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Any time someone talks about further rearranging the letters in "LGBT" to make some sort of ideological point I can't help but be reminded of my uncle who thought he was fucking hilarious for calling it "the BLT community". Killed himself laughing at his own joke every single time he said it.

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There's definitely a hint of Deltarune's formative influences peeking out in how Carol Holiday manages to bullseye the exact intersection between "fascinatingly weird" and "it must be super convenient how your daughter's fur doesn't let the bruises show".

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Sometimes I just want to take indie game developers by the shoulders and be like, dude, the reason big, chunky pixel art is so popular in precision platformers is because having movement and collision snap to a relatively coarse grid makes it easy to sight-read the hitboxes. It's not just for show.

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I'd remark on the fact that "Kill Six Billion Demons" has evidently transitioned to a "large content drops separated by months-long hiatuses" publishing model for its final leg, but honestly, everybody who'd get the joke is already thinking it.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

My trauma HAS in fact made me stronger, but less in the "Dragon Ball training montage" way and more in the "obscure 1950s superhero who gains weirdly specific powers after being struck by lightning" way.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🐸 And here we have it, the result of a random little fixation over the past few days! A silly little game about frogs! My submission for @prokopetz.bsky.social WTFjam on itch.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Calling you out over a purely hypothetical post because it's the sort of thing I imagine you WOULD have said if you'd thought of it first.

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A problem with narrow Hollywood beauty standards is it's fucking up the use of doppelgangers as meta bullshit. The world gets a little smaller any time I see two characters with identical actors and can't tell whether this is significant, or whether the director just has a boner for men named Chris.

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Dragon in a dualist cosmos arguing only creatures with immortal souls are NOT people. Humans are animated by immaterial fragments of divinity rather than being given life by material processes, which means you're just God playing with dolls. That's why humans are the only animal it's ethical to eat.

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"OP do you mean that ironically" I never mean it ironically. That I acknowledge that a lot of my favourite media is shit doesn't mean my appreciation isn't genuine.

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Setting up a wildlife cam in my back garden and installing a series of progressively larger decorative windmills to determine the optimal size for trapping feral questing knights.

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CREATIONISM: Isn't it impossibly convenient that the physical properties of the Earth just happen to be so perfectly suited to the existence of human life? THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE:

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If nothing else, I think the Steam Deck has been a net positive because having a fixed spec that can't be dismissed by insisting a two-year-old GPU is obsolete AND a formal process for claiming compliance with that target is demonstrably encouraging publishers to let developers optimise their shit.

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A fun little revelation in "Deltarune" Chapter 4 is Susie silently asking Kris for help before turning control over to the player in the Hammer of Justice fight, implying that Susie textually experiences the player's commands as telepathic tactical advice, but thinks it's Kris doing it. #spoilers

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Even more: itch.io/jam/wtfjam20... Nine days in and we've already hit my prediction participation-wise (I figured this goofy thing'd get maybe a dozen entries), so everything beyond this point is a bonus as far as I'm concerned.

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Making an indie horror game and saving money on asset development by having the monster just not show up.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Some media recs are like "the protagonist has some kind of fucked up gender thing going on", then you watch it and the gender thing is relatively straightforward. Like, yes, it's fucked up, but it's not fucked up BECAUSE of the gender thing. The fucked up and the gender thing are separate concerns.

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I'm sure if we tried we could come up with an even less convenient walkthrough format than unannotated YouTube videos of someone playing the game badly. A handwritten manuscript of mad ravings, perhaps, or possibly a live broadcast of a mysterious voice slowly reciting puzzle solutions in Russian.

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The trouble with asking for recs for fucked up media is that a lot of allegedly fucked up media is enamoured with the IDEA of being fucked up, but it's not actually fucked up ABOUT anything. However, there's no way to explain this to anyone who doesn't already Get It without sounding like a maniac.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Today's aesthetic: when folks make posts trying to convince whoever might be reading to watch/read some bit of media, but forget their target audience won't know the fandom's jargon and abbreviations, resulting in a post where you can't even decipher the title of whatever it's trying to sell you on.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Tenna is probably the first "Deltarune" boss where I genuinely can't relate to people wanting to fuck them, but I know enough folks in the objecthead fandom not to question it.

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Cozy life sim about a community of scavengers living amid the crumbling ruins of an unfathomably vast Brutalist megastructure of unclear origin and purpose. The nature of the structure or what lies beyond it are not addressed at any point.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

"Deltarune" has given us a lot of striking images, but Susie touching Ralsei's face in a gesture of forgiveness and leaving a bloody handprint on his cheek because she punched a stained-glass window might just take the cake in terms of getting thematically freaky with it. #spoilers

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Concept: formalwear for wizards in the mode of 17th Century continental European court fashion, except instead of powdered horsehair wigs it involves elaborately curled and pomaded false beards. The best quality ones are fastened to a shoulder harness because the neck can't take the weight.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly, if you're in a battle and your side's wizard comes out to fight the other side's wizard, you should all just stop and watch the light show, because once those beardy fucks start chucking meteors at each other you're really not the deciding factor here anymore.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

I enjoy when writers do porn AUs where their kink is universal, then throw in some additional element that could be an AU premise all on its own, but the text does not connect the two. Like, yeah, this is an AU where everyone is an exhibitionist, and also dragons are real. These facts are unrelated.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Like, beyond the fact that suggesting all homophobic men are secretly gay and in denial is still treating calling a dude gay as a way to "own" him, it's constructing a scenario where gay people are the principal enactors of homophobic violence. Think carefully about who benefits from this framing.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

A fun recurring typo I've seen is when people who are used to referring to years in broad ranges like "the 1960s" or "the 1990s" need to say a specific year, but they autopilot the phrasing and you end up with shit like "the 1993s". Like, exactly how many 1993s are we talking here?

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

For clarity, I'm not saying I think this is LIKELY to happen, but if it did, Elon Musk managing to trigger the destruction of the US two-party system by sheer accident because he can't keep his dick in his pants would be one heck of a lifetime achievement.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

You know, after all the fandom speculation about what the secret bosses in forthcoming chapters were going to be like, "Deltarune" Chapters 3 and 4 both manage to say "no, we're not doing any of that" in complementary yet diametrically opposite ways. #spoilers

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

More: itch.io/jam/wtfjam20... (Honestly, we're seeing a significantly stronger response than I'd anticipated. I expected that an obvious goof like this would get maybe a dozen entries in total, and we're already up to eight on day five!)

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(1/2) "Historically accurate" movie: Bleebus and Blorbus were childhood friends, but grew apart due to political differences, becoming bitter enemies who led opposing armies at the momentous Battle of Shitty Hill, culminating in a duel in which the two fatally wounded each other and died arm in arm.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Analysing your OC whose default outfit includes seemingly randomly placed armour-like pieces to determine exactly what hobby or day job they could possibly have which would require armour on those parts of their body and no others.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I do enjoy the "post-surgical recovery interview as in-universe character creation" device where it's implied that whatever happened messed you up so badly the doctors genuinely couldn't tell what age or gender you were before the Incident, so they just sort of guessed.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Chapter 3's random revelation that Rouxls Kaard has been assuming that Kris, Susie and Ralsei are a polycule this whole time and is genuinely gobsmacked to learn that they're not feels very targeted. #spoilers

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Reacts to the situation at hand with the socially appropriate level of concern, as a bit.

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