PROGRAMMING UPDATE: Francesca ekwuyasi is not able to be here this weekend. But happily, the amazing @ayshaufarah.bsky.social will be taking up the task & hosting @amalelmohtar.com's event today! Join us at 2pm in the WFNS Atrium at 1113 Marginal Rd!

You will never, ever be able to predict what is going to piss people off. I once worked on a game where there was a whole discourse cycle about the hint system being too mean. Never in my life could I have thought to avoid that. But good news! That means you don’t have to care about this shit

At a fanfiction panel at @tricon-hfx.bsky.social & @ayshaufarah.bsky.social reveals that unlike everyone else on the panel who started reading/writing fanfic at ages 7-10, she started at 14. “I’m basically a boomer”

🎶Beastling Lullaby🎵 5x7" ink on claybord #silksong little gift for a friend~

I’m doing an event Saturday evening 6:30 at Trident Books in Halifax, reading from my story in the recently locus-nominated Amplitudes Anthology. So come to that if you’re in town

Constantly revealing my americaness to Canadians by saying “restroom” instead of “washroom”

Woulda made lae’zel and Shadowheart kiss on the mouth

A tale told in four photos

They’re playing Kpop demon hunters in the Montreal airport

Hi Canada I am in you

You will never, ever be able to predict what is going to piss people off. I once worked on a game where there was a whole discourse cycle about the hint system being too mean. Never in my life could I have thought to avoid that. But good news! That means you don’t have to care about this shit

A tale told in four photos

I love flying internationally out of DCA because of this old bougie mid century terminal

He cooked them. Jesus Christ

I love being a freelancer because if you wait for two months you’ll get paid 50 whole dollars and you only have to remind the client four times

People always hate on brutalism but I love that shit. It feels homie to me. That’s probably because I grew up riding the metro through stations like this, but still

Oh yeah I’m gonna be at tricon this weekend, so if you’re in Halifax for some reason come hear me read Saturday night!

DEMIURGE [walking into the bar]: yoooo dude it’s been FOREVER homie ME: no dude, no, fuck you dude, we are not…no you have been so fucked up dude

I’m at my dad’s place and he had a fake fresco type painting leaning up against the wall that I just broke by snagging my long skirt on it. It cut my hand when i tried to pick it up, I feel like a heroine in a gothic mansion

Lee is one of my Top Homies, his books RIP. "Summer Sons" is great if you're gay and have ever been sad in college, and "Woods All Black" is great if you're gay and you want to fuck a werewolf

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

I want to play gta6 because that chick looks hot

I’m sorry brother I am not going to keep going to the nazi bar because some NYT journalists like the cocktails there so much they refuse to go anywhere else

It’s always funny to see the walking simulator discourse pop up because when I was first playing baldur’s gate my wife came up and was like “so is this game just entirely standing around and talking to people”

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

Got a ton of people in my replies telling me that Larian is an indie studio. You guys know what I mean

After nearly 500 hours in bg3 I finally bothered to get the blood of lathander and astarion’s reaction to getting blown up made it worth it

so from what i understand of the new kickstarter rules, erotica is okay as long as it doesn't make anybody horny

I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear

Funny they are making jacking off illegal but they also want to make SSRIs illegal. Pick a lane buddy

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

what is so wrong with "content designed for sexual gratification". why are you so afraid of orgasms.

I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for

It makes me so angry that baldur’s gate won every single game of the year award in existence, but if it had been an indie game it would not have been allowed on the any storefront or funding platforms.

This is so fucking stupid

me: modern anime is washed my wife: there's a new ghost in the shell anime me: anime is my life

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le guin was the goat, we lost such a legend

there are also lots of cats bsky.app/profile/llew...

really think it's telling that the generation most into AI is the one that is hitting retirement age

wow, shocking that people entering the job market aren't jazzed on the Job Elimination Machine

Say hello to the birthday girl

You haven’t seen anything until you’ve been in a room full of millennials when someone puts on “yeah” by usher

Whenever there’s mass effect discourse I’m just glad it’s not dragon age discourse

An old man just said “happy Mother’s Day” to me and I was so baffled that I said it back. I guess i look like a mom ???

It’s gotten to the point where applying for any game job feels like shouting into a well

“Elven pornos” is my new cellar door

I hate the use of “clean” and “wholesome” to refer to shit without mature themes, cause the implication is that everything else is dirty

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,