melian dialogue tree

Actually, addendum: strategy games can also be puzzle games

I think this also explains why I’m overwhelmingly drawn to making/playing the seemingly unrelated genres of strategy games and RPGs

(Also because every strategy game is secretly an RPG)

forgot alt text but:

- disco elysium
- civ 5
- dragon age: origins
- knights of the old republic 2
- citizen sleeper
- morrowind
- command and conquer: tiberian sun
- outer wilds
- pathologic 2

if we’ve met this is probably the least surprising list of all time

Lorem ipsum dolor dollar bills y'all

Don’t tempt me I have so much to do

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Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Denzel Washington is the greatest living Shakespearean actor, sue me

Not a man on earth more suited to a role than Stephen Root to The Porter

done been birth

And they say the Atmosphere’s gone out of the Prem

Does anyone know if we're gonna have Fragile Delineation between Man and Beast tomorrow

I think you love art the way you love anything else - from so close up that you can’t help but see the cracks.

I feel like I often have the opposite of this where I’ll run through all of my extremely minute criticisms of a game and then have an exchange like:

“Damn so I guess you don’t like it?”

“It is my favourite game of all time.”

Highly recommend GDF Warfleets, then! Only got it to the table once since my board game friends aren’t super into wargames but I had a blast with it

GDF Warfleets is also a great time if you’re into tabletop fleet combat - it’s a riff on Gothic, the old 40k spaceship system

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

New Little wars TV episode - could Richard III win at bosworth?

Sickos yes yes meme

They’re both so good you’re in for a treat

Coming soon: deluxe AAA Nachtmusik

1950s sci fi detective named Cathode Ray

“I don’t care if I go blind, I don’t need to see the price tag anyway” - Enrico Dandolo

Artists peak at 15. Anything past tediously horny fanfic where eyes are called "orbs" is bourgeois decadence

there's a new trend among young people called "microliving" they close their eyes for a few seconds and experience a rich and fulfilling life from start to finish in their minds. birth. friendship. love. heartbreak. joy. loss. grief. death. but how does this affect their productivity at work

Jenn starts googling “pre-divorce” whenever I bring it up

Burn Gorman in pacific rim double event meme but for podcasts

If I say “bad writing that sounds like Good Writing” do you know what I mean?

To be fair there is a need to coordinate labour even in non-capitalist, non-market societies. Power plants, for example, need to be running/operated continuously. But that’s a solvable problem, and the market is clearly not that good at solving it.