Get you a girl who plays Chopin.

Imagine thinking you're gonna fix social media when you literally don't even pay for a community manager.

so many people with strong opinions about AI and so few have them have read Walter Benjamin's "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

I really liked Silksong. Much more than I expected to, and I liked Hollow Knight quite a bit.

woke up this morning with the pitch for an official Waluigi video game lodged in my brain and the feeling that this was very important

PC creatures

I really get why Silksong is very much not for everyone but now, deep into the secret post-credits act III, I’m emphatic that I’m very glad that they made the game that they wanted to make and not the game that everyone else wanted

consistently find that "urban" vs. "suburban" vs. "rural" is a greater determining factor in how much space for meaningful political alliance there is with someone than what party or ideology they profess to. how you choose to live your day-to-day life says a lot about your values in practice.

no matter what cause you stand for there'll always be some fucker accusing you of "infighting" and while yes, solidarity is important, it's also important to make sure you know who is actually interested in solidarity and who is interested in putting you in your place. who the fuck is "we"

so I wear a bike helmet because Shit Happens but the times I've ridden without one I've noticed that drivers treat me with noticeably more caution and respect

discover timeline on bluesky keeps getting worse somehow

As soon as I got the airdash in silksong i remembered how cool I was on hollow knight until that same moment. The only thing I care about doing in video games is chaining together highly commital unique movement options until I fall off a cliff and die.

way too many people who speak only english and maybe took a couple semesters of spanish or whatever out here having very strong opinions about the english language

Man the One Piece life action adaptation is going HARD https://gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-being-run-via-discord-after-gen-z-uprising-2000658243 #nepal #onepiece

“condemning political violence” is wild to me. it’s like condemning “bleeding from a stab wound” – sure yeah I agree it’s bad and we don’t want it to continue but maybe there some other questions to be asking about the sitaution.

yall hear about this nepal stuff

unserious candidates are so fun tho. they add important variety to my candidate ranking powerpoint presentation. important indicator species in the ecosystem

software development teams should work on pirate rules. the captain is decided by vote and can be replaced at any time, and barely gets more treasure than the rest of the crew but a lot more hassle, so is mostly relieved to be replaced.

ultimately what it comes down to is that Truth is not something that manifests in language – it’s something you witness and participate in. imagine thinking you can find truth by doing statistical analysis on text. or by debating with strangers. deranged dreamland logic.

"what makes Silksong any better than [my favorite metroidvania]" that game doesn't have a little guy who makes a funny noise. any more stupid questions

it’s weird that I still constantly see people talking about “rural vs urban” in the us as though this is the True Political Debate when almost 50% of americans live in suburbia. I love small towns and rural regions – I grew up in one – but suburbs are the disease at the heart of our society.

I saw this line of thought even before modern genAI where the ideal for art is some sort of magic box that generates the perfect personalized content for each person, and it's such a wildly antisocial position to hold. Even if you hate artists, people still like to have a shared baseline reality

I've been playing 9 Sols and having this weird feeling that I would like this game more if it didn't look so beautiful. As-is, the gorgeous art is overselling the story & gameplay and leaving me underwhelmed. It wears its influences on its sleeve openly but imo doesn't compare to them favorably.

I kind of want to do a long series where I take various tropes in genre fic, particularly fantasy, (things like “dwarves are scottish” and “dragons eat princesses”) and try to trace the exact family tree of who inspired who for each.

thrilled to announce that the next time a doctor asks me “any reactions to medications” I can answer “yes”. also thrilled to announce that a doctor thinks my full-body rash is “pretty impressive”

desperate for more designers to make nonlinear highly-connected levels. just make me find the Three Boss Keys if you need to gate progresssion.

if i could sum up what kind of level design I like in an RPG it would be "level design that does not make me frantically backtrack at every intersection to see if I'm correctly going the wrong way and not missing a treasure chest" that's really the primary criteria

obsessed with this post

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

I spent my whole birthday weekend sick and nursing a debilitating headache so I've decided that The Birthday Will Continue Until Clarity Improves

i’m birthday

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

chairman lmao

exhibit A

The worst victim of conflict-itis is children's stories. If you must moralize to kids (why?), set aside "[character] must overcome their flaws and learn a Lesson". Maybe instead show your character as already having the desired virtues and show how that's admirable, interesting, useful, fun, etc.

once again begging the "conflict is an essential part of storytelling" people to read more slice of life manga lmao

the shape of governance in the utopia looks like this btw in case you were wondering. it's not actually that confusing or impossible or whatever

looking for some near-future anticapitalist speculative fiction. there should be more of this

With relative lat/lon differences from Portland: N: Fairbanks AK (19°) E: Luxor, Egypt (154°) S: Queenstown, NZ (90°) W: Queenstown, NZ (70°) Pretty good tbh!!

I wonder what it is that causes all GenAI images to have that yellow tint to them. Is yellow just a statistically average color or something

Everything you think you know about money is wrong strangematters.coop/history-of...

reading Debt and seeing the itch io stuff and thinking about an alternative universe where cryptocurrency was a truly decentralized reputation-based credit system modeled after the economics of the middle ages bazaar instead of just being a get rich quick scheme

reminder that magic is so real that if you don’t control for its well-studied effects it’ll render your whole medical trial invalid

A nice rule of thumb for setting boundaries with people is "Would the way I am setting this boundary make sense to my dog?" This might seem patronizing but it could actually fix your life.

So many people in local city politics who very clearly hate cities and hate their own city in particular and it's so exhausting. Like sure I complain all the time but I love Portland. That's why I'm here!

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

I cannot stress how life changing it is to learn a few basic three ingredient pasta dishes. Aglio e Olio, Cacio e Pepe, _actual_ Linguine Alfredo, etc. These require next to no skill to make, use cheap ingredients (some you can even grow at home) and are absolutely delicious.

don't you want to be sexy? don't you want to be familiar with all 86 success criteria of the web content accessibility guidelines?

Crusader Kings III is now my favorite sim game and biggest inspiration for many reasons, but the biggest one is that it’s deeply dedicated to thinking about human beings as being interesting, diverse, and imbued with the full agency to manage their own lives.