Got a new editor who promises a 200% increase in typos bcos she is shark and can't type good :>

It might be nice if this quote wasn't presented without the very obvious pushback that Farage is in no way the most attacked. MPs have been killed. Our media has a duty to push back on this.

Reading certain authors as a teenager casts a magic spell that lets you believe their work is really good and you’re just not old enough to get it yet.

“Do not play games by using in-game functions in a manner other than what they were originally intended for.” - FromSoftware, Elden Ring, 2022

Back then, in that racist era, this speech ultimately tanked his career. Today he'd probably get a regular slot on GB News. I've been reading horrible archive material lately, from groups that were on the racist fringe in the 60s/70s. A lot of their discourse is now shared by mainstream parties.

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

There is nothing any developer can do to avoid right-wing ideologues, no level of acquiescence that will stave them off if they choose to target you, because they will just make shit up wholecloth! They're like CinemaSins looking for any reason to ding that bell; the "sin" is made-up post hoc.

guy goes to a doctor, says he can't read any more. doctor says what are you reading? guy says, 16th-century gothic cursive. doctor says look, the great palaeographer is in town, why don't you go see him. guy says, but doctor...

i'm scrolling thru my tumblr in 2013 and i don't think we should have evolved past tumblr for social media, shoulda ended there tbh

Editors, I’m looking to do more freelance reviews. Unfortunately, work hasn’t paid me for last month and I’m struggling to make ends meet while I wait for that (it’s three weeks late now). I can also help with guides, interviews, previews — anything you need.

Oh this one’s good

desman party trick

Reminder that if you are paid to work on interactive games in the UK, you should join @gameworkers.co.uk. We do fire drills in offices before actual fires happen to make sure we know what to do when there is a real fire. Joining a union and building it up is also more useful BEFORE you need it.

“Don’t worry guys, I‘ll play something normal this time.” [five rolls later]

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

Never let anyone talk you out of a quick 2 day game jam. Those 4 months will be the best 3 years spent releasing a commercial game of your life

Oh come on that’s NOT the theme. These people don’t deserve clothes.

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

I'm at Diceni in the Norwich Forum today with @eerieseymour.bsky.social. Drop by and say hi if you're around. I'll try to sell you a Mouldy Lettuce.

I love hearing why people hate things I like. Which is good, because I have truly appalling taste in almost everything.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, this manga about the little dinosaur is called Gon? Me: By Masashi Tanaka, yeah. CHOTINER: This is badass. Thanks for showing this to me. Me: No problem.

PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT LOVECRAFT: he was the master of indescribable horrors LOVECRAFT, WRITING: it was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people-eater! DEAR GOD, I SAY, A ONE-EYED ONE-HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE-EATER! and that's not an ethnicity I like!

Spent too long browsing the archives and now I’m emotionally attached to an innkeeper from 1690’s Wigan who has been financially ruined by the arrival of 420 dragoon horses, who eat 30 shillings worth of grass a night. That’s so much grass. How is he ever going to recover from this.

Norking

God forbid he has hobbies

Tremendous and much-needed good news - the University of Sussex have won their High Court battle against the Office for Students. The OFS fined the university over half a million pounds for having a trans inclusion policy. If upheld, this would have set a gross precedent for all oppressed groups.

Once again: if your studio requires people to upend their entire life and move across the country to work there in person, the least you can do is provide secure employment.

Contracting CANNOT become a games industry norm. Workers deserve job security, and our projects deserve consistency.

My first job was washing rocks for hot rock massages at a travelling mind body and spirit fair. Not kidding.

wizard familiars, which one do you like?

Stop praying! I‘ve become too powerful! Stop it!

An update from my dad's workbench. He's carved one of his sheet phantoms skipping over a waxed driftwood pebble, like some kind of seabed creature...

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

@liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social and I have an upcoming podcast episode about this exact topic, but my expanded list (in order of obscurity) is: - Swordspoint - The King in Yellow - Teleny *specifically* by way of Possession (the other one)

6AM: outta the way gay boy I’m adjusting my sleep schedule 9AM: hopital

I have to wake up at 4AM tomorrow for a fencing tournament and then I actually have to do the fencing. prayer circle please

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Anatomy of Melancholy asks important questions like “did a witch cause my depression?” And ”is it ethical to ask a different witch to fix my depression?”

Tag yourself on this list of 18th century gay aliases

I’M BEING ATTACKED

Writing the Call of Cthulhu campaign I dreamed about playing in last night. What could possibly go wrong.

For no especial reason I am recalling the time I drunkenly suggested the bartender at the Coolest Place In Town play Masayoshi Takanaka’s Rainbow Goblins and the madman actually played it.

the plan from the city council is to fade into the mists every 100 years

Wine Aunt-style ”All the best things in life are bad for you” shirt but next to gin and chocolate it just says “losing a pint of blood”

”You have to learn the rules before you can-“ WRONG, you can do whatever you want forever and nobody can stop you.

Oh I’ve made 1,000 posts. Do I get a prize?

I don't know who or what studio needs to see this, but if you can only hire a writer for a week then please hire a writer for a week. There are oceans of us who are out of work and who'd love to bring our craft to your games. Different arrangements can work for different writers. So reach out!

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

The Sopranos is a really fantastic show from the jump but it turns into something indescribably special during the Carmela Ant Arc