I'm not going to play the demo because this will be an immediate day one early access purchase 😍. These folks got my love of Morrowind with Dread Delusion and now they've got my love of early Final Fantasys, they can't keep getting away with this!!!

How it feels getting a steam deck a year and a half ago and a PS5 last year

Two brands, two LotR brand partnerships. Moleskine uses AI for their promotional art (and will not say if their notebook covers are AI) while Blackwing goes as far as crediting their artist. Yea Blackwing sells bougie (but actually really nice) pencils, but what I actually care about is the effort

How do I communicate to my cats that I'm not chasing them, we both just happen to be walking in the same direction down this hallway

Caves of Qud

Interested in an anticapitalist apocalypse? Then you should check out my Glasslands zine! It's got 18 original illustrations and a 15 page short story all about building community in the hardest of times Go and grab it for free, or leave a donation! xavierck.itch.io/glasslands

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

I've just uploaded my Glasslands zine to Itch! Go get it for zero moneys!! It includes 18 illustrations as well as an original 15 page short story, and there's even a PDF laid out specifically so you can print it and read it on the toilet! xavierck.itch.io/glasslands

For when your spreadsheets are soggy

Anyone in Seattle interested in 22 convention table grid display squares?

In case you've been curious to play Eastshade but haven't pulled the trigger, our open-world adventure game where you play as a traveling artist is on it's deepest discount ever at -75%! store.steampowered.com/app/715560/E...

$48 annually for a Clarke's World subscription is still easily one of the best deals for top tier fiction, even if you don't read half of the monthly mags

I think the contestants on jeopardy are TOO CALM when they answer a question correctly but forget to ask it like a question. I'd be eating the podium.

Today is trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but more immediately for me it's also the 3-year anniversary of Lancer Tactics' Kickstarter campaign. Writing up a larger retrospective for the next backer post, but it's cool to see how far we've come since then.

similarly, if you use AI gen slop to make an April Fools post we're all going to beat you up real bad with sticks and rocks. This applies to businesses too

An extraction roguelike of Dulle Griet going to hell and stealing treasure. An achievement for doing an entire run hitless

Does Fallout New Vegas run well on modern PCs or the Steamdeck? I played it in its messy bugged state on the 360 on release, and I wasn't able to experience the entire game literally because of getting soft locked multiple times

I'm glad people are out there enjoying the new tomodachi life, but I'm here still playing the OG

If you do a "DLSS off/on" meme and use AI gen slop to make the "on" side, we're taking away your meme making privileges until you've proven you can do so responsibly.

It's a great time when @99pi.org releases a series that's basically like the How It's Made but for infrastructure. Anyways as an art warm up this morning I quickly designed a pin. Always Consider Floating Luggage

I'm sure Pokopia is a great game, but I wouldn't know because any time I'm watching my partner play it the music puts me to sleep. It's so chill, and add in rain sounds???? Nap city 1000%

Started another Stardew Valley TTRPG campaign tonight. The game loop is really slow but the last campaign ended with a months-long LARP which was pretty unique mechanic in the RPG space

timeline cleanse

This weekend we start planting seeds in nursery pots, I've been waiting for this since coving our garden last year

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Been watching my partner play FFX-2

My biggest fear is that one day it'll be my turn to be @-ed by @morrowind-txt.bsky.social and it'll be a shitty line from fargoth or something 😭

My partner and I always do some baking on Valentine's Day. Last year was heart sugar cookies, the year before was a heart cake. This year, so many mini cupcakes 😍

Cancelled mine this morning and you should too!

Went to cash in some of those shitty Christmas scratch tickets that have accumulated over a couple years, and in addition to winning a whole $30, they guy _carded_ me, which honestly is a bigger win than the $30 😂

Lady Gaga's full name is Lady Galliumgallium

Dread Delusion is coming to Consoles Spring 2026! Explore a decaying kingdom filled with dangerous creatures and strange gods as you hunt down Vela Callose and discover what her plans are for the Oneiric Isles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr57...

Going to choose violence and start referring to twitch streamers and YouTubers as "Vodcasters"

This latest ref pack is a love letter to all my hard surface artist friends It contains 400+ (3.1GB) photos from the CAF SoCal airplane museum, including 100+ shots of tiny details from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF Use them for anything, just make sure to credit me! drive.google.com/file/d/1nsib...

I'm proud of all my work and accomplishment as an artist, but by far my greatest achievement obtained with my art skills is drawing dumb memes that make my partner laugh.

so like is there a way for bsky for desktop's video to not default to either mute or loudest volume possible? I'd like it to stay at the 20% volume I always have to set it to

Adjusting for inflation, the 100 Years War is 759.72 Years War today

I just hit 8k followers, so let's do an art share for artists under 1000 followers! Drop some pieces below, and don't forget to share your portfolio website and contact info!

Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉 Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more! kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)

Best birthday gift is an ai company shutting down 😌🙏

Achievements of 2025: - Painted a lot Goals for 2026 - Paint some more

Big ice storm weighing down the tree tops

Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize hard-drive.net/seymour-guad...

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Unfortunately I learn yet again that when I'm bored and my mellow is harshed, the solution is to just Log Off and Paint Something 🎨

As an environment artist, my 2c for using AI in concepts is that it doesn't actually help you 1. make informed decisions on how a scene works, 2. doesn't help you communicate to your team as to why you made a decision, and 3. doesn't tell you where it's pulling from to use as further reference.

Ripping the plumbing out of my house and replacing it with a series of humidifiers and dehumidifiers to effectively teleport water around for House 2.0

With the Game Awards happening later this week, here is my opinion on any art/media-based awards, but specifically for games:

"Why are you doing it like this and what is it intended to achieve" is one of the most important unspoken questions in pretty much all creative work and the moment you're making choices on purpose the quality of the result improves enormously