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Note to self, the cooking cutscene in Wilds does not protect you from aggroing monsters.

Professor X: Hold, old friend. If you wish to take this military base hostage, you first must kill these five fifteen year olds I found. Magneto: for fuck’s sake, Charles.

"You're not dead. And every morning that there's blood pumping in your body, you get to decide what to do about that big, bad world waiting for you out there." I love @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social so much.

Finished Citizen Sleeper 2. That was really good. I will be very surprised if it isn’t in my top games of the year come year end.

“hey did you finish naming those new Astro Bot levels?” “sure did. made them real horny, just like you asked”

Eternal Wario Hockey is an unlockable air hockey game in WarioWare: Twisted in which Wario never loses. If the player has enough skill and patience to get 500 points, the game will forcibly try to make the player lose by elongating Wario's arms indefinitely.

Ah yes, the eternal 'should our art style be super realistic or fun and stylized' game dev debate.

No mention of why he was forced into exile?

for the love of god make having a nintendo online account required for first batch of preorders

look at the difference in engagement between twitter (left) and bsky (right). these were posted at the exact same time (we use a third-party social media platform thingy)

A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments. Part 1 🧵 (Alt-text for the first image contains the entire comic)

An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

FINALLY, I can talk about REALIS, the tabletop game that I've been working on since spring of 2021.

I shouldn’t need to make a login account for every single thing.

Build Environmental Storytelling.

I guess I know what the scalpers will be buying up next... here is hoping that Nintendo and all of the retailers have learned something from the mess that was the PS5 and Xbox Series X launches.

Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com.

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Got some glow in the dark dice for Christmas and finally got around to charging them with a UV lamp. This was the first take!

Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people. www.watchduty.org

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Software engineers of the world, I beg you. Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields. Sincerely, Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

With this CES, it feels like we're nearing a plateau. Games don't need bleeding edge video cards, since graphics can't go much higher without greater expense. Apps don't need more powerful mobile chips. The average folk don't need TVs above 4K. The tech market is in search of something to sell.

Happy National “Back to work” day y’all

I use this to track the games I’m playing, have played, want to play, etc. It’s great!

Check out our Game(s) of the Year!

looking at subscriber data for my Substack and can you spot the point at which I decided to give up on posting into the ether on Twitter and decided to start posting here full-time instead

Good morning #ttrpg folks! Did you remember to nudge that indie dev you know, and tell them about our grants for scenario and game designers? The ones opening in January, that will help them pay for art, layout, editing, and other professional services?

I’ve been playing some Dragon Age Veilguard off and on for the last week or so. It’s not a bad game but not exactly clicking with me. I’m trying to decide if I should put it down or keep giving it more time. I’ve heard it gets stronger as it goes on.

Twas the night before Christmas And all through the air Came the growling and snarling Of three GODDAMN BEARS Please enjoy A Very Honey Heist Xmas. PDFs and author’s notes here: www.patreon.com/posts/very-h...

@bjkgames.com I started the DQIII HD-2D remake and am actually vibing with it. Rare for me to click with a DQ game. It’s been great as a podcast game since its low story and more about exploration and leveling up. Are you liking this one? I’m guessing you covered it on your podcast.