QTKO (she/her)

The facial expression on the Yuyuko print is fantastic. I love it

Microsoft has been running the most transparent pump and dump dev woodchipper on the game industry for 20 years now and no one in the industry dare criticize them because it's either get scammed by Xbox or dare to work with non American companies

A screenshot from Dirty Pair, with the subtitle "Nowadays, one in ten people have gotten their sex changed."

A better world is possible

The real thing that gets me is that the power fantasy of BG3 and its illithid powers revolve around telling other people what you think they should do. That's the power fantasy of the most insufferable people I've ever met. They do that all the time

And it's trying to be dark and edgy, but that loses all of its impact when you have stuff like, say, a severed head on the side of the road that you can pick up and sell to a vendor. There's no penalty for it and kleptomania is incentivizes, so it loses all context besides "more vendor trash"

I fucking hate Baldur's Gate 3 even as I play through it because it feels... idk how to put it, exactly. It's the way characters have that very British thing where someone think maling their words more flourishy makes them come off as more sophisticated, when the idea beneath is pretty basic

In Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of "addiction mechanic" that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised by not only the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. Anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and the was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

Disco Elysium could not work as well as it does in any other medium tbh

Thank you

What is it with the default AI bro arguments being like "What if I need to prove that I'm not stupid and this helps me do that" alongside "what if everyone else is too stupid to live without this"

Like it really shows where their headspace is

Oh no... I hope everything turns out okay

Hang in there

Maybe get smth delivered to your room?

what do you mean the steam deck has L4/R4 and L5/R5

Also to throw out another random thought I had during the podcast that I didn't manage to get out, but when we were talking about proc-gen content vs handcrafted, a phrase that popped into my head is "proc-gen is low contrast content" and now I need to expose that phrase to oxygen

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

japan had economic power and a small geographical size with strong public transportation to allow the quick exchange of ideas and cultural feedback.
USA while also having economic power to make games exist did not have the latter luxury so designers were just firing wildly in the dark

"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away"

they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will

make the appointment

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

GMTK Game Jam website with "32.5k Joined"

GMTK Game Jam 2025 just surpassed the 2024 jam for participants, making it the biggest GMTK Game Jam ever, and the biggest game jam in itch․io's history! itch.io/jam/gmtk-2025

It feels like more and more people don't want to see what they cannot control

Note to self: if your toothbrush bristles begin to resemble Heihachi Mishima's hairline, maybe it's time for a new toothbrush

Let's Reminisce about MUGEN

youtu.be/kIP4pNMp1lE

This is genuinely some of the best journalism on this topic I've seen. Remember me making noise about Pixiv's purge with @404media.co a few years ago?

Remember the organizations mentioned in this video. *Specifically* mention them in your calls/letters.

YouTube video by Lextorias The Secret War To Censor The Internet

Copying my tweet here too in case ppl are interested to know

The Tumblr purge
The Patreon purge
The Gumroad and Pixiv purge,
The Onlyfans failed purge
The shitty rules on Fansly
The purge on steam and Itchio

It's all cause of the ppl on ExodusCry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHH...

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Not sure it's a surprise at this point but not only is this blatant censorship, it is also an explicit confirmation that Google is reading everything damn thing you write. Every document, every email, every search, the contents of Google Drive, everything. Don't just ditch Docs, ditch Google itself.

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”

Keep fucking calling.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions

Stealing this from @patstaresat.bsky.social , but hit me with your picks. Just know that I may not have opinions about a lot of things, but I'll try.

everything about nintendo is funnier with the added context that the average nintendo fan is 28-35 years old