Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
18.02.2026 18:40 โ ๐ 1826 ๐ 532 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 189@skelicopter.bsky.social
Writer & narrative designer, currently at Sun and Serpent Games! Stuff Iโve worked on: ๐ฐ King of the Castle ๐ House of Many Doors ๐ Fallen London ๐ Sunless Skies ๐๏ธ Over the Alps ๐ Dread Delusion ๐ Occlude And nowโฆ โ๏ธ Bladesong
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
18.02.2026 18:40 โ ๐ 1826 ๐ 532 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 189I was thinking about getting into the Expanse books so i did some background research and this was a hell of a jumpscare
09.02.2026 08:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Imagine if that guy had also had a Steam account!
08.02.2026 21:57 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Man that one guy who broke his glasses didnโt have time to read all the books he wanted until the world ended, and that was in the 1950s! Thereโs been so many more books written since then! Even if i didnโt break my glasses in the apocalypse Iโd never clear my backlog
08.02.2026 21:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
01.02.2026 15:40 โ ๐ 16698 ๐ 4836 ๐ฌ 93 ๐ 73Reposting this for the evening weekday gang! Very proud of the soundtrack, and really happy to see the game being so well received so far, especially @skelicopter.bsky.social fantastic writing ๐ค
27.01.2026 17:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Buy BLADESONG! Now in Early Access, it's an insanely detailed blacksmithing RPG featuring a grim, immersive story campaign written by yours truly!
22.01.2026 14:13 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I peeked at my therapistโs notes and this was the only thing written down
21.01.2026 08:51 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago
20.01.2026 19:15 โ ๐ 2541 ๐ 498 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 110Am I the only one that thinks this cartoon by Charles Addams (the guy who created the Addams family) is legitimately creepy?
19.01.2026 02:27 โ ๐ 5662 ๐ 807 ๐ฌ 151 ๐ 42A screenshot of a bit of text. The headline reads "Tiger, tiger, kerning right" in a horrible parody of William Blake.
For goodness' sake, @failbettergames.com, have you no decency?
...I have to admit, I sort of admire that one.
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
15.01.2026 13:47 โ ๐ 12546 ๐ 4031 ๐ฌ 95 ๐ 305A still from The Shining with adapted lyrics from โLast Resortโ: โCut my wife into pieces / this is a ghost resortโ
14.01.2026 02:00 โ ๐ 7064 ๐ 1483 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 43An amusing small finding: an extinct crocodilian known as "necrosuchus," meaning "dead crocodile," got this name because someone asked the paleontologists if it was dead while they were collecting the fossil, and they found this funny enough to immortalize: digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/eef9a4...
10.01.2026 20:35 โ ๐ 73 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0An incredibly complex equation is stated. Below this angry meme man is saying "Source?" To which a handsome and somewhat smug looking Ramanujan replies "It was revealed to me in a dream".
08.01.2026 08:21 โ ๐ 255 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR Dorothy Parker Telegram to Robert Benchley 31st December 1929
08.12.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 1220 ๐ 479 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 21Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
31.12.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 2910 ๐ 1138 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 53That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
@skelicopter.bsky.social Probably going to hibernate on this account soon, but just finished Occlude so I wanted to say:
1. It was great! Lovely mood, wonderful music, a perfect eerie treat.
2. Jesus CHRIST what is up with the Cleaner.
Ha ha, really really glad you enjoyed, if โBleeergggโ can be counted as enjoyment. I guess it *is* generally the reaction I aim to elicit from players
22.12.2025 10:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Especially when the doors are at a 75% discount! Why, Iโm practically *making* money
22.12.2025 10:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My hobby is buying games on Steam.
Donโt you mean playing-?
I said what I said.
Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
17.12.2025 09:37 โ ๐ 522 ๐ 198 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 24And hey, wishlist Amberspire! tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...
10.12.2025 22:44 โ ๐ 77 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2Since I was playing it earlier today, just a reminder that King of the Castle by @tributarygames.bsky.social is theeee best "party with friends" video game I know AND it is on a very big sale right now
09.12.2025 02:46 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You do not want to earn three wishes from me bro. You do NOT want to try to wiggle out of my ironic punishments bro. I will come out of my lamp and I will twist your words bro!
08.12.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjรถkull to Ok (jรถkull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
hey man, hey! itโs me! we went to college together remember? they used to call me th- yeah, The Honorless Worm, thatโs it, you remember. although iโm usually considered pretty honorable these days lol. howโve you been?
07.12.2025 20:24 โ ๐ 1006 ๐ 205 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 1Babies love three things: bitin', fightin' and smitin'
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