Love Discord being like "bro you didnt complete any quests this year" yeah man I dont know what those are and I'm working really hard not to have to learn

"if you want a picture of the future, imagine a ludology vs narratology debate being dredged back up from the 2000s forever"

I think it's wonderful that there's a lot of well-known and interesting thinkers in the games space these days and we don't necessarily have to only listen to people who had reserved seats at the bar ten years ago.

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Bye Blamp

I am a little disappointed when the conversation is focused around "it's art not porn!" because the adult games devs get very little support but have been dealing with this for far longer, and they've been sounding the alarm for that deplatforming coming for other games (such as LGBTQ+ content).

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

If anyone is interested in this stuff, I have written a few articles on the topic. Such as this one: widerscreen.fi/numerot/2019...

Swamped with packing, skipping out on Dragonmeet after all. Booo.

20 moving boxes is proving woefully insufficient for the amount of shit we have Books! Art books! More books!!! Nerd households man

Great news for people wanting to traumatize their kids for cheap

Trying to figure out an outfit. Unhelpful: searching for non-binary bottoms

there is a tabletop rpg I really enjoy called bluebeards bride and the setup is quite easy, all you will need is some six sided dice, a copy of the book, a free evening, and 5 men you want to irrevocably traumatize

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BTW you don't need to already be an expert in something to start building community for it. I've been exposed to SO MUCH more horse knowledge since starting TMQ and its communities than ever before. It really only takes an interest and a small but consistent effort.

AdvX was very, very good. Dipped out of the afterparty quite early, pretty gassed, but man it was so good to see so many of you excellent fuckers!!

Nights Into Dreams is queer culture.

Haha "Fuck the hero's journey." #advx25

Fuck yeah cafeteria Sunday roast @ AdventureX

HEAR HEAR

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

AdventureX off to a good, aspirational start

Very sleepy AdventureX Saturday vibes

Excited to be back at #AdventureX this weekend, been too long since enjoying a critical mass of game writers in the same room #AdvX #AdvX2025

technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

I think "fake it til' you make it" is genuinely a great bit of advice but people (understandably!) think it means "lie until you've duped everyone" when in reality it's much more "act like you belong here because you actually do and you need to get over yourself"

Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026! Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world... Tickets will be around £15!

[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking

networking is an incredibly important part of maintaining a professional presence in your creative industry, but it can be daunting. have you tried being completely fucking ridiculous online

Bit surprised to have a completely packed to the gills auditorium for this one. I was expecting like, 10 students and a cat. Being vulnerable about struggles on stage for a larger crowd sure was, uh. Hrm.

Career talk coming together well

Freelance is fucked up because you work like 3 jobs and feel like you're not doing anything at the same time

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

Monday morning, fucking up the group chat by talking literary alchemy again 🖤 🤍 💛 ♥️

Harrowing dinner with parent and discussing politics and help Yes it's all class war Helppppoopopp If you're gonna give me shit about my chosen fiscal policy making me poor you can maybe not try to stick me with the bill, too

I'd love for designers especially to be mindful of this (or anyone we directly collaborate with). If you admit to general contempt for the discipline even before we start to work together, well then it gets real awkward for us you know? And it's hard to trust you'll keep our interests at heart.

Yes police? I witnessed a murder on Reddit.

Got my hair dyed, accidentally went full shadow the hedgehog

That awkward moment when you're setting up for a Ten Candles game and realize your smoke alarm/sprinkler system is directly above the gaming table...

'content creator' especially is a very bleak piece of corporate-speak that nobody should identify with. I used it for myself sometimes, years ago, and it was because I didn't have the confidence to call myself a writer. we cannot let ourselves call art 'content', we just can't

you are not a 'content creator' you are a WRITER you do not write 'fics' you write STORIES you do not have 'ocs' you have CHARACTERS and if you disagree, well, I'm not your boss. but if you're serious about writing it's important to hold your own craft in a certain esteem and this is one way

I really hate the idea that a game master for a role playing game is responsible for making sure that everyone is having fun… because that’s EVERYONE’S job at the table. Equally! Everyone is responsible to ensure everyone is having fun.

So apparently the server outages affected my app-controlled door system and nobody could enter the building, someone had to come to the front door to open stuff manually Stupid fucking yuppie IoT bullshit

the “it costs $0.00 to support an indie dev” train is so silly because actually the best thing u can do to support an indie dev is to give them money and the thing they’d be boosting is something you would, ideally, buy when it’s out shdjfjfjf

Met up with some games academia doctorate colleagues and shot the shit over lunch today It is wild where conversations can go when not talking in the context of direct supervision or towards students working on their own shit Such as what constitutes a good toastie

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.