two months and you can play em both here: thewaether.itch.io/devs-daydream thewaether.itch.io/topheavy-jus...
thewaether.itch.io
TOPHEAVY: Just Crate Drop! by TheWaether
2020's TOPHEAVY playable in browser. But it's just the chaotic "crate drop" mode. Why is it chaotic? find out
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I finally got a chance to play the tom today despite getting it like two weeks ago
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so like, how many companies are even in hollywood now? disney, universal, skydance, and that's it I think?
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dear people are always saying "I hate new technology": let's see YOU last a day without your NFTs
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh as you might've guessed this is my way of segueing into saying "torchwood was really bad" but I think I've covered that extensively already
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
doctor who will probably have one of the biggest gaps between its most adult content and its most child friendly content of any show and that includes star trek
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sex Education gets gradually worse before its final season becomes full of "woke kids these days" jokes. I blame the fact it's british
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing that saddens me about the global descent into dystopian techno-fascism is how I’ve not yet seen the emergence of a new style of martial arts known as “gun-kata”
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I laud doctor who for its inclusion of gay characters, (despite the fact they're flat and forgettable)- if even that is taken out then I am afraid I take it back and the show's worthless
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
unfortunately however I am soft-boycotting the BBC over their rampant transphobia so I haven't been watching any of this stuff and I won't watch that one either
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
doctor who probably fits an animated cartoon better than it fits a live action drama, this could be the first time doctor who is good
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think it's weird a story came out a while back that mark zuckerberg was running a school out of his house and then the story never went anywhere
wired.com
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
my dialect is somewhere between a posh english bitch who says long words and an american skater so basically like Edd from ed edd n eddy
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if I see a stupid twitter screenshot I save it in my stupid folder (1664 items)
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you don't need me to show you donald trump or elon musk. you know what they look like, I know what they look like, easily the two guys I find genuinely repulsive to look at
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
for those that don't know, I have given myself additional rules on my account that I have to follow. rule 1 is I never post or RT a picture of donald trump (rule will lift when he dies) rule 2 is the same for elon musk, rule 3 is I won't RT stupid shit from twitter "unless absolutely relevant"
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
what happened to that ship full of US soldiers who were being left to starve. and more importantly what are their testosterone levels
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
people in the UK arent saying that
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Of The Devil is really well-written. I even enjoy sitting through all the worldbuilding. it's very cool
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Jake Clover @jakeclover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
man goes bird watching
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the post is hyperbolic but I should make it clear I think of twitter as a toxic cesspit these days. I feel like a lot of people with good opinions self-censor while everyone with bad opinions dominates the place
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
discourse on twitter, tiktok: "I hope you unalive into the sun. redacted" discourse on tumblr: "prev I am on my way to your house with an ice pick"
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't know why the stereotype of tumblr is that it's full of sensitive wimps, when tumblr probably has the most hardcore PvP of any social media site Ive ever used
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm succeptable to doomerism myself but I think I'd never give up to the point I decide that the fascist idiots who can barely string a strategy together are somehow inherently stronger and better than me
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i.e oh it's just too powerful, even if we get rid of it it will always come back, okay, but now explain why that only applies to them and not you.
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I see a lot of doomer takes that come from the angle that fascism is some kind of unstoppable force of nature
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
add it continuously (as in, not when the bullet is created, but add the player's speed to the bullet every frame) it sounds silly but isn't that noticable if the bullet is only slightly slower than the player, ie it's impossible to reverse the bullet's direction
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the "Princess Leia test": what if princess leia really, really wanted to make art but she can't because C-3PO's filling up all the art channels with slop
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ultimately I continue to compare AI generated stuff to spam: low effort, often plaigarised, often selling you something, it's just back in the 90s companies understood spam was a problem, rather than something we should build the whole economy around
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