Finally got a chance to play Brass: Birmingham last night and got to really embrace just how much I am a Numbers Sicko

I feel like I follow everyone who bought a copy

#pathologic #pathologic2

me too man. i also would like to put in less money and recieve more money. when you put it like that it sounds so simple

It's been over a year and countless iterations but *finally* I can announce that my Masters thesis project, a historical strategy deckbuilder based on the Late Bronze Age is finally playable! Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!

Having pretty much entirely moved over here I think the biggest difference is that Twitter is full of people I block, Bluesky is full of people I sigh at and mute

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Saxon monarchs always sound so delicious. King Egbred. Prince Hamwig. Queen Sexburga.

*** ****** exhibits the classic conflation of “Gamers, as an audience, don’t engage with games as art” (true) with “gamedev is not an artistic practice” (false). It’s an attitude you can only have as an audience member and not a practitioner imo, which he is at this point

Had a flash of inspiration for a game I don’t have the technical ability to actually make and I have to say, it’s very cathartic to write a character sketch that is a really unflattering self-portrait.

This will probably always be my favourite

During my last ASOIAF it was astounding to me just how telegraphed the Red Wedding is. Chapters are usually days or weeks apart, then suddenly they’re moment-to-moment. You feel the focus pull tighter and tighter and don’t know why until the trap snaps shut and it all clicks horribly into place.

It's not about if Horses is good or if you like it, it's about the world we're in where a few companies have control over who gets to make money and which artists get to continue working. Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.

Time to fight over some jewelry

Doing Finnish Frostpunk 2 but we’re shoveling endangered bird species into the Generator

Right, that's exactly where you wanna build a data center – in a place which has half a second of ping to anywhere on Earth and is perfectly heat-insulated on all sides. www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Desktop finally back from repair and it feels like I’ve regained a limb. I am normal and have a normal relationship to technology

Slipping the coronation scene in there, you sly dog

Das merke ich immer erst im Februar des nächsten Jahres. Bin ja different gebuildet.

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

This I think sums it up well. I’d add that Game mechanics *are* narrative, but you can often tell when they’re not really understood as such. I think about a game like Pentiment by contrast, where the basic verbs of the game (talk, explore, share meals) and narrative progression are the same thing

Had a flash of inspiration for a Venice civ for Civilization VII but haven’t the slightest idea how to implement it (or the time even if I did tbh)

It's a holiday weekend. You're going to hit up a townie bar and need a break from family soon enough. Why not read [EDITOR'S NOTE: if you're on *Bluesky*, it's reread] our good friend Tim's now 10.5 year old story on arguably the greatest jukebox goof of all time www.vice.com/en/article/i...

TLJ and Rogue One over ROTJ but otherwise correct

You kill me, you know that? A hundred years from now there won’t be one sad fuck to look at any of this. What keeps you going? You know what it is, Charlie Brown? I just don’t think about it.

[ancient Egyptian Bob Dylan voice] All along the Wadj-Wer

Breaking out the museum pieces while my desktop gets fixed

Why, You grave but reckless senators

Power flickered last night and fried the motherboard of my desktop hell yeah dude

The city/town distinction in Civ 7 gives the resource screen a very funny “football clubs” vibe Bàak’ City Karkemiš Town

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Picked up a collection of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry a while ago and have been thinking about this one a lot lately

First ever in-person game of Shadow Doge ended in, astonishingly, a tie!

As Enrico Dandolo said "I don't care if I go blind, I don't need to see the price tag anyway"

They’re calling it the realest prototype of a Venetian nepotism simulator of all time

shadow doge prototype is now actually in my hands lfg

Shadow Doge prototype components fully printed! (Colour + Art are placeholders)

Shadow Doge assets ready for 3D printing and physical play testing!

Now 007 this may look like an ordinary Parisian bar

If the main character of “The Legionnaire’s Lament” is dreaming of his home in Paris, he would definitionally not be in the Foreign Legion Colin Meloy, explain

Growing up speaking German, learning European French in school, but living for nearly a decade in Montréal has led to an insane accent when I speak French that my fiancée just described as “like your first language was Esperanto”

i cant believe they made the city from Ubisoft Presents Assassin’s Creed: Unity ™️ (2014) real

Happy Shadow Doge v. 0.5 “Arlecchino” release day to all who celebrate

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

Philosophical musings at the lab

Testing Shadow Doge again and we've made Doge Bill Ackman

[logging on every day] man what

I mean yeah it’s a good song but what’s all the fuss about

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,