"People only joke about JRPGs where you kill God at the end because the only JRPGs they've ever played are Final Fantasy games" joke's on you, buddy – I was actually memeing on Baroque (1998).

I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out why my bathroom fan seemed to run more roughly whenever I stood in certain parts the room before realising the rattling wasn't coming from the fan; my cat was tucked away out of sight, and would start purring loudly whenever I walked past her hiding spot.

"Goncharov" is a fun meme, but I don't understand talking about it like it's conceptually unprecedented when a solid 50% of us have a piece of wholly invented media in our heads that we genuinely remember seeing because we've unwittingly conflated a bunch of unrelated shit we saw when we were five.

"But Silksong's combat is so much easier than Hollow Knight's" well, yeah, dude – that's what happens when your combat set-pieces actually draw on the same skills and reward the same strategies as your platforming, rather than effectively being two games in a trenchcoat. You get better faster.

Copyright doctrinaire who doesn't understand how IP works losing their shit over stuff that doesn't actually infringe upon anything versus copyright abolitionist who also doesn't understand how IP works insisting they're sticking it to the Man by doing the thing the first guy is freaking out about.

Shout out to the Mountain Goats for reminding us that an awkward pause CAN be a metrical foot if you believe.

Waking up in the morning to discover like 80% of my Steam library has an update pending and being like "okay, what did the Unity guys fuck up this time?"

I think this is a good sign.

Like, don't take this is an "all mutual aid posts are scams" thing, because I'm sure MOST such requests are 100% legit, but I've received like four different donation request DMs in the last week from people claiming their kids are "dying of autism", and I'm reasonably sure that's not how it works.

All questions of pacing aside, you've got to admit that making a bench the reward for the boss with the longest and most hazardous runback in the game is pretty funny.

We've just passed stretch goal #2 and we're rounding the corner to stretch goal #3: "The Eternal Exhibition" by @austinramsaygames.bsky.social, a scenario in which a grand festival celebrating the latest innovations in art, science, magic, and food has been cursed to repeat the same day, forever.

FACT: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than our OCs is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any. [1/2]

Somebody on itch just added "Eat God" to a public collection which otherwise appears to consist exclusively of sexually explicit trans lesbian VNs, so I guess we're reaching our target audience after all.

Heterodox Roman Catholic theologian arguing that you can't go to Hell for objectively funny sins.

Most human/fairy hornyposting focuses on the perspective of the human doing stuff to the fairy, but I can't help but consider the perspective of a fairy with very specific kinks. Imagine being an eight-inch-tall fairy with a regular-size human partner and a foot fetish.

We're currently on the stretch goal by @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social for a playset where everybody gets vored by a mountain-size sock puppet and has to play politics with its inexplicably Catholic internal fauna, and if that's not your bag I just don't know what to tell you.

Inadvisable tabletop RPG conceit #137: Apocalypse Engine variant where all the move triggers that dink with the game's basic dice-rolling procedures are target-facing rather than actor-facing. /When you punch me in my smug face/, roll +WEIRD rather than +HARD because I'm fucking whimsical.

Social anxiety is a hell of a drug in general, but getting scared that the staff at your favourite restaurant or coffee shop will realise you're an autistic weirdo who eats the same thing every day is especially wrongheaded. Food service people LOVE autistic weirdos who eat the same thing every day.

At the time of this posting we're less than $400 dollars away from hitting our first stretch goal for more playsets, so now's a great time to pledge if you want see @titanomachyrpg.com to write about giant talking catfish.

It's a shame the phrase "weird about butt stuff" has been adopted to describe people who are averse to the act, because frankly a lot of us could stand to be weirder about it.

Precision platformer where the movement gimmick is a sci-fi ray gun whose secondary fire mode materalises a rope connecting the point it's fired from with the point it's aimed at. Every NPC has a unique reaction to being told what the gun is called, and the player character can't figure out why.

I'm sorry, but I cannot take your fanart as seriously as it clearly wishes to be taken. I recognise what it's going for, but the fact that you've drawn them streaked in blood and emerging from flames wholly fails to counteract the fact that you've also given them the fluffiest hair I have ever seen.

Every time I manage a crowdfunding campaign I'm starkly reminded that a surprising number of people refuse to actually read the descriptions of the reward tiers they're pledging to and genuinely have no idea what it is they just bought.

"Eat God" is fully funded in under 24 hours – 19 hours and 19 minutes, to be exact – and is now barrelling toward its first stretch goal playset: "The Dazzling Below" by "Caltrop Core" creator @titanomachyrpg.com. Can we hit that target today as well? At this rate, we're certainly going to try!

