not being from the UK, I can only assume this is the bad thing of today

teaching idea match all the birds mentioned in the Conference of the Birds (‘Attar) with their calls

am i valid? am i consistent? do i obtain?

Parmenides, despite proposing a minimalist list, is mysticism. Hesiod, though usually dismissed as a poet, is actually developing a really sophisticated system of lists.

Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

this is why Dark Souls 1 starts off difficult but becomes easier in the lategame

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how bad an idea is it to bury a virgil quote in an inconsequential passage in a video game? even if it's a fun bit of characterisation?

i really love that Unity editor view camera gains speed whenever you initiate a turn, so the fastest way to move there is effectively bunnyhopping

when you don't share Amberspire this is who you're hurting

Personally I want to see less cyberpunk (neon-hypercapitalism) and more... post-cyberpunk? (weirder, post-collapse, high-low tech mix.) What does society or the world look like after cyberpunk? More Qud. Wolfe. Herbert. etc.

people are so fucking bad at institution building these days; they don't understand institutional mythology at all.

Читая это, жалела, что оно не лежало у меня где-то рядом, пока я Бакалавра переводила. Totally lacked something like that, so I did.

WOMEN ARE MY FAVOURITE GUY

ehehehe book (cat for scale)

It's amazing how much of game design is really ontology

No Country for Old Men and Grogu

My forever favorite is The Best Question by AC Varzi just for its wit and relentless pedantry in approaching the question in question.

as above so below

Russo Brothers are the antipode of Wachowski Sisters. The bleak state of blockbuster cinema is in no small part a consequence of anti-trans sentiment.

My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

Where did *you* think Papal bulls came from?!

Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown. I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game 1. Explore the Psyche of Man 2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here 3. Lesbian Bartender

*Aldia voice* Many twitters have come and gone. One drowned in poison, another succumbed to vibe code. Still another slumbers in a realm of federalism.

This is the funniest thing I have seen in some time.

Resounding victory for wordcels. Good job encoding all your shape rotations in tokenizeable natural language, dummies. Your puny mathematics exist as a low-dimension subspace inside the machine that generates infinite reddit posts

For my Roman games and spectacles class their final assignment as well as all the ones leading up to it were to plan a rebellion to take down the empire starting with Domitian and the Roman elite in Rome. Using the power of spectacle and guilds.

Editing a systems-driven narrative game

train subway announcer blown out speaker snare drum xylophone

hey fellow indies who have a game on steam with controller support, can you do me a favor? pull up your game on partner.steampowered.com, set it to all history, click controller stats and tell me what it says under the column "Percentage of Total Sessions" for the row "Steam Deck/Steam Controller"

In the first century after the nuclear war the Game Masters will play the role that wandering bards played to the prehistoric people (it will consolidate into religions and lose all semblance of fun come third century)

I've been on a LOT of podcasts and I very often get talked over, patronised, and ignored, but talking to @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social made me feel smart and interesting, and it was delightful. It was really lovely to be treated like a respected peer 🥲

You asked, and we listened! We're really excited to announce the next evolution of our game The Knightling! Get ready for the port you've all been waiting for! 💙🛡️ #indiegame #gamingnews

Caves of Qud

Everyone is secretly playing Pentiment and you're extremely uncool and will fail in life if you don't buy 10 copies immediately I don't have any incentive to lie to you ofc

Can I recommend: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (also, everything) Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (also, everything) Ursula le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea (also, everything)

Fond memories of the first enemies in Sunless Skies being a gray box with googly eyes and "enemy" written on it. Said placeholder ended up being used for pretty much every test. The parallax system? Started as a stack of googly eye boxes fading into the mist of the high wilderness.

Had a dream about owning a cafe in the 70ies Korea. I brought my business to the brink of ruin and was coming to terms with that by tracing every decision that led there and asserting that it was the (morally?) right thing then and there. Portentous.

Did a playtest with our designer and experienced the tangy, urgent sense of mystery I had not known since Cultist Simulator To say that I am proud of this team is to make the greatest understatement

Me begging the boys in Marathon to exfil: “'I tend to be fairly conservative and say, ‘We already figured this out,’ Sawyer said. “We’re not going to redo it for a theoretical 15% gain in X, Y and Z because the potential to screw up the rest of the project is enormous."

See also: shipwreck washed ashore

I have to credit @blurrycrockpot.bsky.social for sending me this meme during GDC. It’s become Aimee’s and my whole personality

And “work” here should include consultations, paid and unpaid contributions, short-term contracts, outsource work, purchaseable packages,.. Omitting all of that just isolates the project from the industry. In barebones credits everyone is alone.

between buying pies for gulls and sharing bits of food with the pussens, I’m really enjoying this Leopold Bloom guy