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dabbling smith & zymurge.

mi awen kama sona e toki pona. tenpo lili kama la, mi pana e nimi tawa mi.
kind of wish i had a nonsmartphone handheld audio recording device. digital is fine i just need to have like a single button i can press to begin recording. 80% of my reason is making my dreams easier to record in the morning
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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caves of qud
if you go into a cave you're likely to be corrupted by a woman in a veil. there are other kinds of cave experience, such as mutants and wonders, but we believe this is the most likely experience for you based on your astrological sign (the therizinosaurus) and humoral composition (choleric)
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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dirtbag mahjong has a release date!!

it's coming out for real and you can wishlist it at s.team/a/3488460/ !!

only four weeks to go until you can throw tiles every which way and hurt other people around like the mahjong table like you've always wanted to!
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Just putting out into the aether that despite coming out in December 2024, Caves of Qud is eligible for a number of this year's awards that have November cutoffs, like the Game Awards
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
there's almost nothing i enjoy as much as singing with people
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
it brings me no pleasure to announce that i must nerf elves
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
caught in the awkward position of liking the concept of the game i am working on, and liking the core dice mechanic for it, but also thinking they are poorly suited to one another. i think i want to play with the dice toy more than make that game concept, for the moment, so maybe i'll focus on that
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
hadn't put vlc on my phone on shuffle before so i was totally unprepared for my dream recordings to start playing back to me between songs
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
wow okay new annoying problem with this project is just. how do i do focus area templates with character facing on a square grid. this sucks. maybe i either a) shouldn't do facing or b) should switch to hexes. i do kind of dislike hexes but not for a like. legitimate design reason
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
took this as a sign & brought a lem book with me to playing pretend camp
what Lem doesn't tell you at the end of Solaris is that after Kelvin returns to Earth to try to convince us not to nuke Solaris we do it anyway, but it doesn't seem to do anything, so we start sending people there to dissolve them in the ocean to make it more human and therefore comprehensible.
October 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
no i did not get much (?any?) sleep why do you ask
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
what Lem doesn't tell you at the end of Solaris is that after Kelvin returns to Earth to try to convince us not to nuke Solaris we do it anyway, but it doesn't seem to do anything, so we start sending people there to dissolve them in the ocean to make it more human and therefore comprehensible.
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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still fucking broke, turns out my fatigue naltrexone is three times as expensive this month. i'm gonna cry
hey! i'm trans/nb pulp author & poet & poster lottie L aka frog K. after paying rent i am broke, i am about $500 short of usual this month & already behind. halp

cash.app/$asimplefrog (FK // EI)
ko-fi.com/frogk (paypal redir)
any donations welcome/rbs welcome

ty!
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
going to be the most popular girl at camp. not on time though given how late i stayed up learning this basic knot
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
gonna go play pretend for the weekend. will probably still have cell service but ideally won't be checking phone much
October 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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I remember when this Far Side caused such a stir. Larson got reamed out by the Jane Goodall Foundation, but it later emerged that Goodall herself loved it. Now that's a cool person!
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 AM
oughgghh have to try to finish the layout by Tuesday. i don't want to post this game jam game as like, a markdown text file, but i might do it if i don't finish the layout.
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
okay mulling over this a) i don't know if i want to try to invent a totally new way of modeling space for tactical ttrpg combat b) trying to make gridded combat feel dreamlike might be interesting. whether or not it's possible
to put it concisely, dream wizard combat does not belong on a grid. space in dreams is more like a thick emulsified fluid of imagery and associations, and i think a grid (hex *or* square) is antithetical to that.
September 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
the game i am working on next (i get to do a little today bc i will be afk and not able to work on layout of the jam game) is nominally going to contain Tactical Combat in some sense so i thought it might be good to review one of my favorite tactical grid-based combat game, In The Time of Monsters.
September 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
thought for a while about a Lancer hack where the light/crunchy mechanical split, instead of out of mech narrative/in mech combat, was waking life narrative/dreaming wizard combat (cf. the Benandanti). but i don't think that concept is served well by the kind of crunch Lancer has--
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
reading UKLG's first novel and it's fun to see what is familiar stylistically and thematically from her later work, and what feels strange, got left behind. maam why did you stop calling sapient organisms HILFs. that kicked ass
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
hmm i think i want to run Triangle Agency
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
staying up too late reading almost all of the non-designer's design book and trying to teach myself scribus because i finished the rules of a game jam larp i am working on that isn't due until the end of the month.
September 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
has anybody done like, dark platonic idealism. where the forms are bad and/or evil and all things accessible to the senses are but mere distorted reflections of the transcendentally bad abstract objects behind the things, & whose degree of goodness is proportional only to their deviation from them?
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM