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Partner and I are testing out Steam's expanded chat today
Might spin up a little test server to invite people to. I want to see if you actually have to have a user on your friends list in order to invite them to your group chat. Hoping you don't have to

Excuse you?! In this house we protect Crispin like the gift to robotkind, that he is.

In some seriousness, it's always sad to see people not resonate with the game's themes or characters or art-style or music or setting, but that's also normal, and not everything is for everyone.

Exciting news! Blue Prince has been awarded

🏆Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game
🏆Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

at the @official-aias.bsky.social #DiceAwards.

Congratulations to all the other winners and to all the developers nominated this year.

Artists, quote with something silly.

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00!

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children' The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.

In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.

The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

In other news...
Discovered the source of our roach problem. It's within our kitchen walls. It was bad. It was so gross. I've definitely seen things more gross than this but...nothing I think prepares you to remove an outlet face plate and find what I did

Byrd's Birthmonth Bundle by A Byrd A bundle by A Byrd, $5.00 for Far North - Running, Greenhouse Museum Collection

Large Print and Open Dyslexic versions now available!
Both Far North and Greenhouse Museum have been updated to include new epub versions in Large Print and Open Dyslexic font. Hopefully this makes your reading experience easier 💕
Grab both works for $5 this month!
itch.io/s/179725/byr...

100 pages left to edit now
At a rate of 2-5 pages a day, that shouldn't take me all that much longer. Then I ship back out to beta readers, finish the cover art, and format. Ya'll...I think Book Two will be out this year

YA Fantasy book cover of two character portraits, vertically stacked in the composition. The top portrait is of a young woman with octopus tentacles sprouting from her back, holding an ornate sword above her head. The bottom portrait is of a young man in a white suit leisurely holding a sword by his side, wearing an ornate crown with wrought iron bars sprouting from said crown, bending downwards and forming a cage.

gosh well :( artwork for a cancelled book cover

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Not a great platform gamer, but tbh this looks so slick and I can't wait to watch better platformers than me play it 💕

Robins will defend their territory fiercely and if that means putting a sign up, they will. #BirdOfTheDay #urban #EastCoastKin #ukbirds #birds

Give this dog a medal, imo

Ubisoft is no more, long live Ubisoft! On January 21, 2026, Yves Guillemot announced the end of remote work, closure of several studios, cancellation of projects, and a new 200€ million “cost-cutting” plan. We were informed of this at the same time as the press — as none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a few days earlier! On January 26, 2026, management announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan that will affect 200 people at Ubisoft’s headquarters. We are promised autonomy for « Creative Houses », but what about autonomy for employees? We have been negotiating for over a year on remote work policy, sometimes under difficult conditions. An agreement has been in place since September in some studios. Trampled underfoot! We are told about responsibilities, but those who wield this word so easily do not take any responsibility for the consequences of their catastrophic management.

We are not fooled: rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable. It’s outrageous. It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. Ubisoft’s unions are calling for a massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2026. NO to their anti-remote-work obsession to “cost-cutting” plans on employees’ backs to top-down decisions to coercive control on our working conditions YES to our leaders truly taking their responsibilities to management’s duty of sincerity in the face of its failings It is time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or the work of hundreds of people! Without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transformed video games as it has. WE ARE UBISOFT.

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

making 3d models to solve blue prince puzzles lmao...

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Alright!!
Far North and Greenhouse Museum both have opendyslexic and large print versions ready 💕 Will be uploading them here later in the week, just in time to tell you all how much I love you for Valentine's Day xD

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Seems like my birthday week might be spent coordinating plumbing fixes
Been hearing a loud water "plonking" noise whenever our upstairs neighbor runs their washing machine. At first I wasn't sure, but heard it again today and now I'm sure something is going on

Macbeth: SHIT

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Twitch Twitch is the world

👻 Extremely King Ramses voice: *Return to the mansion...return...*
We're attempting the 6 7 Tunnel Challenge. It's not a real challenge. It's a made up one. The game probably wont let us do it but we're gonna try it anyway. Come hang out with us!
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the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers

Replacing the coin purse in Blue Prince with the Rat Purse

He also gives you an extra allowance for every 10 coins

picture of a black cat laying upside down on a moon with some stars around it

a birthday gift for my friend ❤️

Don't often talk about the other things I do, mostly because those are in fandom spaces but...
There's nothing more satisfying than putting all your Blender knowledge to use and making something for a digital lil guy. Just a little oc. Something nice for the pixels. It's like completing a puzzle