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

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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,

Nothing makes it clearer how long I’ve been in Canada than writing “humour reflavour” in a to-do list

Was describing a Shadow Doge mechanic via metaphor and then realized that the metaphor is actually a *better* game mechanic

you kill your darlings first, then maybe i'll kill mine. but i don't think you will. i think you just want my darlings out of the way

Just complimented for brevity. Nice.

push to standardize RPG classification

put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved

This is so simple and clever that I'm actually a little angry

A core design pillar is “The Doge is always kind of an asshole” and let me tell you, it has paid off enormously every single time we’ve generated a new one

Big fan of words that sound inherently louche. Clientele. Sherry. Entanglements. Untoward.

The process of design is just that Disco Elysium dialogue choice of "That's too complicated, make it simpler" and "That's too simple, make it more complicated" back and forth, forever

Look I don't care this is the funniest thing I've ever written (to me) and I'm going to keep reposting it forever

If I had a nickel for every game I made that asked players to consider falsifying census records, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

For my undergrad, Western Medieval Medicine for sure Grad school, Knowledge and Power in Early Modern Europe. I have a half dozen game ideas at least that have spun out of that class, alone

Thesis: defended!

Game-icons is such a fascinating resource. Dying to know what project led to the creation of Latvia.png.

The first third or so of this playtest was spent with the four of us desperately trying to get the Doge to stop being racist

Just remembered an old bit of Command and Conquer lore that implied the Brotherhood of Nod was secretly behind the Reform Party.

Thesis committee - into thy hands, I commend my manuscript

The phrase "one's lessers" keeps getting flagged as not a real word and am I going crazy? That's an expression, right?

one like and I’ll use this image in my thesis defense

“We’re really focusing on threat and nephews”

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

REPORT: Adam Turla remains coolest motherfucker alive

History’s wild, man. What do you mean Italy literally “lost” wheat as a crop for hundreds of years

>looking for systemic critique >ask the video essayist if it’s systemic critique or vibes >they don’t understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is systemic critique and what is vibes >they laugh and says “it’s good critique sir” >watch video essay >its vibes

Working out of a busy common area because the lab is currently occupied has had.... predictable effects on my productivity

exile: does anyone want anything from the store kreia: the arrogance to consider the store will have "anything" astounds exile: ok does anyone else want anything from the store mandalore: i require a coke, to ensure performance in battle kreia: actually i will also have a coke

Realizing with no small amount of sadness that I just… really do not like Clair Obscur

Making my way through Clair Obscur and I like it overall quite a lot but I'm starting to get a creeping sense of dread that the story is about to become massively less interesting based on what it's foreshadowing.

“Is this a dagger I see before me?” Weight: 3 Damage: 11 +2 bonus against kings of Scotland

Just heard about the Baader-Meinhof effect and it feels like I’m seeing it everywhere now

Really enjoyed the bit of Clair Obscur I’ve played so far. Also cannot believe that it’s a game with a “time to mime fight” timer of sub-20 minutes.

#Andor spoilers without context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Montreal in the winter is part of a vast conspiracy to distract you from the fact that that Montreal in the summer is the greatest city of all time.

Archaeologists Uncover Embarrassing Egyptian Rockabilly Dynasty

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

American Pope

All of my other Andorpilled friends didn’t stay up to watch the episodes last night

Getting kicked out of the renfaire for going as a factor of a financially precarious merchant house and asking everyone if Cyprus has fallen to the Turk

This is an exceptional piece for this moment in games.

#Andor . . . . . . . . . Also, god, that Syril/Eedy conversation where she’s echoing the exact anti-Ghorman talking points we saw floated in the first episode and gets huffy and defensive when called out on it like she always felt that way. Bone chilling.