Calliope Ryder ☠️

oh ffs

also hi!! can’t believe it took this long to bump into you here!

it's been 15 years since i played Skyrim (vomit) but Dragonborn remains the game theme song I'd most like to see live, in a great hall, played by a fantastic orchestra and choir

you get one in your area, pls hit me up ❤️

i didn’t notice they were always one of each colour!

yeah exactly, and that makes me mad af. it’s a delicate balance to have to create!

However, i will say that sometimes it’s a bit sloppy. IMO red herrings only work when ONE option is slightly ambiguous or a bit suss in some way (grammar, format etc).

If it fits perfectly i get pissed off too, bc then my only other option is to look elsewhere and i don’t feel clever about it.

i find this one super interesting because people react so differently to it — i started doing connections with a friend. i found the red herring annoying at first when it was new, but then got a lot of… joy? out of the “HA! I see you. cheeky cheeky huehuehue” feeling.

Friend fucking hates it.

:(

No shade on “nice”, I expect it for society to function
When a clerk says their day is going great thanks, i understand their day dealing with rude customers might NOT actually be going great thanks. A stranger telling me about spinach in my teeth cares enough to suffer awkwardness. That’s kind.

Niceness isn’t honest or authentic. Kindness is usually both.

Nice doesn’t make waves. Nice plays well with others.

Kind is ready to start some shit for someone’s benefit, and then will help pick up the pieces.

Kind has intention and a goal.

hahahha oh alex!! i fully understand, i was the theatre kid doing dancing and music in a family full of national sports champions 😂 they certainly tried

it’s not safe but also — if you can avoid putting money into the fascist regime by you probably should. i realise for many biz devs they’re SOL and need to go to keep salaries and jobs, but unless you REALLY gotta, don’t go!

whitest of white or even presenting vaguely androgynously 😬

the retiree in the article is white af, it doesn’t even matter anymore

i take back everything i said about recommending discord as the new safer online place for communities. wtf

feels like every producer online has to periodically remind people that just because it’s not on your JD doesn’t mean you’re not producing yourself/your team 😂

gamescom is good

oh i couldn’t avoid them 😂 big sports family, i even scrapbooked the olympics from sydney 2000 > 2012. but valerie adams (and co), barbara kendall, lisa carrington, erakovich, and irene van dyke (i had sneakers w her autograph lol) to name a few!

i’m sorry but i am nervous for you folks going to gdc dude

i’m glad for the netball stars and women olympians we had growing up though! we’ve never been short of sports stars, just wish we’d had a few more moments like this 😂

yay!! every time good indie news graces my feed i gain strength 🙏

thanks for the rec 🫡

it's so nice to get some good news in gamedev omg

congrats!

this is the face of feminine rage disguised with laughter. obsessed with this response, what an icon

it’s all getting so much worse every year and nothing but silence on it. i’m so mad but there’s nowhere to scream.

how we gonna be a tourist destination when there’s shit in every waterway???
#nzpol

honestly i don’t know who to be angry at about the raw sewage joining forces with yet another crazy storm.

but there is shit sand on the roads, i haven’t been able to have a single swim in summer bc of sewage or e coli, and i’m bloody sick of this govt continuing to ignore every climate emergency.

me too 😭

this storm is so bad that i finally duct taped the glass (first time after 7 years in wellington with these massive window panes 🫡)

obviously it’s tame when im filming, but ive been watching the windows buckle for days 😅

orange is the new black, so i hear

none of this is actual consequences that these people desperately need — but the comebacks are insane, vapid and hopefully really illustrate how little effort they’re even putting into lying.

“Why did you release all the victims names but none of the conspirators?”
“Why do you SMELL so bad??”