Elaine
@actuallythemoon.bsky.social
Moon goblin from the mirror dimension
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· Nov 7
You're Not Actually Supposed To Die (At The Tournament Of Death) by Actually The Moon
A Comedy About Being Stuck In A Submarine; Hurtling Towards Death
actuallythemoon.itch.io
"When I said It's ok to be cringe I didn't mean like that" a combat-less mumblecore soulslike where nothing happens bit.ly/cringebit
"You're not actually supposed to die (At The Tournament of Death)" a comedy about dying in a submarine bit.ly/ynastdattod
And other games @ actuallythemoon.itch.io
"You're not actually supposed to die (At The Tournament of Death)" a comedy about dying in a submarine bit.ly/ynastdattod
And other games @ actuallythemoon.itch.io
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“MTG’s latest stunt is a gift to white weenies” could literally be either
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“MTG’s latest stunt is a gift to white weenies” could literally be either
The greatest testament to how well State Champs capture that 00s pop punk vibes, is that whenever they come up on my playlists I have to go back and google to remind myself if they got any Allegations.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The greatest testament to how well State Champs capture that 00s pop punk vibes, is that whenever they come up on my playlists I have to go back and google to remind myself if they got any Allegations.
I know this post's worry is rightfully about something else but ALSO I absolutely shudder about the bedbug spreading risk that this setup brings to the table.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I know this post's worry is rightfully about something else but ALSO I absolutely shudder about the bedbug spreading risk that this setup brings to the table.
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your game isn't in competition with tik tok in the same way it's not in competition with huffing glue or eating drywall
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
your game isn't in competition with tik tok in the same way it's not in competition with huffing glue or eating drywall
It's kinda funny to play the mtg Avatar collab set, while never having watched a single minute of the show.
About half the cards are some form of Old Guy, sometimes the old guy is angry, other times he's very buff. At this point I'm assuming the show is set in a retirement home.
About half the cards are some form of Old Guy, sometimes the old guy is angry, other times he's very buff. At this point I'm assuming the show is set in a retirement home.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's kinda funny to play the mtg Avatar collab set, while never having watched a single minute of the show.
About half the cards are some form of Old Guy, sometimes the old guy is angry, other times he's very buff. At this point I'm assuming the show is set in a retirement home.
About half the cards are some form of Old Guy, sometimes the old guy is angry, other times he's very buff. At this point I'm assuming the show is set in a retirement home.
This is true.
But what it's also true is that if you relentlessly cater to the people who spend their time at the cinema looking at their phone, you get the century of Marvel movies and netflix algorhytmd shows.
It might make sense Financially. But it's artistically bankrupt.
But what it's also true is that if you relentlessly cater to the people who spend their time at the cinema looking at their phone, you get the century of Marvel movies and netflix algorhytmd shows.
It might make sense Financially. But it's artistically bankrupt.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is true.
But what it's also true is that if you relentlessly cater to the people who spend their time at the cinema looking at their phone, you get the century of Marvel movies and netflix algorhytmd shows.
It might make sense Financially. But it's artistically bankrupt.
But what it's also true is that if you relentlessly cater to the people who spend their time at the cinema looking at their phone, you get the century of Marvel movies and netflix algorhytmd shows.
It might make sense Financially. But it's artistically bankrupt.
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Seems like metroid... is not in its Prime anymore!
Oof. 😢
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seems like metroid... is not in its Prime anymore!
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need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out"
no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
need to kill the recurring thought of "no I can't replay/reread that, I have other stuff to check out"
no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
no. I am a poor little peasant living just after the advent of the printing press. I have five books at most and I will reread them so much they will know the death of the author was caused by me
People complain a lot about the YouTube algorithm, but I can at least appreciate that sometimes that website randomly goes "Would you like to watch 2000's Vader vs Kenta Kobashi in AJPW this morning?", cause I very much would, and turns out it was pretty good.
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
People complain a lot about the YouTube algorithm, but I can at least appreciate that sometimes that website randomly goes "Would you like to watch 2000's Vader vs Kenta Kobashi in AJPW this morning?", cause I very much would, and turns out it was pretty good.
What always struck me about The Game Awards™ is that, for something that's ostensibly meant to be "Industry Awards", 90% of the categories are a child's concept of what a "Video Game Award" would be.
Zero technical categories. No things like "best barks" or whatever. Just 90s game magazine slop.
Zero technical categories. No things like "best barks" or whatever. Just 90s game magazine slop.
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What always struck me about The Game Awards™ is that, for something that's ostensibly meant to be "Industry Awards", 90% of the categories are a child's concept of what a "Video Game Award" would be.
Zero technical categories. No things like "best barks" or whatever. Just 90s game magazine slop.
Zero technical categories. No things like "best barks" or whatever. Just 90s game magazine slop.
