Man this is awkward lol.

Mmmyep. Everything is fine.

I've always been one to process my feelings more slowly than other people. Which, having bipolar disorder, is surprising to some people. Anyway, I've hit the "shaking my steering wheel and screaming in my parked car" angry stage of grieving. I would like off this ride.

Boy that <gestures at The Horrors> just keeps getting louder, doesn't it? I wish it was BOTH a sane and reasonable thing to plug my ears and close my eyes and pretend it's not happening. So I'm trying to find that balance of squinting and humming lightly so it's not quite so... consuming.

AND GHOST HUNTER SIMULATOR (Early Access) is LIVE! store.steampowered.com/app/3256780/...

Today's mood.

Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #BoycottSpotify

I'm sure others have their own name for it, but I call it Story Via Osmosis- In a highly competitive attention space where folks are doing things on other screens while playing games, you gotta put the story EVERYWHERE. EVERY UI ELEMENT. EVERY PROP. EVERY NAME. EVERY LOAD SCREEN. USE ALL OF IT.

Clock is ticking down on my job security (There isn't anything publicly announced, I can't confirm anything, I don't have a guarantee I'm going to lose my job) and I'm sitting here with all the ripcords in my hands, ready to pull. On the one hand, it's a luxury to be this prepared. On the other...

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Calling it now, frog is the symbol of the revolution.

Trying real hard to square my personal life with The Horrors.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Sitting in my little happy corner just trying to make a cool game real while the Horrors persist ever more loudly.

If you’re lamenting the EA sale cause of what it means for BioWare games, try out this RPG from some BioWare veterans! Punches WAY above its weight and has fantastic combat/traversal.

Woke up, brain felt like soup. Got the flu shot yesterday so not unexpected. Decided coffee would help. Now my brain is Anxious Soup.

On a completely unrelated note, I'd like to share my personal highlight reel of this weekend's LARP game. For reference this is Twin Mask. Event details at TwinMask dot com. 🧵

Can we also acknowledge that targeting one of the only well studied and well understood pain relievers approved for use during pregnancy is just fucking cruel to pregnant people?

Did some real honest to goodness game design today AND got some craft projects done so my brain is too spent to analyze <gestures at everything.> Sitting here on my mental porch with a beer and watching it all drift by.

Well that break lasted all of a few days. All I'll say is: Their narrative demands that they be constantly under threat. Constantly on the verge of being a victim. Fear, anger, hatred, and violence can only come from a place of being constantly under attack.

Anxiety has been waking my ass up 2 hours before my alarm all week. I am sleepy all the time. I think it's time for current events detox. The news will be there. If things go down that directly and immediately impact you, you will hear about it. Disconnecting is okay.

Got some cool ideas going at work. I miss jamming like this. It's extremely helpful in keeping my brain away from <gestures broadly>

I'm in a weird place career wise. I'm not sure how much longer my tenure at Amazon will last. I obviously can't say what's going on there but there is no guarantee I will have this job in 6 months There are opportunities for me to pursue but they might not pan out. Not sure what do.

Shal'dorei in traditional garb. (I may or may not have overdone it... I love drawing detail...) #WoW #WoWoc

I'm on a freaking roll. I started another project. The curse is breaking!!

Brought the groceries in without feeling like I was gonna pass out. I'm healing!!

Annoyed and pleased with myself. I had an idea for a crafting project for my LARP and I bought the supplies for it ages ago. I've been putting off actually constructing the thing for months. Today in a fit of whimsy I knocked it out in 4 hours. If only I could do that on demand.

My feed is mostly just: - Silksong release 🤩 - More layoffs 😭 - Cats and artwork 😻 - Public health and overall govt deterioration 🤬

can't wait to live through my third "once in a lifetime financial crisis"

Idk about dead but he definitely didn't write this.

Never felt better, huh?

My "I stopped my car to assist a victim of domestic violence before my car was hit from behind hard enough to break my spine, so I asked my business partner to come to the hospital" press release is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my press release.

Um... www.pizzint.watch

This is some quality hopium.

Why did no one warn me about the foul taste Paxlovid leaves in the mouth. I wish COVID had taken my sense of taste now 🤢

Testing positive for covid days after getting it and starting paxlovid. I barely have any symptoms and I feel fine. Conventional wisdom would say its safe to resume business as usual but i believe in science so i will be resting and isolating. Still feeling gaslit tho.

One small upside of Blizzard being the locus of bad management and illegal discrimination bullshit is that my former colleagues are leading the way in unionized efforts. Warms my soul.

I need game companies to understand - if a good game ships and you layoff the team before I even hear the news that the game shipped - I will never buy that game.

I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines. I’m running for State Assembly. Let’s fight for the future we deserve. 🚀 ➡️ KluweOC.com/Donate #ChrisKluwe #CALeg #OrangeCounty

I can't in good conscience recommend going off to develop a game like Team Cherry did, since it mostly worked for them cus they had a massively successful first game but like in all things, aspire to be as close to this ideal as a game developer as you (realistically) can and you'll be MUCH happier

I say no worries when I really mean yes worries

Extremely hyped for an event this weekend. LARP is the only antidote I've found to the chaos of real life. Our little pretend world still has problems, but because wish fulfillment, they are almost always solvable with the power of teamwork.

As a non-cis person, I am committed to supporting the leading non-GOP candidate in 2028. I am ALSO committed to doing all I can in the Democratic primaries to make sure the leading candidate isn’t a skid mark who throws marginalized groups under the bus. My mind is large enough to hold both.

Not again. I can't in good conscience sit here and watch more leftists talk themselves into letting fascism continue by poking (completely reasonable but utterly irrelevant) holes in his opposition. Presidential elections are not the time for moral purity tests. That's how Trump and Rs win.

Wild to see the first thing I worked on in WoW hit the remix stage. I really hope the Nightborn still resonate. I think they will.

I've been quiet on here due to The Horrors but I am running into some job security issues. Nothing going on right now but I am starting to put feelers out there in case something does happen. If you have leads on mission/content/quest/technical narrative design, hmu Thank you

Not sure if I should laugh at this but I did