Emilia
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox, currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Organizer, Roguelike Celebration (and formerly !!con). Disabled (ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent.
https://lazerwalker.com
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https://lazerwalker.com
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I’ve crossed an odd threshold, where a specific pain/discomfort I’m dealing with (that spans both musculoskeletal issues and digestive issues in a way that western medicine is particularly bad at) is more satisfyingly explained by qigong than either my specialist PT or my western chronic illness doc
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ve crossed an odd threshold, where a specific pain/discomfort I’m dealing with (that spans both musculoskeletal issues and digestive issues in a way that western medicine is particularly bad at) is more satisfyingly explained by qigong than either my specialist PT or my western chronic illness doc
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I do not love that six years into a global pandemic the general widely held consensus is that if you don’t want to consent to getting exposed endlessly your only choice is to basically be a solitary weirdo loving in isolation from even your family.
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I do not love that six years into a global pandemic the general widely held consensus is that if you don’t want to consent to getting exposed endlessly your only choice is to basically be a solitary weirdo loving in isolation from even your family.
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thank you, Mr. President
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
thank you, Mr. President
Annual Christmas tradition of being surprised by the transphobic joke in Love, Actually
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Annual Christmas tradition of being surprised by the transphobic joke in Love, Actually
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Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
Happy Almost Christmas Means It Wasn’t Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Happy Almost Christmas Means It Wasn’t Christmas!
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ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
Cinco Paus by Michael Brough
Available for Windows, macOS
smestorp.itch.io
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
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Have yourself an Animerica Christmas... 🎶
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Have yourself an Animerica Christmas... 🎶
Okay the part of Emily in Paris Season 5 where they literally sit down and reminisce about “hey, remember how good Season 1 was?” is extremely funny
December 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Okay the part of Emily in Paris Season 5 where they literally sit down and reminisce about “hey, remember how good Season 1 was?” is extremely funny
In 7th grade English class, we read A Christmas Carol and essentially had to write “what happened next” fanfic.
All I remember is the guy in my class whose story contained the sentence “now that he was older, there was NOTHING tiny about Tiny Tim”
All I remember is the guy in my class whose story contained the sentence “now that he was older, there was NOTHING tiny about Tiny Tim”
December 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In 7th grade English class, we read A Christmas Carol and essentially had to write “what happened next” fanfic.
All I remember is the guy in my class whose story contained the sentence “now that he was older, there was NOTHING tiny about Tiny Tim”
All I remember is the guy in my class whose story contained the sentence “now that he was older, there was NOTHING tiny about Tiny Tim”
Welp, woke up Christmas Eve to a hobby project server being down because… the *nameservers* were returning SERVFAIL?
I’ve enjoyed Hover as my domain registrar for over a decade, and have no plans to switch domain hosting, but am absolutely no longer trusting them for DNS.
I’ve enjoyed Hover as my domain registrar for over a decade, and have no plans to switch domain hosting, but am absolutely no longer trusting them for DNS.
December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Welp, woke up Christmas Eve to a hobby project server being down because… the *nameservers* were returning SERVFAIL?
I’ve enjoyed Hover as my domain registrar for over a decade, and have no plans to switch domain hosting, but am absolutely no longer trusting them for DNS.
I’ve enjoyed Hover as my domain registrar for over a decade, and have no plans to switch domain hosting, but am absolutely no longer trusting them for DNS.
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hrt won’t turn you into an anime waifu, but it will make you look like your mother. and i’d really like to fuck your mother. so take the fucking hormones.
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
hrt won’t turn you into an anime waifu, but it will make you look like your mother. and i’d really like to fuck your mother. so take the fucking hormones.
do you think Balrog from Street Fighter is tired of having to explain he doesn’t speak Sindarin
December 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
do you think Balrog from Street Fighter is tired of having to explain he doesn’t speak Sindarin
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This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️
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I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
Apple rejected my app for being “spam”. Why the fuck do I bother spending my absurdly limited time and energy building things for iOS.
lmao, I built my own and it slaps. Gonna submit to the App Store after some more testing.
The home screen widget I added showing my total time for the day is a surprisingly strong motivator.
The home screen widget I added showing my total time for the day is a surprisingly strong motivator.
December 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Apple rejected my app for being “spam”. Why the fuck do I bother spending my absurdly limited time and energy building things for iOS.
Was just thinking about The History Boys, a play (and film) that literally set records for the number of Tony Awards it got, but also has a message of “as long as you’re beloved by your high school students for teaching them invaluable life lessons, you’ll be forgiven for fondling them a bit”
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Was just thinking about The History Boys, a play (and film) that literally set records for the number of Tony Awards it got, but also has a message of “as long as you’re beloved by your high school students for teaching them invaluable life lessons, you’ll be forgiven for fondling them a bit”
prompt: write a heartbreaking short story in 9 words
the hobonichi store:
the hobonichi store:
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
prompt: write a heartbreaking short story in 9 words
the hobonichi store:
the hobonichi store:
There are 23 apps on my iOS home screen. ~8 are system apps or equivalent (e.g. Google Maps instead of Apple). Of the remaining 15, 4 are 'my' apps (3 self-built apps not on the App Store, one OSS fork using my own bundle ID).
New Year's resolution: increase the number of personal apps.
New Year's resolution: increase the number of personal apps.
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
There are 23 apps on my iOS home screen. ~8 are system apps or equivalent (e.g. Google Maps instead of Apple). Of the remaining 15, 4 are 'my' apps (3 self-built apps not on the App Store, one OSS fork using my own bundle ID).
New Year's resolution: increase the number of personal apps.
New Year's resolution: increase the number of personal apps.
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
The physical pain I’m in today is thankfully only like 1/10, but not knowing which of multiple plausible underlying causes I’m dealing with (which would have drastically different treatment plans) is driving me up a wall. I’m so tired.
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The physical pain I’m in today is thankfully only like 1/10, but not knowing which of multiple plausible underlying causes I’m dealing with (which would have drastically different treatment plans) is driving me up a wall. I’m so tired.
A witch gesturing to her cat familiar sniffing all of her ritual ingredients and explaining "ah yes, my spell checker"
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A witch gesturing to her cat familiar sniffing all of her ritual ingredients and explaining "ah yes, my spell checker"
LRT: a way I am increasingly viewing life is an unending process of learning to slowly unclench all of the parts of you curling inward to prevent you from sharing love to and from the universe.
Feeling cringe at putting your bad art in the world feels like a particularly strong and sad clench.
Feeling cringe at putting your bad art in the world feels like a particularly strong and sad clench.
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
LRT: a way I am increasingly viewing life is an unending process of learning to slowly unclench all of the parts of you curling inward to prevent you from sharing love to and from the universe.
Feeling cringe at putting your bad art in the world feels like a particularly strong and sad clench.
Feeling cringe at putting your bad art in the world feels like a particularly strong and sad clench.
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This is a quote from JA Westenberg that I heard via a video essay, titled "Bitterness as a crutch" by Mickey Galvin.
Sorry I had to screengrab since it's a bit long.
Sorry I had to screengrab since it's a bit long.
December 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is a quote from JA Westenberg that I heard via a video essay, titled "Bitterness as a crutch" by Mickey Galvin.
Sorry I had to screengrab since it's a bit long.
Sorry I had to screengrab since it's a bit long.