Piper Thunstrom

Some little indie rag wrote about #iHunt? NBD but you should check this out.

It never ends. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Indeed, 🖖

Started watching Project Hail Mary and I’m fucking delighted, I had no idea I was about to watch Jim Henson’s Arrival

HYPNOSPACE OUTLAW ANNOUNCEMENTS!! 1. Hypnospace on iPhone and Android, July 23! 2. Possible live Hypnospace concert experience! 3. New merch!! Thread w/ links and more deets below!

A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

My PyCon talk is up on youtube: I try to teach the fundamentals of CSS and show off a bunch of neat features in 30 minutes. Written for folks who never properly learned it, so if you're new to web dev and can make a proper style tag, it might help you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEs...

Trans rights are human rights, no matter what the bigots on the Supreme Court may say.

Today I was discussing Executive Dysfunction with some folks, and how in our household we call it "The Sits" I decided to make an info poster. It's based on my personal experience with it. Yes, the person is me 😆 #neurodivergent #memes #executivedysfunction

Summer sale started!! Squeakross: Home Squeak Home AND The Spirit and the Mouse are on sale until July 9! Here are the links: Squeakross Steam: s.team/a/2871440 Squeakross Itchio: alblune.itch.io/squeakross-home-squeak-home The Spirit and the Mouse: s.team/a/1679210

I'm doing #SteamNextFest write ups over on mastodon. I won't be cross posting them, but if you're interested, the thread starts here: ngmx.com/@pathunstrom... (Mostly, if I posted it, I found it interesting or surprising.)

Destiny 2 devs bid farewell to the game they spent a decade making aftermath.site/destiny-2-deve...

This was perfection

ICYMI: There’s a new @humblebundle.com from @nostarchpress.bsky.social with 15 #Python related titles!! Grab ‘Python: the Good Stuff’ for just $36 and a percentage of the proceeds goes to supporting the PSF 💝🐍 www.humblebundle.com/books/python...

I was told for two years straight that putting demos in your pipeline was an unreasonable and infeasible practice yet every game I'm interested in for these announcements has a demo. interesting!

For the good of the entire open source community and all open source contributors, these people need to be sued into the ground

I painted the trans sea.

Final Fantasy VII and Silent Hill 2 are the two most overrated games of all time, and despite them being good games, neither is the best entry in its series and neither warrants the absurd praise it's gotten over the decades.

Yellow paint/tape was a smart way to direct player attention to interactable items and parts of the environment without breaking immersion.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

You ever just play a game written by a friend? That shit's the best.

There's this rule in Swords Without Master that is kind of a big deal, because it breaks traditional GMing advice.† It's why I'm skeptical about #ttrpg aphorisms and give the side-eye to most anything purporting to be a universally good GMing tip.

Whoever told everyone that the TIE in TIE fighter stood for twin ion engine was so full of shit It's clearly called that because you need to be into shibari to pilot one

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

I desperately need to mute the phrase "during Covid." Or even worse, "back during Covid." It's still out there making people seriously ill, so I guess you mean back in those long ago days of .... RIGHT FUCKING NOW?

You know, have you actually read #iHunt or the companion RPG? I realize a lot of my Bluesky followers don't know me from that. You really should. We're doing so much with it. Right now, we're shopping both TV and film projects and we're in talks with some REALLY cool people about it.

When I want to get nerds especially wound up I make the point that all science fiction is actually fantasy. And then to wind up everyone else, I point out that all fiction is actually fantasy.

why do all the apps now have to act like the creepy guy who interrupts you at the library to ask you what you’re reading, who wants this

no gods no kings no masters no LLM contributions please

From raw SQL to full ORMs — find the right database abstraction for your workflow! Join Mario Munoz at #PyConUS 2026 for the tutorial "SQL, Mappers, and ORMs: Database Abstractions in #Python" on May 13th 🗄️ us.pycon.org/2026/schedul... Register now: us.pycon.org/2026/account...

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Python Tip #111 (of 365): Don't use the __class__ attribute. 🧵 To get the name of any object's class, you can use: type(my_obj).__name__ You might occasionally see this instead: my_obj.__class__.__name__ I don't recommend that approach. #Python #DailyPythonTip

an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”

but they don't love wlw romance. it's a very big problem in publishing. straight women hate wlw in fiction in a similar way to straight men hating mlm in fiction.

Design concept for game that we ended up going in a different direction for but I like this art I made so I'm posting it✨🍄

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...