So, just to get this straight. Folks are expressing malcontent with the government's brownshirts and now troops are sent to clean up. And members of the President's staff are saying that expressing oneself verbally against said brownshirts is effectively terrorism. And this is year one?

So this rapture thing... Was that supposed to be midnight GMT or are we looking at some other time zone here? Just wanna make sure I'm prepped for the flight.

I have found a need to distract my brain away from only thinking creatively at work and let me just tell you, writing short-form horror is fun! Why didn't I do this earlier?

Ouch.

Somehow I had completely missed that one of my favorite horror writers, @johnhornor.bsky.social, has a new book out in less than a month! Christmas comes early this year and it smells of the sea. Can't wait!

Pretty soon they'll be charging folks for all those thoughts and prayers too, I bet. Absolutely disgusting.

This thread is a fine example of what happens when assumptions overflow online.We know the difference, folks. We asked for that position because we need that specific skillset.

100%

Am I excited for The Outer Worlds 2? Yes. Yes I am.

Not even kids are this childish.

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Why didn’t they just get ChatGPT to do it?

So the “steal your stuff to sell it back to you while we set fire to the world” business can’t function if they can’t steal your stuff? Who knew?!

Oh goodness, yes please!

The orange goblin has completely lost it now, hasn't he?

Surveillance guy in a van.

Good luck, Canada. 🇨🇦

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While we are at it, someone hire Nessa, alright?

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Chantal is so on point here in this thread, I can’t add anything meaningful. This happens absolutely constantly and bloats budgets and wears down devs wildly. I know it’s important to reduce risk but JFC it can be costly to reduce risk this way.

Writing can be a miserable process. All the self-doubt, the rewrites, the "what is this shit?", the exploration to find something interesting. Today I wrote two chapters for my novel and it felt good. Felt like I got to something important in the story. The end is in view. Keep pushing forward.

If you haven't yet, play #AtomFall. It's absolutely fantastic. Brilliant storytelling by @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social and his team, just finished one of 6 or 7 endings now and am ready to dive back in. Very English, very moody, great sense of paranoia and never quite enough ammo. 10/10.

I think it might be time to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution again…

Just a reminder that the turmoil in the games industry of 2023 and 2024 is still going in 2025. Want to support a studio or game that's peaked your interest? Wishlist, follow their socials, interact with their posts! Devs are tired and scared. Even the smallest actions for support mean a lot.

What the actual shit? “You build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like some place where they can live and not die, because Gaza is a guarantee that they’re going to end up dying,” Trump told reporters.

It just keeps getting more and more idiotic.

Well, it’s Christmas. Time to watch all the Nightmare on Elm Street films again…

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The maw of dystopia widens by the second with these people in charge...

Man, it feels GOOD punching nazis again.

Sometimes, quite often in fact, I feel like I can see the very moment in time when I moved away from my original ambition of becoming a horror writer and moved towards my current life as a writer of games. I hope the twain will meet again one day.

What a great thread!

The Rock really is the best James bond movie that was never made.

Gotta say, the Onion buying Infowars was not on my 2024 bingo card but I'm here for it.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

"Who should be pick for Attorney General?" "I dunno. Pedophile, maybe?" "Epstein's dead. How about an alleged pedophile?" "Close enough." www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/p...

This new US government sure looks to be as pure an expression of the hyper-real as the world can be without just straight imploding. Nothing makes any sense anymore.

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Once every six to eight months, I go back to The Breeders and LAST SPLASH and remember just how goddamn awesome that album is.

I have been trying to put together a biophilosophical urban body horror TTRPG with a friend of mine for two years now and it is exactly this. What is even time anymore?!

This is a great concept! Can't wait to se more.

Subnautica 2? Be still my heart!

Good on you, Senator Lidia Thorpe.

It finally happened. A member of my TTRPG group, a selection of fine individuals I have known most of my life, asked me if I’d run a @deltagreen.bsky.social campaign. They have no idea what’s about to go down…

Eugene Victor Tooms.

You know you've done something right with your kid's upbringing when she calmly states that she wants to dress up as "lady death, the reaper of souls, not because of Halloween but because I love the darkness". She's eight.