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Kara Ling
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On break | Previously @PlayAdoptMe, @HypixelNetwork, HELIX | Made Become the Moon @FeldsparGames | 🏳️‍🌈
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Kara Ling @metacrab.org · Oct 2
Hey friends, I'm trans. My name is Kara and my pronouns are she/her. I've written a little more on the image (see alt text if needed). Otherwise, it's nice to meet you!
A screenshot text statement. The text is black on a neon green background. At the top, in bold letters. Hello. I'm Kara. It’s nice to meet you. Below, the body text: Hey friends, I'm trans. My name is Kara, my pronouns are she/her. If you know me this may be a surprise. Or not, that's also allowed. In short: I've known for quite some time and been out in private when needed. Overall things are good. I'm mostly happy. The world however, is a mess. So it goes. And it goes, and goes, and goes. It never stops going. Am I afraid? Sure, in increments. For myself, a little. I'm worried about my career, about violence, about restricted access to life-saving care, about the things people say quietly, about the things people say loudly. But I'm more worried about those more vulnerable, with less relative privilege than me, struggling against a seemingly relentless tide. Help them, however you can, please. "Coming out" is scary and cringe. It is a fundamental altering of the relationships between you and everyone you ever knew. Maybe one day we'll live in a world where this isn't 'a big deal'. "I moved house, I got a new job, I'm trans, I’m really into baking now. What's new with you?". To learn something this big about yourself later in life is a funny thing. Like finding new rooms in your home that were never on the floorplan, and now you get to explore and decorate them. You're telling me under this awful carpet there was pristine Victorian tile the whole time? Wow! If I know you and you have questions, feel free to message me. If you don't know "what to do", don't do anything, just continue. I am the same person as before. Despite everything, it's still me. I would like to extend a special thanks to the people who already knew and were really cool about it, especially in complex social and work situations. Thanks. — Kara Ling
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Top Ten games I played (for the first time) in 2025

Editor's Note: I played Blue Prince last year (was #2 on my 2024 list)
Top 10 1. The Roottrees Are Dead 2. OVER/UNDER 3. Hollow Knight: Silksong (with mods) 4. Scarlet Hollow 5. Despolete 6. Type Help 7. Expelled! 8. Nubby's Number Factory 9. Cabernet 10. The Seance of Blake Manor
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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These are the best new albums (and EPs) I listened to in 2025, in no particular order. Playlists in replies

"album of the year" is probably Trains Running Backwards by Hana Eid, which is wild because it only just came out. Swallow the Knife (Sir Chloe) + Precipice (Indigo De Souza) also great
best new albums 2025 in no particular order Trains Running Backwards - Hana Eid Noelle - Nep Is It Now? - Automatic Bleeds - Wednesday moisturizer - Wet Leg Swallow the Knife - Sir Chloe R is for Rocket - Rocket Are You Dreaming? - She's In Parties Navy Blue - Porch Light WE WERE JUST HERE - Just Mustard Super Pedestrian - Annie DiRusso When Are You Leaving? - NoSo Precipice - Indigo De Souza COSPLAY - Sorry DOGGOD - L.A. WITCH Altar - NewDad Welcome to My Blue Sky - Momma Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You - Ethel Cain Homesick - Flora from Kansas Eaves - Select All Dreams Go - POLIÇA tangible sphere - copperplate Fleeting - Unflirt Anamoly IV - Flawed Mangoes Some Like It Hot - bar italia 11:11 - Biig Piig The Longer This Goes On - Forth Wanderers System - Prewn Straight Line Was A Lie - The Beths Adult Romantix - Winter You Are The Morning - jasmine.4.t If Only You Knew - Blackwater Holylight Album cover for Trains Running Backwards by Hana Eid, featuring a blurry painting of a woman squatting in a vague nature scene while looking backwards
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Kara Ling
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are you jewish and do you think you can gather 2-5 players for TTRPG playtest that must take place in the next 48 hours? if so, send me a DM!
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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On launch of #Vanitera450 we ended the day with twice as many Cataphract orders as we processed. So we paused the game for a week and I built a bot that fully automates letter sending + delivery with correct node-based pathfinding for messenger NPCs. We've reopened for a few days, so far so good!
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I'm co-running a modified Cataphract game which starts in one week. It's a 'play-on-Discord' wargame set across two fantasy medieval continents and will run for 1 year realtime. We have 55 players(!!!) signed up but will need more, if you're interested let me know samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...
Cataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam Sorensen
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
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November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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For @samsorensen.bsky.social's #OVER/UNDER I created WEATHERVANE, an in-universe themed combat simulator. Using it, our faction was able to predict the outcome of any battle with a high degree of confidence. It helped us price mercenary contracts and go into any combat knowing the expected outcomes.
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Kinophobia is a good, free Search and Detect game. It's a touch rougher than the commercial ones but it also has the best hint system of any of them, no guides or joining discords required. If you enjoyed Roottrees or Type Help, play this! brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
brunodias.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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ANNOUNCING: i'm now available for pro-GMing w/ StartPlaying—play with an AP performer & award-winning game designer!

