Spooky Princess Raven

Yeah, it's the weekly treat that keeps me down. Not my alternator breaking and taking my battery with it, costing me a grand if I want to use my car. It's Cinnabon.

As a former QA, I do miss it sometimes. Game dev was fun and interesting when it wasn't frustrating.

Screenshot from SRIV, four spheres in different skin shades

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.

Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

There is simply no reason for people to lose SNAP benefits other than evil

I forget, what are good alternatives to Spotify?

Melinoë, Moon Princess 🌙 #hades2

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.

It NEEDS mass pushback.

I'm definitely tired and grumpy today.

I hate that when I am using a free app that they specifically make it frustrating to use, and then try to sell you a solution to that frustration. Not simply offering extra, but literally forcing in frustration to promote premium features. My job would need to pay for this app, not me.

It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...

Driving in this state is bad enough at night with a visual disorder, but I also get to deal with the aggressive, and bad drivers. Got cut off twice from people passing on the right... while I was in the bloody slow lane! Like, wth!

When y'all buy from indie authors, it impacts us profoundly. Especially if it goes outside the circle of authors trading a few dollars back and forth amongst ourselves.

I really appreciate that you censored the roach, actually. Cuz ew!

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ICYMI – For my first original Access Granted report, I spoke with disabled players unable to afford the continuous rising prices of games, systems, and tech. If these trends continue, they say the disabled community will undoubtably be alienated from gaming. Read more here:

The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable. Ghost of Yotei sparked fury and accusations of wokeness in entertainment. But we’ve played this game before—and it’s boring.

Excellent piece by @laurakbuzz.bsky.social over on Slate. I have so many thoughts but my flight boards in 8 minutes. *Laura notes she didn’t choose the title:

slate.com/technology/2...

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

I also hate AI and I definitely wrote stress-induced deadline papers but now I'm on medication and I'm trying to undo the years of frying my nervous system

YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT BEFORE OCT. 14!

Yes it's only for one year, yes you should consider Linux, but if you just don't want to deal with this shit NOW, here's a comfy raincheck. It says "$30" but I just did for free:

windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

Any chance it'll have an audiobook version?

And there goes another tire. I swear I just replaced those. So much for going shopping today! 😩

Ok, hand is really starting to ache. Definitely hit my limit in #HadesII for a while. Prolly should have stopped earlier, in fact. Ouch.

It took a death defiance, the tooth trinket, and %50 god mode, but I finally beat Chronos, and with the Sister Blades no less, my worst weapon that I have apparently gotten quite good with. #HadesII

I buy Half Acre every time I see some fresh in my area, definitely a fav of mine.

CALL THEM, EMAIL THEM, SEND THEM LETTERS

TELL THEM THIS IS FUCKED UP AND THEY SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING THE MORALITY POLICE

Getting through security at the airport was a whole thing today, but they at least all did a good job gendering me correctly. Total for the day is only a single 'sir' from a guard at the facility. Now a long wait to board, sadly.

(which are great breweries, but not known four porters/stouts), I am not familiar with your local beer scene. But on the bright side, with fall/winter approaching, darker beers will be more available.

There are also full on Desert stouts also that tend to be very sweet and very strong, not a fan personally, but they are interesting to say the least. I wish I could be more specific, but the beer landscape keeps shifting on me, and outside of Off Color Brewing and Half-Acre Brewing...