Might be done with Silksong now. Act 3 isn’t actually fun for me.

Resting by a friendly face 🍁 #illustration #silksong #hollowknight #fanart #artsky

Hornet and Bell Beast #art #silksong

Finally in Silksong Act 3 and I gotta say - Hornet needs a vacay.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

Remember kids: - Discord is not a place for storing game dev/project materials - You (probably) don't need Jira - Your internal deadlines should be BEFORE their final due date - Don't put up with stuff; speak up - If someone can't speak up, speak up for them - Stay a little silly but take no shit

Well, this is certainly a day to try to make a video game. Hugs to everybody during the ongoing horror.

Go be nice to Hazel.

Has any reporter asked who is paying to "goldify" the Oval Office, and what's happening after his term? I haven't caught it if so.

Speaking of - I beat this tonight. Now just hunting down stuff to unlock the ending quest.

Morning walk

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

I’m still having fun, but really expected to have beaten the cursed child ending by now so I could go on into act 3, but I just can’t put together a solid fight. The lack of health bars also means I don’t know if I’m close or not.

If I ever have to give up remote work it's gonna be really hard. I'm enjoying discovering "Kurtis gets into flow programming state easier with listening to loud music and singing along".

Not to be a degree snob, but Kirk dropped out of college after one semester and took a few online classes. That doesn’t justify his shooting, obviously, but just to remind of context.

In college in the 90s - I ran a Bible study. I called it “Tough Questions about Christianity” because of my hubris, but my main point was “here’s a bunch of stuff we should talk about because it’s a real consequence of what people in our faith teach and we shouldn’t pretend it doesn’t exist.” /1

I understand the sentiment, but like - it's everything. Literally almost everything in your life has gone up in the last five years, and most of it is still going up. The first round was a worldwide pandemic, and the second is tarriffs. Consoles: www.visualcapitalist.com/game-console...

IN CASE OF METHODISTS HIDE DOWNSTAIRS

It's worth pointing out that every single example of caving so far has been by a company involved with M&A. The problem with deregulation is that it's always easier to make money with money than make money by making something else. If broadcasters were just broadcasters you wouldn't see this...

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

Waiting for the posts and articles making the case that in the current political and economic environment pirating media is actually the ethical thing to do.

hahahaha this sucks so much! *why* in the world would you want the experience of cooking to be exactly like shouting at the automated phone system at your insurance company to try to get it to recognize your issue? who watches this and thinks "make everything into this?"

The trailer looks cool, @arkheron.bsky.social! Congrats, Bonfire, on the announcement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-v... www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9qI...

I'm deleting my post searching for a commission artist as I've found two I want to go with for different projects. Thank you for all the interest. I will keep names around for the future in case I do more again.

Going to see "Stardew Valley - Symphony of Seasons" tonight at the Greek with @othesharon.bsky.social. Very very much looking forward to it!

WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

There's a seat here that's deceptive: 14. Aisle so you can get up, near the bathroom in the back, Brann probably has interesting stories, and Lor'themar probably looks out the window the whole time. The hidden problems? Nathanos smells terrible, and Gallywix leans his seat back. 10 is the pick.

Not picking on this person, but just a reminder that the Speaker of the House decides what bills get to the floor so the GOP would never have to vote on this - they can just ignore it. The “I introduced legislation” and “I cosponsored legislation” phrases are for things that will never see a vote.

So I pushed through Last Judge, and I’m glad I did, because Clockwork Dancers is a joyful fight.

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

I see a lot of people past Act I of Silksong and - I just can’t. Everything Last Judge does is two masks of damage and I’m on six masks. I finished Hollow Knight, but I’m close to quitting Silksong. This “everything kills you in two hits” sucks.

You know what wins real wars against peer opponents? Warehouses full of bombs and bullets and tourniquets, maintenance crew to service the vehicles that move them and "warriors" to where they need to go, and boring spreadsheets to tell you how much of everything you have. Logistics! Logistics!

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Every single person you look up to, even the ones your brain is imagining must be laughing at you, has produced worse art or code or whatever than you are doing right now while they were in their journey to where they are now. Most of them felt the way you do. Many of them still do.

My one complaint against Silksong right now is that they did so many things so well (more benches, rosary strings) to enable you to customize risk/reward that when they do something super frustrating you can't control (like too many things do two masks of damage or stutter hit) it really sticks out.

This might be becoming a bell beast stan account. Sorry not sorry.

I love the Bell Beast!🔔 I had to draw the precious baby! 🥺❤ #Silksong

my bbf (bell beast friend) #silksong

WHY CAN'T I PET THE BELL BEAST

Games need to have an outtakes reel like DVDs used to back in the day. Devs, quote this with some of the wacky things that have happened during development. We could all use the laughs.

MY SCRIMBLO #silksong #hornet #bellbeast

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

It remains wild to me that it's still okay to shame people for spending money on a hobby/interest. People used to spend this on golfing equipment or model trains or collectible coins, stamp, baseball cards. Capitalism has always been about selling. The difference here is the "broke enough" part.

Okay, Bluesky. I need some help. My presbyopia is getting bad enough that next glasses visit I'm gonna talk to the optometrist about bifocals. Do any of my followers have experience with bifocals or progressives and can help steer me towards what would be better for me?

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

I know others with bigger megaphones are yelling it, but it is mind blowing to me that Pritzker stood at a mic and said “Texas is staging to invade us” and I can’t find it on NYTimes.com at all. Instead the Google ruling is on top on desktop and mobile? WTF is actually happening?

My contract with Blizzard ends in one month. I'm still looking for a fulltime role as a senior writer or narrative designer! If you need someone who can write poetic prose, emotive dialogue, and sharp stories, I'm here. ✨