The ttrpg I did cover art for is already well on its way to being a Real Book (with more art by me!) but there's so many cool folks lined up in the stretch goals to write playsets so do take a look if this sounds like your jam!

Unexpectedly, it looks like we're on the final stretch for the basic funding goal already. If we get $3000 CAD in additional pledges in the next eight hours, "Eat God" will be fully funded and moving on to stretch goals in less than a day.

The "Eat God" Kickstarter doing so well on day one is heartening, but not surprising – I've had crowdfunding campaigns fund in the first 24 hours before. The SURPRISING part is the pre-launch follower conversion rate. [1/2]

A thing about having been active in a niche art community for-fucking-ever is that on a long enough scale, everybody's work gets around, and sometimes you'll bump into someone much more accomplished who cites YOUR STUFF as a formative influence, which never stops feeling like you're being pranked.

I love it when a website is trying to be helpful with charts and graphs and such, but it defaults to a daily bar chart even if there's only one day of data, so it's just a single giant block of colour filling the entire canvas. Like, yes, thank you, that's very informative!

if you give enough money to this i will have to do work for once

I'm the first stretch goal writer, and we're nearly there! Don't miss The Dazzling Below playset!!

Well. 50% funded in the first nine hours is a hell of a thing to wake up to! I don't THINK we're going to make 100% in the first 24, as the initial rush always tapers off a bit, but in the first 48 to 72 is reasonable – and who knows? Y'all may yet prove me wrong!

I'm the $35k stretch goal so if you want me to write a playset about NotVenice stuck in a time loop during The World's Fair, then back the game and tell others!

im really excited to explore the possibility space that lies between sir lancelot, the main character of k6bd, and bugs bunny

"Eat God" is live on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen... Be a blue-furred social justice advocate with detachable limbs, a many-eyed horror with strong opinions about metaphysics, or a jet-powered telepathic crab and stick it to the Man though the power of gratuitous cartoon violence.

Alternative explanation for why Princess Peach's castle has no furniture: whenever Bowser takes over the place he makes a specific point of attempting to sit in each and every chair, knowing full well that every one will collapse under his weight, because he's petty like that.

Oh no, your favourite quirky auteur video game director who famously regards himself as the sole creative force behind his games and treats the people who do the actual art and programming as mere technicians got sucked into the generative AI hole. How unexpected!

Look, the rules as written CLEARLY state ("Eat God" is forthcoming on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...; illustration by @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social)

Shout-out to all the Bluesky wordsmiths whose plan for this year's Kinktober is to finish writing last year's prompt.

I know my cats genuinely enjoy my company because they have very different body language when they just want to cuddle versus when they're buttering me up because they're about to ask me to do something for them, and their poker faces are NOT good.

REALLY looking forward to launching "Eat God"; paperwork I can handle, but staying up until 3:30 every night because that's the only time I can reliably connect with all of my collaborators and our timeline is too tight to let a day go between communications may yet be the death of me!

Honestly, every game should just randomly have a big fuckoff mountain where you do a bunch of precision platforming challenges and the reward is the ability to double jump.

Historically, technical barriers to publishing one's own work have left indie video games vulnerable to allegations of "programmer art": that is, to have audiovisuals by people who don't know what they're doing because "real" artists are barred from the medium by lack of technical know-how. [1/2]

I have no dog in the race re: the "Homestuck" animated pilot, but it is very entertaining seeing all these folks posting long-winded responses to criticisms I haven't seen arguing that the critics clearly don't understand "Homestuck", and in the process demonstrating they don't understand it either.

I think it's almost worse when a textual analysis arrives at a reasonable conclusion via bullshit reasoning than when it's just totally out to lunch. Like, I'm not saying it ISN'T gay as hell, but it's definitely not gay as hell *for that reason*.

Statting up The Monodirectional Nature Of Time as a possible enemy for Eat God

yelling loudly about this in every direction. PLEASE please PLEASE go check this out. ttrpg about revolutionary muppets that overthrow tyrants with crazy powers. it's so good. it's so so good

Nothing in tabletop RPGs is unstattable. A thing may be unstattable *in a given system* because the kinds of conflicts it can meaningfully engage in are not the kinds of conflicts that system models, but this merely reflects an error on your part in trying to use the one to stat the other. [1/2]

I kind of figured after waiting 25 years for a "Parasite Eve" sequel that doesn't suck, some enterprising indie developer would do the whole "fine, I guess I'll do it myself" thing, but I would not have called two being announced within a year of each other.

Carrying the one weapon in all the Worlds that can possibly defeat me on my person at all times, because at least this way when some enterprising hero steals it to use it against me I'll know about it.