Steve Emberton

Had a friend who was paid $500 to have their indie game featured in this episode. I watched it for that fact, but it turns out it was onscreen for approximately 2 frames. Otherwise I can confirm this assessment of the episode

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.

child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

this is making me laugh so hard

"steveembr" came from an AOL suggested username about 30 years ago. I've been too lazy to think of a new handle ever since

IMMORTALITY is $11.99 on GOG buff.ly/fPI5vib #ad

CAVES OF QUD has quickly become one of my favorite games for lots of reasons

This is a dark sin of live service people forget in the moment. Imagine you're 10 years old and you have a formative experience playing a game, and then... it's gone. All those moments lost to executive greed, like tears in rain.

At least Netflix shows can survive through piracy. No such luck here.

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

the first guy in raccoon city realizing somethings off

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

you love to see it, we're beach-heading traditional roguelikes into a whole new market

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

God I want a rerelease of Tokyo Jungle...

I’m back in Qud now that it’s on switch and this is my first time with Pets. I am so crazy about “You, but mechanical.” There’s something so narratively compelling about my robotic twin dying to a bullet that would have killed me while we’re lost in a fungal forest at level 1.

Sajam has had pretty much every opportunity to sell out and he hasn't, I really appreciate him calling this shit out and not doing work for Evo events

A book generated book from Caves of Qud called “Big Boy - -: Unabridged”

Ah, finally finding the good stuff in Caves of Qud…ancient smut!
Hard to believe this one is randomly generated. Like it forms a dick emoji and it’s “unabridged”? For real?! 😂 I feel so blessed

This guy gets it.

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

It's funny because people will be like Qud does stuff I've never seen in a video game, and they will never have finished Golgotha.

Baby, you ain't seen nothing yet.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Playing Caves of Qud on my switch last night, I got the urge to name my gun after a harrowing encounter, and was given the option to name it based the culture of the baboons I killed it with.
Not sure what I was expecting.

early-game caves of qud advice is "go north and look at the statue" and late-game caves of qud advice is "enter a precognitive vision before you cook with neutron flux" and that's why it's the game of all time

A screenshot from the Nintendo Switch reveal trailer with a man sitting on an airplane playing the nintendo switch. Overlaid is a the Caves of Qud achivmenet "Leap, Frog.: Convince a frog to each you how to jump"

TOMORROW 🐸

once again banging my pots and pans about how the PS2's game library variety and success thereof is deeply tied to "the 2008 crash hasn't happened yet"

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

on Weird West, i made a "global tweakables" data asset for vars that need tweaking by folks who might not know the systems. it sucks when a designer has to assign a task for eg "lockpicking takes too long" because the value for that is in c++ or a BP node somewhere. separate code from data gang