Harrison Lemke
@hplemke
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knyght full of thought and slepy • musician (harrison lemke, brother android, dragon warrior) • game dev @bootsquestdx
Austin, TX
Joined February 2013
here's my new game, a small pseudo-RPG about what it's like to be a monster. you can play it for free in your web browser! please check it out and share, it would mean a lot to me
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apple car (1994) vs apple car (2022). this is not progress.
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is launching objects into space some sort of intrinsic good.
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actually a little bit sick of video games trying to subvert themselves. like, "why did you shoot those guys, hmm??" idk maybe bc that's literally the only vocabulary you gave me to interact with the world you created.
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something that's been on my heart a while: judging art primarily on the grounds of its social/ideological function is media illiteracy for smart people. if you can't begin by surrendering to an aesthetic experience, you have no business writing criticism.
The new Christopher Nolan film tackles afresh “what made Oppenheimer tick.” But if you’re already convinced of the dangers of nuclear war, superseded only by the ongoing series of climate catastrophes, this film is going to lack a certain urgency.
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the best genre of budget lego set is "small structure in which a ghost"
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there's an epidemic of teen boats taking the "ever given challenge". here's what you should know.
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the thing that kills me about those misleading mobile game ads with fake gameplay is that the fake gameplay looks both fun and easy to make so like. why don't they just make it? why isn't that the game??.
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something that bores me about a lot of current art - music, movies, whatever - is how steeped it is in an explicit awareness of psychological concepts. that's the exact stuff you're supposed to be sublimating into a landscape of mercurial and unsettling symbolism.
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chatgpt writes in the exact voice of a bright college freshman who didn't do the reading and that tells you a lot about the people who are impressed with it.
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some days, u r left skeleton, forgot ur blanket at home… some days, u r middle skeleton, doing cool vuvuzela solos w ur friends… some days, u r right skeleton, got a job to do, bills to pay
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ok but this is actually a hauntingly beautiful piece of writing.
yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead
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to clarify, i don't mean the ideology of art doesn't matter. i do mean that a critic must be literate in and concerned with the aesthetic language of a medium, or they are no critic at all. films are not essays. novels are not essays. some people only know how to read essays.
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as a very young child i remember thinking that amelia bedelia was a bothersome and exasperating person who should be placed in custody.
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this Breath of the Wild 2 viral marketing campaign is wild.
A meteor recently fell into the most active volcano in Indonesia, Mount Merapi . Photographed by Gunarto Song
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the distinguishing feature between a pig and a hog is whether or not the animal in question is causing a ruckus.
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i forgot that saying something implicitly critical of the melon man is a one-way ticket to the world's most annoying replies.
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you: bill of rights.me, an intellectual: william of responsibilities.
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messed up that everyone stopped writing books about anthropomorphic rodents who have a little society parallel to the human world, make buildings out of repurposed litter, etc.
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tfw the potter says to the clay, "why have i made you thus?" and the clay is like "how the hell should i know".
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today i'd like to talk to you about another genre of budget lego set: "small structure in which a skeleton"
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everybody's writing unpopular opinion threads, but nobody's reading the LORD's unpopular opinion thread: "the book of proverbs".
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the most evangelical pastor move ever is to do a book about marriage, coauthored with your Wife, whose name is in noticeably smaller print.
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actually, Jesus saw every atrocity the human race would ever commit, including this lousy tweet, and he bled and died for us anyway
Jesus regrets dying for any of you.
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"game designer as abusive parent" might be putting too fine a point on it.
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maybe the real crying baby at mass. , is the guy who can’t tolerate crying babies at mass.
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broth is weird. just some water that a chicken was in for a long time. and we love it.
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the real scandal of understaffed churches is that there's no priest waiting in a pew to give advice to random tv characters who wander in.
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stealing food out of legitimate need is not a sin in the eyes of God and it shouldn’t be a crime.
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i refuse to eat this “hellman’s mayonnaise”. no one should be making a deal with the devil just to sell more mayonnaise. i don’t support it.
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oh, so when GOD refuses to change it's "a corollary of his pure actuality" and "one of the divine attributes", but when I refuse to change it's "lazy" and "complacent".
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@catholic_comedy Coffee is innocent. Pianos are to blame for the fall of the West. Dissonance is purposely built into the piano, poisoning the minds of all who hear it. The piano led to 'ragtime' and jazz, the total rejection of structure and harmony.
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jeff, there's only one way to fund your quest for eternal life: go, and sell all you have, and give it to the poor
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not gonna lie this actually rules.
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it's so funny to me that the human race is a rich tapestry, people come in all kinds etc. but also every single person who's been to college has a mild recurring nightmare about signing up for a class that they never remember to go to.
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can’t believe they called a dog “chocolate lab”. can’t believe they named them after the one treat they can’t have.
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a history of catholic architecture in 20th c. america.1940 - nice church.1975 - big pizza hut.1982 - ymca spaceship.2006 - nice church
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nintendo please make kirby, sonic, and luigi invincible to simon’s “holy water” attack as they are catholics in good standing.
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apropos of nothing, here is a Chinese image of the Annunciation
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to whom it may concern: please excuse my son Joseph R Biden from running for president today. he is sick.
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twitter catholics: prosperity gospel is fake, rain falls on the just and unjust etc. also twitter catholics: the world cup is the battlefield whereon God judges the apostate nations.
