A very normal amount of game components on our table the last few days.

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Metroids, as you know, were originally called Metropolitan Squids but the games character limits forced them to rename the creatures. Ridley’s full name was obviously originally Ridley Scott Director of Alien

. @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social finding the joys of hades' post game quest design

A lot of people’s problems with injustice and cruelty is that they don’t like being aware of it and would do anything to go back to pretending that nothing is wrong

[email protected] shocks the nation with the revelations in the last lamulana video with @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social

It is true: today I am zalgotext of your human years old. I want to thank everybody for the lovely messages, and another year of support. I hope to release ten thousand great and terrible videos in this next year, and in doing so to obliterate all human miseries.

FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!

This isn't that big of a twist. I think everyone knows I'm a sell-out.

i had to dig this up again to honor one of the greats

Honestly what I want is a Camina Drummer Life Simulator. Half insanely detailed resource management tactical space game half pansexual polyamorous dating sim.

I saw this in a thread about Pluribus, and I was really taken aback. I guess I want a little bit of a check in: is this last post a common way of thinking about stories? It seems incredibly shallow and egocentric to me, and so limiting in terms of what kinds of stories you'd be able to engage with.

#3198 Two dinosaurs who are just friends

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Goddamnit!

Jack's right, this is rad.

Ask and you shall receive

Excellent work from Critical Kate, as always.

Dogs are real, and I have seen one.

It's a Garfcember to remember

Another little bit of inspiration I made for you

@mode7games.bsky.social and DREAMTRAK absolutely killed on the music for The Banished Vault. go pick it up here nervoustestpilot.bandcamp.com/album/the-ba...

Yep. And they’re gonna make a ton of money and we’re going to be told how it’s soooooo important for marginalized people to support.

One effect of wanting to put alt text on everything is that I post a lot fewer board game pictures than I otherwise would. I mostly take pictures during other players' turns, and I don't want to hold the game up typing descriptions on my phone, and then by the time the game is over I've forgotten.

Patisserie Rococo maintains the things I enjoyed about Rococo, and I really enjoy the way the card management works. I don't love the artwork, although I can't quite put my finger on the problem; it's just kind of... mundane, I guess? Overall though I'm quite happy to add it to the collection.

I forgot how wild 2016's releases were. The greatest increase in my esteem then to now probably belongs to HITMAN, which revealed itself to be the seed of something extraordinary, and in hindsight it's easy to see how much of that was already there. GOTY then and now would still be The Witness.

Rhythm Doctor is fucking great.

Shoutout to deathgenerator.com

Chop Chop!

Tomorrow, at 2 pm Eastern, 10 episodes of Arcade Pit! www.patreon.com/posts/10-yea... Stop on by!

not a great start to the day… a battlebot got under my feet and flipped me

Sometimes if you play daft punk in your car while you drive around looking at Christmas lights the flashing lights will sync up to the music and that's one good thing about being alive

Had a dream that I saw Wake Up Dead Man and was delighted to discover that the film hinged completely on the antics of a troublemaking goose named Chrumbo. "That Chrumbo's gonna be a star," I said.

If you can escape the cycle of desire, there's a crisp twenty in it for you.

"What kind of music are you into?" "Oh, you know, mostly albums."

Horses finished. I really liked it. It is unflinchingly uncomfortable at times, but it's all very purposefully directed. Terrible things happen when no-one speaks out, when the weak are forced to comply, and others join in and abet for their own benefit. Play it. www.gog.com/en/game/horses

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

I named my fists DUNGEONS and DRAGONS because there are many other fists, most of which are more suitable for whatever you want them to do.

bisexuality

@sbmakesstuff.bsky.social is soloing Vital Lacerda's new board game The Great Library today via Tabletopia. Come and cheer her on while I heckle her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYCV...

Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...

I noticed a version of this effect years ago that has come to be called the Samhain Ratio in our house: a movie is much more likely to be interesting if its Rotten Tomatoes critic rating is at least 20 points above its publicly contributable ratings (RT audience, IMDB, etc.).

The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map. When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.

CHOP CHOP.

The new Lacerda is pretty fun. www.kickstarter.com/projects/eag...