Girl games deserve so much better than Infinity Nikki. Girl games deserve to not be micro transaction exploitation hell scapes.

MY MUM, SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001: oh God. It's all too much
MY DAD: Jesus. Did you hear about the Pentagon
ME, SIX YEARS OLD, HAVING LEARNED MY SHAPES THAT MORNING: yes :)

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

I've played more of Astro Bot and honestly the thing this game makes clear for me the distinction between 'fun' and 'joy'. Astro Bot is 'fun' but it's completely joyless, a sort of hollow mechanical flow-state on-ramp that doesn't mean anything or say anything

i was streaming some figure drawing and a surprising amount of people were asking things like, "what is the goal of this study?" or "what are you trying to learn?"

but i didnt have an answer because im not always locked in 1000% when im studying. sometimes you're just getting your art reps in

Some more ink stuff 👍
Hello to all new followers and thanks for all the nice comments on the last stuff.