Christa Mrgan

psst… if you're in PDX, get on this quick!

Blippo+ Writer Claire L. Evans standing with Game and Creative Director Jona Bechtolt in front of a large red GDC display at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Claire wears a leather jacket and cool shades. Jona wears a brown linen shirt and canvas sneakers. Both are sporting enormous GDC badges. On the floor it says “FESTIVAL OF GAMING” in white letters on a blue starlike shape.

Blippo’s own Claire and Jona (aka @com.y-a-c-h-t.com) are giving a tiny talk today at GDC as part of the Indie Soapbox session, along with some other fabulous devs! Come say hello!

@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026

schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...

love to be needlessly inconvenienced in the stupidest possible way bc somebody’s nephew has a startup

Looking down at a 12-year-old boy climbing a 17-foot bouldering wall at an indoor gym. His face is obscured by a smiley face sticker, but accurately conveys his feelings about the situation

Took my son and his friend bouldering last night, and it was the other kid’s first time. Starting out, he was like, “oh, I’m not very coordinated,” “I have no upper body strength” etc. but by the end was asking when we can do it again. 🥲

Watching someone go from self-doubt to joy: top-10 feeling

Yeah, I’d absolutely faceplant coming off that transition on the right, but if I somehow managed not to, one of those lips would get me for sure! But isn’t it just way too short/narrow BMXers? How would you handle those angles? Guess I’ve only seen BMX in really spacious bowls & ramps

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

Photo of the most cursed metal skate ramp ever created by human hands. It has a steep bank on the left side, maybe like 3’ of flat, and then a transition on the right that would make Satan weep with joy. I don’t know who rides this or how, but it has to be pretty wild to see

hey gurl, did paul rudolph design u? bc u look BRUTAL

RowBot Rally store listing in the Playdate Catalog. There's a discount tag in the top-left corner advertising that the game's 20% off — $12, discounted from $15.

#playdate catalog sale is live now! for the next couple weeks, you can pick up rowbot rally at a steamy fresh discount of just $12!

nominated for multiple PD awards, a big labor of love; made without a single shred of robot input. ❤️
play.date/g/rbr

...hey, free demo, too!
rae.wtf/rowbot-rally...

remember: there are no stupid questions, only stupid askers 😌

my new year’s resolution is to stop procrastinating

Chat from January 13th, 2015 shauninman: I want to do a Zelda-like where every power-up uses the crank. neven: oh nice shauninman: Crank powered lantern neven: neat shauninman: time manipulation. lighting/gate control. opening safes. drilling through walls. neven: rad. rotisserie chicken.

Here's how the idea for Ratcheteer came to Shaun, during early Playdate discussions…

Colored enamel pool sign that says “watch your child!” in very 70s lettering, with an illustration of a guy in swim trunks smiling and looking up at the sky while pushing a baby’s head under the water with one foot. He knows what he’s doing and he’s trying to make it look like an accident, but the sign is tsk-tsking him for lacking the courage to look into the eyes of his drowning child

Pretty sure this is NOT a Poolmaster sign, but c’mon

Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?

Twin Peaks Logo Generator Turtle Power!

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

(don’t look at his profile, he has a bunch of blue maga emojis in his bio)

Ben Franklin’s ghost, which somehow has a BlueSky account: Oh and you’re surprised!?!?!????

uhh so I guess we couldn’t keep it (the republic)

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

Alexey, Alyosha, Alyoshenka… yup, that’s him! three names, one guy

Dmitri, Mitya, Mitka, Mitenka… also one dude

Ivan, Vanka, Vanechka… yeah, again, these are names for just one single person

(The Brothers Karamazov are basically super depressing Pokémon)

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Screenshot of the last post I saw by @funeralpig.bsky.social (display name wargen); the account had already been deactivated at this point, but I guess this post was cached. Real similar vibes to when a Twitter mutual died by suicide a while back, so it triggered alarm bells for me. They are probably just dealing with something and are completely fine otherwise, but also, if you have a way to get in touch with them, please do.

Hey, does anyone happen to know @funeralpig.bsky.social IRL, or have another contact for them? A few of their posts this morning made it seem like they were going through something, and now their account’s deactivated. I’d love for somebody who knows them to just check in with them, if possible.

I love the idea, but then just thinking about the staggering amount of work it would take is overwhelming! Maybe the trick is just to start, and pretty soon you’re too far in to turn back. 😅

I loved this conversation, and making this episode kiiiinda has me wanting to create my own FMV game. (I won't, but still!!)

it's honestly a good podcast imo

I know, but how could I not

And don’t worry, I’m only *guessing* what commenters on a porn site would say (I don’t read the comments!!!)

oh were you all watching something else tonight

Predator handshake meme. Top text over joined hands: “He’s really a tremendous finisher inside the box” Left text over arm: “soccer commentator” Right text over arm: “pornhub commenter”

we live in 🎶 hellllllll 🎶