not touching anything adam baldwin is in with a serenity-sized pole

Is there a name for the trope where a game builds up this terrible thing that you come to hate, and then in the second game you play as that thing? Like Mass Effect 2 or Control 2. I don't know if it's all that common but it's still weird that it happened even twice.

What a ghoul this man is

Ugh. The Democratic Party in the US and Labour in the UK can't even muster the most lukewarm of condemnations of this pointless, unprovoked war

I regret that I have but one Nitro to cancel

Website procedural note: I now have a landing page for the Visible Zorker collection. eblong.com/infocom/visi/ Still just has Zork 1 and Zork 2, but now there's a list to grow.

Getting ready to start the #GlobalGameJam at Goldsmiths - if you're participating, come say hi and learn a little more about unions. Don't let your passion for games be exploited! #GGJ26 @writersguildgb.bsky.social

Here we go... Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

“It cuts through steel like butter, if butter were really good at cutting through steel.”

We've got like 10 minutes for the reunification of Ireland to happen

Disco Elysium (2019)

Defeated by someone spamming shoryuken at him

I don't understand datacentres in space. Where does the power come from? Where does the heat go? Where do the replacement parts come from? How do they get swapped out? Who wants that kind of round trip latency?

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel.

Tfw you accidentally cosplay the trans flag

Gens Z and Α are going to have to come up with new slang, because I'm in my 40s and even I cringed at this ad.

my least woke opinion is that i am very eepy

Jonathan Coulton's Furry Old Lobster is actually about kobolds

Big Tea-Powered Games news - Elemental Flow now has a Steam page, ahead of its demo release on November 5th! Our conversation-centric RPG set in Solarpunk Argentina uses active encounters to capture the feel of conversation - thread (1/6) store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...

So are Minovsky particles, like, the Gundam equivalent of the Holtzman effect?

What is your favourite tutorial battle theme and why is it Trisection

Don't spend your money on GDC. Support Roguelike Celebration which always has a stacked schedule, pays speakers, and has a MUD hangout space. www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

Suddenly very nostalgic for hifi systems with brushed metal facades and wooden endcheeks

Since Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live for contradicting Trump, Knights of Guinevere's pilot is perfectly timed. I cannot express in words how much venom this show has for Disney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...

Don't say Keir Starmer lacks vision. His vision is of a country where elderly peaceful protestors are arrested as terrorists, immigrants are demonised, the poor must make sacrifices to support the rich, trans people can't safely use public toilets, and kids are forced to undergo the wrong puberty.

My hot take is that Hexen is a soulslike

Virtual Private Networking is integrated into modern operating systems. Even if you could somehow ban Linux, etc and force Google, Apple, and Microsoft to verify your age before they let you use that OS feature, you'd still be banning teenagers from most computing jobs

I have nothing against 19th-century male Russian writers but their utility in conversation is not as great as some people imagine

Has Chiitan ever met Mr Blobby

Lucky enough to be one of the writers involved in bringing this wild stygian world to life! If you've ever wanted to barter with a dead swan god or infiltrate the fortress where souls go to be flensed, wishlist this game...

I wonder whether xAI's product will eventually invert the definition of "grok" so that it means to have a spurious and unreliable understanding of something

"Blackguard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "bollard" is actually pronounced and "bollard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "blackguard" is actually pronounced

Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…

I bless the rains down in the southeast

hot

speaking of placeholder text

Congratulations are in order to Labour, who are now fully indistinguishable from Reform (except to Reform voters)

The NVIDIA app just lost notification privileges

bluesky may not like talking about sports but it sure likes talking about talking about sports

If you haven't already purchased tickets, there's still time! I'll be part of the Local IF Meetups Supergroup panel on Saturday (remotely), with Destina and I representing the Oxford and London IF meetup. The rest of the time I'll be trying to take in as many other cool talks as I can!

looks can be perceiving

into every other console generation a final fantasy tactics remake is born

garrett is stored in the eyeballs

I'll never understand how American conservatives square their macho, hypermasculine self-image with their squeamish and fearful aversion to public transportation

tfw you go down the monocot branch of a dichotomous key

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.