Hannah Flynn 🐀
@itshannahflynn.bsky.social
Communications Director at Failbetter Games. Lover of life's rich pageant.
It's almost like generating voluminous amounts of Stuff doesn't actually improve the process of Making Stuff
Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 13h agoHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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We've put together a short list of scary games for you, now the nights are getting longer. Some are on sale, some are even free! Enjoy!
Steam Publisher: Failbetter Games
As you might expect, we're all quite keen on unsettling games. From eerie and discomfiting up to outright horror, here are a few of our favourites. A few of them are even free!
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did anyone buy a nintendo alarmo? it's ludicriously expensive, is there anything that makes it worth it? (being able to wake my kid up with kirby music might be worth it, if it helps her get out of bed)
🎩🍰Call for tea and biscuits as Good Society 2nd edition is live upon the Kickstarter! 🍰🎩 We're back with more romance, scandal, and drama than ever. Come visit upon us and take a look at this Jane Austen rpg 💌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition
Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.
kickstarter.com
1732 THE YEAR OF THE VAMPIRE 12 books and four dissertations were written on the vampire in this year. Flückinger's Visum er Repertum (Seen or Discovered) documented a vampire outbreak in Serbia; a full scale vampire panic erupted & the term 'vampire' entered the English language #WyrdWednesday
Review: Genre-Hopping Sci-Fi Mystery 'Corru.Observer' Is Free, Intensely Cool and Runs in Your Web Browser
Genre-Hopping Sci-Fi Mystery 'Corru.Observer' Is Free, Intensely Cool and Runs in Your Web Browser
Mulder & Scully wish they were hacking into alien biocomputers
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i'm not the only member of the team with editorial duties, but one of the best parts of my job is getting to work with so many different spectacularly talented external writers (and introducing them, with apologies, to our horrible lore iceberg). a huge treat
Jeremy Peel@jeremypeel.bsky.social · 4d agoEvery month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...
The funniest/saddest reaction to this amazing article has been people going "wait, Stellaris has WRITERS?" Yes folks, if a game has words... someone probably got paid to write them... even if that game isn't an RPG or a visual novel...
Jeremy Peel@jeremypeel.bsky.social · 4d agoEvery month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...
"There's also Anna Anthropy—a legend in the field of text-based interactive fiction, who wrote September's The Poetry of God. A clearly personal work, it concerns a disabled academic who handles dangerous sigils with the same matter-of-fact fearlessness as she does her wheelchair."
Jeremy Peel@jeremypeel.bsky.social · 4d agoEvery month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...
📣NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! We’re excited to announce a new paid role with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. We’re looking for SOMEONE to join us as a Non-Executive Director… Could that SOMEONE be YOU?? 🫵 Full info here: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us
All true, but principally I'm reminded that we can say comemierdas
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 4d agoI'll say it again: WE DO NOT NEED THESE COMEMIERDAS AND THEIR WASTEFUL LYING POLLUTING COMEMIERDA COMPANIES FOR A SINGLE THING. The internet is us.
I enjoyed the comedy show I saw tonight but I think it solidifies my new personal rule not to see American comedians outside of the US I don't want your half baked shit about my culture, I want your perfectly tuned shit about YOUR culture
Visceral negative reaction to the reanimated voice of Gene Wilder in that fucking Wonka show
The local feller who only wears 100% historically accurate Regency clothing is at the Gianmarco Soresi show we may be about to witness a nuclear event in crowd work terms
Yeah yeah yeh yeah yeh put this on when it's dark, alone or with friends
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou@kanaratron.bsky.social · 4d agoHeads up for UK folks, The Substance just got added to BBC iPlayer.
I'm flattered to be mentioned alongside so many fantastic game writers! Everyone go and play Fallen London to experience these stories and so much more. @failbettergames.com
Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
These interactive short stories are too bold and surprising to stay secret.
pcgamer.com
Every month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...
Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
These interactive short stories are too bold and surprising to stay secret.
pcgamer.com
I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.
i think i'm going to break, finally, under the onslaught of vexatious cold approach emails i'm getting for absolutely bullshit services
Tickets are moving *slowly* for this. Which is fine. I'm not expecting it to sell out. But it'd be really nice to get a few more bums on seats between now and Oct 14. It'll be good, promise! Brighton game likers/devs, please share, tell yr pals, think positive thoughts, thank you.
Mike Diver@mikediver.bsky.social · 2w agoCome and listen to people talk about how they made very different Alien games at very different times of game development. Did license holders 'get' video games in the 90s? What had changed by the 2010s? Enjoy a tasty cocktail with the cost of entry, and play select Alien games. luma.com/p4pjgibd
Heads up! Only 25% of #AdvX26 tickets remain. Reserve your spot at the UK’s convention dedicated to narrative and adventure gaming! Grab your ticket now at buytickets.at/adventurexconferencescic/2339289. Find games and talks information, schedule and FAQs at adventurexpo.org.
The next stretch goal in the Good Society 2e kickstarter adds 5 connection cards, and I would LOOOOVE to get to draw them. Back it back it back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition
Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.
kickstarter.com