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it's elsie! ✦ it/they/she ✦ 🔞ΘΔ⚧️✨ (game)dev/3D artist in the UK. kidfur puppy angel inside your computer, late 20s, sometimes early 10s i like games & making them & thinking lots about them you must love at all costs! icon by @cordyceptic.bsky.social

I think another thing about that Globe bar article that strikes me the most is that like, having lived in the UK and in a city with a shitton of pubs/bars, literally every single one has its own share of messy drama and stories. But we don't care about those for some reason

I didn't turn down defence and police work at the risk (and actualisation) of unemployment my whole career just for some cozy millenials to beg and plead that their $150k Raytheon salary was the only option they could take

I don't go as hard on the guro stuff as my contemporaries but when I was 16 I saw an image of like a tied up bound dog boy getting their chest cut open and people making fun of him for being into it and if I'm being real with you I've thought about it once a week for over a decade since

If there's an issue I would point to re: modern social media it's that the media part overrides the social part every single time, and I think if you know anything about theory of media, you can immediately understand why this is a bad thing.

the more unfinished projects you have the better. the bigger your graveyard the more strange zombies you can sew together from the body parts. do not feel self-conscious about it. just keep making.

I think wrt that Globe article about the queer bar and the history of youtubers harassing random queer people under the guise of "documenting fandom drama" people gotta be a little more critical about the fact that the magnifying glass you're putting people under is in fact burning them alive

Pronoun Palace has been very inspiring because being blunt I just didn't expect just how well the gameplay concept would marry the text of the game. The entire mechanic orienting around what words are acceptable and the incentives that push you towards particular types of words is just *mwah*

alan hazelden virtue signaling about how much more inclusive he is than jon blow is really funny. were you uplifting marginalized voices when you allowed your coworkers to strongarm you into using your position as indie puzzle game community leader to bar me from the genre entirely

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

EZRA KLEIN: Umm so I heard that there is uh maybe the potential for you to harm the minds of some kids maybe. D-do you think this is true or are you awesome JENSEN HUANG: It's true —— and we will be rolling out the Kid Brain Soupifier tomorrow EZRA KLEIN: Wowww. Just amazing. We live in future