Game idea: Civilization-type game where the player doesn't decide what cities to build or what armies to muster, no... The player decides what the people eat. What a culture eats determines where they settle, what goods they trade for, what their health is, what crops they cultivate. 1/4

I don't like difficult games... and yet I really feel like playing Elden Ring again... My brain is a contradictive mess of multitudes.

Game idea: Butterfly Effect Simulator. You start with a simulated environment that is in equilibrium. The player's task is to find a way to de-stabilize it using the fewest possible means. You can place any object from the simulator anywhere, but each time you do your 'resources used' score goes up.

Oh we're doing #BirdOfTheDay again? Here's an oldy from Japan. #Photography #Birds

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Looks like we're doing bird pictures today... #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds

Sooner or later, less mor more, accessibility affects all players. Through disability. Through injury. Through burnout. Through aging. Through life situations. Accessibility was never about “a small audience.” It was always about people. #GAAD #gamedev #indiedev

Movie/game idea: Take the concept of the Langoliers where a person can 'get stuck' in a day as it becomes yesterday. The rest of humanity has moved on to, what from your perspective is now; tomorrow. Every morning you do wake up a day later, but it's still de day before where everyone else is. 1/3

Without loving eyes, neither the world, nor yourself, nor anyone else within it, will ever seem beautiful to you.

It's easy follow the link www.launchgood.com/1948

Movie idea: Somebody comes up with convincing proof that Darwinian biology and enough time eventually and inevitably leads to a god-like being. The proof becomes generally accepted by the scientific community and thus they must begrugingly accept that the existence of godlike beings is likely. 1/2

Game idea: A murder mystery where the main mechanic for solving the murder is archeology. You're trying to solve a murder than happened 1000's of years ago. Write a scenario with the help of an archeologist so that the clues you can find are actually reasonable to find with archeology. 1/2

You're not supposed to hear about @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow according to some very influential forces - so how about we make sure that game happens. You can crowdfund the full development of the game here. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

I'm finally making the call and saying goodbye to Twitter. For a long while I tried to defiantly make my own space there despite... *gestures at all the madness everywhere* but I find increasingly that I don't like how that place affects me. The constant barrage of bigotry & hatred is too much. 1/2

When you use difficult games full of hardship to overcome that hardship, you're still filling your life with hardship. You're de-sensitizing yourself to it which can be useful, but it is a local optimum. Once you've learned to deal with hardship this way, will you look for a better way still? 1/2

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Against All Odds We are cooking something for you Stay stunned...

Friends! 💛 I've started a discord server for freelancers coming from margins backgrounds based in London. ' Ask me for an invite if you are interested!

Reminder: You now live in a world where A.I. 'heartbeat' agents that can program are publically accessible.

My defense against the uncertain times ahead is simple: I live in a small town where there is nothing anybody wants and I am unimportant and disabled. Insignificance is my armor. In WW2, the people who lived here were mostly left alone for the same reason. That is, if you weren't Jewish.

@cliffwgilmore.bsky.social If a general knows they're about to lose control, what does military wisdom compell them to do?

For those of us having a pleasant Sunday, may I interrupt your pleasant Sunday with a reminder that Israel today, too, murders, maims, tortures, kidnaps, holds hostage, starves, dispossessed, and rapes Palestinians, Lebanese, and others as they please in a Western-backed genocide.

What if the Butlerian jihad started as a civil movement as a way of banning tech-surveilance and A.I. from our lives? Anything with a chip in it, we'd simply stop buying, or remove the chip.

The world war that we're now in the early stages of is entirely caused by the rich, for the benefit of the rich. Nothing about this war will be for anyone but them. And if the rich were to all spontaneously die, that war would not continue.

If you're Dutch, this applies to you, no matter which way you lean politically.

Today is another great day to ask the question: Why is Trump still alive?

Dat is te verwachten als je stemt op een narcist. Yeşilgöz zal steeds duidelijkere tekenen vertonen hoe langer ze aan de macht blijft. Ze heeft succes, en dat brengt haar in een staat van euforie. Dat uit zich in steeds overter narcistisch gedrag. Net als Trump is het een spiraal.

This is the appropriate weapon to use. Economic blackout. You'll need to do this quite a few times, growing over time & learning how to do the logistics of taking care of your protesters as you go for longer & longer blackouts. THIS is the weapon that actually hurts them, the one they can't ignore.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

I started playing Harold Hallibut, what a gorgeous game! I can't wait to see where the plot goes!

Do I have any followers here who have gone through an emancipation process later in life?

Today's wisdom: If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

This matters.

Perhaps we should stop looking at these numbers through a traditional lens & getting excited about record low approval ratings — & instead look at them through the lens of 1/3 of the population approving of fascism. Seems to me that would influence our priorities, planning, & decision-making…

The biggest harm people have done to Jesus, whether he existed or not, was to revere him. He denied being a king for good reason. If he's special, nobody will think they can follow his example. And he wanted his example to be followed. Grace, even under pressure, is not a super-human feat.

Find kindness in everything

Let me say this in no uncertain terms: If Trump doesn't die from being murdered, every other narcissistic peace of crap is going to look at his life as an example of what to strive for. If it was up to me, I'd want to make that prospect as un-appealing for those peaces of crap as humanly possible.

Movie idea: Scientists find a laptop that is carbon-dated to be 10.000 years old. It's been in the ground for that time. Use as much real science as possible to have a team slowly figure out how much they can learn about this 10.000 year old laptop using all the science humanity has at its disposal.

So, Hormuz has managed to change who its extrortionist is. Big improvement... /sarcasm. Honestly, between paying Iran and paying Trump, I'd rather pay Iran.

I could really do with a version of Crimson Desert that just doesn't have boss fights in it. I am not enjoying them at all, and you have to do some of them to progress at all. Most of the game is relaxing and fun, but then these fights have me fighting the controls more than the boss itself.

Something better can emerge from all of this, but it won’t come soon or easy, & may look significantly different in terms of nations & borders. 250 yrs was a good run, but I think many forget sometimes that US history isn’t world history. That the endurance of the US is not a foregone conclusion.