people say they want narrative games to have a lot of choice but the bigger the choice the less it matters. if you can choose to kill a character then every other world state has to scope for a scenario where that char doesn't exist. even alive they can never meaningfully impact the story again

And everyone on the bus clapped

I’m sorry but the part of me that is still a 22 year old philosophy undergrad feels insane seeing the most basic ass logical fallacies written into law.

(Bg3) lost my honor mode run in classic baldur’s gate fashion: to a glitch

The hunter in motion

sorry there hasn't been an All My Maidens in a hot minute, my brain has become very smooth from a combination of factors, I'm gonna be getting back into it in April.

Yeah bud we can tell

When I’m in NYC next month I’m gonna go crazy on a bagel

sorry there hasn't been an All My Maidens in a hot minute, my brain has become very smooth from a combination of factors, I'm gonna be getting back into it in April.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

The hunter in motion

Just found out our landlords are selling the house, fml

Right cause I mean, if populist powerhouses like Clinton and Harris with no embarrassing ties to perverts and war criminals couldn’t win, what woman could?

the inventory management in baldur's gate 3 is truly ungodly

It will probably not surprise anyone to hear that in the dragon age 2 waifu wars, I was a fenris girlie

Dragon age 2 is a game about a bunch of sociopaths who take time out of their busy schedule fucking each other and doing crimes to accidentally prevent an international Fantasy Racism Incident

I’ve talked people’s ears off about this before but dragon age 2 has two extremely cool elements that I haven’t see repeated much. One is the story told in a single, mutable location, and the other is the romance/rivalmance affection system

Dragon Age 2 is the best dragon age, with the best character writing of any RPG ever, fight me

Rank and file devs have very little creative control.

(bg3) finally made it to act 3 in honor mode. It’s been kind of a weirdly glitchy run, the shadow Druid’s note was replaced with something else, and the titan string bow was just not in either places you’re supposed to be able to buy it. But i persevere

‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it's like working for a company that's forcing AI on its developers: aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

I don’t care how much it has gotten meme’d, take me to church still fucking goes

I’m gonna be so for real I don’t know anyone on ozempic

extremely underrated banger

that time of year when you're like "i could do my taxes or i could walk into traffic"

Man this guy is such a fucking piece of shit

I like that I learned cursive because it’s significantly faster than printing, but that’s only valuable to a pervert like me who enjoys writing her little stories longhand. This is so unbearably stupid in the year of our lord 2026

new BONUS episode of All My Maidens! @benrlmeredith.bsky.social (whose voice you may recognize from the Magnus Archives, among other things) joins me to talk about Blue Prince, the puzzle game that all your game dev nerd friends were obsessed with for two months last year. check it out on patreon:

I wouldn’t mind paying $100 for a game if I knew that the people who made the game were getting a share of the revenue but let’s be so fr there’s literally no chance of that

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

You ever think about how the first appearance of the word “bisexual” in a video game was solid snake giving raiden shit for being homophobic about a vampire

i unironically love The Magicians. it's got one of the best gay characters on tv and extremely solid writing and world-building. it's also very stupid, which i need in my syfy network shows

new BONUS episode of All My Maidens! @benrlmeredith.bsky.social (whose voice you may recognize from the Magnus Archives, among other things) joins me to talk about Blue Prince, the puzzle game that all your game dev nerd friends were obsessed with for two months last year. check it out on patreon:

Anyway I hope that vile terf’s attempt to farm a new batch of child actors who dont grow up to think she sucks crashes and burns

I wouldn’t watch a Harry Potter HBO series if you paid me. The point of HBO is sucking and fucking. You think they’re putting sucking and fucking in that shit? Hell no

I call this episode “Harry Potter and the what the fuck is wrong with this bitch”

if manning up means using AI then brother i am pussying out

2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened

Me and Everyone I’ve talked to don’t even get rejections anymore, just silence. It’s basically at the point where if I don’t explicitly know someone at the studio who can shove my cv into the hiring manager’s face, I don’t even bother.

"bro is this fetish art 😭" anything and everything you will ever interact with is someone's fetish. someone wants to fuck clouds. someone's horniest thought is to be a branch on a tree. someone's going to fuck a salt shaker. someone wants to fuck math. someone did. his name was albert einstein

writing is: 20% saying dialogue aloud to yourself in the shower, 35% going on a little walk, 40% languishing, 5% actually writing

mfer thinks he's playing Phoenix Wright

lmao?

if manning up means using AI then brother i am pussying out

Gotta be the worker’s struggle against capital for me tbh

the art of the deal

reading through some responses and thinking on it, and i feel like the best boss fights are the ones that are not only visually impressive and mechanically interesting/challenging, but have the requisite plot and thematic build-up

“Well maybe if you’d played more Fortnite we wouldn’t have had to get rid of all these workers 😞”