An email telling me stellaris is on sale. Date: October 2016
An email telling me stellaris is on sale. Date: fucking yesterday
I should probably accept that I'm not going to buy stellaris
12.08.2025 08:52 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@gunpowdertim.bsky.social
Singer & ex-space-pirate with The Mechanisms. He/him. Tim.
An email telling me stellaris is on sale. Date: October 2016
An email telling me stellaris is on sale. Date: fucking yesterday
I should probably accept that I'm not going to buy stellaris
12.08.2025 08:52 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Insektors (early 3D kids animation) got this; it was a french show that got dubbed separately for the US and UK.
I rewatched it while at uni; the UK version is _so much_ better than the US version, which kills all the jokes
I've also never run a game where at least one player hasn't wanted to catch one of the mons they met - despite knowing that it's a one shot and they'll never see that character again!
05.08.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Time for another devlog for the JourneyMon #TTRPG! This week I preview mechanics that aren't in the Quick Start Guide. Journey Moves like "Evolve" and "Reach a Milestone" are all about campaign play. Check out the article for the full Evolve move, and to discover the only way your trainer can die. โ ๏ธ
05.08.2025 16:07 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0we lost something as a society once we started referring to "Carriage Return" as "Enter"
05.08.2025 10:57 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This guy would go right in my team
01.08.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I choose not to answer that question so I can continue to forcibly placebo effect myself
01.08.2025 08:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And nick frost is doing the transphobic wizard show :(
31.07.2025 20:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0snowy gnomes allows you to put a goose in a scarf
31.07.2025 16:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was kinda deliriously feverish when I posted that, huh
30.07.2025 19:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Oh, blue! None of the edgy arrogance of black, hidden behind their wall of red. But equally, none of the sheeplike conformity of the green, yellow and brown.
In truth, the spiritual end of a break is 134, not 147.
(tone indicator affectionate)
28.07.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The City & The City is one of the many where he takes pains to describe the rail transit system despite it being of very little narrative importance
28.07.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I once put a thread on the bad place rating all of his books by whether or not they had trains in them
28.07.2025 17:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0a drawing of a house which has a troll inside it with the trolls nose and limbs emerging from the windows there is a forest and a moon in the background
A house troll based on an idea by @turnipmax.bsky.social and @tinefieldling.bsky.social
25.07.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 232 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3okay, then I choose the cockatrice, since sentient furniture has burned me before
24.07.2025 17:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"mostly" is not an ideal amount of getting along when petrification is involved !
24.07.2025 17:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0vital question: do me and the cockatrice get along
24.07.2025 17:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0evergreen topic, tbh
23.07.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0personally I think it's rude for numbers to recur forever. pick a side
23.07.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Getting called out in the group chat for using `1.333` rather than `4/3` when calculating a ratio.
23.07.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The blurb for book "A Game in Yellow", a horror romance(?) about using the text of the king in yellow to edge, pulling away from reading too far into the text as a form of BDSM I have not yet read this book, but I kinda want to?
I mean
23.07.2025 13:43 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2(I def recommend making some of the strap elastic rather than just leather, as it's way comfier than my first two drafts, which were essentially just a tight belt around my head)
23.07.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Also the first ones you make will be pants. My green ones were great, but fell apart; the second set I made were solid, but really ****ing hurt to wear. The last worked nicely.
23.07.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So I can't give a proper tutorial that I've used, but I can say that the best material for the brass rims is "escutcheons" for locks; you can just unscrew the lock part and stick a bit of perspex inside. Then the rest is leatherwork.
23.07.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I went on deviantart trying to find the tutorial I used in the past, and christ is that an AI hellhole now
23.07.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Did you know it's *exactly* 5 years today since I first started working on JourneyMon? (At least according to the edit history of my first ideation document.) Find out the game's original code name, its development history, and current progress in my first Devlog:
ilgingell.itch.io/journeymon-q...
I've made peace with the fact that this is a luxury in life that I'm unwilling to lose tbh
15.07.2025 14:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oof, that's rough. I work in hydroponics, and getting indoor lighting is *expensive*
15.07.2025 12:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0