How poor leadership slows down game development

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

new blog post: a few thoughts on jurassic world evolution 3 blog.dante.cool/a-few-though... let's talk about the latest jurassic IP park builder game. it's pretty good! i have played way too much of it lately

KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of non-commercial interactive fiction in 8 years, comes out on the 31st. An entry into Ectocomp.

seriously cancel your fucking spotify subscription. use literally anything else. even piracy is better for both artists and the world than spotify

new blog post: a few thoughts on Classified: France '44 blog.dante.cool/a-few-though...

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

Hi all, Skin Deep is 25% off in the Steam Autumn Sale 🍂 store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... ...AND we just released an update today, just for you: store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...

heading to this isolated island in japan today for a family thing. not really looking forward to it (my grandpa is a huge asshole) but should be fine. hopefully nothing bad happens!

join the hunt for the truth. butter side down. OUT NOW ON STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/3812580/...

This is a good post. Part of why I have limited my usage of Bluesky is that I believe that it is, fundamentally, doomed, and it is doomed because it comes from a previous era of social media, where social media administration could pretend that they are unbiased in their moderation policies.

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Bruno is more than fair in this post, but I just want to add that yes I am *always* going to be petty about everyone latching onto spurious or insignificant complaints about Cohost, only to wish bluesky had this feature or that set of community guidelines.

new blog post: three vertical mice, reviewed blog.dante.cool/three-vertic... i have been using some vertical mice for a while now. here are my thoughts on the Big Three (the logitech mx vertical, the razer pro click v2 vertical, and the keychron m5).

Homer Knight: Simpson

saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

@yourkickstartersucks.com really important sighting from a street fair in Santa Monica

I've been hit by tech layoffs, which means I'm open for full-time marketing work in social media, content, events, and pretty much anything else you can think of. I've transferred my 12+ years of marketing skills across anime, games, TV, comics, and tech.. and I'm funny 😋.. TY for any shares/leads ❤️

new blog post: WE ONCE RULED HERE Announcement blog.dante.cool/we-once-rule... i'm writing a tabletop game.

New blog post: azhdarchid.com/slop-comes-f...

I've got a book coming out soon, and if you sign up for my mailing list, you'll be the very first to know when it comes out—and when you'll get to read about Eris, Comet Halley, and how one romance in Neptune orbit will change the fate of the Solar System forever! news.loveconquersallgames.com

If the line is “Robinson was radicalized into action because he had a trans partner” then what does that say about the madness and cruelty of American transphobia that a single moment of a cis man seeing it fully was enough to drive him to kill. What does it say that we as trans people weather it?

you can not freak out about everything all the time because you will not have energy for fights you can actually win!

hey y'all. as some of you may know, I have been unemployed for about 4 months as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you paypal.me/superboinkmp3

watched THE LONG WALK (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

as we watch bluesky have yet another full-scale moderation meltdown over whether or not you're allowed to say "rip in piss" about a dead nazi podcaster, i'd like to take a moment to remind everyone who sent us death threats over cohost's moderation that you don't know how fucking good you had it

watched Osmosis Jones (2001) ⭐½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

The evil that men do lives after them

I've got an INPRNT shop now! And it looks like there's a sale on and everything. You can put Hedwig on your wall, which I'm sure she'd enjoy

new blog post: a few thoughts on Kid Nation (2007) blog.dante.cool/a-few-though...

watched Unbreakable (2000) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

This is true! #putEggbuginSilksong is changing the world and maybe more! Wow. And they are going to put Eggbug in Silksong

All that matters is that soon, they will #putEggbuginSilksong, and it will be because of the great work of ALL the organizers! Wow, and I think we are closer than ever to seeing it.

when I started #putEggbuginSilksong , years and years ago, I dreamt of a better world, for all people. In the years since I was forced into exile, the leaders of #putEggbuginSilksong have proven themselves uninterested in that dream! Interested only in graft, and corruption, and tyranny!

the #putEggbuginSilksong movement is larger and stronger than ever before! And it seems like the powers that be are starting to listen...wow!

“Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave” is a good reminder.

bluebeard jennfrank.bearblog.dev/the-artists-...

watched High and Low (1963) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

new blog post: some updates on dante's home networking blog.dante.cool/some-updates...

Did you know? Next month I've got a science fiction girl's love book coming out! And let's be realistic: social media is kinda flakey. The best way to get notified when it's out is to sign up for my mailing list that ONLY sends anything out when there's a new release! news.loveconquersallgames.com

i'm hearing it's butch appreciation day -- please take a moment to appreciate Lalo, a stoic tightly-wound butch and one of the stars of our graphic novel The Vow. i love to put them into situations (read The Vow in print or digital)

watched Superman (2025) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

watched The Eight Hundred (2020) ⭐⭐⭐½ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

just watched Double Indemnity (1944) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ letterboxd.com/videodante/f...

Breaking my usual bsky etiquette to say full-throatedly that if you are acting like itch is anything other than a victim in this ongoing struggle with payment processors, you are a rube, a mark, and signaling that you will eat your own at the slightest opportunity. You are an untrustworthy dumbass

Full offense but if this is the kind of shit you say about a black trans woman where even a passing familiarity with her would make this blatant attempt to scrounge up more donations insane to say I'm just going to assume you actually did not vet any of your other claims & are a bad journalist

amazing to me that people are, with no irony, still trying to act as though setting their itch revshare to 0% is some sort of radical act of rebellion or protest Like. You are taking advantage of a thing NO OTHER WEBSITE LETS YOU DO, EVER. Your "protest" is entirely at the feet of their kindness