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"Level 0" Luke Rideout

@lukedrideout.bsky.social

Project Director at Beamdog | Production for Obsidian on Outer Worlds 2 & Avowed | MythForce, Baldur’s Gate & other EEs | Previously many other RPGs in Japan & Canada | Classic animation & '80s pop culture enthusiast | Cat dad | Level 0 NPC | 日本語OK

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"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · 2w ago

Katsu Curry for lunch at Dorinku Tokyo before I catch my last show of Edmonton Fringe. Love their curry here, it reminds me of ゴーゴーカレー (Go! Go! Curry) in Akihabara, near my old office. Just wish it was on their all day menu ‘coz getting here by 2pm is rough.

A plate of Japanese Katsu Curry with a thick brown curry, and juicy/crispy breaded pork cutlets over Japanese rice. There is shredded cabbage, pickles, and sweet tartar sauce arranged around the edges of the plate.
"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was poking around Thriftbooks and discovered "Total Recall", apparently by Piers Anthony (Yeah, that piers Anthony. The Xanth guy). Thought there must be a mistake because Total Recall is based on a Philip K. Dick short story but no, this is the book, based on the movie, based on the short story.

Total Recall book by Piers Anthony

Buy a cheap copy of Total Recall book by Piers Anthony. Douglas Quail is haunted by nightmares of Mars, covert missions and a life more glamorous than his earthbound 2089 AD reality. So he turns to Re...

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TrustedReveler@trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Most times when the orange cat yawns near me I poke my finger in his mouth bc funny. Today he yawned right in my face and I blew in his moth. He immediately sneezed in my open mouth. Just in case you were wondering how we’re getting along over here.

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

parkchanwoohoo Follow Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue werewolf-beans Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · 3w ago

Getting my live stage performance fix at Edmonton Fringe today. Caught “Colin Keeps it Fresh” with Blackground, Sketchy Broads “Resting Bitumen Face”, House of Hush’s “Between The Covers”, and about to finish my night with Gordon’s Big Bald Head.

A selfie of Luke in front of the Fringe signPoster for “Colin Keeps It Fresh”, an improv performance by Colin Mochrie, with a rotating cast of guest performers.Poster for House of Hush’s “Between the Covers” Burlesque show, featuring guest narrator Belinda Cornish.Poster for Sketchy Broads’s “Resting Bitumen Face”, an all-women sketch comedy show.
"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · 4w ago

I realize that this ending in Princess Maker: Children of Revelation is intended as a "Fail State" if you let your daughter loaf around at home too much, but I gotta say eating chips and reading books on a pile of soft pillows while cradling a giant chimichanga has a certain energy I can get behind.

One of the ending slides from the child-raising sim game Princess Maker: Children of Revelation, depicting the "Unemployed" end state that happens if the player opts to give their daughter too many rest days at home without any classes, jobs, or adventuring. In the image, the player's daughter lays sprawled out in very casual clothing on a few large pillows. Her hair is messy and tied up in a bun. In one hand she holds a book that she is reading while listening to music from what looks like a Mini-Disc player via wired earphones. She has a potato chip in her mouth and an open bag of chips near her hip. In her other arm, she cradles a large dakimakura (or hugging pillow) that resembles a large sausage or a chimichanga.
Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 4w ago

if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · 4w ago

In a marvelous confluence, my birthday directly overlaps Bandcamp Friday, so - in light of the continued enshittification of commercial streaming and how nobody is allowed to own anything anymore - I bought a couple albums on the day the money goes straight to the musicians. You should too!

A screenshot of a few music albums as they appear on a Jellyfin server. The albums, from left to right, top to bottom, are "Visions" by Muthi, "Taiga" by Kubbi, "Fragments" by Bonobo, "eat ya veggies" by bbno$, "Dark All Da"y by GUNSHIP, and "Black Halo" by Hybrid.
"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout.bsky.social · last mo.

一昔前の漫画が原作のアニメがブームしてる今、メジャーじゃないの解ってるけど「エンジェル伝説」のアニメ化とか作ってくれないかな～ってよく想う。 96年のOVAとかは2話だけで、漫画の第1巻の半分もない第4話のところで終わるし、もったいなさすぎると思う。滅茶苦茶面白いのに。自分が年に一回は読み返してるぐらい。 同じ八木先生のド真面目な「クレイモア」もアニメ化されたのに、絶妙なお笑いのセンスが表に出るエンジェル伝説ももっと知られてほしいし、アニメにはかなり向いていると思うし、もしものアニメ化によって漫画のほうも知名度上がったらすごくファンとして嬉しい。

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · last mo.

Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏

A screenshot from the itch page for the game industry hardship bundle, showing that more than thirteen thousand dollars has already been raised out of the total 100k goal