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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content Warnings: mental health, disability, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective / psychotic symptoms, suicidality, hearing voices, dissociative disorders, electroconvulsive therapy, partial psychiatric intake programs, COVID, PTSD / CPTSD, loss of resources, loss of function, grief I try to consider the ways my life could have gone differently sometimes, but there is one way that things did go &#8230; <a href="https://briebeau.com/thoughty/2024/02/one-track-frenemies/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "One Track Mind and Frenemies"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is bleak, to a degree, and will discuss: the COVID-19 pandemic, mental &#038; physical illness &#038; disability, politics, nihilism, financial details and sales, and community-related trauma (perpetrators of harm, business ethics). However, I want to be transparent about my motivations for leaving the capitalistic, financially relevant industry of games and my step back from the community around it.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Moving On, Still Here</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau Jágr Sheldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 04:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My world has changed a lot over the pandemic, and starting next year I&#8217;ll be changing my work &#38; this site to be a combined approach under the Thoughty brand, but in more of a hobbyist mode with more emphasis on my personal art. The archives of Thoughty will remain, and I hope to still &#8230; <a href="https://briebeau.com/thoughty/2021/11/moving-on-still-here/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Moving On, Still Here"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Complicated Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 04:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["I have often felt like I'm screaming into nothingness when I have tried to talk about the constant abuses in the community, the toxic business practices, the cultural flaws. Worst of all has been when I know someone has done harm, but I'm not the one who can give light to it."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A New Masculinity: The Men of Wolfenstein: The New Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about so many things in the realm of Wolfenstein and how it portrays masculine characters, but I want to talk first about the characters themselves. We’ve addressed how Wolfenstein: The New Order talks about masculinity through the main character William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, and how it functions in genre. Now I want to address some of the other characters that are in the game and how they are presented (I may not address all your faves, sorry).]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau Jágr Sheldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: alcohol abuse, binge drinking, discussion of risk of violation of consent and assault, underage drinking, social pressure, childhood trauma, anxiety, PTSD, coping, domestic abuse, suicide mention, self harm mention

I have been drinking since I was twelve years old. Alcohol, that is - water and I go way back. I grew up in a drinking heavy culture with easy access to alcohol and the understanding that booze makes you <em>fun</em>, in spite of my own traumatic experiences as a child showing me that drunk adults were <em>not fun</em>. Nonetheless, I jammed to that song and by the time I was legal to drink, I was seasoned, and it tipped over rapidly into a binge drinking habit that nearly ruined my life.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A New Masculinity</title>
		<link>https://briebeau.com/thoughty/2020/12/a-new-masculinity/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau Jágr Sheldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time thinking about the middle name I wanted after I decided to depart from my birth name fully when it came to my legal name, and it got me thinking about Wolfenstein: The New Order...Real people should not be punished with the weight of anyone’s ideals as their expectation...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Very Merry Mental Illness to Me</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau Jágr Sheldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, friends, supporters, consumers, and colleagues. this one is a little important. I hope the best came for you in major holidays for each culture and religion or lack thereof that came before this post, and the same wishes for you in the festivities (or lack thereof!) to come. Please stay safe in the continuance &#8230; <a href="https://briebeau.com/thoughty/2020/12/a-very-merry/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "A Very Merry Mental Illness to Me"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thoughty Ending Regular Interviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 05:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thoughty remains! So does Script Change. I still hope to do some interviews, as mentioned, very periodically. I want to talk more about design, and about leadership in games. I want to talk about the things I personally enjoy in games, break them down, see if I can make them make sense. I hope when the worldsuck eases I'll release more games, though I doubt anything I do solo will be as big and fancy as Turn. I'll be separately supporting my partners with their projects. Oh yeah, and I'll still be accepting guest blogs here when I can build up a larger fund for paying creators! ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk: A Thoughty Update&#8230;among other things</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beau Jágr Sheldon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I apologize if this is the first some of you may be hearing of my current health status, but the quarantine has made communicating really difficult. Please watch this video and feel free to reach out, but do not feel any obligation to give platitudes. Things have been rough but I&#8217;m doing my best! &#60;3]]></description>
		
		
		
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