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off-white badge ribbons with black lettering that say “HEY let’s talk about MYST”

made some very important badge ribbons for GDC next week

Society would improve if we invested less in Anthropic and more in Anthro Pics

Weird about eggs?

My birthday's July 6, so I'd get some crossfire from smug Europeans.

Miyamoto/itoi interview from 1989 is neat. Interesting how these issues of of player taste becoming rigid, then others pushing back on it, seems to be an timeless part of games culture

Also interesting miyamoto liked hypercard games! I see the influence on 90s zelda
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Apparently it was in the Japanese showcase because international audiences don't get the good stuff. :(

I knew it from D&D as a melee weapon, which made me very confused about the image they were trying to project.

I thought there is/was a rule that games could only be in one nextfest? Maybe that changed. (or devs had their demos out but not officially part of nextfest maybe)

Achievement stats for La-Mulana: "Welcome to La-Mulana," "Watch Where You're Whipping," and "Once you read it, you can never go back" were unlocked in November 2016, and "Twin-Headed Snake" (for beating what is for many players the first boss) was unlocked in February 2026.

I took a little while to get started on La-Mulana.

My question was going to be if she had a killer, since I don't think the series has recurring/iconic villains? You could play as a tiger or a pit of spikes.

the "this generation was the first to be raised by" meme format of "x taught me y" except the boy has four eyes and is blue (play outer wilds you'll get this) and the "raised by" has the outer wilds logo below it. for each of the "x taught me y" lines, the x is a stretched image of a planet from outer wilds and the y is redacted because spoilers. one of the y clauses reads "autopilot is a fuck". play it so you know. at the end, the last line says "and i" followed by two black boxes because again it's redacted for spoilers just go play it.

this one too. you should play outer wilds btw. so true

Here comes Bower

Valentine's Day card with an image of Warcraft's Shadow-Lord Iskar, an arakkoa, holding the Eye of Anzu with a seductive smile. The text reads "The SEDUCTION is nearly complete!" with empty To/From fields below it.

Valentine's Day card with an image of Warcraft's Reshad, an arakkoa, looking embarassed as he peruses a copy of 50 Layers of Shadow. The text reads "My heart's an OPEN BOOK!" with empty To/From fields below it.

Valentine's Day card with an image of Warcraft's High Sage Viryx, an arakkoa, flaunting herself at the viewer with a hand on her head and one at her hip. The text reads "With you I can REACH the SKY!" with empty To/From fields below it.

Happy Valentine's Day and Happy TEN years(!) to these arakkoa valentine's cards I did back in 2016! xD (More in the reply below!)

[ #Warcraft #FurryArt #WorldOfWarcraft ]

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Sometimes I wish they'd give daily roulette rewards to some of the more "weird" modes like deep dungeons or variants, but then those would just get optimized and de-frictioned too.

It's HAPPENING. Stay posted for more details. Pit Crew is running it back, baby! #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

hearing fireworks so: go birds (the wet ones)

the same yaku list now unmemeified, without being sorted into real yaku and mental disorders. also shown on the left now is a diagram explaining dora.

anyway, in case anyone wants the non-meme version

Whenever I see this image I try to figure out if the trophy's a puzzle.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2026 Over MLK weekend, I was in Boston to participate in the MIT Mystery Hunt. I haven't really done writeups of it before, but I've got this blog now, and it was my first time there in person so that's so...

Wrote about my Mystery Hunt experience, trying to be comprehensible to non-puzzlehunters but who knows: aspeon.neocities.org/blog/mit-mys...

"What was this gap in your resume?" "I was in an egg"

You Won't BELIEVE How It Happened

I'm behind on patch content, so I'm hoping this is a 7.4 spoiler.

Once we understood how they mapped to letters, we started referring to them by the letters they'd unlock.

Boss Keys - YouTube A game-by-game analysis of non-linear level design in games like Zelda, Dark Souls, and Metroid

Maybe Mark Brown's Boss Key videos? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I don't know if there's a good source for just the maps, but there are some cool annotated maps and dependency graphs in there.

Women's Foundation of Minnesota The Women's Foundation invests in innovation to ensure community-based, community-led solutions to achieve gender and racial equity.

As part of tomorrow's general strike in Minnesota, I plan on streaming all day tomorrow starting at 9:30 Central and going as long as I can manage. I will be running a Twitch-integrated fundraiser for www.wfmn.org, who are organizing an Immigrant Rapid Response Fund to aid victims of the occupation.

I hadn't realized ANE was a thing, so at the airport when I was behind someone checking a suitcase with a bunch of furry stickers I almost asked which team they were on.

Happy 35th birthday ZZT!

Thank you for showing us that anyone can make a game

Relatable.

How about castlevania 2 riffs?