Every person I have shown this game to (while flat-out denying them all context and setup) has ended up slack-jawed with sheer, absurd delight. It is worth your time to go play! It takes a few minutes!

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS www.rockpapershotgun.com/xmas-is-almo... (if you haven't heard of it before, please look up nothing and read nothing further about it, just go have the Experience, the article gives you a link)

Chugging along trying to move fast to wrap some things up on Friday and realized my brain is playing the Zelda minigame music 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLq1...

YOU TOO CAN SHARE YOUR MAGICAL THROUPLE STORIES (and the other ones too)

I made this last year and it was DELICIOUS and beautiful. Gonna make it again sometime soon and you should too

A beautiful day!

Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.

Ah, the "ticket -> 2 sub-tickets -> 10 sub-tickets -> dammit this should've just been a Project" pipeline, we meet again

just wrote the phrase "sloppy fluff" (re: LLM outputs) and immediately had regrets. I'm never going to say it again but you all have to suffer with me

I am unironically here for the Edmund Fitzgerald zeitgeist. Half my IG timeline is Fitz memes and tributes. People are learning about Gordon Lightfoot and how Lake Superior hates you, personally, and wants to do you a violence.

H1149.8 Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain.

permadeath is good for you, actually! join us @ roguelike.club

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

!!!!!!!!!

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

No you should DEFINITELY ask Chris about gunpla

Also on a purely fun level, it's beautifully campy and Kiryu is a sweet himbo with a heart of gold who is also very good at punching things to solve problems. Highly recommend.

It's me, I'm obsessed, thank you @dominic.cool and now @nickcummings.com

F361.12 Fairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homes.

We are maybe a year away from getting named-dropped in a new streaming series on a platform you've never heard of before.

That's branding, baby.

I would give a *lot* to have had these scripts, and this mental model for engaging with the medical system, several years ago. Eventually I arrived in a similar place, but that journey was...rough.

Is it too late to change my answer?

tyrannosaurus rex being granted a vision of its descendent, the bee hummingbird, which weighs roughly 2.6 grams on average:

Minnesota is heartbroken. From the officers responding, to the clergy and teachers providing comfort, to the hospital staff saving lives, we will get through this together. Hug your kids close.

Today was a good item day on anisota.net. Jasmine flowers, graveyard dirt, and parsley. 🌌

It's a good thread!

And ometimes the words come, but you hate them. Or you like them but hate that no one wants the stories you want to write. Or you're just burned out. And if that's true, I'm telling you, stop trying to force it. Take a break! Give yourself the freedom to not feel shame for walking away.

I put down writing stories for a solid decade after a yearlong intensive burned all joy I had for it to a crisp. It was fine! I've picked it back up again recently and that's nice too, but who knows how unpleasant it would've been if I'd been beating myself up about it the whole time.

listen you don't get a ton of storytelling practice when you're busy forging swords and horseshoes and whatnot all day! too much clanging

As always, we’ve evaluated the new fair foods according to our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system. (Accept no substitutes.)

LET ME TEND AND EXPLORE THE WILDERNESS WITH MY GIANT FUZZY CAPRINES

Love a new game to try 👀

A963.5 Hills from stones cast by giants.

B742.4 Fire-breathing dogs.

The ventilation thing is now my go to example for something going badly wrong with our society. It’s such a no brainer. It’s a big but not especially complicated infrastructure project that would create tons of jobs at a reasonable price tag with major public health benefits.

a game where you design build and take care of a hedge maze garden, pruning it, planting flowers, making a cozy little spot for a minotaur, cleaning up after the youths’ grisly deaths

in lieu of my silly little manifesto (or at least, while you wait for it to be published), go read @goose.art's kind and thoughtful @leaflet.pub post about their experience hacking into anisota pre-release and now trying the full thing https://leaflet.pub/57befa40-9677-4d84-9768-829adcac292b

More importantly, it's almost Knife Ghost fanart season. bsky.app/profile/jord...

Horse_ebooks was right. Everything *does* happen so very, very much

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rare example of Art UI that also wants to be used

Now that’s what I call a social media interface

Working on a story game involves a lot of amusing, strange, and not-typically-SFW conversations at work, but I swear the thing that spins my brain the most is typing "PostHog" in earnest

I fucking love that anisota kicks you out when you run out of stamina. can't even check notifications

Go play this! It’s spooky, it’s interested in the deep history of Ireland, it is a detective game that really asks you to do detective work, and it’s pretty!

My favorite part so far is the stamina stat (I know nothing about how it works except that it was lower after a bit of the tutorial than it was in the beginning) because that EXTREMELY aligns with my subjective experience of being on social media.

it's been a long time coming, but i'm happy to share that my latest creative project is finally here... @anisota.net is an experimental social client (and game!) for Bluesky and the AT Protocol i built it for me because i'm kinda weird and needed an equally weird way to experience social media 🕯️