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meissnerd.bsky.social
i'm a prospective writer! I'm agoraphobic, autistic and ADHD. some of my likes: video games, small dogs, the history of the ottoman empire and historiography more generally, as well as socialism. living on Treaty 6
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this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

whatever. go my duck

I am completely unimpressed with Mark Carney, but if Pierre Pollievre loses because the Liberals pivoted to a sterile, unimaginative banker, I might die laughing

I haven't had the chance to play Avowed yet but I'm happy to hear that guns maintain their role as the "fuck you" weapon. In Pillars I had a wand and a gun as a priest and I could still do work with it even though it wasn't my focus. Sometimes you just need to punch through some armour!

Floofy Steller's is a whole mood! #birds #becurious

as a snapjaw I do not like to brag (ahem), but we believe Caves of Qud is a novel work of language-driven science fiction, and that it should be considered for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing!!

So true, NiGHTS.

The idea that a person's value is related to their ability to be "productive" needs to be torched.

that feeling when you have some insight in the latest episode of Severance because you were raised Lutheran 😈

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city of the wolves is complicated as hell, but man, fighting games massage my brain like no other genre in the medium. i love learning punches

Microsoft can't even ship the games that already have solid ideas behind them, what good is an AI tool that just spits out... more ideas? Also they're going to train it on their own games, so they're just going to get more games like... the games they already made?

deeply unsurprising but it’s never been more over

i'm starting a new series, called "unusual jump sound effects used in videogames". i will post new discoveries in this thread to start, we have "Techno Cop" on the Amiga [ youtu.be/KPCZqXBgRj8?... ]

An opportunity to post my favorite map

classic thing that happens at the snowy café

If you can spare it, please consider sending $5 to this community kitchen in Althawra district of Omdurman, Sudan. They've been struggling to stay open, and families rely on the kitchen for survival. t.co/9b8yoverio #KeepEyesOnSudan

Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

#NEW: GameStop says it intends to sell its Canadian and French operations, the latest planned cuts after years of declining revenues. CEO cites ‘Wokeness and DEI’ in a statement.

hit credits on Caves of Qud! it's such an amazing experience. i can't imagine what it's like to have been with the same since the early 2000's and to play 1.0 now when i first saw the map of Qud, it looked alien and intimidating. now it's a warm blanket full of amazing memories. live and drink!

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

A Pillar Men Antique Mirror will be releasing in July 2025

Every union should be echoing this statement.

qud report: just as i need to find a limb to fuse to my golem, Fate provides me with the means: a manual on dismemberment that i found in a cult's basement

the like a dragon series is so rich. amazing meditation on masculinity, great use of tone. it's uneven across so many games, but they always swing for the fences and i love it so much

Been working on this for a while. Here's my retrospective documenting the Like A Dragon's tumultuous root becoming one of Sega's biggest franchises. From infamous English language dubs, to stripped back ports, to zombies. I touch on a bit of everything. www.restart.run/articles/lik...

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

The great thing about this video is that it's shot in Quebec — meaning this Cybertruck is legally required to have snow tires on. It has snow tires and it STILL can't move.

Caves of Qud is great because you can create an absolute badass of a character like "teleporting psychic gunslinger" and within a couple hours they're riddled with fungal infections and being eaten by crabs at the bottom of a well

Conversations with the 8yo DM: 10yo Player: My character only has an 8 intelligence, so he isn’t smart enough to come up with a plan. 8yo DM: He probably thinks he is a genius like other fools. Give it a shot.