being trans rules actually and the only downsides are deliberately manufactured by cis people

A lot of effort ostensibly to prevent children from accessing online spaces when it was never the children's behavior that was reprehensible.

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE! By Gita Jackson Imprint: Mira Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable -as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Fiction: Romance April 21, 2026

Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

The UK is pretty proud of effectively eradicating rabies from the islands, and it kinda feels like some of them think they can treat certain issues as "social contagions" and achieve the same results.

If Metin Seven, Amon26 and Suda51 collaborated on a System 16 game that would be 💯

When a game provides lore, we should remember to include who in the game-world is saying it - @hollynielsen.bsky.social explains why.

For the full conversation visit: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Thinking a lot about live service games as palimpsests, each update and community movement a new change leaving traces of what was there before. Past versions can be inferred, but no longer exist. "Classic" versions are necessarily ahistorical reconstructions of a game since rendered impossible.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Neon pixel art of an amazon in a sleeveless leather top and miniskirt with a Y2K-style visible midriff. She has a huge blond pony updo and a big sword.

Pixel character portrait of a woman with a mess of brown hair, big, upturned blue eyes, and pursed, pouty-looking lips.

ASCII art of a a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman stretched out while a bloody dagger hovers over her midriff. She looks displeased about this.

Pixel screenshot of a woman in tattered brown rags being held between two Centurian-style soldiers while a king on a throne condemns her.

my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games.

link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”

America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Cover, with an ASCII illustration of a hand with long pink nails holding a blue 3.5" floppy disc. The label on the disc is the trans flag. Title: "Shareware Made Me Trans."

Grid showing the layout of the 24-page zine, plus front and back cover.

"Gallery of shareware amazons" featuring images of four women warriors from various games.

As a pre-teen author undergoing the incorrect puberty, my own ZZT games circled the same themes again and again, at first with a layer of distancing irony that slowly eroded like the mountain being pecked away by that bird in Hell: they were fetish games. They revolved around captured princesses, with bare feet and torn dresses, chained in ASCII dungeons, punished and degraded, threatened with torture and hardship and peril. These were, in essence, all manifestations of the submissive woman, the painslut and pillow princess I would eventually become, but could not yet admit to wanting to be, could not yet admit that such a thing could be wanted.

everyone is currently obsessed with *checks notes* a 1997 game called Moon Child. but did you know other weird games came out in the 90s? you can read about some of them in my new 24-page zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, coming to itch next week!

Fascistic and sexually censorious societies tend to devolve into this. Pornography is limited and banned, but advertising and political expression become highly sexual through repressed eroticism. You can see this through the increase in euphemisms and innuendos in today’s ad slogans

the medium of games is really special because unlike books, songs, or films, they can't be about anything

It was kind of them to make sure they stopped publishing anything of merit before they started erasing themselves from history.

obviously the cowardice of the baftas isn't limited to games but the abject chickenshittedness of platform holders to games like The Quiet Things and Horses feels to me like an echo of the backlash to the twine revolution

Also ECHO.
An *incredibly* ambitious debut game with absolutely peak aesthetics &
It has the slowest opening section in the world and can be challenging to love, but oh my god it's stuck in my brain & I'm not going to complain about it.

store.steampowered.com/app/551770/E...

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

Until/unless I get a "real job", Eldritch 2 is what I'm working on now. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a wishlist!

I've been documenting its development as a hobby project for the last two years over here: www.dphrygian.com/wordpress/?c...

great popular science fiction is always weirdly horny. there are no exceptions to this rule.

With the massive next episode of Azathoth Blues dropping tomorrow ("All The Best Cultists Have Daddy Issues"), here are things you can do to help:
- Rate the show on Spotify/Apple/etc.
- Review it
- Tell your friends about it
- Post in a relevant subreddit
- Like it on YouTube

Infograph about censorship. It compares it to magnets.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

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Moves of the Diamond Hand - out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

A drawing of a flame's silhouette with text inside it that reads "All you had to do was pay us enough to live".

Feels poignant.

What made the Metaverse so funny is that VR was always destined for Furries and anime avatar weirdos hanging out in an accurate recreation of a Waffle House and any attempt to extend that to normies was destined to fail.

WIT Studio Apologizes for Using Generative AI in Opening Sequence of Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3 Anime Studio will redraw cuts, replace opening sequence with "completed version" starting with 2nd episode

WIT Studio confirmed it had used generative AI in some cuts of the opening sequence of the new Ascendance of a Bookworm anime. The studio apologized, and is redrawing those cuts to release a new version of the OP with the 2nd episode.

Doki Doki Literature Club removed from Google Play over depiction of sensitive themes Publisher Serenity Forge is working to have the acclaimed visual novel reinstated.

Doki Doki Literature Club removed from Google Play over depiction of sensitive themes