Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
icymi iβm boosting this back to the top of my tlβ¦
my newest game is now on Steam!
will come to the epic store soon too.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how youβre not a slaver.
Watch. This. Film.
Happy 34th anniversary to the original Sailor Moon anime!
#SailorMoon
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never too old :)
Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
This spins around to the thought of game development as a kind of therapeutic journalling and
Huh
Not only is that compelling, but it's unfortunately a reasonable explanation for why broken people often seem to make good art
(I'm not saying you must be tormented as an artist! Many of us just are)
Ummm... Excuse me, can I help you find something?
I'm so excited for the 1 & 2 lines to connect. Finally I'll be able to jaunt into Seattle....
Outpost has been unlocked for runners who've reached level 12. Take on stronger UESC enemies and new environmental hazards, with enemy crews around every corner.
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
Jennifer π @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18 PM
It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"
Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.
Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.
jetpack
this has basically been my take for awhile - it's not just that everything is bad, it's that we have completely removed the concepts of quality, reliability, usefulness/utility of any kind, etc. from even the profit motive, and human workers and consumers are no longer even nominally important
Ai boosters are misinformation peddlers who have been lying about this since 2023 when they lied and said gpt 4 tricked a Taskrabbit into solving a captcha (it didnβt do this btw). These lies have enriched other liars and killed people and they are responsible
Specificity in a character makes them feel real and grounded, which then makes their emotional arc ALSO feel real and grounded, and thus... relatable. Additionally, it reinforces that so much of what we feel, what we struggle with, find purpose in, is universal.
The original sketch of the Alien Facehugger, done in an almost comically simple style. First figure is an upright oval with a circle on the upper portion. Second figure the circle has popped off (indicated by an arrow) and a creature is launching out of the hole (indicated by another arrow). The creature looks like a circle with six thick curved legs and a cartoonist toothy frowny face.
I keep coming back to the original first draft Alien facehugger sketch. If you can start with that and end up with one of the most iconic designs in horror movie history, then there's no excuse for AI.
βNaΗrβ is a valid phoneme combo in the conlang Iβve generated. I can definitely be trusted with this.
Saw just a couple open cherry blossoms today, canβt wait til theyβre out in force β€οΈ
@chrisbodegard.bsky.social on interactive writing, attention, agency, choice and feedback design for the exceptional @esotericebb.bsky.social (script below slides):
#gamedev
#gamedesign
Bingus! #marathon #marathonart
crying bc my friends love it but I donβt have the extra budget for a switch 2 for at least another three months-
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
