Damien Crawford

+1, and also remember you're seeing a disabled person for like, a sliver of their overall day.

you have no idea what their capacity is for various activities as the day goes on.

disability can be and look like so many things, and it's not a binary, as much as capitalism wants to recuse it to that.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Fanart of Aerith in Kaine’s outfit (collab from FF7 Ever Crisis)

Kainé/Aerith #FF7EC #Aerith

squishyproductions So, Dwarf Fortress had deep financial system at one point. Dwarves had currency and made wages and paid for food and housing and could invest their money. A few dwarves early on would come into money then invest more than the rest which started a snow ball effect. A few dwarves made infinitely more money while the rest dropped into poverty. Impoverished dwarves needed constant employment to afford food and housing. So you had to keep them working constantly or they'd be evicted and starve. One favorite tactic players had was to build room full of levers that didn't do anything and assigning all the unemployed dwarves to endlessly pull the levers. In this way they were "doing a job" and make wages enough to live. The deep economic system of Dwarf Fortress has long been removed due to every society unavoidably becoming a depressing mess of starving dwarves doing meaningless busywork. Which did not make for a fun game. gossipgita Simply makes you think!!!!

he got the spirit

...so glad to have brought this sentence into the world

Your cute mini-castle on tank treads with double crossbows running away from 4 medium sized castles and one HUGE castle with a gaping maw while scores of infantry try and shoot arrows at you. The screen is FILLED with arrows.

A side-by-side in world comparison of the 4 sizes your Wanderburg can grow to. The last one is Quite Large.

A medium sized Wanderburg running away from even more infantry and three medium other wanderburgs

Someone made a cute Mortal Cities Game called Wanderburg and it's delightful? Applied to the playtest and despite some menu garbo, the gameplay is very silly fun with houses running away from you and your wandering burg can get big enough to eat the houses etc

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I love being right. This is ludicrous pace for a “first” YTP. This video already has such an eternal quality

RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT

I have only now gotten out of bed, so guess I'm spending the weekend trying to unfuck my sleep schedule lol

Though to be clear, worth it

Aw, I appreciate that!

As someone who both organized and witnessed some of Damien's teaching. I have made the recommendation in good faith with high praise in mind.

Sure there is a curse involved, but the material is so well thought and improvised matter is at times even better.

Get Damien to talk to your students!

Ended up being on for like 14 hours. Now that it's almost 5:30 am, time to get some rest lol

Ah, that looks right, I think so!

It's in katakana so might be a play on the naming convention of the series like how one's rebuild, so maybe Mari's Milkshake Remake?

Also sorry I'm trying to work through my Japanese learnings lol

Also the の means possessive so Mari's Milkshake, but whatever lol

Oh I know her, I'm saying it reads as Mari Milkshake rimukuru, and I can't find anything to say what rimukuru means lol

The last one seems to be Mari Milkshake but has リーミルク rimiruku) at the end so I'm not totally sure what that means

but also thank you for reminding me something I learned ages ago which is that ads often have fairly simple language so people can read it easier

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN

The front entrance area of the Shizuoka civil infrastructure virtual booth in VR Chat's Vket (Virtual Market) event. The mascot, VKet-chan(?) asks us if we know what civil infrastructure is, and the signs within explain some of the infrastructure of interest in the region.

This is why checking out Vket in VR Chat (even without VR) is rad: you can learn about Shizuoka's civil infrastructure

I've only been able to make the calls for a few hours the past couple times, but it's been good to catch this one for a good eight hours. Needed this

Someone mentioned looking for advice for game design students so I said in the chat (I'd rather talk in chat when there's active speakers than interrupt) that I could give advice on failing or cursed design and a few people were like "yep, ignore the rest, get the info from Damien" lol

Some big numbers there!

While you're here, give a listen to my new album!

this is why we need feminism

Instead of a song being stuck in my head, today what's stuck in my head is the "fuck ya life. bing-bong!" pigeon video.

One of our curators just released his narrative design lessons! Get it while it's hot!

Narrative Design Lessons by All Worms A bundle by All Worms, $50.00 for Dialogue Design Lectures, Narrative Crash Course, Strangened Narratives

My Narrative Design Lessons bundle is now live!
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.

Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
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