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Something I love to do in my writing is to make antagonists reveal something personal early on so the protagonist can weaponize it and taunt them with it during later confrontations. Players can have a little toxicity, as a treat!

Daily life of Ordo Mediare Armed Sisters #3 "Jesus Christ! Why do I always have to wake up by these noisy jackdaws? How I love watching you poor nuns train so hard every day, with all these shabby equipment."

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Robin (Fire Emblem Awakening) becoming corrupted by the Grima dragonstone (in her Fell Tactician form in Fire Emblem Heroes) and becoming possessed by Grima 🥰🫣 From June 2025 rewards

Let's extend that to all digital licenses, not just games. Adobe should be required by law to allow me to download the version of Illustrator I bought from the student bookstore in college with my employee discount from the campus newspaper.

people who get super aggro and holier-than-thou about metric are so fucking annoying. like honestly i get it if you hate america but at least hate us for something that matters and find something less lame to care about.

Trans people get called extremists for saying “hey don’t watch a wizard tv show.” Meanwhile people out here literally calling for legislative bans on our existence are propped up as feminist icons. Really just shows how those who make people uncomfortable or disrupt consumption are vilified.

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners