And I think it’s actually worth engaging more, and more deeply, with art that moved you, after you find out the artist did something awful. It’s worth understanding *why* you loved it. It’s easy to treat it as radioactive, to flatten it and flatten the artist.

You don’t have to hate art that moves you because the artist did something awful. I think you have a responsibility not to provide them with further profits, while they live, but buying more art is not the same as being moved by art, gaining value from it.

The world isn’t divided into sinners and saints, and our brains seem to have as much trouble actually processing that as they do with very large numbers. We say people are complex but we can’t actually deal with their complexity up close.

This is the same impulse that leads a lot of men to say they hate rapists and would kill any rapist they encountered, while being friends with rapists, or true crime podcast hosts to talk about murderers as monsters. (Brief thread)

The world needs more zines, so spread the word to the teens. Free poetry zine-making workshop in #Winnipeg for ages 15-18!

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But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

After this year's rewatch, my new theory is that Phil didn't need to become a better person and arrange a perfect day with Rita, he just needed to buy a whole bunch of insurance from Needlenose Ned. He could have got out of the loop on day one.

This is not a drill, we have a launch date!!!

The rage and disappointment I experienced when this wasn't a link to a database of cute rabbits...

I'm going to spend the next few days squashing any other bugs I find and probably do another small release on the weekend!

Delve 0.5.2 is up! I fixed a couple of bugs but the main reason for this release is the ability to remap keybindings for players without the refined taste to appreciate vi-style movement keys... #delve #roguelike #roguelikedev danarama.itch.io/delve/devlog...

life lessons

Years ago, Jessica and I began a tradition of watching Groundhog Day every on Feb 2nd and we've been doing it so long that Groundhog Day is almost certainly the movie I've seen the most number of times. Wild, because I like the film but I don't think it would even crack my top 25 favs

I've been working on letting you remap keys in delve for folks with non-American/Canadian keyboard layouts. Mostly and then I'll probably release delve 0.5.2 tomorrow evening.

Blue Prince is such an odd game because it's like 10/10 amazing if you play it for maybe 30 hours, but then you probably don't get a satisfying conclusion. But the longer you play the worse it gets and pushing 100 hours I'd call it 6/10 or maybe 7/10.

Delve 0.5.0 is up at danarama.itch.io/delve My silly little hobby project got some cool new stuff. There are new dungeons and you can actually win it! This is still an early and incomplete game but I'm content with my progress so far! Avaiable for mac, win, linux! #delve #roguelike #roguelikedev

Note for both Delve players! Pushed a little update for Delve to fix a few bugs. The numpad now works on linux and the game was hanging when you tried to view messages on the Game Over screen 😬 #delve #roguelike #roguelikedev danarama.itch.io/delve

the world is run by barely literate pedophiles, the government is kidnapping and murdering in the streets, and my taxes are paying for multiple genocides. and tomorrow, i need to go to work, where i will get written up if i take too long eating lunch

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 1554 Second Age Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)??? lmfao u totally shoulkd

delve is really promising and has some great generative work in it!

Delve 0.5.0 is up at danarama.itch.io/delve My silly little hobby project got some cool new stuff. There are new dungeons and you can actually win it! This is still an early and incomplete game but I'm content with my progress so far! Avaiable for mac, win, linux! #delve #roguelike #roguelikedev

Tomorrow... #delve #roguelikedev

Tomorrow... #delve #roguelikedev

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EPISODE 39 IS LIVE! @merlinogames.bsky.social joins @marinahascoffee.bsky.social to talk about the journey that led him to developing his upcoming game, As Time Surrenders. They delve in topics like ambient storytelling, using art to engage in conversation, & more. youtube.com/watch?v=1NId9pvBvHI

as an adult

A feature I thought was going to be a giant pain in the ass to implement but was actually dead simple and easy is letting the player resize the font while the game is running

Sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for CEOs to be scored, Metacritic-style, based on how others evaluate how they run a company. I like to imagine it would encourage more restraint. Their incompetence does real damage. You shouldn't have to suffer executives just because you want to be a gamedev.

Asking chat gpt what the Sunk Cost Fallacy is.

Listen RNG, I'm just trying to do QA on my game...

A small note that Shadow of the Wyrm v1.9.0 is now available: lots of fixes, lots of new items, and many of these toward the version's biggest change: brewing has finally been implemented, and Apothecaries are now a useful and mechanically interesting class! shadowofthewyrm.org/downloads.html

Happy 6th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary to those who celebrate! #Geology ⚒️

Waking up today I felt borderline euphoric. With no leadership and no institutional buy-in the people shut down economic activity, defended their neighbors, and ended a fascist's career. None of those things were supposed to happen, but regular people decided they should, so they did. Incredible!

It's important to remember that all of this horseshit and the "We have to make sure AI doesn't turn evil and destroy humanity" stuff should be seen as advertising for AI companies and nothing else

So the profits of the Canadian grocery monopoly remain intact, publicly funded even? This is much like the food donation bins just past check out, graciously put out by grocery concerns, allowing consumers to buy from them then donate.

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up. I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?

I think about this post a lot.

Bunny doesn’t seem too bothered with -37 windchill

The Blue Prince tragedy/comedy of finally cracking a puzzle only to realized it’s a hint to something you already stumbled across by accident and solved…

And if their promise holds true, software devs being 50X, 100X, etc. then there should be less and less need for software devs. If their product is as spectacularly successful as they say, they'll be shrinking their paying customer base, especially their whales

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

Paraphrasing a comment I saw on reddit: "I guarantee you that before summer the Board of Peace is going to announce its own Peace Prize and award it to Trump"

I started playing Persona 5 on Tuesday and it's already being to take up a lot of cycles in my brain...

Sorry @kymira.ca 🫣🫣

Testing Delve and I ended up having to run away from a mini-boss only to be swallowed whole by a giant toad as I was trying to get away. My character was almost dead so I read a Scroll of Escape, which takes you out of the dungeon but leaves your gold behind. #roguelikedev #delve

One of the things I'm targeting for Delve after 0.5.0 is a big expansion of the magic system and I'm always drawn to one feature of Ultima IV that I suspect I might well be the only person who liked: how you have to buy (or find in some cases) reagents for your spells and prepare them.

This was a neat video and makes me want to rewatch a bunch of Columbo (and not just to suck up to @samposnick.com) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyo0...

That is, ah, how capitalism works, my bro.

Is this why Evan Solomon, Minister of AI, tried to downplay people's calls for banning Grok and Twitter?