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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you, I appreciate it!

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 18h

Man, how’d I forget Weird Al?

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 19h

I guess what I'm saying is that I want to handle the story delicately and with as much authenticity as I can manage without leaning on caricature and stereotypes. Trans folk deserve better of me than to be lazy and a coward.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 19h

One of the core themes of Just Beneath the Holler is acceptance of self and acceptance of others. Part of that involves me writing a trans character. As a straight, white, cis dude, I'm not super-qualified to tackle the character, but I also think avoiding writing her is taking the easy way out.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 19h

That's gonna take a few bites.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 19h

Also: all right. I'm impatient, not unreasonable. I know I should build a complete, small game first.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 19h

Guess I'm gonna make character art today. It's gonna suuuuck because I'm not the best and designing characters, but it's a frog I have to swallow.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

And it made him that much meaner! He put his kids on the line. I mean, I do like “good dad Bowser” on a selfish level, but that Bowser was just BAD.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

It’s gonna be a hot second, but absolutely!

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

Isn’t that garbage? It was cooler when they were his kids.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

I’m going to come back to it later today and start piecing in folklore from back home.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

Awesome!

Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 20h

And there we go. The first draft of Just Beneath the Holler's story is done. It's messy, it's full of holes, but it's done. And it can be edited.

#gamedev

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 21h

"There's No Reason for Humans" is either a great name for a story or a slogan for the Matrix robots.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 21h

Hold up. The new region is basically Paris?!

Well, I have to get this for my wife now.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 21h

It's supposed to storm later today. I ordered groceries for tonight (pork steak, caprese salad, roasted potatoes), I've got some snacks for the Third Saturday in October (obligatory "Roll Tide"), I don't have anywhere to be, and I have Scrivener open.

It's going to be a good day.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 22h

“Guybrush Threepwood is now a great food critic” is proof that there is still good in this world.

Now to open a food truck called Le Chuckwagon.

Dominic Armato @darmato.bsky.social · 1d

While I'm chuffed by the burgeoning interest in my most beloved hometown foodstuff, a lesson:

This is an Italian Beef. Peppers (both kinds) are optional. Juice soaking the bread — with some wiggle room for degree — is not. Note: crusty roll with cut ends for optimal juice soaking and NO CHEESE*.

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

With a name like that, I’m sold!

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard good things.

Seriously, though: I’ve been getting into autobiographical comics a lot more.

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Ghost Planet @ghostplanet.bsky.social · May 29

If you haven't seen Space Ghost Coast to Coast in full yet, Internet Archive has you covered

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The Space Ghost Coast To Coast Collection. : Mike Lazzo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Space Ghost Coast to Coast is an American adult animation created by Mike Lazzo for Cartoon Network and first broadcast in 1994. It takes the form of a surreal...

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

That’s Nintendo for you, five great decisions followed by one that makes you wonder if they’ve been replaced by raccoons.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

since nothing else interesting is happening on here at this time, let's talk about one of my favorite sporting events of all time:

Georgia Tech football versus Cumberland, October 7, 1916

the worst beatdown in the history of American sports

222-0. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 10.

YouTube video by Jon Bois

www.youtube.com

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

define your music taste in eight artists:

They Might Be Giants
Moxy Früvous
Dave Brubeck
Metallica
Johnny Cash
Hank Williams (the elder)
Alison Kraus
Elton John

🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

define your music taste in eight artists: (okay but this is v unfair to me i just want you to know)

P!nk
Queen
Ariana Grande
Muse
Whitney Houston
Dua Lipa
Chappel Roan
Paramore

Nola Pfau @ohnola.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Queens of the Stone Age
Dua Lipa
Jack White (any band he's in)
NIN
Carly Rae Jepsen
CHVRCHES
Rage Against the Machine
Gorillaz

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Anatomically Incorrect Octoskeleton @pshumate.bsky.social · 1d

Fun “fact”: the movie led to a national grime shortage for years.

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