Andy H

You should be using ALT text all the time but especially if you're promoting your podcast.
Podcasts are an accessible medium for people with low vision, you should be keeping your podcast social media accounts accessible too

My internal scoreboard of "people who changed my dipshit views by making sure not to alienate me" vs "people who changed me by clearly pointing out, in love, that I was being a dipshit" is so, so heavily slanted in favor of the latter.

Today I learned that a game I made in partnership with Jennifer Ann's Group has been de-indexed on Itch. A Thousand Cuts is a texting game - no other graphics, no depictions of human forms literally at all - about how hard it is to report sexual assault to Title IX adjudicators at universities.

some place to record

311 - The My Little Pony RPG Alex Pearlman Found in His House When He Moved In - Party Of One Sometimes when you move into a house you find something unexpected. In my friend Alex’s case, it was the printed out rules of a My Little Pony RPG. This is the story of when we played that game. Names...

1. The fan-made hand-printed my little pony RPG @pearlmania500.bsky.social found in his house, waiting for him like the VHS tape from the ring when he moved in

Reblusking this one because, well, here's the deal. Swords Without Master has been in issue 3 of Worlds Without Master for ~10,000 years.

And it's time.

It's just time for it to leave the nest. Time for it to find its own way in the world.

So we're gearing up for a new, stand-alone edition.

Honestly I'm low-key fascinated at how well this mirrors the tabletop RPG space over the past few decades

Greatest Saberwolf cosplay I've ever seen

Four drawings. The first is labeled "S1" and shows an orange line. The second is labeled "S2" and shows a square with two orange sides and two yellow sides. The third is labeled "S3" and shows a cube where one face is the S2 drawing, and the rest of the cube is blue. The final drawing is unlabeled but shows a tesseract where the inner cube is the S3 drawing, and the rest of the shape is drawn in light blue.

Just casually discussing @someplacetobe.neocities.org like you do

Realizing that the only other closest thing I can think of is KDA....yeah that's pretty striking

It's kinda nice to realize that I wasn't the last generation to have a childhood like this

Let's GOOOOOOOO congrats!

The toploader gives it that nice soothing clack-clack-clack when you riffle shuffle

From the existence of GitHub, GitLab, and GrubHub, we can extrapolate the existence of an entity named GrubLab

To rephrase: you are exactly the sicko who could pull this off

So yeah it is LOL

Honestly I can picture this short story coming from you

A giant cigar?

@gamefiend.bsky.social has been making games for years. PWYW, $10, all very affordable options www.thoughtcrimegames.net

Also; Black folks making games of the imagination.

I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos.

It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.

Please the passionate, not the masses.

It’s coming up on the anniversary of the August 12, 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally, when James Fields drove his car through a crowd, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens. I was a medic that day on a unit that cared for and transported several people, including Ms. Heyer.

My half-baked take is that The Algorithms Are Bad for this exact reason

Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Yeah I saw a clip of the video call and first thing I thought was "it's like somebody watched Searching and learned nothing"

one must learn what it is... to truly gameing

I think you might have taken a portal to 2009

I think the thing that stood out to me the most was the line about (paraphrased) "we understand that it's not appropriate to include imagery of the trauma and violence of history" like...no, that's not what the problem was.......

That lack of understanding just tells me it's gonna happen again

Nature is healing

Thanks to @ludonarrativediss.bsky.social I’m once again mulling over the ways that TTRPGs *feel* more unified in a time of global internet — which obscures not only it’s PAST as a series of many different ecosystems/scenes/collectives/regions but that it’s STILL just as fragmented/archipelagic.

D'Arby the Pogchamp

Pretty sure it was radioactive knowledge, the Chernobyl of books