# I was gonna....

February 17, 2023 · personal-update, creative-process, ai

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/writing/i-was-gonna
Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/i-was-gonna

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I was gonna perform the consternation I feel between my desire to appear smart/cool for you in this newsletter and wanting to email you my unhinged thoughts after drinking my 4th cup of coffee with no breakfast. But instead you get this un-edited jumble or words. Here are my drafts, things I was planning to write about and include in future newsletters.

### I was gonna write about learning D3

and how I finally learned a skill that I have been procrastinating learning for 3 years. This would’ve been the P.S. (postscript)

### I was gonna write about Chat-GPT and Generative AI systems

and this would’ve been the subheader

chat-gpt write a subheader for my newsletter in the style of @mellogood

### I was gonna use this series of links as a postscript

P.S. - [IYKYK](https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.philsvag/video/7183182198584003886?_r=1&_t=8Yn4KNl2i6A&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7183182198584003886)

P.P.S - jk, we don’t gate keep here: [Sun Yuan and Peng Yu "Can't Help Myself"](https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffreyrubel/video/7051782675555716398?_r=1&_t=8YozrTwC7B8&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7051782675555716398)

P.P.P.S - okay [one more](https://www.tiktok.com/@idigcrystals/video/7159035817531411758?_r=1&_t=8YozufRqzmg&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7159035817531411758)

### I was gonna use these Tweets as future postscripts

# Elsewhere…

### Inputs

“What makes videogame labor so exciting is the chance to fully enjoy a reward for your efforts. You put in what you get out of it, in a very direct sense. The most satisfying games are actually fantasy simulations of living out a basic Marxist value: labor is entitled to all it creates.”

[Depression and Videogames](https://tabithaarnold.substack.com/p/depression-and-videogames)

“With jokes and recipes and turns of phrase, it can be impossible to separate things we created from things we absorbed, internalized, and re-accessed later.“

[These Recipes Aren’t Ours](https://stone-soup.ghost.io/these-recipes-arent-ours)

“The threshold for design is care and consideration for problem solving, not formal steeping in impermanent design tools, not a slick BFA from RISD.”

[Can You Be A Designer If You Have No Training?](https://henry.codes/writing/can-you-be-a-designer-if-you-have-no-training/)

[DMs Open, a zine about winning remote organizing](https://collectiveaction.tech/2022/dms-open/)

[I don't like making the best things.](https://internetvin.ghost.io/i-dont-like-making-the-best-things/)

### Outputs

I added an interviews section to [my website](https://www.romellogoodman.com/) and will talk more about that later

[xptype - blink](https://xptype.romellogoodman.com/blink)

[xptype - fade](https://xptype.romellogoodman.com/fade)

-mello

P.S. - TBH, I’m writing this in response to the last story in the Inputs section

P.P.S - TB-really-Honest, I’m writing this as an excuse to send you a bunch of links