I think I've figured out the basics of character design after many years of being intimidated by it: Give them my own personal problems.

I regret not getting into touhou 15 years ago or any time after that point. chapter 4 is beating me up.

America isn't real but I am. Pre-order my birthday by wishing me a happy birthday today.

Being sick sucks all you can do is play deltarune and dissociate.

In response to the request for voluntary recognition, mgmt can: 1) Say no 2) Wait out the 10 day timer 3) Say yes and enter negotiations with the workers Options 1 and 2 will look terrible and result in a recognition ballot the union can absolutely win. Option 3 will make everyone happy 😌

We began organising at Rockstar in 2019 and I’m proud to have been involved since the beginning. I’m even more proud of the workers who picked up the torch late last year and are now pushing for recognition.

Peace is not only threatened by war-mongering regimes like Russia, Israel and the US, but also by food and water insecurity and the climate crisis. Throwing even more money into the pockets of arms company bosses isn’t going to make the UK any more secure.

This is a really good piece on the ways fascist movements are currently funded and how they mainstream their ideas through diagonalist strategies. Really recommend taking a week or a sick day to watch it.

Drawing, painting. Music, dancing. that's what it's all about.

"water cooled computers" are a liberal recuperation of the radical movements for pouring boba tea directly onto motherboards at a grassroots level.

One of the business arguments for not using genAI in indie games is that, if you do use it and people find out, a significant portion of your audience simply will not buy your shit. As a dev you have to ask yourself: is this worth permanently alienating a good chunk of my audience? Probably not!

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

Genuinely huge update (though I've moved my technical chatter to @algebra.fallible.net mostly). Go check this out!

[it's been a week since the last time I was at a punk show voice] I think going to a show would fix me.

i missed making little videos and then i remembered how easy it was to just do that

I've read too much accelerationism the last couple of days and I need to de-worm my brain.

Turning the moral of Brianna Ghey's death into a cautionary tale about "growing up online" is explicitly revisionist history and seems to reveal that Esther Ghey believes Brianna's transition was the cause of her demise, rather than the radicalized classmates who stabbed her.

ugh it's happening I'm becoming a Reactive Poster

Much of modern crankery is fueled by a fetishization of a "natural" that is every bit an artificially constructed cultural product as the so-called modernity they abhor and scapegoat for today's ills. They are in denial that their hallucinations represent no known reality, living in phantasms.

looking into a lot of open source tools when we were more actively Making A Game last year really highlighted that a LOT of open source software, including godot, is not made with the intent to be used by people

and immediately banned from youtube for all eternity

I need to get back to my artistic roots - people don't have any money - magic the gathering is horribly mismanaged on a corporate level and doesn't deserve to be played

This all happened around the corner from me. Masked men going house to house and burning down homes based on the colour of the skin of the people inside. Absolute insanity.

What are you talking about, we've had group chats on this site for years -- you didn't get invited to any?

Preferred enamel pin back: m1 bolt w/ teflon-lined nut.

Bad time to be waiting to exit an anti-fascist gig in central ig. Hate that for anyone who might be doing that rn.

Some quick Strange Town/Anthology Of The Killer doodles

I think I got it. sorry for metaposting. The userbase of this website refuses to be seen as vulgar, so this website will always be kinda square.

You want a vision of "positive manhood"? Stop being afraid of being like women. Stop refusing to admit women can be like you. Can be better than you, even. And stop maiming and killing and destroying in order to preserve that fiction of superiority.

When people ask for "positive masculinity" they fundamentally ask to preserve the hierarchy in which manhood sits atop all. A gentler, kinder, less violent---or at least, less OPENLY violent model of manhood. Few are ready to confront that the problem is attempting to preserve manhood at all.

A Brief History of Reviewing Things on the Internet, Vol. I

when i look at youtube, searching for an actual piece of useful information, i think a lot about "the tyranny of entertainment"

John Blanche communicated 40k's phantasmagoria of superstition, violence, waste, and authoritarianism. Gorgeous art of a universe that warps to uplift its most fevered inhabitants. Our very own Bosch or Bruegel.

John Blanche was such an iconic artist that so skillfully defined and expressed the cosmic immensity of machinery / architecture of the settings he worked on. His way of messily expressing the pathetic, extreme imagery of military and imperialism was just as impressive too. Devastating news.

I am in a very "unsubscribe from our marketing emails" period in my life.

George Henry and E A Hornel The Druids bringing in the Mistletoe 1890

White Crosses will probably be my favourite Against Me! album for a while just out of the sense of I'm No Longer "Young People" And People Are Telling Me To Settle For Less From Life.

moderation move sort of fundamentally at odds with the idea that people have dimensions and are not single minded brands

Not about anything in specific but I think we gotta be really careful about not conflating the concept of "enshittification" with the impulse to assume that everything was always better during your adolescence

New backgrounds, characters, and hey, how'd that whole Kickstarter thing go? www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMz... #GameDev #IndieDev #DevLog #ADventureGame

Thinking about Her (opening up my easel and doing any oil painting)

It needs to be june already so I can look forward to the... 5? shows? I'm going to? fucking hell.

Set up @algebra.fallible.net as an evil alter ego who talks about technology and maths like I did back on cohost separate from my more arts-and-gamedev persona.

brexit really ruined the eurostar huh

I'm at #rustweek #rustweek2026 btw, reach out if you wanna say hi!

GIGF, for lovers of art and music too ♡ ︎݁✦. Grab your ticket today :) glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/ #GIGF26 #indiegames #glasgowgames #glasgowindiegames

Not to be sincere and vulnerable (something illegal in the UK so I can only do this outside it's borders) but the way scenes, art communities, ideas of how to run community groups, all these things, how they connect people and spread and grow is the most important thing in the whole world.

The fact that code editor theme systems have narrowed down in on "you can choose the border styles, the font, and the colours. But we won't give you any real CSS powers." is an unhealing wound in the soul of people who have to touch code I think.

Not really a website where you have fun spending time here is it.