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one of the low-key weirdest things a person can do is become a notary public.
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i like how abba's "waterloo" carefully explains what exactly happened at waterloo in the first verse so that its tormented metaphor will not risk being lost on any listener.
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choosing to believe that in this image, gumby and friends have become trapped in the world of Myst.
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7 deadly sins: online edition. sloth - not knowing when to log off.pride - caring about the ratio.lust - h*rny on main.envy - replyguying.wrath - beefing via quote tweet.avarice - linking to ur soundcloud.gluttony - threading.
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joyce, i don't consider myself an expert but i do think there may be an entire world religion devoted to examining this.
has anyone examined the phenomenon of the "divine" born as "human"--the Only Begotten Son of God born to a mortal woman Mary? art idealizes the miracle but did even the realists render the Infant Jesus as human? (an infant needing a diaper, for instance; Mary as an actual mother).
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also idk why i said "on my heart" that was real corny sorry.
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this is one of the most overreaching and destructive state laws ever passed. simultaneously tyrannical and an abdication of the very idea of governance.
BREAKING: The Texas House has approved a bill outlawing virtually all city and county worker protections. Under the bill, any local measures that go beyond state law—i.e., sick benefits, wage protections, even water breaks for construction workers—will be overturned and barred.
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muting this now because i want to have a good day but my goodness, this is not a defense of fascist propaganda nor of turning off your brain. but art is an experience for the whole person and you can't analyze an experience you refuse to have.
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BOOTS QUEST DX, an adventure game about finding the best boots in the world, is out right now! please check it out! please RT!
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@GameGardiner yeah i agree. i'm not against games eschewing violence or encouraging critical thought about it, in fact i think that's good and necessary, but sometimes it's done in a really lazy or manipulative way (criticizing you for choices you were forced to make etc).
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"britney spears becomes marxist" is not a plot twist i was expecting in 2020 but it's nevertheless welcome.
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DUNE is truly a film for our times, an epic about supply chain issues and remembering to drink water.
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there used to be a chance that an actor was a real person with an interesting background (mafia, the circus, etc). today they all get their start as members of the glee club at an esteemed private school for lordly boys.
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i need some people to calmly ask themselves if it's *really* so strange that most or all religions have festivals around the turning of seasons.
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a mcdonalds burger is like a work of art primarily in the sense that the people who make it do not receive a living wage
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little-known fact: there's an angel whose special job is to translate all prayers into latin so that God can understand them.
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what does spinach have to say to me that it can’t say to my face
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what do you call a lego piece that only appears in a single set?. a hapax legomenon.
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the phrase "it'll set you back a few bones" reflects the primitive belief that the goal of life is to acquire as large and complicated a skeleton as possible.
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indiana jones is just a fable about the joys of having tenure.
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you ever think about how Jesus must’ve had a perfect understanding of math and science, but it clearly wasn’t very important to him.
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thinking about how the anglican church owes its existence to one man's refusal to accept that he was a girldad.
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watching the x-files is weird now because it presents crackpot stuff like alien-human supersoldiers on the same footing as objectively verified ideas like "the US experiments on its own citizens" and "a primitive species of ape-man dwells in the New Jersey woods".
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by contrast, there's a heartwarming spirit of greeting, perhaps even entreaty, in this arrangement. the ghost flings open its doors to welcome the traveler, who, sword sheathed, waves his banner that he might be recognized
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fun fact: all baseball teams sleep in their uniforms, side by side in one giant bed.
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top 3 institutions that seem mormon but aren't:.1. chik-fil-a.2. pentatonix.3. the american federal government.
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feeling grateful for all the weirdos, oddities, nutcases, and misfits i have the pleasure to commune with daily through this unsatisfactory website.
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at the part of White Christmas where Rosemary Clooney enters her Reputation Era
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i'm sure it's just a coincidence that half the products included here are like "doctor relaxerson's snake oil spritz for the dangerously overworked".
Yesterday I realized why people in Europe don't wanna work hard. There's nothing nice to buy, just basic shit. Just walking in shops in America and there's so much stuff to buy all beautifully designed products in any niche. Like you really wanna make more money to buy all this
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today's a good day to remember one of the all-time great tweets from a now-suspended account
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just want to feel normal. if you're feeling generous please send up a prayer to this end.
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really digging the ghost-in-a-tree vibe of this lego set. just a ghost, in a tree. why would you ask for more
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folks. we gotta smuggle in the biggest ever statue of the blessed virgin mary to step on the “snaketivity”.
In the Illinois Capitol rotunda this month, several traditions are on display: a Christmas nativity scene, a menorah for Hanukkah — and a "Snaketivity" statue from The Satanic Temple.
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not doing too well mentally and emotionally. please pray for me if you have the inclination.
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once again it's time we all admitted that auld lang syne is one of the most beautiful little songs we've got.
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now THIS is a laptop. i bet it weighed 25 pounds and had 40 minutes max battery life. i bet it killed someone.
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"oh hey nancy i got u. a crime for christmas" says frank, forgetting that nancy totally hates crimes
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it’s cool how you can ask for prayers on here and know that some guy called like “chungus respecter” or something is out there beseeching the almighty for you.
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it sucks that you can't see who liked a tweet anymore for a bunch of reasons, but chief among them is i can no longer pointedly like one side of an argument instead of chiming in.
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