Release! bsky.app/profile/sylv...

KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of non-commercial interactive fiction in 8 years, comes out on the 31st. An entry into Ectocomp.

ESWAT: City Under Siege

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Are you interested in local folklore/history? Want to connect with other researchers outside institutional settings? Consider joining on 10/19 6PM for a virtual reunion of the Virginia Folklore Society. Were hoping to help the society out of its dormancy & would love to hear from anyone out there!

“The fourteen most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and my salary was paid by an anonymous private donor.’” -Ronald Regan, probably

a fun thing to consider is that China, and probably Russia, almost certainly have the ability to post from the president's Truth Social account. they just know that they only get to use that *once*.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Oh, I completely forgot to mention here that I have done some small changes to the games on my Itch (system6302.itch.io) earlier in the month! Emphasis on "small," but I figured out a glitch effect that I really like.

If you can train an AI agent to apply over and over to ICE with believable looking resumes, it is a moral imperative that you do so

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!) dnacreative.notion.site/codex

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

1M views on this blatantly false welfare-baiting nonsense. SNAP benefits cap at $984 for a four-person household. The state with the highest TANF benefits is New Hampshire, and that's $950 for a family of four. The greatest trick Republicans ever pulled was demonizing the welfare state.

have you completed the IF Comp post-competition survey? what a mouthful that is! please complete the IF Comp post-competition survey forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...

Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...

Got a copy of Pico-8? Ever read a Stephen King Book or see a film/tv show based on a Stephen King book? #PicoSteveMo is back for round 3! Come join the fun! itch.io/jam/picostev...

Seeing a lot of people hating from outside the club right now. As if you'd be able to do a better job building the national ballroom/event space that we've needed for hundreds if not in fact thousands of years.

Note that the female black bear apparently suffering from loneliness visited some other bears, caused no property damage, played with a few toys, and then quietly leaves, praised as a "model ambearsador". And You Wonder Why Women Choose The Bear.

When people say "embrace AI or get left behind," they mean "Companies are offloading bureaucratic chores onto their customers and calling it 'automation.' You either deal with that or don't get served." (This message was brought to you by automated check-in systems.)

It's a great day to be a game dev! If you're looking for a fun and challenging boss rush game, check out my game Chicken Flight on the google play store: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it Tattoo lady: How about something Norse? Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome Me: I like the way you think

making some beef fizz anybody want some

oh yeah I'm calling the totemkamfp or whatever the fuck it's called the jazz hands skull from now on. I was thinking about calling the the beefy boy roger but jazz hands skull is hilarious

Exploration and discovery are an important part of well-designed games that provide things to discover while players explore the environment. It's a #GameDevelopment approach seen in Fit for a King, which follows an example set by a much older series.  pmjg.blogspot.com/2023/05/game...

👋🏻 Hiii my #gamedev peeps! I hope you are all having a good week and Wednesday 😄 Reply to this post to share your #game links! 🕹️ Like 💜 Comment 🗨️ Repost 🔁 🄰🄳🄳 🄶🄰🄼🄴🅂 🅃🄾 🅆🄸🅂🄷🄻🄸🅂🅃! ✅ Enjoy the rest of your week everyone! 💕 #wishlistwednesday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #gaming

Every time someone links me to a video essay, I look at the runtime (often obscene), think about how much art I could experience in that time frame, and just do that instead. You're going to die. Use your time to experience things *for yourself.* YouTube will not enrich your soul. But art does.

That's all eight of our detectives in our #indie #puzzlegame! If you like a good #murdermystery, come join our discord and sign up for the #playtest! You are invited to a murder! discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

We all know this was about trying to get blackmail material on Vought, right?

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

The reason even this admin of brain geniuses hasn't pulled the insurrection act lever is they know it's their last card, and if they lose that fight, it gets really bad for them. Potentially it ends the ability of the administration to continue.

Not all media is racing to move on and forget about the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history I hung out at my boisterous No Kings rally in Delco, Pa. and wrote about how the movement got under Trump's skin, the surest sign that it's winning My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...

A xenophobic shell game: “Japan faces a worker shortage as its population ages, and the country has been cautious about expanding immigration.” Instead, they’ll let foreign workers control robots remotely. restofworld.org/2025/philipp...

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Calling all #gamers and #mystery lovers! We're looking for testers for our new puzzle #indiegame titled #SecondStab! 🗡 🗡 If you've ever dreamed of saying the words "I've gathered you all here this evening..." then come sign up for our #playtest! #cozymystery #murdermystery discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U

Adjacent to conservative arguments defending sexual assault: There are people who believe that if a woman consents, she can’t revoke that consent. Victims “deserve” anything that happens afterward.

#GameJam alert! It's almost November, and @basecase.bsky.social is organizing the 3rd annual PiCoSteveMo for creating #Pico8 games inspired by Stephen King's work! #GameDev itch.io/jam/picostev...

Have you filled out the IF Comp survey yet? Please consider completing it. golmac.org/your-opinion...

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO. How many design justifications we can come up with? Join me

Charlottesville #NoKings protest

Hudson Hawk unavailable for comment. apnews.com/article/fran...

Two tons of bronze ingots, from melting down Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee, are now on display in the LA Museum of Modern Art “Monuments” exhibit. The @jsaahccville.bsky.social Swords Into Plowshares project will select an artist to use the bronze to create public art for Charlottesville

I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work

its funny looking back on all the DC political reporters who attributed Biden's overwhelmingly-negative press coverage in the second half of his term as being punishment for Karine Jean-Pierre's supposed rudeness or incompetence

If you can’t handle my “JK Simmons as Ford Pines,” you don’t deserve my “JK Simmons as Emil Skoda.”

If you're the first in line at a left turn arrow, you need to pay attention to when it turns green. You control the destiny of everyone behind you. It's a big responsibility, I know, but it's also a way to show your fellow human that you respect their time as much as your own.