Megan Fox

(Being a poet is surprisingly depressing, both in the pouring out your emotions part And the trying to find some home for your word slop part)

It was a nice two-page spread too, centerfold, my mom was very proud

I hadn't even intended to write something for it, my English prof just took one look at what I'd written and vanished in a poof of smoke to run off and find the editors

Not a bit, that was almost certainly the more prestigious

Two times, actually! Once in the graduation edition of my HS school newspaper (big HS but still lol), and then some incredibly obscure journal at my Uni

Funny thing is: I guarantee the school newspaper had more readership than functionally any poetry journal out there 😭 bsky.app/profile/gure...

I'm a published poet

Like iunno I'm not seeing a lot of emerging products made by AI that are selling great

Kinda seems like those would long since exist if even a tenth of the AI coder or artist claims were accurate

Weird

You do not need cultural buy-in if the robot can make you a video game product

You would simply make the robor make you video games and then sell them

Ditto for websites, products, everything

You only run your mouth if the primary value is clout/investors

Which means it doesn't do what you said

Hand to the gods, this is why I think they're all functionally scammers a/o so stupid their opinions can't be trusted anyways

If you actually found a Do All My Work No Foolin button you would SHUT THE FUCK UP

It would be good if nobody else believed the robot could do your work, you'd encourage it

I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

Verminsteel on Steam You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun. Joined by a hoe-wielding badger, a mouse with a frying pan, and all the Molotovs you can chuck: You’ll res...

This is serious training / aesthetic experimentation for Verminsteel, I swear

Uh

Wishlist Verminsteel if you like the idea of illuminated manuscripts of birds kissing? Am I doing this right? store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/...

The little birds sitting atop the Coronation of the Virgin with Attendant Saints, who are definitely a couple you can tell they have such chemistry

Now they kissin, because I got bored and someone challenged me to make them kiss and 10 minutes later bam, kissy

You can simply make the birds on top of illuminated manuscripts kiss

Nobody can stop you

hooray

You had us at kicking fascists.

Uh

what do you store in the pillowpack?

I should probably not run for Congress, is the takeaway here

Weirdly this was also the grandpa who took me camping and tried to do all the typical Toughening Me Up stuff before he understood that wasn't who I was

He was also chill about the trans thing

Honestly he was just a very cool grandpa and we kinda drifted apart cus (ehh) but he was still quite cool?

Military and then wrenching, civilian military,

and because broken family

uh, self-declared shaman who seemed to be a cult leader kinda?

They were all cool grandpas, but only one got me a dowsing rod for my 10th birthday

Christian Grandma was... not amused

Folks with prior success are struggling to realize that the game industry has changed completely. It's never going back to how it was. Funding, development, and audiences have all fragmented and that is the "new normal." Only folks who have been scrapping their whole career will weather this change.

Antichrist is such a boring way of looking at it though. I feel like it's a mental trap that people fall into, which curtails what can otherwise be a novel form of villainy.

a man with long hair and a beard is wearing a black hat . Alt: Captain Barbosa gives you a grin, because you ate an apple

But don't make it weird, this is a totally above board non-sexual thing

...

Except for Barbosa, who's sitting over in the apple cuck chair

"How do you like THESE apples?!" except I'm feeding you bits of apple on a toothpick from an heirloom apple flight

I do wish Skald had a manual and map. They actually did a cheat system that oulos pulls up a freaking true to life Commodore console window, so pulling up a "physical" map or manual would have gone perfectly with that

But hey, tiny dev heh

Looking, I'd say that Nox Archaist is hewing to the classic form to such a degree that it's somewhat obnoxious to play?

Whereas Skald has freaking gamepad support of all things, and a bunch of silly CRT modes (that do actually help the game)

Haven't played, sorry!

"But Megan how do you Know this is a game in the tradition of Ultima, like weren't all gold box RPGs-"

It has a pilgrimage quest that gives your entire party +1 in each stat per shrine

This dev knew exactly what they were doing :3

I do often think about what it'd have been like if I stopped there, tho, or a bit into gender queer

I think long-term, eroding the binary will be the most important thing, so kids don't feel they gotta be either or and assume that step there is a Big one

Bit of it starting already, which is rad

They aren't in reality, this is that LGB T splitting thing

The extent to which twinks are weird about trans tends to be that "no don't leave us you're so cute!" vibe as we pass through before realizing the rest, heh

YAY

I knew you were a good egg

I could feel it in my jellies

Snowcrash being sorted next to your technical gamedev books makes me giggle, niiice

Fuck yeah we're book learning twinsies! Had no idea!

Oh shit wait he means the 3D one (right side) not the purple one (center)

Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus is the one I love

The 3D one I just found in a box and took home :3