Megan Fox

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

That LaMothe literally taught me game dev

Buuut it made no sense until I got someone in an IRC channel to explain pointers to kid me

After that tho? Fuck yeeaaaa

Not sure it was the Best book, but I really can credit it with getting me started in a very real way, I learned all my mode 13h there

Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus and that C For Rookies was where I started

Lovely books those, so many memories 😭

Never had the New Testament tho, that's past the point where I switched to just using online refs I think

Computer Graphics Principles and Practice (alongside a bunch of others)

I believe I still have my Old Testament... hmm let's see yep

Ok, Skald isn't just fucking fantastic, it's one of the most Ultima games I've ever seen from an indie, AND IT'S A BETTER GAME THAN MOST ACTUAL ULTIMAS

Skald is the best Ultima 1-5 Ultima I've ever played

6 and 7 do trump it, but, that is 100℅ not a fair comparison

Scientists will literally corner you in a long elevator ride because they've been trying all day to find someone who wants to know, and guess what, you've been chosen by the gods to hear about their last 2 years of research on a subject you can't even spell, let alone pronounce

YESSSSSS

You may have your gray beard back

More seriously I HIGHLY recommend tracking down a copy if you like this era of book

It has lovely Bible pages, so delicate 😭

Ain't see no Abrash's Black Book

Fake dev

Turn in your gray beard doesn't count

Decade Of Microsoft Humilation looking to continue with Windows 12, I guess

Definitely looking forward to moving over to Mint soonish

I guess "it's a very fucking dense RPG with character design traps" could be seen as a complaint but

Actually no it's very intentionally what it is

Read forums

The only reason I'd call it a negative is the games it's emulating all came with big ol instruction manuals

(Bring back big ol manuals!)

You know what, I'm not even mad

Bottom Games: We make Top games, you can bet your bottom dollar!

The extent of my complaint is "the loot table wrt two handed weapons is busted"

"But you can work around it by running up and down on the road to encounter random weapons merchants"

That's it

Some other stuff, having a cheat console available smooths over, and THE CHEAT SYSTEM IS SO CHARMING OMG

If you played Skald shortly after launch and felt the balance towards the back end was bad? Especially with regard to magic?

Give it another try, dev clearly put a shitload of work into fixing the game up post launch

Just a shockingly well put-together game, now

Ok, Skald isn't just fucking fantastic, it's one of the most Ultima games I've ever seen from an indie, AND IT'S A BETTER GAME THAN MOST ACTUAL ULTIMAS

Skald is the best Ultima 1-5 Ultima I've ever played

6 and 7 do trump it, but, that is 100℅ not a fair comparison

Not boring at all, this is fascinating! Thanks a ton!

Shit this is cool! They DO work like other crops!

Sorry, they're weird enough that that really does surprise me bsky.app/profile/gaud...

Sure but like, a basic boring gala from a farm box often trumps storebought Literally Anything, so I was wondering if there was similar magic going on with these weird things I barely understand, or not so much

(Also I assume freshness is a huge part of the apple thing so hrm maybe etc)

They certainly seem tasty! But er, I'm not really a mushroom expert. I just bought basic boring mushrooms before.

Yo, mushroom folk,

Are the fancy mushrooms in the farm box better than storebought? Like are there artisnal mushrooms, other than the varieties themselves being fancy?

Like I'm unclear how much care and nurturing matters for things you keep in the daek dark and feed manure?

Our next game is Verminsteel!

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun

PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Ah, I regret to inform you that I simply possess

a sword

Nobody told me that Nazis coming back would involve this much pouring over the Fascism definition on wikipedia to make sure I get the details accurate in my writing

Ah, well then, our friendship has been wonderful

but our rivalry will be one for the ages