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		<title>"Shutter the windows against the sea..."</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy August, everyone! A juicy BOOK OF HOURS update for you today, as we hit an internal prototype, updated our Steam page, launched a coming soon page on GOG, and have a bunch of new lore and design to share. Wishlist the game if you haven’t already and receive the blessings of the Sun-in-Splendour, from […]]]></description>
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		<title>No Bad Apples</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 08:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[“At Failbetter, there are no bad apples.” Narrative Director Chris Gardiner said these words to me over a plate of sushi in 2017. It was our one and only lunch together – Failbetter’s content team didn’t particularly get on with Failbetter’s production department, for reasons anyone who’s ever worked in games can imagine. But Chris, […]]]></description>
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		<title>WAS: 'Failgate'</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a post with more details about our dispute with Failbetter – the company I founded, that I later left on very good terms, and that I eventually got into a nasty beef with. But the beef was resolved amicably in 2023; and besides, now that I reread the original post, I’m embarrassed by […]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Unterzee eats ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA["I think one of the most important things that stories do is prepare us for our death... I think that goes double for games. I think that death and the sea are hungry, but that doesn’t mean we have to wait for them to come to us."]]></description>
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		<title>'The Rarer Action'</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[An update on the controversies of 2019. [UPDATE:Failbetter still haven't denied or contested any of this.
 They did admit over email there was a 'procedural issue' ('criminal negligence', tomato tomahto). We began negotiations but when Lottie (once again) raised the issue of them harassing her they (once again) stopped responding and (once again) started going after us on social media. More details below.]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with depression that isn't yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[For Mental Health Awareness Week, and for the millions of people living together with the Black Dog.]]></description>
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		<title>#Stopcyberbullyingday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been dealing with personal and professional attacks via the internet for the better part of the last year. In that time, I’ve seen at least three people take their lives because of bullying on social media. Here’s what happened to me.]]></description>
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		<title>What Actually Happened</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[[ In the years since I wrote this, a lot more has happened. Read about that here. ] The story so far: My name’s Alexis Kennedy. With my fiancée, Lottie Bevan, I run a very small game development studio out of our London flat. I used to own and run another studio, Failbetter Games, which […]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Sport: Cancel Culture from the Other Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 01:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Update 16/01/2020: I stand by everything I’ve said below, but for a summary of cancel culture that’s 8000000 times better than anything I could produce, take a look at ContraPoint’s ‘Canceling’ video. These last few weeks have been intense. It’s been a wake-up call for me, and a confirmation that some popular forms of feminism […]]]></description>
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		<title>I don't hate social media...</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a trope that comedians are all miserable people and that their sadness contributes to the success of their jokes and how relatable they are. In a way, pretentious as this sounds, the same can be said for marketers, especially those that work with social media. I often joke that I hate social media, but […]]]></description>
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		<title>A month full of pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re reading this in June 2019, it’s Pride month which means everything gets a lot more colourful. So happy pride to all our LGBTQ+ cultists and any newcomers to the Weather Factory universe. In our last sprint update, which you should have read as Lottie put a lot of effort into making it shiny […]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultist Capping: The True Power of a Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 10:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[We like to have fun at Weather Factory, but cults are serious business. While knowing your eldritch monstrosities from your treacherous tomes is all well and good, you won’t get far without a special element. Beguiling willing acolytes takes more than charm and instilling fear. You see it’s all in the headgear. How can you […]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen Meadhbh: She wants your cows!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 07:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous episode of Claire Shouts about Irish Badass Saints and Heroes, I mentioned Queen Maeve. She was a very formidable woman in Irish history and lore. CDProjektRed have released a store and featured some merch just for Queen Meve. Now you might have noticed that this particular character has not had her name […]]]></description>
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		<title>The OG Hound: Cú Chulainn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Do what the nice lady says and we can tell you about those projects Last time I wrote about the badassery of Saint Bríd and this time I’m going to push the Irish history agenda more, but it’s prompted by an unlikely source. I was scrolling through twitter trying to find the dankest of memes […]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Introductions: The Sassy Legend of St. Brigid's Cloak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh hi there folks, I’m interrupting your usual blog broadcast from Lottie and Alexis to introduce myself. I’m Claire and I support the Marketing and PR for Weather Factory and have been slowly using techniques I learned off the telly, to convince Sulo and Chi to run away with me. So I thought I might […]]]></description>
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		<title>August #1: Porphyria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Friday, beloveds! Here’s what we’ve been up to, this fine August sprint. Firstly, we went on holiday to Wales. It was totally rad and Alexis practically melted on the drive down into a soft, gooey glow of remembered happiness. Yay! And then of course we came back and did work. Most of Alexis’s week […]]]></description>
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		<title>Groovy Droogs Consortium, a.k.a. March #2 FORSTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[We are OFFICIALLY BACK FROM GDC! Alexis and I are a little zonked, so thank you for your patience while we ducked out from talking to you for a while and talked to a bunch of press and developers instead. Highlights from GDC include: Alexis took what we must presume to be the World’s Worst […]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unacknowledged Debt: Le Guin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Le Guin died, and I joined the crowd of people tweeting about it, with probably my favourite single quote of hers, but it’s hard to pick a favourite from her work, isn’t it? because she said so many resonant, authoritative things, in and out of fiction. I read A Wizard of Earthsea when I was […]]]></description>
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