Thinking "Those aren't so bad, that's amateur hour" while looking at a list of "disturbing horror novels" and I fear I might be the problem

Bumping my GoFundMe now that we're into January. I'm still busily looking for work and unfortunately it's still very difficult to find anything! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-kris-...

Resolve to play more indie games in the new year and let Indiepocalypse #72 help you down that path! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @cassowary.me -Cover by @bhanupratap.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-72

There are many things to love about Rami’s top 10 for 2025 but this is one of my favourites.

It's 2026! Hope you had a relaxing holiday break! Our game THE SPIRIT LIFT launches on January 27!!! store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/... So I'll be posting more and we'll have new stuff over at @prettysmart.bsky.social too! (I find social media scary but I'll do my best!) #gamedev #indiegame

THREE DAYS LEFT

I feel like I should give Star Trek: Discovery another shot. I really liked the cast and characters, and enjoyed most of the first 3 seasons, but unfortunately they went so hard in on Mirrorverse, which I have never been interested in, and then the time jump stuff also wasn't my bag so I fell off.

The manatees are the arbiters of whether it's cold in Florida, and they have spoken (This is normal behavior! Manatees move inland towards warmer waters in colder months out here. They travel between warmer spots and along certain rivers until the water temp begins to rise.)

The interview I gave Surround Sound is up! Go forth and read as I talk about how ISAT and Truth Scrapper are different from one another, about the Country in ISAT, and about neopronouns. and also about how Odile is currently my fav ISAT character ✨ surroundsoundmagazine.co.uk/2026/01/02/e...

If you want to help out indie authors beyond buying their books or reviewing/sharing them, don't forget to try and request their books for your local library too!

I started a lot of other books last year I didn't finish just because the writing didn't click with me, but I think my favorites I read in 2025 were: - Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke - Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin - The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling

This is gross and bleak as hell Maybe ultimately unsurprising, but gross and bleak

Aiming and strafing! #nechromia

intent to trespass (futility)

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

Hey game devs, enough with the cozy horse sims; which of you is going to make me this as some sort of highly specific, puzzle-based assassination game?

I beg your pardon, the horrors of what hall

There was a time when I might have been able to do this with the original Resident Evil 2. It was one of the only games teen me actually owned when I got a PlayStation, so I played it to death, and could skate through the entire game without saving, weaving around all enemies and obstacles.

I don't believe in signs but also cmooooon portents

Hey something that has been helpful for me instead of resolutions

Oh god oh fuck I left the Lemon Pig out too long oh fuckkkk

Embrace whimsy, be hopeful, be weird, make shit Happy new year

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

a tiny gift to end this weird year. SLOOP BATTLE ILLUSTRATION SPEEDPAINT!!!!!! #instarsandtime #isatspoilers (flash warning probably)

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Please

At a bookstore once when I was very little (8-ish?), the cashier told me a sale was over so I couldn't afford my book. The young teenage guy behind me just leaned over and handed me the difference. He just smiled and shrugged and told me to keep reading and pay it forward. I hope he's doing well.

For the new year I thought I would finally read Discworld (yes, I know), and I know I'm not the first person to make this observation, but good lord the difference in quality, style, and imagination between the original hand drawn cover artwork and the modern reprints is atrocious

Final surprise of 2025; the new stream running through our kitchen from under the sink. 🫠 At least it looks like it sound be an "easy" fix with Rick putting in a new sink, but my god this year

Fighting off a cold and it turns out Florance is scared of sniffling, so she was trying to sleep on my feet this morning but anytime I'd sniff she flinched, and she just looks at me like this

I mean, yeah

People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!

Not sure where you're at with your faves? "Chat" is here to help! Check out how close you are with them, get a lil refresher on who they are, and call them directly to hang out so you don't have to wait for them to randomly appear on the map! Plus, you get to have little convos with them💕

NonPlatonic Forms version 0.47.5 is up! This completes the first draft, at just over 275,000 words. I wish I could give you more than this, but please savor this little last sip of my script. Thank you so much to everyone who's read so far. www.patreon.com/posts/146806...

Games need less vestigial random mechanics, except for Star Ocean 2nd Story, the game where you can have individual party members write and publish books that are all unique to each character and receive royalties based on sales

If you, like me, struggle with doom scrolling and the onslaught of *gestures at everything*, my suggestion for you is to make a point of sharing the things online that you enjoy as much as what you're angry about. Be mad!! Still be mad!! But remember and appreciate the joys as well.

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

We watched Man Finds Tape and Queens of the Dead tonight! Both movies were fun but I think Queens of the Dead was better. Man Finds Tape had such wild praise that I expected more and it was extremely tame and fine. Basically just felt like an episode of The Outer Limits. It was just okay. 🤷‍♀️

2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.

POV: You are a tidbit of some sort or something otherwise biteable

Whenever I see fake advertisements or products in games I always run over to look as closely as I can. I love seeing clever bits and gags and things that flesh out the world.

Hot Queer Brown, Black, Arab, Asian, (all body type) etc, baddies in YOUR COMPUTER? And there’s a hot non-binary band in town?! And the key to their hearts is match-3 mechanics with a twist? AND the game is 25% off RIGHT NOW? AND it's buy once with no microtransactions or play limits? YES!

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Rusty would be so proud of that stare 🥹

A peaceful day... a relaxing day... under the glaring beacon of Ol' Jealousy

Approaching 2026 with this energy:

This is a GREAT concept and wow I love the art

Helloooooo ALL of my video games are 30-50% as part of the Steam Winter sale!!! Please pick them up and leave a review if you do; many of them are only a couple of bucks and it reviews help a whole lot 🥺🙏 store.steampowered.com/developer/de...