Seva Khusid
@sevakhusid.bsky.social
οἴμοι
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Play my latest jam entry: https://vsevolod-khusid.itch.io/plan-e-t
Or visit my website to see what's cooking: https://www.sevakhusid.games/
From Classics & Philosophy into making indie games.
Play my latest jam entry: https://vsevolod-khusid.itch.io/plan-e-t
Or visit my website to see what's cooking: https://www.sevakhusid.games/
seeing my own phot has gotten too annoying, back to a cartoon I go
(by @metalicity.bsky.social back in 2021)
(by @metalicity.bsky.social back in 2021)
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
seeing my own phot has gotten too annoying, back to a cartoon I go
(by @metalicity.bsky.social back in 2021)
(by @metalicity.bsky.social back in 2021)
Does she also know how to lean on one?
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Does she also know how to lean on one?
That’s quite big!
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
That’s quite big!
Video games conference happening in the most video game building in Lisbon
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Video games conference happening in the most video game building in Lisbon
UNBEATABLE is a celeste-like
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
UNBEATABLE is a celeste-like
🐈⬛ Post a witch ✨
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🐈⬛ Post a witch ✨
These two have such chemistry
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
These two have such chemistry
i wish þis were a joke
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
i wish þis were a joke
okay they definitely were getting cats right
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
okay they definitely were getting cats right
Pentiment is swiftly becoming one of my favorite games
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pentiment is swiftly becoming one of my favorite games
Alright, this looks like a good metric
October 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Alright, this looks like a good metric
All the more fascinating that they moved away from a generative sandbox and to the more streamlined world in the same installment as when their story got more esoteric.
But also, the object classes from Creation Engine seem mainly interested in *how much* the individual object must be able to do?
But also, the object classes from Creation Engine seem mainly interested in *how much* the individual object must be able to do?
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
All the more fascinating that they moved away from a generative sandbox and to the more streamlined world in the same installment as when their story got more esoteric.
But also, the object classes from Creation Engine seem mainly interested in *how much* the individual object must be able to do?
But also, the object classes from Creation Engine seem mainly interested in *how much* the individual object must be able to do?
i will never not find this funny
October 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i will never not find this funny
Reading this book in the first place because it felt like a convenient and simple entry point into the study of Canaanite religions (it’s not)
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reading this book in the first place because it felt like a convenient and simple entry point into the study of Canaanite religions (it’s not)
Reading J. D. Levenson’s The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, and the prominence of name-puns fascinates me.
Dealing with the Greeks, rhyming puns like this never felt central to the argument? Meaningful names and contextual puns, sure, but the relationship with the pun felt more direct?
Dealing with the Greeks, rhyming puns like this never felt central to the argument? Meaningful names and contextual puns, sure, but the relationship with the pun felt more direct?
![And in chapter 3 is to be heard a variant of the pun on Jacob's name of Genesis 27 and Jeremiah 9:
*For I am the LoRD—1 have not changed; and you are the children of Jacob [yaăgõb]-You have not ceased to be. 'From the very days of your fathers you have turned away from My laws and have not observed them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you—said the LoRD of Hosts. But you ask, "How shall we turn back?" ®Ought man to defraud [băyigba"] God?
Yet you are defrauding [gobe im] Me. And you ask, "How have we been defrauding You [geba nuka]?" In tithe and contribution. ' You are suffering under a curse, yet you go on defrauding [qobe im] Me the whole nation of you. (Mal 3:6-9).
The use of the rare verb gaba four times in Mal 3:8-9—it occurs in only one other verse in the entire Bible (Prov 22:23)-strongly suggests a pun on the name Jacob (yaăqob) in v 6. The root of the verb is comprised of the same three consonants as appear in the root of Jacob's name and in the verb translated as "supplant" in Gen 27:36 and as "take advantage" in Jer 9:3, of which the verb in Mal 3:6-8 is probably but a variant. Informed by the tradition about Jacob's defrauding his brother, Malachi calls upon "the children of Jacob" to return to God and his laws, specifically the laws about sacred donations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lihfimmoayi5tcwslew3gbfe/bafkreihlvwxekxh3sossdqvsae2i4xskv3o4ood6g75do2wvpv3jhekc7m@jpeg)
![It is surely revealing that the speaker is also the only figure to speak in J's genealogy, Lamech:
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. "And he named him Noah [noab], saying, "This one will provide us relief yenahämeni] from our work and from the toil ['issebn] of our hands, out of the very soil [ba adama] which the LoRD placed under a curse." (Gen 5:28-29)
This folk-etymology of Noah's name harks back rather obviously to the words of vHwH to Adam after the grievous episode of the forbidden fruit:
"Cursed be the ground [ba adama] because of you;
By toil ['isabin] you shall eat of it All the days of your life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lihfimmoayi5tcwslew3gbfe/bafkreigq4mgllpfbm36jaioil6mgmzli5ovw4znlx2vv4hp5uu2tmvotoy@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reading J. D. Levenson’s The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, and the prominence of name-puns fascinates me.
Dealing with the Greeks, rhyming puns like this never felt central to the argument? Meaningful names and contextual puns, sure, but the relationship with the pun felt more direct?
Dealing with the Greeks, rhyming puns like this never felt central to the argument? Meaningful names and contextual puns, sure, but the relationship with the pun felt more direct?
Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tân,
Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr,
Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr,
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tân,
Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr,
Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr,
I could not find *the* fern-overgrown photos I wanted to, so here are mossy woods instead
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I could not find *the* fern-overgrown photos I wanted to, so here are mossy woods instead
I find it very amusing how similar the work of ancient philosophy and modern game design are. Both build models of the world and focus on the ephemeral things, both have communal authority and customs that stem from the past, both draw confusing diagrams to explain their point. In this essay I will
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I find it very amusing how similar the work of ancient philosophy and modern game design are. Both build models of the world and focus on the ephemeral things, both have communal authority and customs that stem from the past, both draw confusing diagrams to explain their point. In this essay I will