today i told a friend that her babies’ smiles were so cute i could really feel them hit my chest now i understand not everyone feels hit in the chest by smiles

Hi new followers! If you don't already know I have a new game coming out on January 22nd! It's a narrative adventure set in the year 2003 where you are a young writer trying to make sense of the world: store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

pspspspsps game’s on sale 25%, pspspsps it’s a Match-3 Dating Sim set in a solarpunk world of magic! It’s made and directed by POC, overwhelmingly queer and trans like its creators, and meant to feel like a warm hug. Gift it to the reformed Potter fan in your life!

thank you so much for your time and response. this is my favorite thing i wrote this year i think.

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Homespun anime fandom of the 80s, printed out on a chattering college dot matrix printer. Lum on the cover, Star Blazers love, and questions and answers about Fist of the North Star's characters and world. 📖: Panime's Image, 1987

big fan of this one

this tree looks like ganbreeder output

just woke up from a nightmare where I was home watching a tv show called “30 relevant women in games”

The Immortal (1990) - Apple IIGS

Dudes Rock

who is want to come TURKEY i can invitate

I downloaded this weird epistolary game called Jmail and I can’t believe this got released?????

Finally...the good part of youtube

new low-poly oc, what should I name her?🩷

take some time today to be a slab of meat

he is a reality star first and foremost xleighalexanderx.substack.com/p/what-makes...

“It’s not a linear journey! Game development is as much about self reflection, exploration, and curiosity, as it is about all the other seemingly impersonal technical things involved in making something.”

this is literally what it feels like to be alive during the holidays

something I learned this year is you should invite people to things even if you know they can’t come. instead of it making them feel bad it actually makes them feel good

Regency Solitaire II is on sale 56% off. 97% positive. If you think you'll like it, you'll probably love it. store.steampowered.com/app/2137470/...

salt marsh A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

Immensely funny that meta sunk billions of dollars into their stupid virtual world no one uses while second life still somehow exists and has an active profitable user base Proof once again that things will only succeed if people can be degenerately horny on them

"Reality show" means totally different things depending on where in the world you are. I've written an article on how, and why. undeniablyalex.substack.com/p/alternate-...

somehow I only just learned this but last year they added Samsara to the Sims 4?

on this day last year I reviewed a certain McDonald’s in PA

Hey all! I know from personal experience the holidays can suck. Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️ www.patreon.com/qquest

Sometimes I wish that more stuff that sounds like a joke actually was.

the Nazis were super into fonts too, loving the calligraphic Fraktur before Hitler decided serifs were too Jewish and everybody had to use Antiqua and Futura

as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'

Mapped by our ancestors - a post portem theunderscore.xyz/t/mapped-by-... “This is probably the fate of every videogame you’ll ever play. Those universes are alive for a few hours, sometimes a few days […] But eventually, you stop playing them.” 👆 what a beautiful piece of writing this is 😭🥲

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Genuinely incredibly fascinating study in what marketing vectors lead to literally zero sales here, wowwww kotaku.com/king-meat-gl...

Thanks Ana, this was a great convo! Funny looking back on this part hehe... 😈

Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...

Congratulations to @agaitcheson.bsky.social for receiving this year's Bernie DeKoven Big Fun Award! Featuring everything from alt. controllers to painting, dance and clowns, your stage shows and livestreams give everyone the chance to take creative control! www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

i am not a fox, rabbit and wren queer... i'm a sheep, wolf and deer queer

i think if you have a juicy enough tale therapists should give you the session for free because let's be real they love that shit and ought to be paying you for the experience

I picked up No Players Online both to support it after the DMCA thing and because I wanted to see how they expanded what was in the Haunted PS1 Demo Disk version, but no one told me it went all-in on the 90s OS/Internet as a framing device! I love this stuff.

jesus i had forgotten about this