Peter M.J. Gross
@petermjgross.bsky.social
I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions.
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bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
Re-doing my introduction post:
I'm an editor, and I make games with
@conmaned.bsky.social.
Check out our work here: bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
I'm an editor, and I make games with
@conmaned.bsky.social.
Check out our work here: bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
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Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
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I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.
I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.
Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games
What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?
azhdarchid.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.
I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.
Howard Dean’s political career was derailed when he made a weird noise on TV.
Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions were thwarted when he couldn’t name the three departments he wanted to eliminate.
But this fucking guy. What’s it going to take?
Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions were thwarted when he couldn’t name the three departments he wanted to eliminate.
But this fucking guy. What’s it going to take?
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Howard Dean’s political career was derailed when he made a weird noise on TV.
Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions were thwarted when he couldn’t name the three departments he wanted to eliminate.
But this fucking guy. What’s it going to take?
Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions were thwarted when he couldn’t name the three departments he wanted to eliminate.
But this fucking guy. What’s it going to take?
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"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"
“Oh crap, I shouldn’t have said they were in the Situation Room.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Oh crap, I shouldn’t have said they were in the Situation Room.”
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#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #fantasy #oc #art #creaturedesign #monsters #characterdesign #worldbuilding
It can be hard to talk to other gamedevs, so to get to know each other, let's talk about our monsters, races, and other blorbos.
and if you don't know what to say, just post a gouda
It can be hard to talk to other gamedevs, so to get to know each other, let's talk about our monsters, races, and other blorbos.
and if you don't know what to say, just post a gouda
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #fantasy #oc #art #creaturedesign #monsters #characterdesign #worldbuilding
It can be hard to talk to other gamedevs, so to get to know each other, let's talk about our monsters, races, and other blorbos.
and if you don't know what to say, just post a gouda
It can be hard to talk to other gamedevs, so to get to know each other, let's talk about our monsters, races, and other blorbos.
and if you don't know what to say, just post a gouda
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it's (darkly) funny that the tech titans' politics are basically "we have no choice but to end representative government because my employees asked for a slight raise in 2020"
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
it's (darkly) funny that the tech titans' politics are basically "we have no choice but to end representative government because my employees asked for a slight raise in 2020"
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We need to hammer into the Good at Math guys that they are much easier to replace with a foreigner than the Good at Words people.
Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We need to hammer into the Good at Math guys that they are much easier to replace with a foreigner than the Good at Words people.
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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I'm going to start putting together some free info and resources for indie game devs looking to self-publish. I see a lot of people making simple mistakes, and hear a lot about being overwhelmed by what they need to do.
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm going to start putting together some free info and resources for indie game devs looking to self-publish. I see a lot of people making simple mistakes, and hear a lot about being overwhelmed by what they need to do.
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
Do folk have specific self-publishing questions they'd want answered?
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'Elon kan reed buks' and 'Noah can't read signs' are the two things giving me life this week onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
'Elon kan reed buks' and 'Noah can't read signs' are the two things giving me life this week onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
But… Skunks?!
It might be the best rhythm game/invasive wildlife sim you see in #Quadplay this year.
#IndieDev #FreeGame
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
It might be the best rhythm game/invasive wildlife sim you see in #Quadplay this year.
#IndieDev #FreeGame
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
But... Skunks!? by Bitterly Indifferent Studios
Act as a force of entropy, introducing chaos into a controlled environment.
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
But… Skunks?!
It might be the best rhythm game/invasive wildlife sim you see in #Quadplay this year.
#IndieDev #FreeGame
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
It might be the best rhythm game/invasive wildlife sim you see in #Quadplay this year.
#IndieDev #FreeGame
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
“Savagely insulting its owner“ might be the only legitimate reason to stay active on former Twitter.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Savagely insulting its owner“ might be the only legitimate reason to stay active on former Twitter.
