I just replayed and caught up... it's a privilege to be able to read this as it's coming out. I might sound like a snob but there just aren't that many people making fantasy fiction who both care deeply about making it as good as possible and genuinely have the skills to back it up. The real deal.

soul of sovereignty chapter 3 is out now! #soulsov gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

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I've been told there's a good article under here but I have to take it on faith I guess.

all i could think

Rolled credits on Hades 2 finally. My main comment is that I noticed there was only one person with any kind of narrative or writing credit in there and it probably needed more of those.

I'm watching the parts of this vod that were past my bedtime and at one point both hosts experience palpable relief upon being told they are finally "in the home stretch." at that moment there are precisely two hours left in the vod.

I burned out on mtg for a bit but I still can't resist some good Cube. 7-0 with this beauty.

Party realignment in our times

Catching up to @morecivilized.bsky.social in my KOTOR 2 playthrough

Sailors' Wisdom

what if for my birthday you bought my book. haha jk. unless……. simplicitybook.xyz

This is a good read about the feedback loop of "news" and speculation targeting right wing would-be finance bros. I'm also thinking about @ckunzelman.bsky.social on the last Game Studies Study Buddies talking about social media hustle scams on TikTok always leading back to the Heritage Foundation

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Cuomo's campaign was a cesspool of racism and bigotry. Never, ever, ever forget that. Never let anyone who worked for him on this campaign worm themselves back into any kind of respectability.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Useful for Cuomo to say that this was an election about the future identity of the Democratic Party in his concession speech. You know. Because he lost.

The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate. The good news is that they can be defeated.

our would-be aristocracy made a big bet that the people here were fundamentally cruel, and that we'd been beaten down enough that bigotry and fear would motivate us more than an unproven risk. it just feels so good to get confirmation, even for a moment, that they will never understand this city.

eventually i'll come up with something to say but i need to breathe for a bit first

you know, I never thought I'd buy a copy of the Post but I might need to frame this one

not only am I glad that Zohran won, I'm also glad I had the opportunity to watch bunch of billionaires set giant piles of money on fire, live on television

please look forward to chapter 3 of soul of sovereignty on november 21st. #soulsov

Auspicious news to wake up to on an election day!

Early voting today down the block and around the corner, they said it had been this way all morning too. Choosing to take it as a good sign. I need to never see Cuomo's face again.

Sure, Cuomo should be kept away from the levers of power because he's a soulless power-hungry conservative politician like so many others. But we must never forget that he is, above all, one of the world's biggest assholes

normal raven #soulsov

lmao "Microsoft is not policing our messages in the game! we understand it looks goofy making an anti monopoly game when we got bought out by monopoly the company" *next paragraph* "Microsoft would like you to stop speaking about their involvement with the IDF" (full text in linked article)

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Well my flight was delayed 2h but at least my layover is really short now

they're selling snowman meat now

I'm so tired & burned out after 2 days of work travel and back to back meetings and I have to wake up early to fly all day tomorrow and in spite of/due to this my brain is screaming at me to revenge procrastinate going to bed

soulsov is 15% off btw gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

LUCASARTS PRESENTS Columbo in: SCUMM of the Earth #pixelart

heracross doodles

definition from the sketchbook

imo Shigeru Miyamoto and Masahiro Sakurai both get that Games exist on the same plane connecting Toys and Movies. But Miyamoto only values movies insofar as they can sell the toys, whereas Sakurai understands that a fundamental joy of toys is making up little movies in your head about them.

we didn't mean to, but conner and I wrote a book. it's available now. i am so proud of what we've made and can't wait for people to uncover what's inside it

transformers might be good

cut the Levi's into jorts that's what Bilbo Baggins sports

He's got the charisma and credibility to sell it and a hell of a comms team. As bitter a pill as it is to swallow, it's such a critical skill to be able to frame actually progressive ideas in a way that won't immediately scare off the median voter who subsists on a diet of 80% pure copaganda

Here's my interview with Takuma Okada (@noroadhome.itch.io), the designer of Stewpot, as well as a loads of other great indie TTRPGs. Takuma discusses their creative process and the themes of identity, belonging, and exploration that recur in their work.

the arrowheads

3rd Voice is one of the best comics running right now - characters sympathetic and infuriating by turns, fascinating ideas and themes, and an engrossing, thoughtful setting. The book itself is also a thing of beauty, with a striking and wonderfully garish purple edge treatment. Buy this book!

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient). This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

Pushed myself to go to the gym and pushed myself at the gym and I know it's good for me but now I have to spend the rest of the day collapsed in a pile and exhaling dramatically whenever I try to move

It really is something to see the AI era lay bare the shining chrome skull of the technolobertarian dream. These types used to swagger on about how they had the Big Ideas and Made the Wheel Turn, but presented with the fiction of a self-turning wheel, they salivate hard enough to drown.

me: i'm having trouble building my armored core, is there any way i can utilise all this heavy weaponry while still maintaining my manoeuvrability john darnielle, of the mountain goats: