It occurs to me now at 3am that today was the first day in like a month where I didn't have an energy drink. hoping to enter the new year feeling a little less vorpal

maybe instead of writing thoughtful blog posts and theory and manifestos that spur consideration and action you should threaten to blow up the sun so that people make the forms of games you enjoy

It's taken me a long time to get here, but I'm finally ready to show off my big #ttrpg project. I'm working on DOWAGER: THE SACRED & STRANGE, a science-fantasy tactics RPG about hunting internet demons and the absurdity of fantastical adventure in the modern world.

This is it, guys! Lilithmon from Digimon 🖤 my final artwork for 2025! I hope you aII Iike it! 😁

Art not made with AI.

It's taken me a long time to get here, but I'm finally ready to show off my big #ttrpg project. I'm working on DOWAGER: THE SACRED & STRANGE, a science-fantasy tactics RPG about hunting internet demons and the absurdity of fantastical adventure in the modern world.

Slowly getting back into drawing: www.patreon.com/posts/masked...

With just a few last minute checks to go before I head to bed, I'm practically vibrating with excitement about finally revealing my big #ttrpg project tomorrow around noon pacific time. It's a small vertical slice with some art, character options, and a gist of the weird little world.

I haven't played Minecraft in a long time (and I don't currently have the itch) but one of my favorite things to do is wait for other people to build a home with a nice view and then build a 64x64x64 cube of black concrete nearby. Even a creative act can be destructive

big things are happening on tuesday the 30th #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

reasons star trek online may be the best MMO ever: there is a christmas event going on it has seasonal duty officer missions i sent my crew out to buy presents for orphans 6 of them died ...my crew, not the orphans. the orphans are fine.

big things are happening on tuesday the 30th #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

Harvest Dawn truely is a masterpiece of videogame music. To this day I still think playing it over clips of real people talking nonsense is incredibly funny and yet the meme has somehow never made it less of a beautiful little ambient song to me. Oblivion has such a fantastic soundtrack.

It's too cold to leave the house for the next few days but I've got such a craving for some gas station food. I so badly wanna go to the one near my house and just pick up a $5 chicken burger. I have such simple needs

quickly approaching my least favorite time of year: The time when I need to apply a new screen protector to my ipad cuz the current one is getting scratchy It's just such a bitch to put this big dumb sticker on the glass. But I gotta

in order to network in the ttrpg scene, you must: - accept that you are not everyone's cup of tea - reinvent a mechanic from first principles - make games that drive 10-30 other designers mad - speak with the confidence of someone who thinks very long and hard about how to play pretend more good

There's a thing I call D&D 4th Edition Syndrome where you have a thing, and there's a lot you could criticize about it, but what people do instead is make up a bunch of bullshit about that thing to go "this is why it's bad," and unfortunately it's claimed complete societal victory on every level

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲

I've joked before about Avatar (blue aliens not magic martial arts) having no cultural impact, but I think I was wrong. I'm starting to think it's extremely popular, just with a very different, more normie crowd than the rest of sci-fi fandom (which isn't bad)

I just saw someone describe having the "rude" label on here as your account being effectively "nuked from orbit"... while also explaining you can turn that off in your settings. Some people just can't be helped, at the end of the day some people stay on twitter because they love how it sucks ass

A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”

He is correct! This is extremely true for harassment, and that's been the main use of that "new" feature. ANY barrier, even easily circumvented ones, causes the majority of trolls to just not bother. Inversely, the easier you make it to harass people, the more people will engage in it.

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Me, already in 25+ starter packs when I see a new one: Oh? I'm not in this? I'm not "good enough" for your *special little club*? Have I not *proven* myself yet? No, it's fine. Whatever. I don't care. Asshole

Back on Twitter, I had so many moments of feeling like I was making a fool of myself in front of cool artists who deigned to follow me back Cut to a good chunk of them never even showing up here or elsewhere and I'm like wow... I was stupid for worrying about your opinion on anything

If this ends up being what finally gets the art community quitting the place, then great But man. On a personal level, the fact that everything beforehand wasn't enough has decayed my opinion of the community as a whole so hard. The only positive spin I can put on it is how disillusioning it's been

merry christmas/happy holidays to all the cool and interesting people who follow me 😊🐟 I appreciate every one of you and hope everyone is having a nice holiday week. 💙

Speaking of dropping games entirely, we talked about this on superdespairworld.com this week! If you love me being cranky about tech and AI bullshit in tweets, you'll probably enjoy hearing me rag on datacenter sprawl and Larian's nonsense in audio. Free patreon ep: www.patreon.com/posts/machin...

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how it feels to show someone your oc

I believe the next evolution of RPGs is in giving players the power to do anything they want. Imagine launching a game, and you go "computer, create 10 goblins," and then you fight 10 goblins. Or you could go "computer, I want to fight 9 goblins" if you don't want to fight 10 goblins. Total freedom.

alright that's enough nonsense discourse for the day. I'm going to the chinese buffet now. Check out my podcast (I shared a free episode a few tweets ago) and have a wonderful holiday week 😌🐟

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Speaking of dropping games entirely, we talked about this on superdespairworld.com this week! If you love me being cranky about tech and AI bullshit in tweets, you'll probably enjoy hearing me rag on datacenter sprawl and Larian's nonsense in audio. Free patreon ep: www.patreon.com/posts/machin...

The people who run this industry are severely underestimating my willingness to drop this expensive dogshit hobby entirely if they want this to be the new normal. If this is fhe future of gaming then I am just not into gaming anymore.

The world is in turmoil and people are in pain. Even still, we can take comfort in knowing I'm going out to the chinese buffet tomorrow. grins

There's a limit to how much you can give a shit about art before you must become unreasonable. I am unshackled by reasonability. If something lights a fire in my heart that makes me go "that fucking sucks!" then I'm gonna call it slop. This is what art is really about.

>check out new piece of media >it's inspired by studio ghibli >i ask the creator if it's my neighbor totoro or grave of the fireflies >they don't understand >i produce a chart explaining what is totoro and what is fireflies >"it's heartfelt, ma'am" >i check it out >it's totoro but racist

Being on this website has taught me a lot of you are intensely horny about this

Even Wizards of the Coast pays lip service to the idea that this is a bad look nowadays; I know the bar is on the floor here but in lazily sugarcoating another culture and trying to be cute and cozy I honestly think Obojima ends up being worse than vanilla DnD

Whelp, it was inevitable: ya gurl is joining the club of people working on a mecha ttrpg. It shares a setting with my main project but I'm keeping the scope of it much smaller and simpler. Now there are two big announcements from me you guys can wait for 😊

One of the biggest revelations of my adult life is there are are no "adults in the room", and the people who insist the hardest that they *are* the adults in the room are just putting on a bizarre performance

No more Gen X game devs. Society has moved beyond the need for them

People keep saying "what about Pixel" but I think the real answer is Derpixon

thinking about whether I want to install a tiny windows partition on my PC just for a few gacha games or if I should just start smoking

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

I was born with a jar of immortal hornets where my brain should be and the hornets become angry and distressed whenever I am not working on making the strange things they think about real and tangible I make art as it is the only thing that reverses the entropy and makes me feel like I'm not dying.