The greatest flaws of nerdy leftists is to consistently overestimate how progressive Kojima is by a truly wild margin
Gross tbh. Zerocalcare is a GIANT, and he actually spent time in war zones to understand human stories, instead of writing centrist conspiratorial nonsense where the baddie is called EVIL MAN. kotaku.com/hideo-kojima...
Hideo Kojima Throws Cartoonist Under The Bus After Controversy
The Death Stranding 2 director wanted to correct 'misunderstandings' on social media
kotaku.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The greatest flaws of nerdy leftists is to consistently overestimate how progressive Kojima is by a truly wild margin
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If you feel the need to have Bondinuity, just pan across the blasted landscape, then suddenly he digs himself out from the dirt, dusts himself off, and says "I bet this never happened to the other fella."
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you feel the need to have Bondinuity, just pan across the blasted landscape, then suddenly he digs himself out from the dirt, dusts himself off, and says "I bet this never happened to the other fella."
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If GenAI was truly “inevitable” and “the future,” you wouldn’t have rich executives putting out statements like this again and again. They know how unpopular it is (even as they’re ignorant of it crumbling around them), and keep trying to browbeat us into accepting it. They won’t succeed.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If GenAI was truly “inevitable” and “the future,” you wouldn’t have rich executives putting out statements like this again and again. They know how unpopular it is (even as they’re ignorant of it crumbling around them), and keep trying to browbeat us into accepting it. They won’t succeed.
Most impressive character on the other hand is 100% Kira, for fucking both the Pope and the President in the span of one season.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Most impressive character on the other hand is 100% Kira, for fucking both the Pope and the President in the span of one season.
Fun times getting my blood drawn
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Fun times getting my blood drawn
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technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
I have posted about this before, but the constant idea that the "video game canon" is what X demographic was playing as a kid, is something horrifically absurd.
Both when American Nintendo kids do it, and when contrarians go "actually non-americans were playing something else as kids 🤓☝️"
Both when American Nintendo kids do it, and when contrarians go "actually non-americans were playing something else as kids 🤓☝️"
I will say again, Nostalgia is the Devil's Word when it comes to media, especially games. Like that word barely means what it's supposed to mean at this point and it's damaging our ability to communicate about the history of games.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I have posted about this before, but the constant idea that the "video game canon" is what X demographic was playing as a kid, is something horrifically absurd.
Both when American Nintendo kids do it, and when contrarians go "actually non-americans were playing something else as kids 🤓☝️"
Both when American Nintendo kids do it, and when contrarians go "actually non-americans were playing something else as kids 🤓☝️"
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I will say again, Nostalgia is the Devil's Word when it comes to media, especially games. Like that word barely means what it's supposed to mean at this point and it's damaging our ability to communicate about the history of games.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I will say again, Nostalgia is the Devil's Word when it comes to media, especially games. Like that word barely means what it's supposed to mean at this point and it's damaging our ability to communicate about the history of games.
when the cover letter is required
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
when the cover letter is required
Norwegian Squarespace just dropped
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Norwegian Squarespace just dropped
Anyhow to loop back to this, i'm gonna try to have chat GPT tell me to kill myself, and report back lol
Conflicted. On one hand the delusion machine is a shit technology. On the other, our society treats people going through depression so badly that "just go through it king" actually sounds like an upgrade
"It never once sent him a link to a suicide hotline" is a bleak way to criticize the machine
"It never once sent him a link to a suicide hotline" is a bleak way to criticize the machine
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Anyhow to loop back to this, i'm gonna try to have chat GPT tell me to kill myself, and report back lol
Worst part of this whole thing is how fucking isolating it is.
Most ppl already don't really wanna hear u complaining about ur life, but when you start going "well yea the industry i hyper-specialized in is basically collapsing and the few viable positions left are visa-locked" they just go ???
Most ppl already don't really wanna hear u complaining about ur life, but when you start going "well yea the industry i hyper-specialized in is basically collapsing and the few viable positions left are visa-locked" they just go ???
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Worst part of this whole thing is how fucking isolating it is.
Most ppl already don't really wanna hear u complaining about ur life, but when you start going "well yea the industry i hyper-specialized in is basically collapsing and the few viable positions left are visa-locked" they just go ???
Most ppl already don't really wanna hear u complaining about ur life, but when you start going "well yea the industry i hyper-specialized in is basically collapsing and the few viable positions left are visa-locked" they just go ???
I would say this is our punishment for the whole WWII thing, but that can't be it, cause Japan still gets to make video games.
Career killed by committing the greatest crime know to mankind (being italian)
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I would say this is our punishment for the whole WWII thing, but that can't be it, cause Japan still gets to make video games.
What's the opposite of the "Never kill yourself" meme?
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What's the opposite of the "Never kill yourself" meme?