Okay warframe I take it all back, Archwings are cool as fuck

[swivels news desk chair to camera 2] okay let's talk about mining

...okay warframe fans you might wanna mute me for a couple days b/c this game is fine and i'm having a decent time but it's also consistently doing things design and UX-wise that I am gonna feel compelled to complain about

Alright Warframe nerds I need help and googling is predictably unhelpful Is there any way to make enemies more visible? Like... highlighting, or making their health bars appear at a greater distance, or a triangle over their head? Something?

I hate that I can see a video of something genuinely vile that makes me furious and now I have to stop and go 'okay but is this real?' Like... man. I'm teaching a course called Media Literacy this semester and what a fucken time to be doing THAT.

[lying on the floor face-down] I have to go outside and I would rather do almost anything else

(quiet voice) No disrespect to the fans but I've realized I will probably never play a DR game or Hundred Line because that artist's character designs are so far out of my interest zone it's not even funny which is kind of ironic b/c that artist has done some FGO Servants I love the design of

CFP: Special issue: New Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Gaming: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el...

Warframe I genuinely like you but you gotta start marking shit on my map, "find the tiny object in this big-ass circle" is not gonna cut it with me!!!!!!

My brain chose today to remind me of the Pokemon-reffing BESM variant they were literally going to call "Cute and Fuzzy Cock-fighting Seizure Monsters"

[squinting] So... any rando can join my "mission" in Warframe, fuck it up for me, then just leave?

how many fucking times am I going to type "cuntyroll" into the location bar. i swear to you i am not doing it on purpose.

[writes and deletes like 10 versions of this] this sucks. i'm sorry. i'm performative posting because my anxiety is kinda forcing me to so all i have take-wise is the scintillating "this whole situation inhumanly sucks"

Bayonetta. 100%.

Enter the HIPPADrome

Me, trying my damndest to set up a recurring meeting that happens on the right day, and failing like five times: "Wow! I sure do love using Outlook!"

Folks heading to #MAGfest! Come check out a new demo of Beatdown City Survivors in the indies area at booth 33! And come by the panel I'm running - "Hip-Hop and Video Games" on Saturday, January 10th at 6PM! Featuring @megaran.com @ltheadtrip.bsky.social @maximumcrash.com and Quelle Chris!

So after a number of hours playing Warframe last night 1.) Making a new account and starting fresh was the right call; I suspect since the first time I tried, the new player experience got a serious overhaul 2.) The game has strong "garage kit Destiny" vibes but I don't see that as a negative

Game heard me talking shit I guess

Y'all, @themutantages.bsky.social has moved on to recapping Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, which is a Marvel show from the late 70s/early 80s trying to mimic the success of Superfriends, and you should really listen to the eps of it they've done so far because the show is BERSERK

A note that this was facilitated in many ways by the work of @adrishaw.bsky.social and the LGBTQ Game Archive, which you should also check out lgbtqgamearchive.com/about/about-...

No new pics, where you at mentally? I almost never do this on my PC vs. on my phone. So many more options.

Holy shit Warframe why is your camera up so CLOSE

The problem with starting any live service game that has been running for over a year, in 2025, is that you are going to log in for the first time, do the tutorial, and then get seven years of popups about content you will never, ever be able to do and reminders about 90 daily tasks.

Seriously I am going to find the encounter designer for Guild Wars 2's main storylines and I am going to have a Discussion with them about who hurt them and why they're taking it out on players.

LOSING IT

I don't believe in "best" but I can tell you the finale I will remember until my dying moment is the old ABC "kids" sitcom Dinosaurs. If you have never seen it, you should prepare yourselves for the last 3-5 minutes or so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9...

Genuinely trying to imagine my reaction if I got this kind of email. Would I Devil Wears Prada my way into the Dean's office like an indignant whirlwind? Probably actually!

Fun fact: for a class I'm teaching this spring I'm going to make my students run a fighting game tournament here on campus and I am going to save this thread to show them in March or so.

