Stanwixbuster

Stanwixbuster

@stanwixbuster.co.uk

Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Award-winning narrative game dev NWCDTP-funded PhD on non-commercial game communities + sustainability, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games

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new pinned #hi #hello I'm Stanley, narrative dev creating games that are satirical, horrifying, or queer, and sometimes all at once. I make games for exactly 3 people to lose their minds. You can support me on patreon if you like the sound of that www.patreon.com/Stanwixbuster

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FUCK your thermostatic public opinion, FUCK every shitlib who wrote us off, FUCK the state department, and especially FUCK every American social media company you can all SUCK MY DICK

no game has made me feel more like the gay best friend of a bunch of straight women than dressmaker. sat there going "no wayyyyyyy" as they go off on the local gossip while i put together a revenge dress for their shitty ex that is more implied than actually spoken of

i feel a point we're missing in all these people going "oh ai is terrible and bad and you shouldn't use it but /i/ still wanna use it and will" is that this is a white viewpoint

"i know all the theory of why this is bad but this will never actually affect me so i'm doing it anyway and crying about how torn up i am". go to the philippines and say that straight-faced to the person forced to live 4 feet from the datacentre that churned out all your code that doesn't work

it's possible to take any two random objects and reduce all of existence down to one or the other. this is because of the yin yang nature inherent in all things

everything is either a coat rack or a door. a monument is a coat rack. an app is a door. a table is an inverted coat rack. try this yourself it's fun

it was quite enlightening to go back through all the fictional women i gravitated to a kid and realising that i did not want to be them and instead wanted to be their gay best friend they carried around like a designer purse

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I think we need to reframe the use of genAI as consumption rather than creation. You are consuming a version of yourself-your labour, your desires-as a product. Like fast fashion and fast food, though, this overconsumption of the processed self is neither sustainable nor healthy

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in 2027 we're going to bring back "yelling at people because they won't follow you." we last did this 15 years ago on twitter but it's going to be even cooler now that we are all around 40 years old

i need to stress that this happened because we picked the "go for a new life" option as our FIRST CHOICE because we thought it would be funny. we only realised we were on the wrong route because we got stuck (finished it) and i kept finding walkthroughs with "incorrect" chapter names

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genuinely fascinated by the anachronistic choices in road to empress yet also what they decide to keep relatively historically accurate. i need to know so bad why the writers room stuck very hard to certain areas then just rule of cool'd the rest of it

going into a scene with a relatively realistic snap wedding of an administrator trying to marry his family into the emperor's clan while the main characters are wearing pop-collar hanfu that makes them look like anime protagonists that did not exist at literally any point in chinese history

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lesbians of the world, i can only hope that i have served as a stalwart accomplice in your journey to see & look at more women, as we happen to share this goal.