This week, I'm participating in the Games That Ace It! Steam Festival as a live streamer! I'm going live 10/27, 10/29, and 10/30 on YouTube and @altstream.online! All listed times are in EST! Come hang out and play some cool stuff by asexual developers and with asexual characters! #GamesThatAceIt
learning that the legendary "creator's wife with mobility loss" who everyone says ~inspired~ Dressmaker is in fact a co creator and developer for the game and also they are not even married
I am really struggling writing this review but also I'm ~1500 words in so I must be doing something correctly. I want to go a bit more in-depth by talking about specific plot points, but I'm not used to doing so and this one's hard to do that with!
Pell-loween. yeagh sorry i ain't got a good pun reposted
As ever, three quarters of "look at this asshole" is always "look at this".
Don't do PR for the fash. Don't give free advertising to the worst bastards. There is no dunk witty enough to warrant amplifying their hate.
Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy
Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr
I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!
Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy
Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr
I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!
finally got my first piece of actually helpful feedback on my writing, someone who wasn't afraid to say "hey the romance in this route sucks and here's why", thank god
i know my romance writing isn't good, it was literally my first time ever! pampering me will not help me improve!
I didn't want to do that! I had a problem that we were cutting the story after 3 days instead of 5, and I was struggling with a cliffhanger! I did that poorly! Please call me out on that! I wasn't entirely sure how to solve these problems! It sucks!
Feedback like this hurts a bit because it's like, yeah, you're right, you're seeing all the flaws I saw in it too! But then, I'd rather someone give me the feedback because otherwise it's like pareidolia and I never know if it's actually wrong or people are being unreasonably nice.
finally got my first piece of actually helpful feedback on my writing, someone who wasn't afraid to say "hey the romance in this route sucks and here's why", thank god
i know my romance writing isn't good, it was literally my first time ever! pampering me will not help me improve!
Like yes, you're totally right, i *should* have had the characters do more on their date, but it was meant to be slapdash and not have them spend much time together because it was supposed to be part of a larger narrative about struggles with vulnerability! However, since we didn't get that (cont.)
I should have changed the way that date read to be more explicit that she's keeping you at arm's length, or had the date be more of a real date, keeping it in limbo did nothing for anyone!
You're right, I did have another character exposit about her to you in a big monologue!
This week, I'm participating in the Games That Ace It! Steam Festival as a live streamer! I'm going live 10/27, 10/29, and 10/30 on YouTube and @altstream.online! All listed times are in EST! Come hang out and play some cool stuff by asexual developers and with asexual characters! #GamesThatAceIt
Writing thing on my end: I actually fucking hate blank slate protagonists. I know I just wrote one, it wasn't my choice. I'll never do it again if I have a choice. I think being able to use the state of the POV character as part of the narrative framework makes it better, outright.
If you have to write around the possibility of the POV being anyone rather than a specific character, you miss a lot of room for characterization from other characters, too, not just the protagonist. You will not catch me writing a soulless husk unless that's literally the point.
By contrast I think customizable protags are neat, Money for Girls was good because Cancer was a good combination of bespoke protagonist and customizable. They're a lot of work, though, because you've got to account for every combination of options.
Pell-loween. yeagh sorry i ain't got a good pun reposted
for literally five years straight even. but what do I know, I'm sure the big sites are just too occupied with other equally progressive and artistically vital games coverage
I'm going to go back to unfollowing people who repost shit from Twitter and share shit from fascists. You're helping them spread their propaganda, stop doing that. Seriously. You're making everything worse and you think you're not but you **absolutely are.**
Pell-loween. yeagh sorry i ain't got a good pun reposted
hi @itch.io , it's been almost two months since i first filed a ticket about my account 8190cdlx, which was flagged without explanation after i created it. i won't be able to submit the jam entry i've been working on in time for the jam because of this.
previous husband horror story. was at a bus stop on my way home chatting with another black lady about where I'm from and where i live. I mentioned that i'm not from ohio and that i was married and we lived in parma.
I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive
ladies, is your programming
- a field dominated by rich white men
- driven by fashion trends
- practiced as a demonstration of status
- funded by vanity projects for failsons
- filled with queers trying and failing to break even
that's art, sorry
I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive
During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it:
IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!
A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women.
www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...
I'M GIVING AWAY 40 ⭐FREE⭐ COPIES OF MY PAID PROJECTS TO CELEBRATE LULA WINNING AND THE POWER OF THE BRASILIAN PEOPLE
ONE NOVEL AND ONE GAME, BOTH RELEASED WITH THE HELP OF OTHER BRASILIAN CREATIVES, ALL QUEER, ALL HUMAN!
itch.io/c/8387089/fr...
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Hey, just a tiny heads-up, I'm gonna remake the festival stream schedule graphic tomorrow, but due to Twitch's partnership with OpenAI for that tool jam, I am once again not using that platform to stream. We're going ahead with the plan to use @altstream.online! My link is altstream.online/pell :D
saw this on the discord: a list of japanese royalty-free background artists who don’t use gen ai in their workflow.
fusetter.com/tw/qlJIUEHE
should be very helpful for many developers.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24
📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
NON BRASILIANS FROM BSKY WE NEED YOU TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE.
THERE'S A COUP D'ETAT HAPPENING IN BRASIL RIGHT NOW!
THE PEOPLE POWER GOT SO STRONG THEY TOOK DIRECT ACTIONS TO SABOTAGE THE ELECTIONS
SPREAD. THE WORD. NOW.
WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE
LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.