Carolyn VanEseltine
@mossdogmusic.bsky.social
Still game dev, Amazon, she/her, etc. Just much quieter these days.
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HmmmMMmmMmm...
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Games industry experts: What are the games of the last three years that have been the most enlightening for your craft? The games that showed you something new or helped give you an insight you’d not had before?
I need to build up my backlog, give me your recs!
I need to build up my backlog, give me your recs!
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
HmmmMMmmMmm...
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
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- osteolaryngology
- oncomycology
- paleohydrology
- arthrodynamics
- podagogy
- ovipolitics
- endobotany
- exosophy
- astroichthyology
- aerocetology
- psychogeology
- ornichemistry
- macrohelminthology
- microcosmology
- hydroneurology
- cryoplasmology
- kinetostatics
- applied autoeschatology
- oncomycology
- paleohydrology
- arthrodynamics
- podagogy
- ovipolitics
- endobotany
- exosophy
- astroichthyology
- aerocetology
- psychogeology
- ornichemistry
- macrohelminthology
- microcosmology
- hydroneurology
- cryoplasmology
- kinetostatics
- applied autoeschatology
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
- osteolaryngology
- oncomycology
- paleohydrology
- arthrodynamics
- podagogy
- ovipolitics
- endobotany
- exosophy
- astroichthyology
- aerocetology
- psychogeology
- ornichemistry
- macrohelminthology
- microcosmology
- hydroneurology
- cryoplasmology
- kinetostatics
- applied autoeschatology
- oncomycology
- paleohydrology
- arthrodynamics
- podagogy
- ovipolitics
- endobotany
- exosophy
- astroichthyology
- aerocetology
- psychogeology
- ornichemistry
- macrohelminthology
- microcosmology
- hydroneurology
- cryoplasmology
- kinetostatics
- applied autoeschatology
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I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
“write only what you know” is bullshit because a man wrote silent hill f and this shit rocks!!!! its feminist core resonates SO strongly if you’re a woman!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
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November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, and ye may only look upon my works after ye click all the squares showing crosswalks.
My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, I have shown you my works please respond ye mighty.
My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, look on my works ye mighty and take a moment to consider our sponsor, Square Space…
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, and ye may only look upon my works after ye click all the squares showing crosswalks.
"Write enabled by default"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
October 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Write enabled by default"
Unlike Vegas
what happens inside the schwartzschild radius stays inside the schwartzschild radius
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Unlike Vegas
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Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Black hole star
Super far
Please stay away from me
Black hole star
Super far
Stay away
(black hole star, black hole star)
Super far
Please stay away from me
Black hole star
Super far
Stay away
(black hole star, black hole star)
Well don't I feel stupid
September 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Black hole star
Super far
Please stay away from me
Black hole star
Super far
Stay away
(black hole star, black hole star)
Super far
Please stay away from me
Black hole star
Super far
Stay away
(black hole star, black hole star)
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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I'm hugo award winning narrative designer Caelyn Sandel
August 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I'm hugo award winning narrative designer Caelyn Sandel
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If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
Hello, I'm a computer programmer in a film. I'm male, and my favorite shirt is a white button-down with pens. There are lots of other programmers around, but we don't really talk. My job centers on typing very fast (green text on black) and reporting whether the hackers have broken in yet.
Hello, I'm a board game designer in a film, except most folks don't realize that's a profession so I'm shown as a toy inventor instead. I'm manically obsessive and wildly, carelessly creative, working amidst drifts of previous half-baked designs... which to be fair is accurate. Just not the toy part
Hello, I'm a historian in a film. I study ancient celebrity secrets & lost treasure. I teach at a university but that's no impediment to me rushing off to another continent on no notice. All my info comes from discovering a mysterious document or inscription, whose translation is 100% unambiguous.
August 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Hello, I'm a computer programmer in a film. I'm male, and my favorite shirt is a white button-down with pens. There are lots of other programmers around, but we don't really talk. My job centers on typing very fast (green text on black) and reporting whether the hackers have broken in yet.
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Rare colorized footage of Peregrine Monroe and her gratuitous billowing underfluffy shot from the 1955 movie "The Seven Year Brood."
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Rare colorized footage of Peregrine Monroe and her gratuitous billowing underfluffy shot from the 1955 movie "The Seven Year Brood."
"Which would you rather have, support for your grandfather’s retirement or the reassuring knowledge that, somewhere, ICE is kidnapping someone else’s grandfather and throwing him into a van?" - @petridishes.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Which would you rather have, support for your grandfather’s retirement or the reassuring knowledge that, somewhere, ICE is kidnapping someone else’s grandfather and throwing him into a van?" - @petridishes.bsky.social
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The secret to my native gardening success
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The secret to my native gardening success
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I feel this in my bones.
If everybody gets tossed over because of one bad call, action, misjudgment, statement, compromise, moment of cowardice or weakness, etc etc…
Ain’t nobody left on the boat.
If everybody gets tossed over because of one bad call, action, misjudgment, statement, compromise, moment of cowardice or weakness, etc etc…
Ain’t nobody left on the boat.
something I find frustrating at times is how many folks, on here or elsewhere, are willing to write people off who are pretty clearly on the same side because of one bad take
they can definitely add up to the point that it’s worth writing people off but imo too many people set the bar too low
they can definitely add up to the point that it’s worth writing people off but imo too many people set the bar too low
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I feel this in my bones.
If everybody gets tossed over because of one bad call, action, misjudgment, statement, compromise, moment of cowardice or weakness, etc etc…
Ain’t nobody left on the boat.
If everybody gets tossed over because of one bad call, action, misjudgment, statement, compromise, moment of cowardice or weakness, etc etc…
Ain’t nobody left on the boat.
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This is incredible.💗🏳️⚧️ Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins spent the whole week digging through Sir Terry Pratchett's archives to find an incredibly rare signed first edition of Monstrous Regiment for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction. bit.ly/genrefortrans. It's already over £1000!
April 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is incredible.💗🏳️⚧️ Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins spent the whole week digging through Sir Terry Pratchett's archives to find an incredibly rare signed first edition of Monstrous Regiment for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction. bit.ly/genrefortrans. It's already over £1000!
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
I am pretty sure this would dramatically improve my airport experience.
The ABQ Sunport airport has dogs before security. Not to sniff you, but in case you’re nervous about flying and need to pet a Good Boy. This is Eddy!
April 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I am pretty sure this would dramatically improve my airport experience.