my face when "dino update"

We're Back! A Dwarf Fortress Update. 100 dinos and extinct creatures are coming June 25th. (And yes, you will be able to eat them) 🦖store.steampowered.com/news/app/975...

Wild good year for videogames but also this mf said system sock

Not many people know this, but UI designers actually love it when the content of text boxes could be "technically infinite," "boundless," "unknowable in scope"

My toxic trait is a necrotic venom delivered via highly specialized teeth

My toxic trait is a necrotic venom delivered via highly specialized teeth

A guide dog leads a blind beggar (and holds his bowl): 14th-c. Flemish psalter (Douce 6). "One of the earliest depictions of such a partnership" - Weston Library

I think the moon landing was real but the moon is fake

stepping on rakes at scale

Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild

Spraying a CAN-D-like substance in my face so that I can enter the dollhouse of a sickly pre-Raphaelite british lady and emerge a better fantasy writer

it’s very weird that a bunch of guys went all in on “this kinda grimy philanderer is the kind of lefty politician we need” when one of the most popular and visible lefty electeds is a suit-wearing wife guy

We got the mocks for something Qud-adjacent we get to share soon. It's a beaut

I'm gonna head off another round of lore vs. story discourse with Max's exquisite articulation of the two as related but separate creative productions

Nice bildungs. Roman?

As a genre fantasist I understand that I'm at risk of becoming a prolific crank in my old age. That's why I take precautions and avoid south-facing streets along the ley line that produced Protestantism.

Oakland posting: I enjoy how the bookstores on Piedmont Ave get more deranged as you move north. Tally Ho! -> Spectator Books -> Black Swan

to all my friends and associates who live inside the computer: you have simply got to come check out me and @doougle.net streaming 868-BACK on the @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social twitch channel. we're gonna hack, get hacked, and make some things hack other things. GOTY? www.twitch.tv/thesecretliv...

At @deptofmeteors.bsky.social's recommendation I started W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Depressed man wanders around the English countryside musing about decay, no narrative arc in sight (nods encouragingly) Feels good to be reading something I click with again

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

I'll do this and a few days later they'll switch it back

I'll see a discussion about the typeface of our logo and someone will say "they ripped it off from D&D" and then post a corroborating image of an AD&D sourcebook... with an entirely different font

AND: Leonora Carrington exhibition at Musee Luxembourg is *outstanding*. Large show including watercolors from her at 15 🤯, interview where she talks in 3 langs, and solid focus on esotericism.

Caves of Qud

im back store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

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DOCTOR: The great Pagliacci is in town! IAN BOGOST: Commedia dell'arte is formally deficient DR: BOGOST: Clowning robs from us the purer joy of watching balls roll down a ramp DR: Ok— BOGOST: The circus is riddled with kids & narrativists DR: Get out. Here's a scrip for lexapro just get the fuck out

concept sketch for Kyakukya

good writing harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/m...

BUILDNGS/BDM.GIF

Olympus as a summit-based pantheon constitutes a theory of mound

That each human being contains a rich enough interiority to read & muse & love is, from the universe's perspective, computationally decadent, & can only be justified by the collateral emergence of the soul. And so, by Q4, it is imperative we baptize our full suite of language models *end slidedeck*

I mean, I'll take one??

That every other person is saddled with as much sopping wet interiority as you are is actually one of the more overwhelming and terrifying of the conceivable metaphysics, and goes a long way to explain why there's such a rich ecology of toy solipsisms to retreat into

Hey I wanted to share out a recently released capstone project from my student Bernadine Mattson! Doo-Daa is a collaged RPG Maker MZ 2003 game where you play as an astronaut cat handing out informational pamphlets marketing the planet Earth to Dadaist aliens. bobby4apples.itch.io/doo-daa

appreciation post of this image (LLNL NIF)

Just let out an audible "WHAT" in public when I checked my phone and saw something I ordered would be delivered on May 22, which I was certain was like 3 weeks away. I guess that's tomorrow. Okay.

JCO is excused from the otherwise universal maxim "no one should be on twitter". She should be on twitter. She is our Achilles.

I don’t talk much about my day job here but the big Civ VII update is out today! lots of cool stuff there; be sure to disable mods before you check it out

Immortality (2022)

I just gave *three* people in a row good-enough-to-tell-your-friends comeback stories from unwinnable game states on MTG Arena. Reeling

If you are following Shelved By Genre please note Spotify is automatically removing every episode where we read a certain amount of the text because they think we're trying to make an illegal audiobook. They've stopped letting us appeal! Consider an alternative to Spotify to ensure ease of listening

Yeah, absolutely. Realizing something like this a few years ago really changed my feelings on a certain style of mechanically simple but aesthetically lush JRPG, which I spent years stupidly dismissing. To paraphrase a recent episode of Side Story, sometimes it’s good to be in the gloop.

little formulation I've been rolling over: for a class of games that want you to slowly steep in their narrative waters, gameplay functions as a kind of fidget toy. And this isn't incidental; some corners of the affect space that narrative as a whole maps out are only unlocked by fidgeting