Stephen Hilger
@stephenhilger.bsky.social
I like drawing and writing. I also like talking about games on @intothecast.bsky.social and youtube.com/@memorycardmanuscript
I learned recently that “Hey Arnold” is set in Washington state, which feels like a new Berenstain Bears reality altering scenario.
I have a humble request: if fewer and fewer places are giving out quarters, it should be illegal for landlords to make you use coin operated laundry units in an apartment building. I’m tired of asking disappointed tellers for coins. Thanks for your time.
Believe it or not, I’ve played other games besides Fire Emblem recently.
✨NEW EPISODE✨ This week, our friend @stephenhilger.bsky.social joins us to talk first impressions of the Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter remake (with an added dose of unplanned but entirely predictable Fortune's Weave references)! LISTEN: share.transistor.fm/s/b6eb856d
Gonna start saying this to people who ask “so, what do you do?”
Why does the Halloween discord sound effect give me a literal heart attack every time it goes off?
✨NEW EPISODE✨ This week in the Aether: Dicevaders is an all-consuming follow-up to Starvaders. Screamin' Stevie returns. We check out a game called "Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave" to see if we like it. Listen + Tell a Friend: intothecast.online 💕
New artwork alert! 🖥️👾🌙 I had the sublime pleasure to design the cover for @bryanonion.bsky.social's upcoming novel CLEAN MY ROOM, out spring 2027! So excited to share this project with him and now the world!
I hope the connective thread between all future Fire Emblem games is that Seteth is there and has horribly dyed his hair a new color.
Gonna stream in 40 mins or so....there is a new island I must explore................ twitch.tv/sadieposting
Can there be something between the inbox and spam folder that is just “seems like bullshit”?
AAAAAAH SHIT AH CRAP I FORGOT TO POST OCTOBY MAGUIRE OCTOBY MAGUIRE TIME
it is time
My friends Adam and Dom of the great @eyeoftheduckpod.com podcast are nominated for a Signal award! You can vote for them here. Congrats, friends!
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Yes, we are, in fact, 30% for the Steam Autumn Sale. But did you know we also have bundles available with 3 other recent ADVs/VNs? Even if you've already played our game, you should check our bundle list, might be able to get a better deal on some new games 👁️ store.steampowered.com/bundlelist/2...
Hanging out in Dagsion is frighteningly similar to entering the improv world in Chicago. Everyone’s on a team. Everyone who looks cool and fun is already booked. Whenever you catch a show, you leave feeling confused and upset. And the only people who want to join your team are three drunk guys.
lmao i just learned that if you bring two ppl who hate a play to the theater to see it together they’ll still get a lot of support points because they’ll bond over being haters
We all need friends like Bonaventure and Tobias tbh
Honorable mention to the “Run Lola Run” soundtrack, which got me into music at age 9 somehow?
spent the past 24 hours working through a lot of thoughts. my heart is with the victim. wavelengths.online/jg
Regarding recent events, I don't know if it's helpful for me to say anything. I didn't know Jacob and I didn't follow his work. Still, this news is devastating and I'm heartbroken for my friends who feel betrayed and brought back to dark places by this news. I want a better reality for you.
I have made a bargain with myself. It goes like this: I recognize that being noisy about things that I think are wrong might have cost me jobs and a more comfortable career. But if I am to work at all, I don’t want it to be because I kept quiet. A living made that way is not one I want.
if you are a dude and want to be an ally the answer is not in posting or spending money (though do that, sure) but in realizing how your presence can change the atmosphere of a room and that no one has any reason to know or care that you are “one of the good ones” and do what you can about that.
if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.
happy to add to this thread if folks have other media they recommend should be added
starting a thread of games media owned in full or in part by women, femmes, and non-binary folks that i recommend