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Riff Conner

@rifflesby.bsky.social

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Writer for the “of Loathing” series of video games. He/him

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · May 16

tell your friends
tell your uncles and aunts
type it into the chat in ALL CAPS
tip your barista and then tell your barista
be like "Shadows Over Loathing is on the Sony Playstation store" every time your dentist takes her fingers out of your mouth

Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · May 15

Shadows Over Loathing is (finally) available digitally on PlayStation 4 and 5!

store.playstation.com/en-us/search...

An image of a house and the dark words "Shadows Over Loathing" silhouetted in front of a giant moon, tentacles reaching in from all sides.

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Jam2go @jam2go.com · 8h

I've been testing out adding greenscreen footage into Unreal, but compressing it to look like it's a 90s FMV game

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1h

and also just actual 12 year olds. the internet makes it too easy to forget that sometimes a dude with a stupid opinion is just some dipshit teen

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 5h

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1h

past me is a dick

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2h

something dumb i like to do is limit shopping list entries to four letters so future me has a little puzzle he has to solve

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 16h

Entry 10

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 16h

The procgen systems I work with are much much *much* simpler than yours, but I do try to ensure that every random name/trinket/book title generator can accidentally produce "Bobcat Goldthwait".

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peniscreepy.bsky.social @peniscreepy.bsky.social · 1d

Master! This is rough. Like, really rough. I can't believe it myself. The king is trapped in the puzzle dungeon. What order to pull the pins in? I'll let you play for free. In the name of Harman...

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 22h

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social · 1d

alright let's go

A placed tattoo stencil showing a top down dungeon map.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Shayna Moon (scary) @themoonis.gay · 1d

See how fucking easy it is when you have a spine?

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

love that bloodborne keeps getting all theories and analysis but the actual player character never has any clue what the fuck is going on. it's the best. guy just ends up killing dogs and ramming his fist into pigs assholes and if asked why can only manage a shrug and "something about blood i think"

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 2d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 2d

I snapshotted the opening of each transcript in my old Infocom transcript printout collection.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/10/old-...

Doesn't reveal much new, but it was fun.

(I was hoping to determine the release number of the version of Suspended that I played, but the transcript doesn't show it.)

My old Infocom transcripts

Back when I was a kid, after I solved an Infocom game, I'd print out a transcript of a

blog.zarfhome.com

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 2d

Pearls Before Swine (idiom): you have to eat your pearls or you won't get any swine

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 2d

Entry 08

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2d

I once arrived at a psych 101 class & found I'd totally blanked the paper due that day. Asked if I could turn it in after mid-class break & she said sure. Sat in the front row & wrote it longhand, ran to the comp lab to type & print it, and ran back. Got an A. "I can't believe you pulled that off."

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 2d

Personally I’m not interested in debating people who think it’s okay to fry “just” the lower half of King Triton. That’s not what I use social media for. A moral baseline is that the entire mermaid is off limits for culinary purposes

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 3d

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2d

it's a struggle i know all too well

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2d

oh shit you're right. no you are correct to call me out on that, I went to graphic design school and should know better

Arial is what we use for Kingdom of Loathing, is why I was confused

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