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Hi all! I’m Rudolf Kremers, creative director and founder of Indie games studio Omni Systems Ltd.

I’m 56 years old and have been making games since 1984(!!!), professionally since 2000. In those years I have built up a crazy range of experiences, working in many disciplines as game and level designer, creative director, producer, narrative designer, writer and more.

My work has been awarded/nominated in many ways, (Bafta, Independent Games Festival, Apple Game of the Year) and allowed me to work on a wide range of titles. After 10 years working at various studios like EA, The Digital Village, Argonaut, I started my own indie studio Omni Systems Ltd. Our debut game Eufloria has sold over 1 million copies since release.

Beyond traditional video games I have also worked on amazing interactive experiences, for example a location-based VR experience for the Lionsgate Entertainment World theme park in China, or being part of a think tank tasked with conceptualising interactive public spaces in a “future city”.

The games work allowed me to travel the world, visiting among other places Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Germany, France, and multiple USA states. I’ve been blessed to work with amazing people, encountering famous and mad (sometimes both) characters along the way and I still can’t quite believe what a blessing this has all been. 

I’ve branched out into other areas as well, including writing. I’m a published author, having released a well-known game design text book, and various fiction books crossing multiple genres.

I am currently developing Eufloria 2, the sequel to our well-loved debut game, writing a new book about game design philosophy, and juggling pets and family.

I'm looking forward to answering your questions!

Hi Reddit! I’m Iñaki Godoy, an actor and the author of Chaos Kitchen! I’m also the Chief Hot Ideas Person (C.H.I.P.) for TABASCO® Brand.

I’m the kind of person who likes testing weird kitchen ideas just to see if they work. If you want to talk about Chaos Kitchen!, food, recipes, strange ingredient combos, kitchen experiments, or what a C.H.I.P. actually does, I’ll be here tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6th from 4:00-5:00pm ET answering questions.

Leave yours below and let’s get into it.

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My name is James Weaver. In the 1960s I played lead guitar with Red Beard & The Pirates, a band from Blue Ridge, Georgia.

I played lead guitar and co-wrote our recording “Go On Leave,” which decades later became a collectible garage-rock 45 and appeared on compilations including Back From The Grave, Psychedelic States: Georgia in the 60s, and Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present The Dark Side.

Now I'm 76 years old, and instead of retiring from music, I've started releasing music again as Weaver Studios.

My recent release is “Hold Me Higher,” an adult-contemporary power ballad. I'm also working on additional releases, including the instrumental “High Rider Highway.”

The technology has changed enormously since I first walked into a recording studio. Today I'm combining more than 60 years of songwriting and musical experience with modern recording technology and AI-assisted music production.

Ask me anything about making records in the 1960s, playing guitar, garage rock, songwriting, what the music business was like then versus today, AI-assisted music production, or what it's like to start releasing music again at 76.

Proof: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxiYv6NsF1ZnEQ7GBdUamnJ_xP705o6Yt0?si=AZ9XIkHL50Fzr5ib

I organized an AMA/Q&A with actress Noor Razooky. She has recently been in things like FX's THE OLD MAN, Apple TV's FOR ALL MANKIND, and Paramount's SEAL TEAM. She stars in the new comedy-horror and 5th film of the franchise, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, which is being released this week.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wy85ms/hey_reddit_im_noor_razooky_actress_in_attack_of/

She will be back at around 6 PM ET on Wednesday 10/7 to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aevSjhGMhQ

Synopsis:

In 1978, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES tried to warn the world (Dillon insists it was a documentary!). Now, decades later, the tomatoes have outsmarted their corporate masters, the military, and even the notorious Professor Gangreen (John Astin). Finletter's aging team of "Guardianes" seems to be all that stands in the way of certain doom when even the best of AI is defeated by the tomatoes' "Organic Intelligence." But Wilbur Finletter is the last to realize it is time for a new generation to master the ancient art of managing the eternal Killer Tomato menace.

What was the Great Horse Flu, and what can it tell us about people, animals, and disease in the Reconstruction Era--and today, with Thomas Andrews?

Hello r/AskHistorians!

My name is Thomas G. Andrews, and I’m here to answer question about my new book, The Great Horse Flu: A Forgotten Contagion and the Fate of Reconstruction America (University of North Carolina Press), which will be published tomorrow. It’s great to be here!

I’m a professor of history and Director of the Center for the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder. Here’s a link to my faculty webpage.

I’m the author of Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008), which won several awards including a Bancroft Prize, and Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies (2015).

My new book tells the story of one of the weird and most infectious disease outbreaks ever recorded. I call it the Great Horse Flu, but English-speaking North Americans who lived through in 1872 and 1873 mostly called “the epizootic” (Spanish-, French-, and German-speakers knew it by cognates of that term—note that an epizootic is like an epidemic, but it primarily afflicts animals other than humans). Starting outside of Toronto, Ontario, horses began to fall ill in a fast-widening swath of North America. In the year plus that followed, horses, donkeys, mules, and occasionally other creatures, too, got steamrolled by a fast-spreading malady that caused fever, lethargy, running noses, sore throats, and other symptoms long associated with influenza.

People in virtually every nook and cranny of the present-day U.S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and parts of Central America depended heavily on equines (horses, donkeys, and mules) to move people and goods from place to place. Given this reliance, the Great Horse Flu upended everyday life and caused major economic disruptions. 

The Great Horse Flu is a plague narrative, but one of the things I learned about mass disease events during COVID is that outbreaks have a remarkable capacity to reveal or expose things we might otherwise miss. So even as the book follows the Great Horse Flu across the continent, some of my favorite chapters take deep dives into problems that the epizootic intersected with as it raced across North America, infected between 90 and 99 percent of all equines, and wreaked havoc on one place after another.

I’m excited to hear what questions you have!