Pokopia be like:
- Collect berries
- Build a cute cottage
- Befriend Squirtle
- Read journal about how mankinds hubris poisoned the world forever separating loved ones and dooming civilization
- Have a picnic!
love this vibe, very classic & intimate storytelling. there are streets with secret names
“I mean, I think I’m remembering why I shouldn’t be dating right now.” Her fork had run out of bucatini to coil around itself. “I think Suzie was right, though, we should talk about these things. And your story about the ball pit, well. It rhymes with...” www.greaterrealityarea.net/downward-spi...
Anyway go to and support and help with narrascope, metatopia and other smaller blooms of practice-sharing wherever they sprout! Big events are extremely hard to sustain and even smaller ones are huge lifts. It would be tragic to lose this unusual culture of communal sharing.
An intimate interview with The Morsel.
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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
contrary to expectation: the sun came out
Annihilation (2018)
Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?
“Snowball” looks like he smokes unfiltered cigarettes. Postcard from my collection - no date.
Youtube thumbnails from ancient times
Inititives like this are a huge part of how developers in Canada, Germany, and other countries with such grants were able to wind up such flourishing indie scenes tbh
Hey if any of you want to pay me to write your video game, I love to write video games and am quite good at writing video games. You should pay me to write your video game
hell yeah boss
it’s a sign
The Morning Monty considers the melting snow with a critical eye.
Yeah monetization is I increasingly think the original sin behind a lot of what ails the internet today. Eyeballs are what get you money, and a glazed over eyeball counts the same as an active and informed eyeball. Over time the tendency is always towards engagement bait.
I've been saying this for a while:
Bullying CORPORATIONS is good and works.
Bullying a regular person who bought in - even for a moment - to the LARGEST, MOST AGGRESSIVE MARKETING PUSH IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND is probably going overboard.
It sucks. It is likely to suck for some time yet to come.
I actually think I might agree with this argument, and that’s a high bar.
We don’t shame people enough for putting ‘restore the power’ missions in games
I’ve seen the husk option and it’s grim.
for what it’s worth, being able to recognize that and seek out other ways of happiness / satisfaction / etc. is crucial. the only way to survive rather than let it turn you into a husk of a person.
I don’t think this is true, but I get it.
I really love both the writing on the moment to moment level — it’s often a mixture of understated and “what it’s like to be in one’s 20s” — and the paper writing minigame. it has a lot to say about what it means to be a writer in the world.
I actually think I might agree with this argument, and that’s a high bar.
