Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

I'll be streaming some of the new Resident Evil game tonight at 830 PM CST. I try to keep these streams to 90 minutes. I have avoided spoilers, so who knows what to expect! www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

Did you know? Tomorrow is the last day you can submit intent for Spring Thing 2026. Spring Thing is my favorite IF event. It's unranked and has great vibes. If you've got a cool project going, consider entering! www.springthing.net/2026/

Wow, that Village placement is bonkers

q: what perfect album came out the year you turned 18? a:

As fellow fans know, Resident Evil: Requiem releases Friday! I'll start a new playthrough Friday night at 830 CST over at Twitch, details to follow

It's hard to believe that that wint's "zero difference between good and bad things" tweet was in 2014

My current inform project will almost certainly pass the 200k-word mile marker. This is more confession than brag.

i put liquids in my inform game, and then I spent two days writing responses for what basically amounts to trolling the parser

the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make

A couple of my Inform games fared well in the recent IFDB Awards polls. You can read my postmortems and find links to the games here: intfiction.org/t/animal-gam...

I completed my Disco Elysium playthrough last week (it was great), so I've started streaming a very odd game called "Promise Mascot Agency." I'll be on in 45 minutes (830 CST) if you're interested! www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

My Inform project is up to 130k words (text and code together). I'm going to add at least a third more content, but I'm a pretty brutal copyeditor. Who knows how big this thing will be? I also don't know when it will release, it just isn't an IF Comp game and Spring Thing is too soon

I'm only poring over these Moonmist transcripts because I love you.

“To fight a troll”: notes on the combat mechanics of Zork 1. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/02/to-f...

Finished up a bit of Inform coding that took me a few days to get right. Afforded a few satisfying "ah-ha" moments. I also incorporated a goofy ASCII interface, that's just how serious it all was

My Inform poetry project, "Portrait with Wolf," recently won the Interactive Fiction Short Games Showcase. Have a look! kamin3ko.itch.io/pww

I'm still streaming Disco Elysium most weeknights! I'll start in about ten minutes (830 CST) www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

ICYMI: I’ve started a 3-part series on Infocom’s Moonmist (1986). golmac.org/moon-missed/

More DE tonight! www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

Gold Machine returns for Galley's and Lawrence's Moonmist, a disappoining title with some interesting features. golmac.org/moon-missed/

Replay for the morning crowd: I have launched a Patreon to do Visible Zork 3, followed by all the rest of the Infocom games. One per month. There's an associated Discord for game discussion as we run through them. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker

more DE tonight in an hour www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

I'll be playing more Disco Elysium tonight starting at 830p CST www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

doing more DE tonight www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

playing more disco elysium tonight www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

I'm streaming a little Elden Ring tonight www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

streaming a bit of elden ring tonight. www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

disco elysium tonight! www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

tonight: elden ring www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

my holiday trip to the northern wastes of Arkansas has concluded

...or, as I like to call it, trauma season

it's dark souls iii tonight www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

hi all! streaming a bit of Disco Elysium tonight. www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

I made a discord server to talk about commercial games and my occasional streams. ATM it's pretty much empty. All nice people are welcome. discord.gg/yAeyVHe4

stranger! doing a bit of resident evil 4 tonight www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

more resident evil 4 tonight! www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

Teaser trailer this week. #Supergirl

spent around five hours implementing custom actions for one noun (this is Inform 10 talk). I suppose most of that material is optional, but I feel that optional content is largely what differentiates the great games.

what a cursed image

More disco elysium tonight. Will probably play for 60-90 minutes starting at 8 CST. At always, we'll gather in the "OMG_Streaming" channel here for chat discord.gg/48XPHPcte2

It's cold this morning. Not cold-cold but Louisiana cold. I'll have to wear a hat on my walk.

Heartbreaking: another cat is in your bed

Nico as Batman and Andy as Robin, 1967. Photo: Frank Bez for Esquire magazine.

The window for submissions on #TYIVGB25 is now open! critical-distance.com/2025/12/01/c...