everybody wants to seek the rent

one thing about me is I love seeing the time tick close to midnight and saying "well, I'm turning into a pumpkin, so good-night!"

I had a lovely time chatting with Juliet! The noble and beautiful Noggle finally gets the attention it so richly deserves in this podcast. We also talk about poetry in games, and northern European evil water horse creature things.

Fun conversation this week on Beacon of Creation with @andrewgillis.bsky.social about the least-loved equine and its fantasy counterparts, the Donkey in Human History, and designing the experience of A Midsummer Night's Dream! www.beaconofcreation.com/2026/05/27/n...

I was going to make a joke about "somehow, samothes returned" but then I remembered what happens in marielda

for the marielda anniversary they're re-recording counter/weight

i don't much care for anthologies but i do like sprawling works about a place that move from focus to focus. i wonder why that is? is it just length, or unity of author's vision? that the parts, though often disparate in tone and even genre, are part of a common intentional whole?

dilettante for the ravenous

this was a great time and so far we've already raised over 4k! another set of great streams coming up tomorrow (also i'm so glad the script I wrote turned out to be a fiendishly fun puzzle to solve, even if I lost in the process!) moonshotpods.com/donate

reminder that this is happening at 7:30 EST tonight. but before then, you should also check out "hades 2 bingo" block at moonshot.mov

It's a race against time - and each other - for Hades 2 Bingo! Plus, get ready to welcome a very special guest from Advocates for Trans Equality!

The Moonshot Network can't wait for you to join us on Moontropolis in one hour(!) as we raise money for Advocates for Trans Equality! We've got a weekend packed with games, trivia, debates, and more! Tune in on Moonshot.mov and don't forget to tell your friends!

Announcing my candidacy for mayor of Moontropolis!

Did you know that I teach lessons? I have a few slots open for new students right now! I’ve also done some one-off lessons before for people who were stuck on a song they were writing and wanted advice on how to move forward, which was really fun. DM or email me if you’re interested! 💚🎶

the knife that is sharp today may be dull by tomorrow

i think it goes: bacon hash-browns fruit bacon fruit

and before that, we get to pray at the temple in ✨𝓓𝓙𝓞𝓢𝓔𝓔𝓔✨!

much ink has been spilled about the parallels between Puck and the benighted prince of denmark, but I think it’s richer ground to consider Don John as a princely parallel to our Hamlet. enfranchised with a muzzle and a clog, were it not that i have bad dreams. mortifying mischief as moral medicine!

the best combat in the entire franchise happens in the training matches on destiny islands in KH1. like, actual interesting attack patterns you can discern and learn the timing of and counter? why does the rest of everything fail to live up to the goodness of the tidus-selphie-wakka fights

missingno could a beautiful name for a girl

ryan came up with a great idea which is shadow of the colossus scale but you're woodland creatures/rodents and birds doing giant (to you) dressmaking for a cinderella figure while you cannot read the arcane runes (letters) in the dress book

i know the bit is to do a Bit here but for a decade i have earnestly believed that the best possible casting for new bond is demi adejuyigbe.

you are NOT ready for that street magic speedrun. whatever you imagine is going to happen, it's probably not gonna be like that at all. it's gonna be better.

ME, IN A MYTH: sorry about injuring you. in repayment for the damages, here's some grain CAT: thanks. this is either adequate or insufficient in a way that will work out poorly for you ME: that's what makes this a myth CAT: it's what makes this a myth

Discover the issues Agitate Lay the blame Plan to win Get a commitment Inoculate

i've only got what it takes during a full moon. yeah i'm a werewithal

who called them "AI girlfriends" and not "token women"

a very funny thing we are doing for moontropolis is that i'm changing all our twitch sub/follower alerts to randomly roll a clip of a moonshot host saying "I'M WALKIN HERE". and twitch lets you set rarities for sound alerts so there are some rares and super rares

Disco-elysiumlike adaptation of A Memory Called Empire. You're on a new-to-you planet, missing half of your identity and training. You need to solve a complex mystery and stay alive. Three Seagrass is concerned about your well-being, but ultimately is your partner (and, well, kind of love interest)

it behooves me to say explicitly that while i've often pushed for "what if a subset of our content was something you could show your parents or boss," i am ardently against the waves of censorship of the last decade and the further sequestering of "adult" content from our payable and public sphere

warhammer 401k

you can do a lot of other things with relish but i really don’t think you can eat something with relish. pick a different, less ambiguous idiomatic description of enthusiasm — eat things with gusto!

everyone was down horrendous for samot #tomodachiatthetable

i know this is the year of "nel mezzo del camin di nostra vita", but "ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta" is just so much less than shakespeare's "then came each actor on his ass"

tonight i wrote the sort of sentence that makes you say "god i can’t believe i have to wait to show this to other people"

this year's may stream is truly wall to wall bangers in terms of programming! come for the fun and games, stay to help us raise money to assist @transequality.bsky.social in their advocacy, legal work, and community organization for trans folks across the US.

im just a liiiving guiiiildpaaaact babyyyyy

starting a new bit which is "juliet is afraid of ghosts" which i think will carry a sub-bit which is "juliet is unaware there is a ghost in hamlet"

I had a wonderful conversation with Juliet about cities in all their forms, from the chaotic realization of human culture down to what if a goat was also a bus. Give it a listen!

You can listen to Beacon of Creation wherever you listen to podcasts, and can pick up Amberspire on Steam right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

the word "aura" is derived from "auron", a character from popular playstation two game "final fantasy x", and means "embodying a state where you are cool like auron"

a great conversation with @nictringali.bsky.social talking about fantasy cities and Amberspire, city-builders as a font of fascination, cities as identities, and how the individual and aggregate actions of the past appear like random factors in the present www.beaconofcreation.com/2026/05/06/d...

Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.

On this May 4th I am remembering how in the short brilliant life of Cohost @dimosar.bsky.social made not one but two of the best Star Wars posts in history

there's one really good star wars tv series and it's Star Wars: Galaxy of Sounds. the pacing is great, the writing is the best it's been since 1999, and the effects are really impressive if occasionally flashy.

"Christmas Woman" has to be my all-time favorite occult xmas song bc of the way it captures the rapturous tendencies of co-celebration, of lighting a fire and dancing in the snow with others. the sign that passeth comprehending, being captured in the rite

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, we talk with Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social about her work on Amberspire, games in historical context, the Whiggish nature of skill trees, and narrative plausible deniability. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

I'm sorry, did you say I'm Sorry, Did You Say Street Magic speedrun?

It's the weekend! what a perfect time for you to go play my game that people say has good writing (about a guy who wants to kill you), good ui (some silverware and other fun stuff), and is all around a great game (10/10) which is completely free ($0) k-ramstack.itch.io/stranger-still