i'm signing onto No Games For Genocide, committing to the boycott of Xbox until Microsoft ends its complicity with Israeli crimes, and so should you: nogamesforgenocide.com

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

i somehow broke the one cable i can neither replace nor solder

fuck

#pluribus carol sturka as an ass woman is beautiful characterization

it's weird how my router keeps a list of everyone who's ever made it to the asking for my wifi password stage of sleeping with me

i'm halfway through the left hand of darkness and i've decided that concern for one's shifgrethor shall be my torment nexus to inflict upon the world

youtu.be/WCnojaEpF2I you gotta watch this. you'll get it if you're at all technical, and if you're not skip through to the demonstrations and the considerations at the end. the kids are alright, and we're all fucked.

こうさぎオセロ

i dont know who made this one and would like to

yup it's as good as i remember

holy shit simogo legacy collection holy shit device 6 i have not played this game since i was like ELEVEN

Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/unauthorized...

youtu.be/CPmRsHBRU6k this is so wonderfully dreamlike

As a matter of survival, our response must be to make it as costly as we can, as ugly and as reputationally damaging and as expensive as we are able to - to abandon and sacrifice trans people. To keep it from being an easy, simple bottom line decision to drive us out of public life.

new blog post about a good website, vandalised blog.vbuckenham.com/good-website...

A good meditation on why just "recreating" an historic structure architecturally without the everyday lived context ends up with a sterile result. Also why thoughtful environmental storytelling is so powerful

you can pry the emdash from my cold dead hands

thank you @adventurex.bsky.social day one i now need to sleep forever or at least until day two

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these are essays that were 30+ years old, then, but still fresh (and still are) bc it’s about thinking about programming as a process and a tool programming was an intellectual tradition not just a job of which there seems very little today

i'm so glad the strange little game alex and i made when we were basically kids is still out there. play it for his truly gorgeous soundtrack worldenddisk.itch.io/end-of-the-w...

frankly he's spoilt

oh yeah we're working on something @leoofox.bsky.social

L + Ratio + Send + Sync + Sized + Unpin

oh yeah PLURIBUS

congrats to all my friends in new york. you were right. bodegas are a whole different kind of thing and not just corner shops where cats sometimes live

congrats to the big mam

They fuck you up, your King of Kings. They may not mean to but they do. They leave you trunkless legs of stone, And add some visage, just for you.

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

finished skong finally

did blaseball start up again then

i'm listening to mitski again and isn't it crazy how mitski is the greatest living artist, give or take

<3 oh yeah baybey i suppose this brings out the failure of Kiss Garden's protagonist(s). they're involved with two worlds notable for their fractal subtleties (nature and sex) and entirely failing to even recognise those subtleties.

youtu.be/D1XmLqzHYG0?... here's the timestamp to watch the talk

talk given! i'll be answering questions in the Dressing Room at the end of this block of talks. thank you again @roguelike.club for having me!

i'm on in less than half an hour! come join roguelike celebration!

4.45pm UK time! plus: illustrations by the most wonderful @leoofox.bsky.social

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

word list for the live captioner

my talk on Kiss Garden at @roguelike.club is this sunday!

on the train this morning

perversion-led design: when you start making something, dig down and find whatever tiny thing it is in your idea that 'turns you on', i.e. the oddly specific element that you are unbearably compelled by, then treat that as sacred

my talk on Kiss Garden at @roguelike.club is this sunday!

i know it sucks but it must feel a little fun to be that guy with the backhoe destroying the white house. that’s like the final boss of operating heavy machinery

please may my sisters remember that we are too cool and sexy to be scared of a group calling themselves the 'magnificent seven'

no hate to the blessed interviewers who live outside of the discourse, but i was recently asked “when was the first time you realized games could also be art?” and pulled my first ever no comment

Sliksong: welcome to the dismal bile pit me: this must be the game's most hostile area... its blighttown analogue [hours later] Silksong: welcome to the vomit viaduct me: this must be the game's most hostile area... its blighttown analogue [hours later] Sillksong: welcome to shit-eating canyon

putting this poster up all around my game-design workplace

oh for FUCKS SAKE