And thus ends #over/under. A fantastic mess of creativity and chaos stapled on to a large scale wargame. There's lots of posts already about the high stakes politics, the betrayals and the intrigue, but for me it was about the smaller interactions. The goings on in the blocks, the bars, the shops.

Come to d0c's! 100% of our surveyed patients said they survived. Fantastic bunch of weirdos I somehow teamed up with in #over/under. Our collective bit of organised chaos in the much bigger organised chaos.

As for the kids who stole the entire treat bucket (after we'd left it out while we ate), I hope they ate all of it at once, with appropriate consequences.

One thing did reoccur last night though: Older teens pushing the boundaries of what "Bare minimum costume" means to get sweets. One group of lads I wasn't sure if they were in costume or had just spilled some ketchup.

Much quieter mood for Halloween last night than last year. Seemed like a lot less effort by a lot of people, including us. I think it might reflect a lot of larger factors effecting everyone.

Saturnalia is an experience. It's a very strange one, and tricky to reccomend but I found it's uniqueness charming and it's story, and specifically the way it delivers it, compelling. If you are at all intrigued by it there's a good chance it is for you.

Wait, you mean denying people the means to happiness or even basic survival causes them to turn to illegal means instead of dissapearing conveniently into the ether? Whoooooaa! Whioooooaaaaaa! *Is sucked into the Painfully Obvious Vortex*

Just gave the demo for Cronos: The New Dawn a go. I was skeptical because the last Bloober game I played was Layers of Fear, which I thought was very pretty, with some nice attention to detail, but otherwise a kind of rubbish, tedious haunted house. 🧵

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Another thing i've noticed about #over/under is how much it deviates from the canon of the module. That's good! It can cause some confusion, since there are established module "truths" that might not be true here, but it levels out to a more player built and evolving experience.

Great writeup on some of the amazing stuff happening in #over/under. Stuff on this scald can only happen with a collective buy in to the fiction. I do think it highlights the importance of some degree of safety tools/checking in though, since it can overwhelm. It's ok to break immersion to check.

I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation. Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.

Updated! the-snee.itch.io/pdcs #over/under

Art direction > Fidelity

The PDCS is live! Very alpha, very rushed. Go complain about it in #over/under Or better yet, fund your own virtual museum wing as the ultimate vanity project! the-snee.itch.io/pdcs

Very early preview of the Solarium from the Prospero's Dream Cultural Slickworld for #over/under I don't have as much time to work on it as I'd like, and want to actually play the game a̶n̶d̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ so I'll try and keep it simple. Some beautiful stuff people have been producing.

The things happening in #over/under keep blowing me away. When I started out, I sleepily spewed out a prayer for the in-game religion. 4 people did musical versions of it. It was canonised as official scripture, and now people are making art about how it inspires them. I'm tearing up.

So @lukegearing.bsky.social as .beefstink has re-invented NFTs in the far future and is attempting to scam Syndicate shareholders with them. This made me laugh so hard I woke my partner up. #over/under

So now in #OVER/UNDER I'm making and curating a virtual museum and art gallery in Unreal, to show off some of the amazing things people are creating (and hopefully end up as some kind of artefact of the inevitable chaos to come) I've somehow got to find time for so many things!

Oh no it's kareoke night and a HL1 grunt has taken the stage.

There's always been a lot of symbolism etc in these shows, which I'm not so good at picking up on myself, so here's a great thread on it.

Option 1: Hire the wizard to invert interpretations of the word "Smart" People in suits gain increased intelligence, and with it, crippling awareness of everything stupid they've done Millions of devices lose internet connectivity and instead get little top hats OPTION 2: Big Sock

There's some really impressive stuff on here already! People are going wild with RP and faction stuff and it's barely started!

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Can a Techpriest from the manufactorum help with my armor weight? Breathable lining 20g Internal kinetic mesh 100g Pierce resistant outer shell 200g Big brass skull 5000g Sealing seam 50g Please help my agents are dying.

Bring back Age of Resistance! 😭

This should be interesting. I've been following the channel off and on, and seeing it coalesce into a playable setting is quite exciting. I was impressed with the production values @mythworks.bsky.social put into CBR+PNK so I'll be interested to ser how this comes out.

Attempting to secure funding for important research like this is near impossible in a purely profit driven system like ours. The people deserve to know, and researchers should be able to further the whole of human knowledge without market based financial constraints. Yet another reason we need UBI.

Wait, you mean people create things of value when they aren't desperately clawing for baseline sustenance?

The thing everyone said would happen is happening.

Everyone should rewatch Farscape.

Some great discussion by @alfredvalley.bsky.social about how fun working with sub optimal stuff can be in games. Even if its not "good", taking something weird and just making it work can be very rewarding. open.substack.com/pub/alfredva...

Nearly 42 000 people in the #Gaza Strip have life-changing injuries caused by the ongoing conflict. One in four of these injuries are in children - latest WHO estimates released today.

I'm actually genuinely and pleasantly surprised to see a reporter push back with facts against a politician's lies like this. I'm so used to them rolling over and letting them spout whatever without a response, or spin it like the awful NYT quote that acts like killing civilians is up for debate

An Israeli naval officer contacted the Global Sumud Flotilla & warned them their boats will be confiscated if they don’t stop and turn around. Listen to flotilla organizer Thiago Ávila's response. Hero.

This is it. They've done the Torment Nexus 😤

it's time for DOOM JUGGLING! Ever since the Never Gonna Give You Up in Juggling Lab, people have been asking me to run Doom on Juggling Lab. But where's the fun in that? Why run one Doom in Juggling Lab when you could JUGGLE THREE DOOMS AT ONCE? (You can only control the Doom that's at the top!)

Look, here are some Palestinians in need of help. That’s the deal and I’m sick of explaining things. Nobody can possibly read every individual story and somehow find the most deserving one. Donate if you can or share it you can’t. gofund.me/53b6d6ce5 gofund.me/ba14d755e gofund.me/536166902

I'm struggling to resist the urge to have a haunted, tragic hero mouse NPC in my Mausritter campaign who carries a massive sword (maybe a chef's knife or a metal file) and is called Tummy.

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

If I cant get permission for an eco-friendly heat pump, google can absolutely go fuck themselves over this. If you want to build datacenters here, you better build a fucking wind farm next to it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

Welp, the wave of stupid finally hit me. I can't even access the Steam store pages for some games which I own, like Fear & Hunger 2, because I need to verify my age. The only way to verify is by having a credit card. I do not have one - I have a debit card, which is common in the UK. I am 42.

I view silksong as a strong argument for UBI, these guys had enough money from hollow Knight to live comfortably the rest of their lives but they were passionate and still felt drawn to create something incredible.

Guess I should finish Hollow Knight sometime.