this game looks like if you tried to make Nier in second life and it was mostly Lesbians that wear Fox Racing gear to raves talking exclusively in riddles

“ME/CFS patients are similar to a critically ill patient 24 hours before they die, except they live like that for years and years.” Dr. Ron Davis, Stanford University
#MECFS #mecfsawarenessmonth #longcovid #longcovid kids

Jeeves was regrettably killed as a victim of the Butlerian Jihad

Training a neural network to produce the OpenAI logo as a way to avoid copyright infringement

RFK Jr getting a neurolink installed so his brainworm can play games on it

Wild how everyone who was “following the science” at the start of the pandemic just completely ignores the death & disability COVID is still causing.

fuck yes it’s tereré season

regular brain: the collective mass of microbiota living in and in your body is greater than that of “your own” cells

galaxy brain: the effect your gut microbiome has on your neurochemistry is so large, your core personality and behavior are fundamentally the result of symbiosis

📢 Attention adventurers 📢

Roguelike Celebration 2024 is happening!

October 19-20
online

Call for proposals is now open docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Probably the most interesting book store in Japan right now is Passage, in Tokyo's Jimbocho district. It is divided into roughly three locations, and is run as a co-op by hundreds of people. Anyone can be a co-manager by renting/leasing a shelf in one of the 123 'rue' (street),…

My favorite fact about Honkai Star Rail’s bonkers lore is they teased that a character named Duke Inferno — a literal ball of flame — might become playable, and then killed him off-screen, upsetting the hardcore lore nerds while casual players never even really knew he existed

I’m still dying for Apple to ship macOS on AS iPads. Disable touchscreen support and make me plug in a mouse, I don’t care, just let me dual-boot!

losing a competitive 1v1 eBay auction feels kind of amazing. not only do i not have to pay for the stupid thing i don't actually need, but i made my enemy (guy exactly like me) pay an extra $80 for it

My annual reminder as head of the CFP committee that we rarely reject talks for being “not roguelike enough”. My DMs are open if you want to chat about submissions.

roguelike.club/cfp.html

The Roguelike Celebration call for talk proposals is open! We’re once again virtual in October in our custom MUD.

We love talks about weird art, novel procgen techniques in non-roguelike games, aspects of roguelike fandom or community, you name it.

(link in next post)

Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house

Imagine being so bad at your job that you can't even envision a way to make 'masterful artists that consistently do critically acclaimed content and have worked together for years' profitable, after a single failure that you personally inflicted on them.

I take back the last decade of “I wish he’d mackle less” jokes