Grahame 'the InstaGrahame'

Crunchyroll has more or less stopped providing real subtitles, and seems to be using machine-generated nonsense for CCs, which are generally kind of garbage.

The worst example was a scene in Gundam: Iron-blooded Orphans getting seriously undercut by misnaming a character as "Foamy Dan."

Sale!

That's a cozy game, right? It's like Stardew Valley a little bit.

(The Cozy thing is a bit, but now I'm like "but do I go make a playset for an Animal Crossing-like village?")

Nearer My God To Thee by Grahame @ Understory Games Play to find out how you kill Your God.

Now available: Nearer My God to Thee, a map-making game where you build a village, get to know its inhabitants, and plot to murder your god. You have been chosen for the dubious honor of being a sacrifice, and murder is your best way out.

understory.itch.io/nearer-my-go...
#indieTTRPG #soloTTRPG

I've been banging the drum about this Solo TTRPG bundle I'm in for selfish reasons. But as we get into the final days I wanted to spotlight a few games from some of my Bundlemates (is...that a thing?) to share the love.

You can find them all here. Let's ride! 🧵
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...

Two items on a table. On the left, a black zine with white text (“Beak Feather and Bone” and a drawing of a bird person). On the right, a hand-drawn map with marker and pen marks.

Drew up a little river city with the 5-yr-old to play @possibleworlds.bsky.social’s “Beak Feather and Bone” together. Will report back tomorrow after we play (it’s bedtime now, so we paused after setup).

Me logging into the account for the 1st time in 6 days: surely everything is normal.

Kegan:

understory.itch.io/nearer-my-go...

Launched today! Pick it up while it's still warm.

(Community copies coming in a couple of weeks)

One idea that really helped me shift my thinking on this was that it's less about self-promotion and more about expressing pride in your work.

That's much easier for me. I'm proud of what I do, and the people who would enjoy it can't find it if I don't say anything about it.

If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.

Thank you to those of you masking at PAXU. It is a principled, beautiful act of solidarity with each other 💛

& those of you not masking? Know that I see you and think less of you for it. Refusing to take COVID precautions in 2025? At a convention?? Embarrassing

This is what Denmark has done to the Greenlandic people it colonised.

"Greenland is Danish" is a poor response to Trump's imperial ambitions there.

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

I really thought to myself "how bad could it be"

I'll just leave these here

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Mamdani probably got home, turned to his wife, and let out the longest, loudest “this fucking guy” of all time

Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted

A screenshot from Celeste. Madeline stands by a memorial dedicated to those who perished on the climb up Celeste Mountain.

happy transgender day of remembrance

thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly

please live 💜

We really need people to start making more memes like this again. Peak 😩

i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

"Wait, did you say NEW GAMES?!"
We did!

Crescent 2E is an all-ages RPG about brave kids in the Daydream. Unlikely friends and promises under starlight!

Exile is a gritty teen survival in The Below. Cross the Nightmare Lands to escape and find your way home.

Both by acclaimed designer Ema Acosta!

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

I hate this shit so much. These topics are all one thing. Everybody has fucking limited hangout brain even when nobody's running an op on them. The man was having top Mossad spies hang out at his house while he worked out secret diplomatic missions with the prime minister of Israel for fuck's sake

HOW ARE WE LIVING IN SUCH A TERRIBLE STATE OF SOCIETY THAT LITERALLY I HADN'T EVEN HEARD ABOUT THIS BECAUSE ITS NOT AS NEWSWORTHY AS ONE OF THE MANY GENOCIDES, NAZIS, OR THE DISMANTLING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION???

Digitally illustrated graphic with big, bold, black text in the center reading "trans lives are more important than harry potter". Two cats with alternating colours of the trans flag lay above the top left and bottom right of the text, turning it pink & blue where they cross over.

happy pride month!

Okay, so the way this scam normally works is that PACs and other political fundraising groups order pallets of the books in question - thousands of copies. This catapults it into bestseller lists and coincidentally sells enough to cover the publisher advance (weird how that works out).