I’m very bad at this game, and yet every time I play it I have a blast even if I usually die within 20 minutes. The idea of a procedurally generated open-world RPG is such a bafflingly huge concept that seems impossible to pull off, and yet Caves of Qud is exactly that. Incredible game.

whiskerwood shot into my favorites after playing for just a few hours, and it's already consumed most of my spare game time this january. it would be impressive enough as a finished game. that it's still in early access is incredible.

I could have written 10k words on this game. It's remarkable. It's everything you want and need from a city-builder, but also there's transport tycoon and sid meier's colonization stuff in there as well, and even in EA it's almost perfect

easy. chuck schumer is a bitch and a coward. next question.

Now that the cat's out of the bag SURPRISE I am incredibly proud to say I got to write the OFFICIAL PREQUEL COMIC to LIFE IS STRANGE: REUNION with the amazing Claudia Leonardi on art. Writing Max and Chloe has been a genuine dream come true and I can't wait for y'all to reunite with them in March!

hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.

Sea star wasting syndrome killed billions of stars, including sunflower stars. Thanks to a cohort of scientists, a cause of the syndrome is now identified. Each day, new science is emerging that will help our efforts to restore the population! Read more about sunflower stars: mbayaq.co/3ZlFtKf

still one of my favorite tweets

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

This story is a genuinely incredible read. archive.is/hKpsP

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

ok so which gallery is hosting his show of the chewed/eaten photos he then spat back out? the MOMA?

If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked already

what if the idea of this being some global replacement for twitter is a bad one, and most of us are very happy hanging out in a safer, more curated space instead

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

this just tells me that Bsky is better at seeing transparent engagement farming

PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social! It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.

I feel like it's probably not a coincidence that this is the DLC that gets announced after the Saudi royal family bought the franchise. Are you going to be able to right click on commoners to make them disappear?

i love looking up "are the final fantasies related at all" and seeing "yes there;s a rift that one particular guy can travel through--" and immediately going. okay so no. and closing the tab

You didn't name the horse during that entire trip through the desert? Is this a joke to you

when I visited the Galaxy's Edge section of Disney World, the Stormtroopers were walking around pretending to ask random people for IDs and this was understood to be an obvious sign of fascist villainy.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

I do sort of idly wonder why no one is seriously kicking around the 25th amendment

First off, really telling on yourself that you’ve got shit documentation. Secondly, I don’t think your dark fantasy/sci-fi roguelike souls-like inspired game is more overwhelmingly deep and complex than the actual real world.

Monolith Castle #pixelart

Happy Birthday Darkest Dungeon! Red Hook Studios co-founders Chris Bourassa and Tyler Sigman have shared the following message to mark the 10th anniversary of Darkest Dungeon’s 1.0 release. #darkestdungeon

This must hit so good if you’re stupid

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

there are a lot of paths to compellingly being in a created space, and modern AAA went extremely hard on a certain narrow notion of graphical fidelity and a certain testing methodology, and many, many things were washed out of the realm of what is perceived to be possible by this.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

The problem is not that there aren't enough games about shooting nazis, the problem is that there aren't enough games about why it's important to do so.

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

Like if your analysis of 2028 involves “Trump is historically unpopular after he’s actually been in office” and doesn’t mention that 2020 was in the middle of a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands and which his presidency was openly denying and refusing to fight, what are you even doing

Even more Warhammerish stuff by Yours Truly.

as it is particularly cold in Minneapolis and we hear scary rumors, I want to highlight a few groups. MIWRC is operating a warming facility to make sure unhoused people are not on the street, especially during the hours traditional shelters are closed. www.miwrc.org/donate

A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...

it's being revealed that a basic purpose of education is to instill trust in the process of scientific or scholarly research. You may not remember all you learned, but you were shown that experts have reasonable answers. Once you demonize higher ed, you get flat earthers, MAHA, woo-woo, etc.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

I say this as a born and bred American: No trust should be invested in the United States by any democratic nation until the current leadership is removed, held accountable, and *serious, meaningful, systematic reforms* are enacted to ensure that no one like him can ever take power in the future.

the most important thing u can do in public as a trans woman is stop looking down. look up, bitch! those peasants are beneath you

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

> This bowl-shaped basket of scrounged textiles and padding yawns with the promise of a humble, comfortable embrace followed by a laborious escape.

someone stole kuleshov's lunch from the work fridge and now he won't stop cutting between a picture of my face, an empty tupperware of chili and a venmo request for 6 bucks