A bunch of my games as well as some other awesome games from the scene are a part of Norwich Game Festival Steam event in association with Game Anglia, check it out: store.steampowered.com/curator/4580...

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

After his partner died of AIDS-related complications, David Bohnett used the insurance payout to launch GeoCities - what became one of the internet’s earliest queer communities

As a professional researcher I’ve spent time comparing different search engines to see which one makes my job the easiest and Kagi is by far the most effective search. Duck Duck Go isn’t even close.

Still thinking about The Drama. Good movie. I'm so happy there are still good movies sometimes.

watching your cat sleep peacefully has to be one of the greatest joys in life. no complications, no stress, just a happy lil dude havin' a nap, with no idea I am taking 500 pictures of him like an absolute creep

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

gorgeous write-up of @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social’s game about the Nakbah, made by a developer in the occupied West Bank and crowdfunding now. please, please support this vital creative work 💜 www.rockpapershotgun.com/palestinian-...

Watched Contact (1997), and I rarely come away from a film so widely liked feeling so completely unaffected. Brilliant opening sequence, then 2.5 hours of waiting to feel anything else.

How to explain to chuds that while Helen of Troy wasn't conceived of as being black in antiquity, they would've had way less problem with her being portrayed as an African than as a forest savage (continental Europe) or a cavewoman from the snow wasteland (England).

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

Hi it's my birthday! You are strongly encouraged to look at my work and maybe even say nice things if you think it is nice? Physical store: www.etsy.com/shop/Toadlett Digital store: toadlett.itch.io Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/toadlett

Eek!! The secret’s out 👀 Me, @daisyfern.bsky.social, and @georgebatch.bsky.social have teamed up to start a new games studio! It’s been years in the making, and I couldn’t ask for two more talented people to build this with. Can’t wait to show you what we’ve been making.

Project Hail Mary feels like this decade's Pacific Rim in that it's a "we canceled the apocalypse" family friendly sci-fi movie with a large tween/teen fanbase on Tumblr.

This. Don't say how many hostages the player has to free or how many pigeons they have to fight. This both saves you when iteration/balancing comes along and it prevents extra VA recording. Also it allows the thrill of wondering how many pigeons you have to fight.

learning for the first time that some people use a male commander shepherd in Mass Effect, presumably through some kind of mod?

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

You might be thinking, 'I make normal games so I'm fine' but, uh, you don't get to decide what 'normal' is – they do. Put any description of queerness or sexual trauma in your game and you've given them cause to boot you from their platform. Voidheart wouldn't pass these guidelines, I think.

Went to a cherry blossom park for the first time yesterday! It was uncomfortably busy but still very pretty

My only contribution to Mass Effect discourse is if you google "Sex Lizard Mass Effect" me and my sex lizard are still the third result.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Okay, sanity check. Is it weird that I feel *nothing* on 54mg of Concerta? Like, nothing. Zip, nada. Took some this morning and I feel the same as I always do, just ravenously hungry (which is also a very weird side effect for a stimulant to have) (it's definitely hunger, not thirst).

Nothing like wondering why you're so drained, then looking at the sum total of things you've experienced over the last couple of months and going, ah, right, yeah.

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Tiff, an illustrator of the historical & fantastical; I have a passion for well researched historical detail. Lately I've done a lot for ttrpgs & book projects! I'm available for long & short term projects. 💌[email protected] www.tiffanybaxter.com

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Just now I met a Russian woman in my building's elevator and we spoke to each other with our bad Finnish (and I knew she was Russian because she said so in Finnish, and I understood!). Big Immigrant Win.

hi! it's me, anna anthropy. i wrote Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, popularized twine games, created dys4ia. after nine years of teaching game design i was laid off because of my disability, and have been unemployed for almost a year. you can buy my new self-published zine, Shareware Made Me Trans

Jokes on you, I can't remember enough of anything I love to populate a top ten list off the top of my head. The second you ask I will forget I ever even watched a tv show or listened to a song

Despair at the price of Ex Libris stamps on Etsy drove me to doodle my own little stickers

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Presuming I still grew up in Durham, I guess I'd be part of the northern resistance to Norman rule, baby. Maybe also run a brewery. But come 1972 I'd probably have my right to own property stripped by the Normans, so at that point I'd grab all my bountiful ale money, flee north, and learn Gaelic.

Friends of Change Ahhh Spring is making me so happy :))

i think talking about games only in the context of an "industry" to get into rather than a creative practice is a disservice

i think any discussion of getting into games needs to acknowledge the difference between pursuing game making as a craft vs game making as an industry

Kingfisher Bird

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

Read. Every. Dialogue. Line. Aloud.

The answer to this is unequivocally yes. Antisemitism has no place in this world. You can be 100% anti-Israel, anti-Israeli politics, anti-Israeli genocide, anti-Israeli propaganda, anti-Israeli lobby, & never once conflate that with Judaism the way Israel wants you to.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

So ya boy might have fibromyalgia

Our trio of articles on Minigames is now complete 🔮☁️🖥️ Catch up on them here: vist.ly/4zp2j

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