Everything is burning and I don't know what to do. But if you want to support queer art, there's never been a better time to play Dread Delusion: a retro RPG where you can domme a fascist into letting you cross a fortified border by spitting in his mouth. store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/...

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Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets,...

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It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

For those who might have forgotten, Dolly was always punk as fuck

PEACH MOMOKO MARVEL COVER ART COLLECTION paddysbooks.bigcartel.com/product/peac... #artbooks #comics #illustrations #paintings

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

I have a Schumacher Briefing pub. by @schumacherinst.bsky.social which joins the dots! 'Is the UK approaching a Clean Energy Tipping Point? — Exploring the UK’s Clean Energy Transition using a Systems Thinking approach' Link in comments Fig here shows Reinforcing Loops from Causal Loop Diagram

120 of 2026's best PC games, ordered according to a weighted Steam community rating, skewed slightly towards popularity. It's a wonderfully diverse mix, and with only ~5 big AAA games in there.

Weird books for weird readers!!! Featuring: @sarahgailey.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @joshrountree.bsky.social @sequoian.bsky.social @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social And some other dude ;)

I'm not above prompts.

Game design isn’t about being able to identify problems. Everyone who plays games can identify problems. Game design is about diagnosing player experience, having intent, and executing. I think to a lot of folks outside dev, game criticism (an art in itself) is seen as interchangeable with design.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 4w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

wait. this is where "Blame yourself or God" came from??

Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 4w ago

Oh wait I could also play Final Fantasy Tactics

Reminder that if you like my dives into game history from a more global perspective and want more, you can check my collection of links & resources here: felipepepe.medium.com/my-little-ga... Has over 100 links to blogs, articles and videos from all over the world. Still WIP and messy, sorry lol

My Little Game History Anthology

A personal collection of writings, references, bookmarks and sources for further reading

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I like this, I like this a lot. #BookSky

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - My D&D characters from 1995 to 2023 on a single page! Those I played for more than a few sessions at least.

Bouss - Ink, Mechs & Robots -@bouss.bsky.social · last mo.

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~

i'm done

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading

we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.

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It's once again time for me to extol the virtues of the "Laura Palmer," a refreshing blend of lemonade and cold brew coffee. In all my travels I have yet to find a better beverage for a hot summer morning. It's also the best method I have personally found for accidentally consuming 400mg of caffeine

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

It's STEAM SUMMER SALE time! Which means I've updated my Steam Curator page with everything I've enjoyed recently. I'll also be picking out the best deals in this thread - bookmark this post! If you like what I do, consider tipping! (Ko-Fi/Paypal) - All tips go towards more indie games to research!

Steam Curator: Dominic Tarason's Opinionation Station

Info-tags aside (for listing stuff) this is 100% personal recommendations on games I've played. Expect a lot of weird, indie, undersold or otherwise mysterious stuff, plus the occasional mainstream fa...

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As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Chloe "Low Power Chlobot" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

Hey folks, who'd like another Steam sale recommendation thread? Let's go! 1. Nine Sols Simply one of the best Metroidvanias ever. Takes inspiration from Hollow Knight with gorgeous hand drawn artstyle, mixes in the parry heavy combat of Sekiro, and Red Candle's exceptional narrative writing.

Save 50% on Nine Sols on Steam

Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien ra...

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you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

You gotta write, and you gotta write your own stuff, and you have to write stuff you'd want to read. Enjoy writing for its own sake and enjoy what you write, because if you don't, no one else will either.

Crimson Capacitor@crimsoncapacitor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What advice would you give to wannabe authors?

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

One second from every scene in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.