Liam Thomas

sajam that last clip had a burst bait in it. i want my channel points back

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Im envisioning the variety of women who will romance me, their various Ethnicities, etc, when the Dark Net Injectables make me 1 inch taller

now is the winter of all this content

"the way forward is indie art" yes largely absolutely. but sometimes art costs a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!! now bear with me. what if the "means" by which the art was "reproduced" was "seized" in some way

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

one of my biggest unity tips is Just Buy The Tool Dude. idc if it's $100 that's a drop in the bucket if you're doing commercial dev and if it works well it will save you so so so so much in the long run

solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas.

you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.

nier is, however, the alternating group with 28 elements

i think that the mid 2010s "everything's a roguelike" vs "berlin interpretation" discussion had a clear winner and what we're seeing now is partly a consequence of that

i know quibbling over calcified video game genre names is pointless, but it does feel like "roguelike" has drifted extremely far from its origins when it now mostly means "any game where you routinely pick from one of three randomized upgrades and you have to start over if you lose"

a lot of people never learned to think about politics beyond red state/blue state and it manifests in unbelievable callousness about people's actual lives

The goal of games criticism is to talk about the graphics and to mention if game developers included the graphics or not.

but it has a beginning, an end, amd Challenges

broke: is dark souls a metroidvania

woke: is rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead a metroidvania

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

ok you joke but this topic comes up in rts forums biweekly

idk if they'll be successful but it is apparent that they're looking for influence at all levels

part of the problem is that evo is trying to eat locals, too

it's what my gang did. we were all planning to meet up at evo and then the acquisition got announced and we said "welp" and did frostys instead

"i dont like rust because i dont like fighting the borrow checker" then dont write code the borrow checker doesnt like idiot

build my social media presence by being real fucking annoying online and that translates into sales, somehow

every time i see all the stuff self-marketers say you need to do to promote your game i want to say "right well i'm making a game so idk if i have time for all of that"

like next fest is offering me mahjong games and moba games because i've been playing a bunch of riichi mahjong and deadlock. and like, i don't want another dota in my life right now. one is probably already too many

yeah i do think Valve is _trying_ to do that, with a fairly low degree of success but i also think that this can't be the end-all of curation because i usually _don't_ want to be playing a game just like the one i've been playing this week

fwiw the anecdotes from other devs i've talked to seem to be that next fest is still good for discovery even though there's a ton of participants, maybe the only games which blow up big time are the ones with established audiences but it's still the biggest publicity boost most indies get

valve sucks, 30% is too much, but at this point idk what valve can even _do_ for discovery. like, do we want valve itself to be offering curation and discovery and be prioritizing certain games over others?

never thought that my job would require describing my OCs to a character artist i've comissioned