Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

when u hate on a popular fandom and none of them care

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

how the Sonic hedgehog protein was named

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I used Wayback machine all the freaking time for my Wikipedia research--both to try to find info on old pages and to preserve existing ones for future reference. There's a helpful bot for that on Wikipedia.

office chair curling, the world's most anticipated office chair game of the year, is HERE!

Features:
- breathtaking realism
- office chairs
- a broom to sweep the ground
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that's it.

🏢🪑🥌 play.date/games/office-chair-curling/

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

Perfect Tides on Steam Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called is...

just finished @meredithgran.com’s game station to station and holy shit go play it if you haven’t. it is a pitch perfect evocation of being a teen in the ‘00s, and it’s so well written and SO full of Feelings (complimentary) store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

My college is hiring a full time game design faculty, with a strong union! please share around, link in reply.

$85k-100k Salary
Benefits and retirement matching
Design, Programming or Art disciplines
Seattle Area

if only

My hot take is that I think Hermes scarves are extremely ugly unless they're rolled up.

the best kind of dumpster diving

Kyoto Penguins Relationship Chart 2026｜Kyoto Aquarium The 2026 edition of our penguins relationship chart is finally here! It's fun, adorable, and as complicated as always!

You, an amateur: my polycule has shared Google calendars

The Kyoto Aquarium, professionals: here’s a flowchart of the relationships among 49 penguins and 11 humans

www.kyoto-aquarium.com/special/soka...

Aww sad. How did you discover her?

There's a huge blind spot of stuff that's not online. Weirdly a lot of it is 1980-2010 or so

Like idk I just find it INTERESTING that parenthood seems to be sold to men as a 'fun adventure with a new little best buddy' kind of like getting a dog but the dog can understand professional wrestling, but it's sold to women as painful and hard and un-fun but selfless, noble sacrifice for society.

games that ask you to play as a mother, to parent as a mother, that complicates and interrogates the experience of being a mother. i mean the material reason those games don't exist is because women do not often make it that high up in the hierarchy of game dev compared to men.

i think a good question to ask is: why aren't there any "mom games" but "dad game" is a defined genre

Ash's acceptable list of Mom games:
Venba
Silksong
Alien Isolation
Horizon Zero Dawn
Returnal

The legacy of Princess Maker 2 As someone who helped write a game about parenting, I have opinions about parenting games. It's difficult to combine fiddly statistics with...

Five years ago I wrote about three parenting games on my blog. What other cool parenting games have come out since then?

www.ludibin.com/2021/08/the-...

I've also contemplated the morning rush to get everyone ready and out the door as a tactical rpg! Surprise diaper bombs included

When my sister and I decided to make the dad the player character in Space to Grow, it was because we wanted guys and gals to feel comfortable playing the game. But we did end up reinforcing the focus on dads.

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists locusmag.com/2026/04...

Civilization games... I ain't got time for that

true 😢

sometimes our creative brains make things we can admire later and sometimes they are busy calming children or diverting them and this, too, is creative

Resources for building wonder, resilience, and compassion at home Create a culture of meaning and reflection at home with our lesson library and curriculum. We draw on modern science and ancient wisdom, you can be certain that your guidance will have a lasting influ...

Some of my grad school friends have been working on a family curriculum like for Mormon family night but an ecumenical moral instruction curriculum from wisdom literature upliftkids.org