writer and games guy. stuff to read on my blog! sometimes not here but usually not dead. making you shiver with @rachel_gmad. thanks for coming! he/they

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Out now! Chiaroscuro Imago - a short, narrative-driven horror game about bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. 🐝📞🍯 howling-stars.itch.io/chiaro…
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Please, if you can spare anything, do what you can to help @rachel_gmad get away from her horrifically abusive family. If you can't afford to donate, please share as far as you can. She's the love of my life and she's endured more suffering than anyone can know. Help her escape.
1 Mar 2025
i'm starting a gofundme to help me get out of my current living situation, with my fucked up holocaust denying QAnon family. if you can help me out it would mean the world. thank you gofund.me/61e1ea3b
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ALSO: If you happen to live in (or in the vicinity of) Kansas City and would be willing to open a room to her and her small dog, please get in touch with her. If you don't, but know anyone who does, it would mean the world if you could put them in contact. Thank you so much.
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i think this uses the same sample as the opening of our game??
8 Nov 2024
Replying to @jaxonloid
WTF HAPPENS IN PIGLETS BIG GAME 😭
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men shouldn't be allowed to watch the substance (2024)
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please do not skip playing silent hill 1
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reckon i’ll be off twitter and on something else soon. i guess that’d be bluesky? don’t think i’ll be much more enthusiastic about being there but this place declined below my minimum tolerance level months ago & now it just feels like a horse kicking me in the head
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3 Nov 2024
I tried playing the Ubisoft NFT game. The entire game has been unplayable since Friday. Allegedly, a malicious player has found a way to win every single match before the game even begins. Also he is somehow the only person anyone ever matches against.
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i stopped and looked up this person's account thinking they might've responded to this in some way and it really put into perspective how rabid folks get about dumb tumblr posts. totally innocuous type of irksome text resulting out of typical circumstances. why bother to complain
Easily one of the Worst Posts Of All Time and is the absolute worst when it comes to “this style”. However it becomes 10x worse when you realize they posted that Reaction Image in response to themselves
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see also: the lost context of reaction image being added a year later. just feels like someone had a laugh to themselves about a post they didn't remember writing. everyone coming up with an alternate explanation for its existence sounds dumber than what they're mocking
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"people on tumblr have an inflated image of their own writing capabilities amidst a community filled with people who have extremely low standards for literature" is a correct thing to say. however i have unfortunate news about the site you're currently using
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Not to be a total nerd, but “Wanderer Above the Sea Fog”, an icon of romanticism, and “Christina’s World”, an icon of realism, are so fundamentally different in the feelings they illicit that it could be even argued the latter is a rebuttal to the former
31 Oct 2024
I will not elaborate
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clips of the new dragon age game keep reminding me of how dire fantasy dialogue is getting. feels like nobody wants (or is allowed) to have people sound weird or different or as occupants of an alien time. immediately lays waste to half the possibilities of the genre
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i'm not saying you need entire conlangs or a major background in linguistics but at least Have An Idea. any idea! have some characters speaking anglish. embrace the possibility of players accruing a unique cultural understanding. throw in a kenning every now and then, as a treat
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i have no real experience with bioware games but my general estimate is that mass effect and dragon age are way, way closer than they ought to be. i should not be able to imagine Commander Shepard having a coherent conversation with any of these people
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just broke our television in front of all my cinephile friends after someone asked to watch Hausu, M.D.
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Playing Nintendo DS under the covers and quickly closing it when my landlord comes in to make sure I’m asleep
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will never shut up about how fucking gutting it is that a genuinely great wholly original film for adults - that may very well be the last movie from a living legend - is being buried so hard that not only can 90% of the country not see it, but most also don’t even know it exists
Clint Eastwood’s final film ‘JUROR #2’ is now playing in under 50 theaters nationwide. The film will not be getting a wider theatrical release.
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a defining element of joe biden's presidency for me has been the search for answers
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