Okay every year my aunt sends me NY scratch off lottery tickets as a Christmas present. This means right now I actually have $25 in winning NY scratch offs on my desk. Is it worth my energy to claim these since you can't do it online?

here's a fun non-sequitur: a very real part of me knows if Normal People Around Me knew my kinks they would stop respecting me and/or think less of me yet somehow my brain never says "they probably think the same thing" and just assumes everyone else is unimpeachable

I'm great fun as a co-worker too, believe it or not.

Yyyyeah. Typical shit -- we want to say that people's urge to transform their bodies is bad, but we don't want to interrogate the WHY of people doing that at all.

Me looking this up after seeing multiple promos for "The Beauty" where the 'ugly version' of people is consistently fat, or at minimum "fatter": Murphy has described The Beauty as a commentary on "Ozempic culture" and the broader social fixation on rapid, drug-assisted physical transformation.[18]

[catches up on recent bsky social dynamic goings-on] okay well I needed motivation to get up and leave the house and the universe provided, jesus

This is like 75% "why?", 25% "terrible headline obscures viable and worthwhile use case for the technology in question" The accessibility/usability version discussed here intrigues me, but it's not without problems of its own (how do you train that model, for example)

I put FGO back on my phone (I know, shut up) and went to finish Lostbelt 7/Nahui Mictlan and I have to tell you, I almost took the fucking game back OFF my phone before it was all wrapped up. It is, without a doubt, the most MISERABLE gameplay experience I've had in that game over ~7 years.

Sometimes I worry about the level of upset some things evoke in me. My big one that just seems entirely undeserved but which makes me furious is tanking in an MMO (like ff140 and DPS/healers running ahead of me to pull mobs I haven't gotten to yet.

don't cry baby, plenty of hot people are only a little bit furry. you don't need to have a fursona to be sexy, maybe you just get chubbed up when you see bowser, or you have confusing memories about disney robin hood

The what? Why?

On Friday from 10:15 - 11:30, Lai-Tze Fan and I are running a beginner-friendly workshop on agentic tools for digital humanities projects, with discussion of how distant coding is shaping programming pedagogy and practice. Overview at: anastasiasalter.net/DistantCoding/ #MLA2026 #MLA26

For those headed to #MLA2026, please consider dropping by the two sessions sponsored by @eliterature.bsky.social: first up, a roundtable conversation, "Open Source Humanities in the Age of AI" on Thursday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM. Panelists and abstracts at: anastasiasalter.net/OpenSourceHu... #MLA26

I enjoy when these memes give me a chance to do some storytelling, so that's what I'm gonna do, but my answer here is My Neighbor Totoro. It's spring 1997. I'm in my second semester at UW Madison. I've realized I'm prob about to fail out of being a music ed major so I take an intro theater class.

Periodic reminder that I am open for work! Specifically I am looking for: -Writing roles -Editing roles -Project management roles I have a decade of experience in all levels of journalism and seven years as a game developer and localizer

My dark comedy Brawling Action Tactics game, Treachery in Beatdown City is *massively* on sale, until tomorrow at 10AM PST. 🤜🏼 Fight shitty people 👮🏼 Including fascist cops & billionaire politicians 🎶Some of the best modern chiptunes beatdown.city/tibcstm

Really feeling the Scylla and Charybdis right now of "social media is making me increasingly berserk" and "without the little voices in my phone, the loneliness I already find hard to deal with would probably get unbearable"

Me: "Alright, MacOS GarageBand, I'm expecting to have a level of sophistication and ease of use that's an improvement over your iOS incarnation. Let's change these string notes from legato to staccato in this Articulation menu." FOLKS

Was your New Year's resolution to read more? Or to engage with more queer art? Might I humbly suggest that if so, my short novel Nemesis would be a GREAT place to start, with one day left in the winter sale!

Pretty decent program! Performances were strong. I coulda done without the OWA encore but I understand 1.) I’m the only one who doesn’t like it and it’s 2.) obligatory so I don’t blame them.

Greetings from intermission at Distant Worlds in Baltimore