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J!
@pluralj.bsky.social
Queer designer-prospect and lover of video games

Streaming on twitch Thursday or Friday at twitch.tv/plural_j

I have a game at plural_j.itch.io
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People like using their pinned post to show their interests - so here's mine!
- indie video games
- indie tabletop games
- friends at the table
- sonic the hedgehog
- kingdom hearts
- persona
- in stars and time
- masks: a new generation
- wanderhome
- writing
- game design
- queer theology
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OSR not as movement that is over but as genre that is in its 4th or 5th wave.

PbtA too. We're officially in its 3rd wave.

Pay me to research and write about this please. I care too much.
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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ive struggles for ages to explain my deepset love for OSR design tools to other ttrpg folks and im grateful someone has finally written a blogpost that so clearly elucidates how OSR play is built. required reading imo
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch.

I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.

lumpley.itch.io
Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al
lumpley.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."

"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."

"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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all my stuff is half off til jan 1st!! surprise your loved one with ten copies of the grifter
the big holiday half-off by Briar Sovereign
A bundle by Briar Sovereign, $21.00 for 7 games
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Itch Creator day! Go check out some cool indie devs and buy their stuff!!
🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨

For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.

Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale

itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Crystal Heart is a trade paperback compilation of the hit Up To Four Players web strip by @nnesk.bsky.social and @avivor.com - now published by Dark Horse Comics! It's great to see Eran and Aviv enjoying success and a global audience! leisuregames.com/products/cry...
Crystal Heart
Join four friends as they dive into the world of TTRPGs with their high stakes adventure in the world of Crystal Heart!   In a world where everyone’s heart is made of stone, special agents of an organ...
leisuregames.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Price for Life is a system agnostic adventure where you investigate the disappearance of the Kandelló family. Rot has seized their noble estate and something dark and dangerous is lurking among the crumbling ruins. You’ll have to make a decision; you will you let the fungus into or banish it?
Price for Life by artistblock
A TTRPG adventure about rot, decay, and the life here after. Playable with any system.
artistblock.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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do you want some of my comics and games at 50% off. of course you do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

itch.io/s/168886/bla...
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It's hard getting noticed as an indie creator.

If you enjoy what I do and have a spare moment, do you mind making a quote repost of the quoted post? Or make a separate post linking to the Kickstarter? 🙏
Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by the urban legends and folklore of Hong Kong. 👻
The Redux edition is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We got a little lost last time, so let's get back on track!

Silksong stream tonight - 7:30EST!

twitch.tv/plural_j
a cartoon character is flying in the air with a sword in his hand .
ALT: a cartoon character is flying in the air with a sword in his hand .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I really wish stories like this got WAY more traction than they do.

Steam banned this game for release FOR TWO YEARS, with no clear direction and communication to the devs as to the issues, content or concerns.

Meanwhile, everyone and their mother reported on Gabe's new yacht
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The more I hear about just how protective Disney is over Mickey the funnier this image gets
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I'm 40 today. Have some Astroboy studies 🤖
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Stream this week will be Wednesday and then either Thursday or Friday haven't figured it out yet!

Still 7:30pm EST as always!
And also still Silksong until we beat it!
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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If I speak… 🤫
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I owe 400 dollars to my college, and now I need to pay this off by the second week of December, or else Im going to lose my home and access to college!

Anything can help me get this fixed before the deadline!

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest

paypal.me/dalpossum
www.ko-fi.com/arle_the_pos...
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A “souls-like cyberpunk Balatro” coming December 2nd.

Follow along and get the word out.

Free demo on release.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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sonicsonas ur hxh characters :) #hxh
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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This is kind of random, but I really encourage anyone seeking sell their games to really LOOK at this booth and understand it as an argument for why art and graphic design are cornerstones to success, not obligatory checkboxes.
PAX Unplugged has begun!

Stop by the Gila RPGs booth, #3958, and grab some awesome indie TTRPGs!
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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So that you can enjoy it in its full beauty, here's the PAXU Realis postcard image in high quality, along with the in-game text & Sentences of Halfmoon Twaintcut's that Si was working from!
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM