After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio

Here you go @stilgherrian.com

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 2d ago

Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics

"What's your name, again?" "Chrissie!" "Where are we going?" "Swimming!"

Lukewarm film take of the day: For A Few Dollars More is the most fun of the Dollars trilogy, the most enjoyable of the bunch.

The road to hell is no longer paved with good intentions, they concreted over that shit due to budget cutbacks.

Computers are not Computering correctly today. I may require a second coffee. Or to simply defenestrate all Computering Objects and return to the sea.

RIP everyone's New Zealand Dad, Sam Neill.

This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.

Oh GODDAMNIT no! This is making me tear up. Going to re-watch Death in Brunswick tonight. I reckon my date will be into it. She has good taste, and we need to pour one out for this legend.

If anyone's wondering, if you include the latest Microsoft layoffs, Game Industry Layoffs has now tracked approx. 46,700 known layoffs since 2022 publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/A...

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We killed Strahd. Took two calendar years to do it. Rest in piss, you old dead bitch. He asked “Are you really doing to die for all those tiny creatures down there?” & I replied “Someone is.”. Pictured: all my homies who hate Strahd: @euchrid.bsky.social @elissablack.com @travisjj.bsky.social & Rob

Lucas@lokified.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’ve been rolling so many 2s and 3s tonight, but I did fireball that fucker for 26 damage and blew his eyebrows off. He canonically used a legendary action to grow them back.

After two and a half years…. It’s Strahd-killin’ time!

Y'know what's great? This film. This film is great.

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

obviously we are all rooting strongly for the bin

I don’t know how it happened but my apartment is out of tonic water. Truly I have brought shame on my house and my ancestors.

Show me a cool physical game.

pc2000s@pc2000s.bsky.social · last mo.

Show me a cool physical game

It’s wild how friends of mine now hitting middle age who used to be into video games are dominantly into sport. Not a criticism. Just something I cluelessly thought wouldn’t happen to my generation.

Australian bagels are great if you want stale sandwich with a hole in it

Blog post: The Omni-Death of Gaming. Thoughts on the death of physical media and the many ways gaming as a hobby has lived and died before.

I’m not saying PlayStation retiring disc versions of games is the end of console gaming or something (PC survived the death of physical media) but it’s certainly the latest in a fucking conga line of reasons why I’m falling out of love with gaming.

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

legit lol

Sebas@ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · last mo.

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

My upstairs neighbour has the same alarm tone as me and sets their alarm time to the same as mine. It’s very disconcerting.

Me, while drinking a coffee: “Damn, I could really use a coffee.”

"the only way we get new and exciting artistic thing is if my old thing gets a cut" - the guy that has a thing, 202X www.gamedeveloper.com/business/tim...

Epic CEO says connecting game economies is industry's only hope

To be successful, you must connect your game economies, says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.

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GTA VI is up for pre-order in my timezone. Nice! Except, y'know, there's no physical edition, really. And pre-ordering gives you... the ability to pre-load it in early November. And they're not exactly going to run out of digital copies so... why bother until closer to November?