the very pathetic truth is that all the fuckers writing 'harris lost by running on the left' op-eds would, if she had ran the exact same campaign but won, be writing 'harris won by rejecting the left' op-eds instead. they're not honest people

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

okay, not promising anything solid, but on Thursday I'm thinking about doing a stream. A long stream. A stream you won't wanna miss. more updates to come.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

writing the final boss's dialogue (I do devving out of order sometimes) and man is this boss gonna be such a downer.

If you don’t like food stamps fuck you. Straight up fuck you. There’s no “we can disagree on things and still-“ you don’t want our taxes feeding poor people and children? You go fuck yourself.

dressing up as Ralsei for halloween. so far making my costume has been a series of me trying not to breathe in glue fumes.

what if... I did a thing?

we're out in space for this week's #CriticalDMG #podcast episode on the #GameBoy vertical-scrolling shmup (shoot-em-up? STG?), Solar Striker! some highlights this episode are: - mid-game difficulty spike! - Toni's made one of these (sorta)~ - this one's got a bug-shaped enemy ship in it!

A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets. The disability tax is real. Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception. Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.

youtu.be/ndgxLv3I39I I don't normally share music on here but I got recommended this and the channel is still fairly small which is a shame bc as someone who has tried making 8 bit music in trackers I know this took a LOT of work.

Sure why not allow the player's minimum room count be 32,767. that seems reasonable. /j

I think about this a lot.

is there a streamer or text/video creator out there that focuses on curating and trying new itch games? Kinda like indiepocalypse but someone else is playing the selection. that’s definitely a thing, right?

remember when I thought I'd be able to get this game done by June? That's officially out the window, lol.

INFINITE DUNGEON

i wish money wasn’t a concept

I'm gonna be the one to say this: as much as it makes sense on paper to axe the penny we really shouldn't have done it. as long as this country doesn't have baked in sales tax, it won't make sense to kill the penny.

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"??? chat do you think he knows?

I think youtube changed its UI again and I don't like it.

somehow everything in the country costs way more than it should except for video games because gamers are somehow too powerful to price gouge and are being too mean to big budget game studios? something about this argument doesn't really convince me

it's ironic to me that the american education system likes to posit itself as apolitical when half of high school history class was cold war propaganda and then in economics class communism was given all these good characteristics but then contrasted with capitalism which had "freedom"

papers please but without the soviet coat of red scare paint that makes people think it doesn't happen here

I'm going to become the Joker. These fucking pieces of shit from The New York Times will write two dozen mile-long hit pieces about how terrible trans people are and how "dangerous and unproven" their HRT is, but when cis women take testosterone, it's all sunshine and puppies. Go right to hell.

you ever think about how if nothing changes we are at the beginning of the wikipedia page for "The Second Great Depression" which will then seamlessly transition into the wiki page for "World War Three"

Friendly reminder that THIS IS THE OWNER OF @modretro.bsky.social

my only major concern is getting diabetes but like... I'm doing stuff now that can help prevent it just not all that stuff involves me shedding 50 pounds. I've been cutting back on fast food, been drinking tea instead of soda, etc.

*rent lowering gunshot* I'm fat and actually like being fat. I think I'd look weird if I weighed less than 250 lbs.

not me making gbstudio tiktoks bc apparently the only videos I find enjoyable to make anymore are under 5 minutes long and glorified listicles.

not me heavily considering making a tiktok account to post mindshift stuff.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

If you own anything made by ModRetro I'm gonna have some serious questions for you at the very least since Palmer Luckey is a nazi asshat. Same goes if you own any hyperkin stuff as hyperkin is guilty of enclosing free software.

People who still hang out on Twitter daily bullshitting and posting like business as usual give me the extreme ick.

I love GB Studio but it really is a messy bitch sometimes. It's a messy bitch that I love and will defend my usage of but a messy bitch nonetheless.

part of me was so worried nobody would download the fixed version of mindshift's demo but it seems (according to itch) that said number is greater than zero. that makes me smile. :)

cw: food / / baking hard cider bread. let's see if this works.

it's time for a port of a game known on way more systems than this one! this week's #CriticalDMG #podcast episode is on the #GameBoy version of Lode Runner! some highlights this episode are: - mutant cyborg zombies?? - pixelated gold or dirt! - somebody else out there must know the movie "Holes"!

not me working on a small little article for my website just to test the waters to see if i can really stick to writing articles. I think it's certainly doable for me but I want to make sure.

Hi, I'm Vi. (Violet/Vincent) I'm a game dev working on my first game, mindshift. it follows a guy dealing with memories from his past which haunt him and gets very gay, horny, and also very dark at times. You can follow the project on itch here: violetofthevoid.itch.io

making a new pinned post, please bear with me.

So far my only real gripe with LMDE is that the software center doesn't load properly for some reason but that's minor since 99% of the software that I use doesn't come from the software center.

A lot of people missed this. Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy seemed to double down on RuneScape’s muted approach to Pride in 2025, hinting he’d make a similar decision again if it’s still controversial to support LGBTQ rights in 2026

If the government is shut down then why are these accounts working like they’re getting paid?

I love the way my brain works sometimes.

I wish everything wasn't so video oriented. I just wanna write some articles goddammit!

I got into college. bad news though, gonna have to tell them I can't go to their school anymore.

hi how are you a few hours ago I had a customer nonchalantly ask when I'm gonna cut my dick off. I wish cis people would just stop.

something I love is when people on room sharing platforms list their pronouns. It takes pressure off of me to ask "hey are you like, cool with trans people?" because by just doing that you have indicated that you don't shrivel into a corn cob when someone lists pronouns.

one thing I wish toxic parents could internalize is that when their child cuts them off for being toxic, it still hurts them so much to do so.