John Curtin

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Oh I'm so glad The Haunted Corridor got announced!! Writing that one was Fun™️*. Coming December 2025!!

*(fucked with my head but in a good way)

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Awww for an early 13th wedding anniversary present, Paizo is publishing my latest work, Friends of the Forest! How sweet! If you want to celebrate with us, go kick some Frozen Trove butt in Ste Xinnith, a super badass, cool sacred forest!
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Oh hey, my next Starfinder Society Scenario got announced. Look for SFS 1-12: Take the Bait, coming this December!

#Paizo #Starfinder #Starfinder2E #SFS #StarfinderSociety

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Ugh teleporters when

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.

It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

Yeah damn, Blue Prince really has the juice, doesn't it?

*boxed wine you damn damn auto-incorrect!!

a woman is holding two boxes of belina juice and says i brought juice boxes . Alt: a woman is holding two boxes of belina wine and says i brought juice boxes .

I assume that whatever content scrubbing is happening in these gifs is being done by AI because it doesn't recognize the context of boxes wine

Today I learned that Bluesky doesn't have beer gifs because all I wanted was the Shaun Of The Dead gif where he winks with the pint but there's no beer gifs here. Wine is clearly suppressed too though some still get in. #BlueDry

A variety of Killing Floor 3-branded items, including a lunch box, a pint glass, a first aid kit, dress socks, stickers, a mouse pad, a tactical knife, an emergency pen, and shooting targets

Anyways, if you also suspect that the devs had inside intel on the coming zombie apocalypse, go practice your zombie-slaying skills on @killingfloor3.com and get ready for the coming Zed-picalypse!

A keychain bottle opener and a square black bag, both with the Killing Floor 3 logo upon them

A fully stocked med kit

This is what broke me.

Not the keychain bottle opener, but rather the bag.

Or should I say

The fully stocked first aid kit.

And it hit me: Target practice? Tactical tools? Medical supplies.

It's not a hype box - it's a survival kit. And preparatory.

...what does Tripwire Interactive know???

An emergency pen, made of steel and with a glass-breaker point

An in-action shot of an opened emergency pen, shining the LED flashlight in the cap on the pen point

It takes me a minute to figure out what this is - a tactical emergency pen! It's got an LED flashlight in the cap, ballpoint pen in the body - and a solid steel point on the end to smash glass safely in the event of an emergency. Little strange, but how practical and useful!

A Killing Floor 3 collapsible tactical knife

In hindsight, this is when things first started to get weird.

But damn, cool knife.

Immediate 'I have a toddler, highest possible shelf in the house' energy, but it's a damn good knife.

Killing Floor 3 stickers

A killing Floor 3 pint glass

Also included were these high-quality stickers, and this pint glass I'm legitimately obsessed with. It's bigger than a regular pint glass and heavier too, perfect for either glassing a Zed or finding your local pub to hole up in and wait for the whole thing to blow over

Large desk-sized mouse pad picturing a Killing Floor 3 survivor standing in front of a black-and-red oversized Zed bust

A lunchbox with a Zed head from Killing Floor 3

Black and red Killing Floor 3 dress socks

Next up, good standard swag fare - mouse pad, limited-edition all-metal Killing Floor 3 lunchbox, even Killing Floor 3 socks for when I want to hide a little zombie carnage under my Business Professional attire

Shooting range targets printed with full-color Zed illustrations of the zombies from Killing Floor 3

First thing I see: ZOMBIE FACE! Shooting range targets! With Killing Floor Zeds on them! It's been a few years since I've hit the range but it's nice to know that I have some iconic friends to bring with me next time.

A black cardboard box, partially opened; "The Battle Begins With Nightfall" is printed in severe white letters on the inner flaps

So when the lovely @hamburglar61.bsky.social offered me a swag box I leapt for it. I love swag, I love killing zombies, Killing Floor has a great rep and a new game, match made in heaven, right?

I wasn't prepared for what I found in the box tho

Ok I FINALLY had enough free brain cells to dig into this loot box from @killingfloor3.com.

I have

Concerns.

Hear me out:

Is there any cooler feeling than getting a review code for a cool and innovative indie video game?

Will, it's a program. A program can't read. It predicts text based on probability in the massive (likely stolen, separate issues) training data.

You sound like someone hyperventilating about the Mechanical Turk being magic while everyone else points out the hatch to the man pulling levers inside.

Please stop reporting our AI-generated slop as AI-generated slop because the automated AI for cleaning up AI-generated slop is feeling very overwhelmed and upset at everyone calling it "clanker"

VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors of parasocial obsession and misogyny. There are references to sexual assault and violence against women, as well as depictions of gore – this was never a secret. This was the point. It was intended to be released for sale on July 22, 2025 on Steam – the largest video game storefront in the world. Instead, it was removed from Steam and banned for sale. VILE: Exhumed was not banned for its use of gore, or its intense themes – themes that are sensitive but many players related to – it was wrongfully banned for “sexual content with depictions of real people.” The game covers topics of assault, abuse, and entitlement, and uses a combination of FMV and practical effects to create images as horrifying as the themes. This was never a secret. There are a lot of intense visuals in VILE: Exhumed, but there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, and no pornography whatsoever – which is one of the justifications bad actors are using right now to censor games. What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone. This censorship of my work is a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom, and it will not stop with false accusations of sexual content. They will come for anything that speaks more loudly than they do. By giving the game away, for free, to whoever wants to play it, I am doing the same thing I set out to do when I started working on VILE: Exhumed, a game about sexual assault, male entitlement, and misogyny. Taking back my agency. No one is allowed to dictate what kind of horror is acceptable, or what stories are allowed to be told. VILE: Exhumed is now available to download for free as shareware under a CC BY-NC-ND license through a few different methods on this page. This felt like the best option to make the game available to …

VILE: Exhumed, which was banned very shortly before its scheduled Steam release, has been released for free online, including on Github and the Internet Archive. Cara's statement, per the IA page:

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Chk Chk says everyone should dive into new galactic adventures with Starfinder Player Core! @bdavewalters.bsky.social

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One of my favorite things about Quinn (from a long list) is his wisdom. For his birthday, he's giving us the gift of his reflections, and there's some great ones here already. Happy birthday Quinn!

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My long thread chunked into 4 pieces. Its too long to add alt text so hopefully you read the post if you were interested enough to click on the image!

My long thread chunked into 4 pieces. Its too long to add alt text so hopefully you read the post if you were interested enough to click on the image!

My long thread chunked into 4 pieces. Its too long to add alt text so hopefully you read the post if you were interested enough to click on the image!

This week, I resigned from my position as Director of IT/Tech at an org I truly believed in. I wanted us to stop using Generative AI and was told no.

This thread will explain my decision and why I believe this is a true crisis. I hope ya see this and if you want to chat, + or -, lets do it 1/

I too was surprised by the quality - and then I went "...it's probably f****ing tariffs," bet it made them pivot to printing things differently than the standards we've been used to from them

You might really like oneway.exe, a new horror puzzle game coming out. Basically a love letter to the scary weird old internet

We are CUTE so proud of @itsannamargaret.com for not only crushing it as April O’Neil all weekend but also crushing the Star Trek Actual play for @modiphius.bsky.social today!!!