Cleared 40 Fear in Hades 2. Mostly posting this for: 1) Highlighting just how much I am coping with any current goings-on in my life by descending into being a gaming gremlin 2) Pointing out specifically for @ridiculous.chat that, just like 5 years ago, FO0 is the easiest way to push in this game:

Partner: people are flipping out online over some accusation of a twitch streamer using a shock collar Me: ? P: ...on a dog M: right... P: a pet dog M: [stares blankly] P (exasperated): Non-human! M: OH

To be clear this is not at all irrelevant info. If I walk into a party looking like this and wearing those boots, it’s definitely going to be in people’s best interest if I’ve already made sure they’re safe to lick

# will replace before ship

When you want you know how to take care of a new pair of boots, so you ask your friends who are most into leather

My week has been incredibly annoying so I took a partner out and impulse bought both of us a pair of docs

Something like 3 relationships, a career, and probably a gender

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game So he flipped his positive review to negative Still totally worth it

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

hades gals 💀🌸

32 fear downstairs and upstairs

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

What’s your sign

🎵I am gonna claw out your eyes / And drown you to death 🎵

Chaos says they picked an appearance that weird people like me would be into, which is honestly far too real

The new Arcana card art of all the characters is so good

Btw, this happened during the session, which is one of the more absurd and dumb scores I’ve had. No I will not explain

Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well. www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

I got 100% of the items in Silksong between my previous workout and this one so…well my routines aren’t amazing, but it felt nice to try to start getting into shape for playing dance games again

I don't have a take on Silksong tuning, but I do have a personal reaction, which is that it felt like it hit a sweet spot that I really appreciate. The level of opposition that it continually presented rarely dipped into frustration, but was enough to maintain a real dance between me and the game.

Yeah. I liked this game

oh no

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Seeing Nine Inch Nails in 2025

Hornet represents the plight of a trans woman trying to succeed in an organization dominated by agender constructs

Silksong: a game where sometimes the two girls are just going to have to fight

Anyway, I am quite loving Silksong. Hard to know what else to add. I guess it helps that I’m marginally less online these days so it’s easier to ignore the discourse. But I, to say the least, am not wishing it were a different kind of game. I’m happy to have another one of these at this level.

They saw this and said “i think its funny that i have a genuine impact on your silksong progress..” And on the one hand, yes I do have some semblance of priorities here, but on the other, I have already described myself as “busy finishing act 2” tonight

Sinner is another standout. Unlike the slow rhythm of Dancers, it’s a fast-paced fight, and in both cases the aesthetics put them in a S tier of memorable fights. Overall the bosses have really impeccable subtle rhythm and flow, a really consistent execution after learning from the first game.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

It’s really lame when a weekend is only 2 days. If your lesbian date winds up being 48 hours long, you barely get to play any Silksong before work

i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month

Sony confirmed to Kotaku that a Sucker Punch employee is no longer with the company following pressure from a right wing harassment campaign. Yotei has been making headlines in alt-right gaming culture warrior circles ever since it reveals the protagonist was a woman.

Silksong is so big that I have to transfer between two types of public transportation to get to my corpse

The bosses in this game have been consistently outstanding through Act 1, but then they keep getting better. Judge didn't make me want to stop fighting them for a moment even though it was hard. And Dancers I want to just, like, stand at and admire for a while

Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer is a game design report exploring "multiplayer games designed from the start with systems that deliberately promote prosocial behaviour". Come for the charts, stay for the design patterns to use in your own games: polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

Not only was yesterday’s Bills game totally bonkers, but I was on vacation with @birdget.bsky.social and friends, and explained scorigami in attempt to make football interesting to people whose main interest would be…score data visualization. So that ending turned out really conveniently for me

With Shade Cloak: I cleared P5 No Shade Cloak: it takes me an hour to learn early game bosses

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If anyone ever questions my dedication to work, I'm just going to point out that, right now, as we speak, I'm not playing Silksong.

yo this guy is cooking

So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

STOP BANNING TRANS PEOPLE FOR HATING OUR OPPRESSORS

Due to popular demand, we’ve unlocked this episode for public consumption.

Outfit, event, inevitable denouement for the night

Speaking of: Today (8/3) is 10 years since I started my game career, the day I showed up to start working on WoW after moving across the country.

Outfit, event, inevitable denouement for the night

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...