Robin Johnson
@robinjohnson.bsky.social
Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
Late reply: there was an unintentional real-life-driven gap between the writing/recording and production/release of that episode. Things move too damn fast these days. I've got at least two old scripts in my drafts folder featuring Elon as 'only' an annoying shitty rocket mogul
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Late reply: there was an unintentional real-life-driven gap between the writing/recording and production/release of that episode. Things move too damn fast these days. I've got at least two old scripts in my drafts folder featuring Elon as 'only' an annoying shitty rocket mogul
I'm late, but enjoy
Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals
Each week, a group of storytellers gathers around a campfire. There's world-weary club MC Edgar Allan Poe, nerd dad Stephen King, violent goth Mary Shelley, squid-obsessed wimp HP Lovecraft, and other...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm late, but enjoy
Fair enough. Atonement: 28 November
[argh excuse cackhanded miscount/delete/repost]
[argh excuse cackhanded miscount/delete/repost]
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fair enough. Atonement: 28 November
[argh excuse cackhanded miscount/delete/repost]
[argh excuse cackhanded miscount/delete/repost]
ach, I see they have turned off replies in order to stop me personally from replying "sorry I'm washing my hair"
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ach, I see they have turned off replies in order to stop me personally from replying "sorry I'm washing my hair"
I feel like both real life!- and Midnight Pals!Mary would have loved it (at least until, as you pointed out, the fuckin Byron quote)
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I feel like both real life!- and Midnight Pals!Mary would have loved it (at least until, as you pointed out, the fuckin Byron quote)
ha, "boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles"
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ha, "boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles"
Reposted by Robin Johnson
if the lesson you take from all this is that folk need to “vote better” in one or three or five years, or that we just need to elevate better faces to high places to get your desired result, consider:
air travel workers have this leverage all the time
not without great effort, but it’s there
air travel workers have this leverage all the time
not without great effort, but it’s there
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
if the lesson you take from all this is that folk need to “vote better” in one or three or five years, or that we just need to elevate better faces to high places to get your desired result, consider:
air travel workers have this leverage all the time
not without great effort, but it’s there
air travel workers have this leverage all the time
not without great effort, but it’s there
I remember a system at my dad's work in the 80s where you saw each other's typing in real time
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I remember a system at my dad's work in the 80s where you saw each other's typing in real time
So far it's given absolutely no reason not to assume that
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So far it's given absolutely no reason not to assume that
I hope so; for what it's worth, I'm not giving up on it just yet
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I hope so; for what it's worth, I'm not giving up on it just yet
Do you expect the show to even consider that they've got a point? Joined life is portrayed as nothing but creepy borghood and total personality loss.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Do you expect the show to even consider that they've got a point? Joined life is portrayed as nothing but creepy borghood and total personality loss.
Reposted by Robin Johnson
[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!
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Moonflow
Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...
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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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cool! (I'm not expecting proof, I just didn't know that, thank you!)
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
cool! (I'm not expecting proof, I just didn't know that, thank you!)
Did old PC screens ever actually do that, though? Maybe a block of text could appear line-by-line from the top down, but I don't think you ever had to wait to see character by character appear (unless someone was typing in real time)
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Did old PC screens ever actually do that, though? Maybe a block of text could appear line-by-line from the top down, but I don't think you ever had to wait to see character by character appear (unless someone was typing in real time)
Waiting for the text to appear does my head in anyway. For the typewriter effect in Detectiveland (versificator.itch.io/detectiveland) I just have the text appear all at once, with a fast but smooth scroll-down and a typewriter sound effect, and it works fine.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Waiting for the text to appear does my head in anyway. For the typewriter effect in Detectiveland (versificator.itch.io/detectiveland) I just have the text appear all at once, with a fast but smooth scroll-down and a typewriter sound effect, and it works fine.
I don't think any text ever actually appeared like that because of hardware limitations, at least not since typewriters/telex-type terminals/golfball printers, which would definitely have started on the next line
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't think any text ever actually appeared like that because of hardware limitations, at least not since typewriters/telex-type terminals/golfball printers, which would definitely have started on the next line
I'm interested - who do you think it's punching up to? The only "punching up" moment I remember was the politician saying "This individual happened to be nearby and was wearing a suit," which I admit got a laugh.
(Someone else said it's about covid policy failure, but I don't think it really fits)
(Someone else said it's about covid policy failure, but I don't think it really fits)
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'm interested - who do you think it's punching up to? The only "punching up" moment I remember was the politician saying "This individual happened to be nearby and was wearing a suit," which I admit got a laugh.
(Someone else said it's about covid policy failure, but I don't think it really fits)
(Someone else said it's about covid policy failure, but I don't think it really fits)
oh god just nationalise it it's fine
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
oh god just nationalise it it's fine