🎲 Mothership "A Pound of Flesh" sandbox campaigns weekly Mon @ 3pm ET
🎲 Mothership "Gradient Descent" one-shot Tue 11/25 @ 2pm ET
🎲 PLANET FIST one-shot Thu 11/20 @ 3pm ET

🔗s ⬇️🧵!
GM for Hire. GM Specialties: open-world gameplay, stylized character performances, and dynamic factions and NPC relationships. Includes info in the post, and then also on demand games like Orbital Blues, CBR+PNK, Fiasco, and Dialect, and "GM AS SEEN ON" A More Civilized Age, Role Playing Public Radio, Party of One, Plus One Exp, and more. Also includes a photo of me, and the invitation that if you want to play a different system or frequency at a listed time, just get in touch!
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The Seance of Blake Manor is a good new detective game. I'm already seeing people hit it with the hyperbole laser + throw around words like Obra and Dinn... just ignore, calibrate your expectations and enjoy store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
Save 10% on The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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watching over/under players learn the same lessons the blaseball community learned the hard way is deeply nostalgic.... we cross and re-cross our old tracks like figure skaters
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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‪I'm the Head of UX at YouTube and it's my job to ensure the UI is as big and slow as possible. Our latest revision (internally titled Colossal Sloth) is our biggest + slowest yet! Every time one of my reports pitches an improvement i make them write it on a post-it note then eat it during standup
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My doctor listens to the same film podcast as me and every time they read out one of her emails I forget and am shocked like "why does my doctor have such strong opinions about Tron Ares???"
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Strategically coming out over a year before the release of Supergirl (2026) so that nobody thinks I named myself after a DCU character. Now I only have to explain I've never seen Battlestar Galactica to people 🙏
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)
A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads. The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck. Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reposted by Kara Ling
gabrpulcinelli.bsky.social
HIII! I made the OST from "Become the Moon" a new Deck Builder game by Feldspar Games! It came out so nicely and you can now listen to the OST on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! :3

Bandcamp/Streaming Links:
becomethemoonost.carrd.co

#gameaudio #gamemusic #composer #indiegames #guitar
October 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Hey friends, I'm trans. My name is Kara and my pronouns are she/her. I've written a little more on the image (see alt text if needed). Otherwise, it's nice to meet you!
A screenshot text statement. The text is black on a neon green background. At the top, in bold letters. Hello. I'm Kara. It’s nice to meet you. Below, the body text: Hey friends, I'm trans. My name is Kara, my pronouns are she/her. If you know me this may be a surprise. Or not, that's also allowed. In short: I've known for quite some time and been out in private when needed. Overall things are good. I'm mostly happy. The world however, is a mess. So it goes. And it goes, and goes, and goes. It never stops going. Am I afraid? Sure, in increments. For myself, a little. I'm worried about my career, about violence, about restricted access to life-saving care, about the things people say quietly, about the things people say loudly. But I'm more worried about those more vulnerable, with less relative privilege than me, struggling against a seemingly relentless tide. Help them, however you can, please. "Coming out" is scary and cringe. It is a fundamental altering of the relationships between you and everyone you ever knew. Maybe one day we'll live in a world where this isn't 'a big deal'. "I moved house, I got a new job, I'm trans, I’m really into baking now. What's new with you?". To learn something this big about yourself later in life is a funny thing. Like finding new rooms in your home that were never on the floorplan, and now you get to explore and decorate them. You're telling me under this awful carpet there was pristine Victorian tile the whole time? Wow! If I know you and you have questions, feel free to message me. If you don't know "what to do", don't do anything, just continue. I am the same person as before. Despite everything, it's still me. I would like to extend a special thanks to the people who already knew and were really cool about it, especially in complex social and work situations. Thanks. — Kara Ling
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Gamers discovering how statistics work is one of my favorite genres of post
A screenshot of a steam review. The highlighted text says: "1.5% chance for 666 yet it appeared twice on a 9 spin round with 69.4% clovers... yea ok Completely deleted all my winnings"
September 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Consume Me is really, really good. Nobody told me it was a life management sim, and a great one at that! When you solve the systems + hit your goals you're like YES then you remember you've helped a teenager effectively weaponize her ED and you're like oops store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...
Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam
did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!
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September 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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its a balatrolike metroidbrainia boomer extraction shlooter with always-online live ops social UGC and a pixelpunk PSX aesthetic, the demo is in early access now on Poob Games
September 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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hyperbole is a disease
A screenshot of text saying "While this game is flawless in my opinion there are some things I definitely think could have been improved, Silksong..."
September 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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If Life on Mars was set today, DCI Sam Tyler would walk out of his office in 2025, get hit by a car and wake up in 1992
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by Kara Ling
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HIII TODAY IS #BandcampFriday !!

I released the OST from Become The Moon recently on my Bandcamp!! So today is the perfect day if you want to buy there :33🩵

All RT's appreciated!

ponpoko.bandcamp.com/album/become...
Become the Moon (Original Sountrack), by Ponpoko in the Distance
11 track album
ponpoko.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Just realised I can't view any 18+ pages on Steam because my account doesn't have a credit card + none of the credit cards I own are supported. @valvesoftware.com this is so busted lol, my account is literally 18+ years old on its own
September 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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When I worked for a games events company our marketing manager used to count everyone who had a weekend ticket twice for the reports, 4-day ticker holders counted 4 times. We used to joke if someone left the venue + returned that's +1 footfall. An attendee is pregnant? that's technically +2 footfall
August 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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tech in 2000: we're gonna solve every problem and make the world a better place!

tech in 2025: you can now Deliveroo cock rings to your home at 11pm on a Sunday
A screenshot of a thumbnail on the Deliveroo app for "Ann Summers powered by Deliveroo Hop"
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM