i thought baldur's gate 3 did this already?

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

My partner opening up her Instagram to find that I have sent her several dozen reels in the past 10 minutes

www.lowbo.io/how-utilitar... I made my first blog post! It's about Utilitarianism. Oops!

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Hello again! It's time for a new pinned post. I am between jobs, so I've set up a portfolio website and blog here: www.lowbo.io If anything I've ever said here or elsewhere has intrigued you, I'd love suggestions for topics. I do better with a prompt. Hope to see you soon!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfcW... these two are so good. SOOOOOO good. feels good to be a lil fanboy again :3

[me, sobbing, on my knees] You can't turn everything into a deckbuilder roguelike. Some things must remain sacred [an indie dev, drunk on hubris, points at seagull] that's a deckbuilder roguelike now

Do I know anybody (or anybody who can put me in touch with somebody) who works in games in Berlin?

i mean, cleanly and easily D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8gf... i've been sleeping on Magdalena Bay. really good stuff - pop music by the slackers in the back of the class.

if i hadn't already decided it was time to get the fuck out of north america the events of this week surely would have decided for me (if u need game systems design work in europe let me know 😌)

*Silksong boss fight starts. The door locks* Me: Heh, I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with m- *I immediately dash wrong way into lava*

me fighting bosses in silksong: My body is a machine that turns pain into death. I know all the steps to this dance. You cannot touch me. I am a leaf on the wind but made out of razor blades me fighting three (3) generic goons in silksong: aaghghg shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck

some of these silksong bosses are all-timers IMO

I DID IT!!!! that was a siiiiiiiiiiick boss

i mean, the series is called "smash" (i'm sure this one has been done before)

ok ok i'm really enjoying silksong but the runback for this particular main story boss is reaaaalllly brutal

psa to fellow silksong players - the warding bell charm that purports to protect you while you're healing is kinda a scam. it often doesn't work in the moments you need it to, and counting on it will often get you killed

i'm having a funny pattern in silksong where i i'm playing super well against the bosses but getting rocked by single easy enemies

silksong good

silksong silksong silksong

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Tom Clancy's Philosophical Investigations

If you want a fandom full of horny fucking women, this is how you do it. With an evil bisexual.

I’m sure this has been done before but it just occurred to me. Given that D&D can be a very horny game, is DMing just service topping?

Basically every time I meet a writer who worked on a game I didn’t like they tell me the initial idea they had that stakeholders didn’t let them implement and it’s always the coolest fucking shit in the world. Let people cook!!!

Ocarina of time. This song was too scary for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-M... I could deal with it until the first time night fell in Hyrule Field, then I noped out

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe2C... This video is a beautiful demonstration of taking something unfamiliar and analyzing it + learning to love it within your own context

ok i know this is like the greatest slowpoke of all time but WOW clash royale is a very very good video game

Fuckin’ sick

i'm just not that interested in people behaving badly. it's very easy to break things, but it's really hard to build things. maybe i'm weird but i was moved by a video about how the expertise and coordination in building the gotthard base tunnel. much more interesting than "guy shoots other guy"

Pagliacci [watching footage of his own show]: This isn’t bad. Areas to improve, but overall, it works. Huh. It’s funny, I avoided this for so long. I was afraid of taking stock of myself. And I was so focused on the road ahead, I never stopped to consider how far I’d come. Thank you, doctor

I just learned that there was a term for one of my primary affection behaviors - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbling Guess I’m a penguin!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7A... perfect song

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Hy... fun talk from @rym.social. Really enjoyed this lens for analyzing games. I would dispute "sport" as a core test though - coming from the world of realtime games it seems clear that this test can be broken up into tests of reaction time, coordination...

yes, i believe professions that involve synthesizing new knowledge will be outperformed by a technology that can only recombine existing knowledge. i am very smart.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC... birds are so fucking cool

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

the funny thing is that every single one of these is okay, in copyright terms, except for the Horizon stuff. Game mechanics are not copyrightable - even Nintendo vs Palworld is down to rather arbitrary specifics.

the actual experts: “it can do at best 20% of the things you’re asking for and of the actual interesting stuff it CAN do which doesn’t take over existing human work, none of your development processes are set up to incorporate that”

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

In college I was unhappy about having to take non-major classes, I felt like they were wasting my time when there was so much I had to learn. This was a case of the adults in the room knowing better than the kid. In retrospect I wish that they had forced me to take MORE electives outside my major.

QED

any sort of chain reaction, PoE has a ton of these that are very satisfying

Sure. Entertainment companies are in the business of making the ultimate consumer product. People don’t consume that product if they think it’s not for them. So the Holy Grail is a product everyone thinks speaks to them. You need diverse perspectives to make those.