On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

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Finally back to Path of Radiance. more freelance stuff coming but glad to sneak in some time for this. a smart game! love how it tries to have mechanics really approximate the fiction. the first map with Ike and the Laguz Alliance is best summed up as: "ten thousand jaguars attack 20 spearman."

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

As another piece goes up this morning, I also do want to say that while I still am job-hunting I'm also happily back to writing for publications. I know budgets are tight I'm having a very good time doing this work again so if you think you might want to work together, I'd happily chat!

Fresh writing for the morning! I want to talk to you all about vampires, player expectations, and looking art in the eyes. aftermath.site/vampire-masq...

If I was writing a Metroid game, first thing I'd actually do is set up that a Dramatically Named Event has destroyed the Galactic Federation. never have a Space Marine show up again they are the least cool part of the setting. get rid of that shit and stop having Samus be Unofficially A Cop

A tour de force of minimalist design! Absolute marvelous exercise in the power of ellipsis! Also? Just really fun! Cannot recommend this game enough to anyone who wants to see some of the best JRPG designers narrow the genre down to the very core pieces. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

*extending my hand from the time portal* come, my love. We can solve all of this by making Live a Live the ~only~ video game

SAMUS GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK!

Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective youtu.be/RRh3r_AhUw0

I shared this on social years ago but a rewatch of The Matrix Ressurections has me circling back to an old Matrix Online roleplayer's Livejournal once again.. the game, it's live events... all documented in-character with tons of screenshots. What an interesting time for online games!

As another piece goes up this morning, I also do want to say that while I still am job-hunting I'm also happily back to writing for publications. I know budgets are tight I'm having a very good time doing this work again so if you think you might want to work together, I'd happily chat!

Fresh writing for the morning! I want to talk to you all about vampires, player expectations, and looking art in the eyes. aftermath.site/vampire-masq...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Done with the gym so it’s time to start the OCTOPATH 0 demo! I’m really interested to see how this works as a adaptation/reimagining of Champions of the Continent. Such an interesting way to take something ephemeral (a mobile game) and make it concrete.

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

I watched both Frankenstein and Bram' Stoker's Dracula yesterday and that was fun! I prefer the latter but both had a lot of beauty... and a fun kind of messiness. For what it's worth, I started a Letterboxd last month for idle films thoughts if you're into that. letterboxd.com/dreamcastaway/

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

from: Jeffery Epstein <[email protected]> to: Donald Trump <[email protected]> Subject: BROTHHHHERRRRRR!!!!!

All my homies this morning are excited about that Steam box but mostly because everyone agrees that A Fuckin' Cube is just the best design for this stuff. it's not wavy or wacky! yeah man, put it on your shelf or entertainment unit. no weirder than having some Bose speakers or whatever

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

We're lucky to have *any* review in this age take such a convincing and evenly argued moral stance on anything. That a CEO disagrees might be "news" but it's hardly shocking. At best, the only time they think of games as art is to ask "can this win us a few awards?" But they don't really care.

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.

Checking my Kingdom Hearts discs on the CRT. Looks great! Will probably start exploring and writing about these days after I finish Radiant Dawn in the next few weeks. KH1 might be my personal favorite? We'll see! I think it's the one that is the most "RPG-y" at least

Bracketing that they absolutely failed here. And bracketing that such a failure reflects a dearth of discipline, understanding, and acumen... They just don't got the juice, man. Absolutely sauceless leadership.

A minor Age of Imprisonment thought but one thing really good about this genre (and the beefier tech) is that when stuff starts going south and Ganondorf starts 'dorfing... the sheer amount of enemies on screen—far in excess of anything from BotW/Tears—sells how BAD things are lotta moblins!

Well, if there's magick about, dragons won't be far behind...

In happy news, I got FF14 Fanfest tickets? I've never gone but am foregoing a trip to Frosty Faustings this year and doing this instead. Excited for this! I've never gone to something like this not for work. (Though this does mean if you need a freelancer...)

I'm not a sub-tweeting sort but I remember reading a thing by That Writer which I am pretty sure was speaking about my work quite meanly and like... it just seems a vicious way to live and write. none of this is a content. either with other writers or the art itself

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

gaming magazines used to be so true........

If they’re going to roll over like this after an electoral blowout less than a week ago, why bother electing Democrats to Congress next year? What would they actually do?

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me: i am fundamentally opposed to the monarchy and the zonai as ruling powers. history is a record of their atrocities my sage: that’s fair me: but i love it when the chosen princess reclaims her divine lightblade and leads her army in glorious battle my sage: who doesn’t

My main Age of Imprisonment thought right now has been “woah one of these that runs at a consistent frame rate”

I'm taking a break from writing tonight to play Age of Imprisonment. Before leaping back into this version of the Zelda myth, I wanna drop an older post I did. As I prep for a game of grand battle, I think of how I wish Tears had ended a bit more sorrowfully. transgamerthoughts.com/post/7218826...

me: hows it going sheetz cashier guy: just sitting here thinkin about d&d me: cool scg: trying to make an artillery mage me: is that like a wizard with a gun scg: ha ha. no. you summon explosions me: that sounds useful scg: id love to be able to do that. just once me: ha ha scg: *far off look* yeah

11:42 A.M.

Legit gave my resume to that Zohran transition application page. haha The longest of shots especially my current geographic situation but man imagine doing work for something you can really *believe* in...

A power grows in those, like you, whom its dark waters have touched. You may not feel it or understand it, but it is there, making you something more than mortal.

Perhaps the most unexpected thing I learned from teaching fighting games over the last ten years is that the things people need to learn the most aren't really fighting game skills but life skills. Fighting games just give you a fun way to expose these gaps before real life does.

MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I really hope that this can be a collective moment of joy that helps break some of the fever in our politics. That's maybe a bit naive—fixing the world around us is going to require a lot more work and more than one victory no matter the side—but it remains good knowing victory *is* possible.

on cohost we called this "poster's delight"