And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

I'm wrapping up a major contract this month, so: hire me! I'm a writer/narrative designer/systems designer with a decade of industry experience and a lot of experience taming the complexity of intricate systems. Let me build your storylet system or write disquieting prose for you!

hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work. I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult! Updated portfolio is live on my new site: www.nessacannon.com

"you should quit your job in solidarity" is one of those quintessentially american political arguments in that it focuses on pointless, performative individualism over any form of useful collective action, just like the american political system

did some studio cleanup for the new year

y'ever think about how the plot of this film from 40+ years ago is about a guy trying to get properly accredited for working on space invaders. it'd be crazy if that was still relevant to games today.

One thing I keep thinking about is the Rubio interview towards the start of last year. Whether he actually believes this fully or if it’s rhetorical positioning, it’s an argument that lays the groundwork for this and possibly future acts of global banditry. (www.state.gov/secretary-ma...)

99-0 confirmation

i just started playing through this year's quake brutalist jam and i am, of course, agonizing over graphics settings. some folks probably made their contributions with 8 bit off, but i've always played vanilla and i'd miss the chromatic play along ramps...

new year, new additions to my collection

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable

that's me! come check out 10 of my favorite games from this year... plus 9 bonus ones, and one sentence about 26 others......... there's a lot of games in here. come see, come see...

[*multiplayer zombie game bark*] Keep your wits about you, I can hear a Cummer.

new year new music! 【of the Devil Episode 2 ~ Courtroom Clash!】 is now available on Bandcamp~ featuring my 2 new tracks from the episode! radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...

happy birthday to all the horses in the northern hemisphere

they put Bone Tomahawk on Shudder, which happens to be the most racist movie I have seen in my entire life. Birth of a Nation levels of racism. everyone involved should be put inside a contraption.

I only celebrate one year: the Human year.

(using a health item when the game’s fiction has established the health items are a Capri-Sun-style packet manufactured by a company called Dick’s) suckin dicks!

[*multiplayer zombie game bark*] Keep your wits about you, I can hear a Cummer.

my insurance won’t cover a vasectomy so instead I’m going to sit on a heated blanket on high till my nuts are boiled. doctors don’t want you to know that’s an option.

Storynexus is shutting down soon and Josh is doing heroic work preserving Samsara - my game of courtly intrigue, opium-fuelled poetry and dream-walking set in Bengal in 1757, at the dawn of the British Raj. You can play along + even vote on options!

proud to announce the first morality system in a video game entirely driven by kantian ethics. as predicted and intended, everyone hates it

Perfect Blue

*struggling to open bottle* it's actually called triple sec because of how secure it is. No one's even really sure what it tastes like. Though the illustration on the label suggests oranges

It's sale season again and Volume Two has its deepest discount yet! Under ten bucks waow that's a lot of nun for none money

hi everyone fleeing some website or another yes i am that "kuraine" / "lena raine" and welcome to the only social media i post on anymore please wishlist "ANOTHEREAL" on steam & check out "BEASTIEBALL", "UNBEATABLE", and "of the Devil Episode 2" that's about it really ✌️

attention new bluesky users: pick up that can

they call it boxing day because she box on my ing day

Laura Palmer's Theme

Anybody got a torrent. Apparently the only way to get journalism now is to pirate it

This month's been a blur! But the december sticker design is here! 🏂 If you want this sticker to go down the slope right to you, consider subscribing to my patreon this month! patreon.com/minasheep

she Walton my Goggins till my Ghoul Fallout

Excluding costs, the biggest impediment to AI adoption in game dev is that the output quality sucks ass and it makes games worse. AI adopters need everyone to use it so that people lower their standards and become more okay with buying garbage

alright I did my GOTY list. follow me on backloggd if you want. I’ll probably start using it more. backloggd.com/u/andampersand

game development

really important video from pmg to the point where even complimenting it feels in its own way like a damning failure because this is a couple independent games journalists covering one of the most sophisticated systems of extermination in the history of humanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

had to explain to my mom what HORSES is. thankfully she already knows about the animal so that made it easier

tapping the sign or whatever

(at intervention, tearfully reading off a prepared note card) darren. i love you but you have no fucking swag

And Volume One is 50% off, meaning you can nab both of 'em for less than the price of Vol. Two on its own normally if you haven't read either yet!

My biggest issue with gacha games is that I believe every woman is a five-star ultra rare limited pull.

“don’t you want to be stylish?” no! I want to be a menace to my enemies!!!!!!!!!!!

35 Electric is my upcoming visual novel! This is what I've been up to while resting and recharging for Misericorde: Volume Three. You can watch the trailer in much higher quality here: youtu.be/dOy2QorJCzw

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a lil' 2025 personal art roundup! i actually had a decent around of stuff to pick thru this year - being out of the animation game for a bit has been the pits, but at least i'm drawing for fun again and letting the brainworms run loose (also I DID draw a whole new Frankie volume, i keep forgetting)