Fun announcement! I’ve written an Exceptional Story for Fallen London, Failbetter’s delicious browser game. It’s not out yet, but, check out the game in anticipation. I’ll let you know when it’s available to subscribers. 🖤 fallenlondon.com

Johnsonburg PA Candido 800 Minolta Maxxum 8000i #Filmphotography

Calvin & Hobbes had a similar Kant gag as well

"My most unpopular opinion is the one nobody would ever agree with"

Hazel was a delight to work with; look out for this one!

Getting the old "I'm neither left nor right and I'd never vote Reform but immigrants are culturally incompatible and we should kick them out" routine from a friend of a friend rn, classic

Every single time someone frames a population as a problem or capitalized Issue their solution always ends up being exterminating them, and somehow centrists never notice this until the mass graves are already being filled.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Oop

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Just one week left on my contract with Blizzard! I'll soon be open to freelance and fulltime work in games and games-adjacent media.

fwiw if "identity politics" offends people (as bad as racism!) they should first interrogate the primacy of identity in their own views, in this case nationality. Can't say that personhood is relative to personal circumstances and deny your moral outlook is founded on abstract notions of identity.

I'll be giving the talk "Roll for Reminiscence: Procedural Keepsake Games" at Roguelike Celebration! Super excited to share work I've been doing on this topic!

Going through the photo album with Toddler. He's miming picking his baby self out of the baby pics as a snack. "Lecker"

MeemWow Games is hiring a Senior 2D Artist to define the art style for their pirate-themed roguelike strategy game! 🛰️ Remote, Freelance ⚙️ Made in Unity 📚 Strong portfolio required ⤵️

Happy bi visibility day cool bi people

I've been saying "I will get exponentially taller forever or you can beat me to death with spanners" to anyone who would listen for years. The bad news? If I don't figure out how to grow - a lot - I'm in real trouble

At some point people have got to come to terms with the fact that scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs about health are *rife*, you probably have some that you need to interrogate; it doesn't suddenly become an issue once it spills over to bizarre claims about autism, it relies on that groundwork

Joining the Friday line-up: @bagenzos.house with BAETYL "baetyl is a lateral thinking puzzle game with a mysterious story."

Combing every inch of the Silksong map lest I advance to Act 3 with things left undone

BREAKING: magician to invest up to 50 sparkles in goblins

If your position is "Reform can't be allowed to win", here's what you do: stop validating their politics. Stop letting them push the window further and further. Stop "addressing concerns" and actually admit and embrace the fact that migration is good and human and stand up for people

Oh fuck this. Shut up. This shit is, explicitly, "stop the boats and send them back" with added finger pointing. Smuggling is a direct result of the suppression of legal routes to asylum. Whatever Davey thinks he's doing here, it leads to smuggling. We have a humanitarian obligation and fuck you.

looking at some beryl cook art again. like grant wood or gary larson but less sinister

Paracetamol during pregnancy does NOT cause autism. More bollocks non-science shaming pregnant people is JUST what we don't need. We are already told what to do and what not to do so much during pregnancy (much worse in the states of course). This has made me furious tbh.

I want to have "when all this is over" thoughts but the thing we never seem to learn is that "this" is never over, we're either preventing it or it's upon us. The idea of these crises of humanity being discrete events is an illusion. This is about how and if we maintain what we are.

The first university to ban this shit is going to get a reputation as the last place you can get any kind of meaningful education at all

I'm just doing this to put Bloodborne twice tbh

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Greg the motherfuckin egg. You Machiavellian fuck.

Something I am loving about Silksong is that I can invest in covering every corner of it before I move the story along and can still manage to get a lot of that done in the 30-60 minute bites of gaming time I get a day.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

They push, you make way. They push more, you make way again. Every time, you tell everyone that making way will foster common cause. Every time, they laugh in your fucking face. When you've given away everything and every side agrees you're a fool, you caution people not to stand their ground.

Appreciate David's perspectives on style & dressing. As I get older, bigger, hairier, roomy high waists are saving my life. Close fabrics aren't ripping out my leg hairs anymore; the abdominal pain from involuntary compensation at the waistline is gone.

Toddler reenacting his earlier tantrum in telling us about his morning. Very convincing.

accursed beast

Toddler: *farts loudly* Me: you farted Toddler: you farted more

*Toddler kicks my leg* Me: ow, no. Say sorry, please. Toddler: no Me: okay, don't then. T: sorry, papa. Me: thank you, I forgive you. T: sorry. Sorry. Me: that's nice of you, thank you. T: papa, sorry. Sorry. For hurting your leg. Me: yeah alright T: ich bin sorry. Me: ok!! It's ok! T: *fart noise*

You ever think about how much it sucks that we’re in an era of depression level inflation and what makes it worse is that we weren’t taught skills to make it more manageable that previous generations had like sewing or cooking

Interesting preview of the bubble collapse here. Nvidia is sort of paying to rent their own GPUs from the companies that buy those GPUs to resell compute, so that those companies can raise more debt, to buy more GPUs. It's driving demand by using debt, whole thing seems liable to topple over.

@lkirbyradstock.bsky.social with respect to your trade, considering the green piece of shit I got at Hobgoblin 21 years ago is still going strong with its original strings even with Toddler whaling on it every single day I am apprehensive that anyone should pay more than £10 for a ukulele

"We have to go along with it," they will say, "in order to continue our vital work. We can't hold power to account if we lose access to it, can we?"

If you can call me a luddite for hating ChatGPT I can definitely call you a nazi for hating immigrants

M$ sux