People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

i got sick so im not feeling up to making a new #portfolioday post so just have my old one ty love you

We face the unknown future together rather than remain on decaying ice. [ #DigitalArt #AnimalArt #PoliticalArt #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Penguins #PenguinArt #LeopardSeal ]

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

Playing a good video games will make you want to make a video game. But playing a bad video game will give you a slowly-building frenzy meter you can only suppress by actually making a video game.

live now for geoguessr sunday! come hang out!!

two pieces i made last year for a fiber arts show, featuring the dog-day cicada on a black walnut tree and the periodical cicada on an aspen tree! #r_m_sewing #fiberart #cicada

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players. Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table. Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

Ersatz is OUT! The indie pilot I've been solo-animating for 1.5 years is now on youtube. Check it out! youtu.be/yf2tBjHvx9s?...

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

Daughter sent me this gofundme for one the MCAD facilities guys who got kidnapped by ice. She said “gerardo is one of the nicest people on campus too, he talks with everyone, literally wouldnt hurt a fly”. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

man, i love tron and tron: legacy so much. these movies are fucking everything when it comes to visualizing how computers work in an extremely personified and visceral (in a good way) sense. both of them are extremely stand out in their visual design for the time and nothing will ever match them.

putting off doing puzzle design for literally like a week and then banging out 3/4 sections in one go. lets see if i can get the last one done tonight too so then its actually just down to programming it all.

started absolum and man. i knew i was probably gonna like this game and i really like this game. it is also incredibly stylish and the animation is top notch.

i live in the twin cities and ive seen a lot of support in the past 36 hours that makes me really hopeful for the situation here and others like it. i am always just saddened it has to happen at the expense of my neighbors livelihoods/lives to try to encourage some kind of change.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

who up making a precision platformer thats 2D that i can get wildly engrossed in for anywhere from a month to a year

Sprite stacking 101 🧩 #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

You should start this new year by checking out the art book a bunch of the best artists did. it´s 72 unique demon illustrations! catymiau.itch.io/ars-goetia

today i got to say the phrase "as a self proclaimed furry pervert—" that preceded something that actually contributed something to the conversation meaningfully

if im bad at one thing as a plushie artist, its that i always. ALWAYS. forget to put butt tags on stuff. i either have to do it after the plushie is fully constructed or i remember halfway through and have to do some seam ripping rather than just doing it during the construction like i should

delighted to announce the first stream of the new year: LOFI BEATS TO GEOLOCATE TO 📍 tonight at 9pm central time we’ll be joined by @andrewshenkman.bsky.social for some geoguessr and LIVE MUSIC!!! come suggest maps to set the mood, and enjoy some original imrpov’d tunes to end your weekend 😎

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

for the past week ive been experimenting with using a pomodoro timer to try to get work done and im so mad because this stupid tomato method really works for my productivity. ive managed to do a lot of stuff ive been putting off for literal months within the past few days.

i took the wrong allergy meds and im suffering through some terrible brain fog and yet i must persist and not take the nap i desperately want to

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

characters for a 4AD game #r_m_art #oc #ttrpg #ttrpgart

hau'oli makahiki hou!!

ok after a week of regularly using a laptop with ubuntu on it im enjoying my time not being beholden to windows infrastructure and also sincerely believe if you know how to use windows, you can use ubuntu.

characters for a 4AD game #r_m_art #oc #ttrpg #ttrpgart

me 10 years ago in programming class: i hate loops me right now in a self directed programming course: i hate loops

im bad at social media so i posted this at 10 pm last night lol

i can't give a date when im opening commissions again, for lack of a better way to say it, i kind of fell apart the latter half of this year while my unemployment continues. but, thankfully, im already on track to getting my life back together.

i truly suck at trying to talk about or announce stuff that im doing because a) im chronically really bad at finishing long term projects and b) im just bad at advertising myself on social media which is all to say, im starting a patreon in february. look out for it. there'll be some exclusive stuff

me and my friend were trying to set up and tests the games we wanna do for our next group archipelago run, i couldnt get VVVVVV working so im going with link's awakening. after a point we were just playing a duo archipelago because we were having so much fun playing our respective games lol

finished SKALD and i can truly say this might go up there as one of my favorite games of all time. the entire experience, the character writing, the quest design, the art, and the music together manage to contribute to something wholly unique to the games that clearly inspired it. highly recommend.

this is making the rounds on facebook so i thought id bring it here for u m'lord

"that art you shared is fetish art!" I literally cannot express how little I gaf about that

watching blade runner bc its one of my not christmas christmas movies and man. i could eat every frame of this movie. i love the cinematography so much

This can be a difficult and nuanced discussion, especially for people that are out of the tech loop. I try to break it down as AI = shit you've been using for over a decade. Predictive text. NPC enemy AI. Specialized machine learning. GenAI = shit built on stolen/scraped assets from the Internet

my art summary for the year! each tile is from a different month. its been an incredibly rough year for me, and the fact that, save for one, i was drawing something every month is something i want to still celebrate. #artsummary2025 #artsummary #r_m_art

idk who i follow that mentioned SKALD: Against the Black Priory but i've been playing it recently and really really enjoying my time with it. i've been craving an ultima-like crpg and this has been satisfying all those desires and more. im also so thankful for it having a modern control scheme lmao

archipelago is so fucking fun dude

Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media. Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.

Excluding costs, the biggest impediment to AI adoption in game dev is that the output quality sucks ass and it makes games worse. AI adopters need everyone to use it so that people lower their standards and become more okay with buying garbage

Penelope waiting for Odysseus ink on scratchboard 2013

every day this becomes more true

god i fucking love yoshi's island. nothing can sully how great of a platformer this is for me. (we're playing archipelago and im doing yoshi's island)