Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Remember: When you playtest a game, never take players’ feedback/suggestions at face value. Figure out what emotion is underneath what they’re telling you, and then figure out what in the game is causing that emotion

its capitalism that's corrupting the computer, making it into something twisted and perverse. there is a better way

Drew a Fblthp today to bring along to @shoebox.gg and then drew a second one to go along with it :) [ #mtg #mtgart #mtgfanart ]

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

2026 feelin kinda like this

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

WIP. Inspired by old motherboards.

A bitch is tired

Magic the Gathering take notes please

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

This is genuinely great advice for any competitive game. I try to do this while I play games and it does wonders for my mental, and even the mental of the rest of the folks in the game. Turns out being a massive cunt to the people around you is a bad thing we shouldn't do. Who would have thought?

Molumbo

SHOOT YOUR SHOT

sometimes you just need some external stimulation for particularly complex thoughts

The rot consumes #Funguary

Lonic....hmmm...Soot...

Terrific story about community.

blunt force solution #deadlock billy

Vraska!

Jace and blue magical swirlies, an iconic duo 💙 this alter had me going "asfkgkjajsfgak" because I made mistakes then tried to fix them (repeat x10) and I still want to iterate on it but I forced myself to stop and let it be 😑🧘 then I sleeved it too soon... but he survived! #mtgalter #mtgaltered

Oh no, that's German, for "the ICE, the."

This shit hit 6 year old me like crack hit the streets

The way Games treats its critics and scholars is so fucking childish. Oh, you'd like to enrich my craft by putting it in context and thinking closely about it? Fuck you.

Changing your career in your 30s is so demoralizing. It feels like everyone is so much further ahead of you, both where you left behind, and where you're heading towards. Everyone says you're fine, that there's still time, but it feels like drowning

This is correct. This is what everyone needs to hear and know in their hearts, especially right now.

It might happen this week

oh wow robots are gonna do everything for us and we'll never have to work again?? wake up bro. they said basically the same shit about slinkies and guess what? eighty years later we're walkin down more stairs than ever

A lot of you need to learn the difference between "I'm not interested in this story" and "no human being could possibly want to create or read/watch this story and its existence is a personal insult against me."

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Been in a Bionicle mood today #lego #bionicle #art

I send this exact gif to people probably at least once a day, or react to Discord messages with an emoji of it. It describes my exact approach to consuming a lot of art. At some point I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just buy one of those SICKOS sweaters

scully you're not gonna believe this

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

IF YOU BUILD OVER A PILE OF CORPSES, SOONER OR LATER, YOU'LL BE GRABBED BY THE ANKLE I feel vindication in a way that is hard to grasp. To FINALLY wake up to this. A few of you reached out to me, and I to a few of you, over the last year. So now it's the best time to talk about this. Buckle up. 🧵

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Swelling rage

I know it's not Lorwyn related, but... ...how y'all feel about buff women?

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

The joy around Lorwyn is palpable. Magic players love *Magic* 🥰

Today's my birthday! And I'm launching a new thing, which is a bit scary and I need your help to spread the word. So! Today THE THIRTEENTH GOD, my new military progression fantasy magitech Mad Max x Final Fantasy x Gurren Lagann serial starts over at Royal Road! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

From the great Ryoko Kui