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"The president wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller" is extremely dark if you think about it. Like how many planes do you think he could crash in five minutes. I'm thinking at least three, definitely more if they just let him cook and didn't tackle him out of the chair
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"The president wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller" is extremely dark if you think about it. Like how many planes do you think he could crash in five minutes. I'm thinking at least three, definitely more if they just let him cook and didn't tackle him out of the chair
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[sits backwards on chair] we have a lot of fun here at midnight pals, but there's nothing funny about failing to read Moonflow, the book that you should all be reading
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My deranged splatterpunk horror book MOONFLOW about a trans shroom dealer getting lost in a haunted forest and running afoul of evil lesbian hippies and their bound fungus god is available for preorder!! Buy it today or look really uncool!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...
Moonflow
Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
[sits backwards on chair] we have a lot of fun here at midnight pals, but there's nothing funny about failing to read Moonflow, the book that you should all be reading
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Note to self: “If it’s not a hell no, it’s a hell yes!” may not be the best way to respond when someone asks whether you’ve been drinking.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Note to self: “If it’s not a hell no, it’s a hell yes!” may not be the best way to respond when someone asks whether you’ve been drinking.
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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I am not fucking joking when I say the English-speaking video game world would be nothing without GameFAQs. Everyone and their mom used it (literally, my mom and all her friends). If you played video games in the 2000s you probably knew GameFAQs in the same way most people know, like, Wikipedia
Hey, happy 30th birthday GameFAQs! Launched on November 5th, 1995!
The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!
The earliest scrape I can find on Wayback is December 1996, but I doubt the site changed much. But yes, here it is in its earliest days as the Video Game FAQ Archive!
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I am not fucking joking when I say the English-speaking video game world would be nothing without GameFAQs. Everyone and their mom used it (literally, my mom and all her friends). If you played video games in the 2000s you probably knew GameFAQs in the same way most people know, like, Wikipedia
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I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
The sandwich verdict has a pleasing symmetry to it.
Members of this administration have been encouraged to commit crimes against the public, knowing that they’ll never hold each other accountable.
Why shouldn’t members of the public extend the same courtesy to one other?
Members of this administration have been encouraged to commit crimes against the public, knowing that they’ll never hold each other accountable.
Why shouldn’t members of the public extend the same courtesy to one other?
straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The sandwich verdict has a pleasing symmetry to it.
Members of this administration have been encouraged to commit crimes against the public, knowing that they’ll never hold each other accountable.
Why shouldn’t members of the public extend the same courtesy to one other?
Members of this administration have been encouraged to commit crimes against the public, knowing that they’ll never hold each other accountable.
Why shouldn’t members of the public extend the same courtesy to one other?
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Packing the Court isn’t enough, they need to give Justice Jackson a gun
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Packing the Court isn’t enough, they need to give Justice Jackson a gun
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Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
An infuriating thing about Trump is that he and his “accomplishments“ are only praised by people/publications who see him as a meal ticket, and I swear to god there’s a SNAP joke in there somewhere
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An infuriating thing about Trump is that he and his “accomplishments“ are only praised by people/publications who see him as a meal ticket, and I swear to god there’s a SNAP joke in there somewhere
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Heyoo ! I just finished redoing my Itch page:
pedatte.itch.io
Also, if you have any pages you'd like to share, I'd love to see them. I don't know many people on the platform yet.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #unity #madewithunity #gamejam
pedatte.itch.io
Also, if you have any pages you'd like to share, I'd love to see them. I don't know many people on the platform yet.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #unity #madewithunity #gamejam
Pedatte
pedatte.itch.io
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Heyoo ! I just finished redoing my Itch page:
pedatte.itch.io
Also, if you have any pages you'd like to share, I'd love to see them. I don't know many people on the platform yet.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #unity #madewithunity #gamejam
pedatte.itch.io
Also, if you have any pages you'd like to share, I'd love to see them. I don't know many people on the platform yet.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #unity #madewithunity #gamejam