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I'm making a tool to help you make games like Paradox does, or like Maxis did, back in the day. https://clayote.itch.io/Lisien

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clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · Nov 18

Here's a demo of the life simulator engine #LiSE. vimeo.com/815795673

LiSE demo 0.14.0

Demonstration of the Life Simulator Engine. Learn more at https://github.com/TacticalMetaphysics/LiSE

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 6h

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"Progressive populist" Graham Platner has Nazi totenkopf tattoo

Graham Platner is a rising star in the Democratic Party, running for one of Maine's two seats in the U.S. Senate on a sharply "populist" progressive platform. A few days…

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 7h

fraid so boingboing.net/2025/10/21/p...

"Progressive populist" Graham Platner has Nazi totenkopf tattoo

Graham Platner is a rising star in the Democratic Party, running for one of Maine's two seats in the U.S. Senate on a sharply "populist" progressive platform. A few days…

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 14h

whats that like

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 16h

If you're so concerned about our situation, then you can probably understand why we devote so much emotion to defending the ACA, though we know it to be inadequate. We are literally dying here.

But a New York Times writer can't understand that, somehow?

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 18h

Yeah!

So we need to defend what's left of our democracy, and then get the Voting Rights Act back in full force.

That's going to take a while--certainly to the end of the current presidential term and a bit.

And the ACA's under attack now.

So we have to defend it, to keep people alive.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 18h

Getting bullies to show weakness is a good tactic.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 18h

Well, Trump did react. He posted that AI vid with the shitting fighter jet. That means something, doesn't it?

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

Preventing that outcome seems worth indulging some overwrought rhetoric, really.

I'll certainly redirect my efforts if I see the end of this, the ACA's secure, and there's opportunity to make something better.

That is not the current situation.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

I don't know precisely who you mean by "institutionalists". It's possible there are some people who practice politics by allocating their emotions as you describe.

I don't care, because the ACA's under attack, and if it falls, people die. Trump's not gonna sign an EO for universal healthcare.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

If I could push a button and make socialism happen overnight, I would! It seems like we have to defeat the current admin and then extirpate the Republican party first. That will be much more difficult if millions of people die or get permanently disabled, with no healthcare, so let's defend the ACA.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

Yeah, because the OP is about the thread and not your question. Like the first two words of OP say, "This thread". So, I took the rest of the words in the OP to be about the thread as a whole, and not one rhetorical question, as well.

Bluesky doesn't have a way to embed whole threads in posts!

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

idk, I had to click through to find out what you were being ignorant about, and to whom. So, if you mean that the OP was presenting your question, about whether Christians should do things forbidden by Torah, as a genuine one... no, I don't see any evidence of that at all.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 22h

I picked the stodgiest possible videogame genre to specialize in--Forrester's Urban Dynamics wasn't art *or* a game--because all the layers of indirection, what did they mean by this, what does it represent, how did I react and why...are *annoying*. Implementing your views in software is direct.

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 23h

The post you're replying to says, "This thread"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 23h

Video games are art as long as I'm credited on them. You can make your video game art for shockingly little money. My DMs are open

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

until i see the survey i'm assuming this is a lie, told as a marketing stunt, and it's working

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

Or, since it's spooky season, myhouse.wad, which is a Doom mod that, to this day, is only available in somebody's Google Drive linked from DoomWorld www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

www.doomworld.com

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

Realistically you're gonna have to start trawling people's collections on itch.io to find artistically compelling works

I quite liked the use of empty space and repetition in bighandinsky.itch.io/maintenance-...

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clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

If you could remake one bad game, so it was good, which would it be?

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

but beez shiver together to generate heat in the winter. youd be warm all winter long

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Proposing marriage to someone in front of a crowd is coercion and a “yes” is not freely given consent.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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SomewhatCyclops @somewhatcyclops.bsky.social · 1d

AND IT GETS CRAZIER!

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 2d

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

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clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

there's a Gemini logo right there. the frog has three eyes and they're not all in its shadow. why is this so hard

clayote.itch.io @clayote.itch.io · 1d

there's a Gemini logo right there. the frog has three eyes and they're not all in its shadow. why is this so hard

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SomewhatCyclops @somewhatcyclops.bsky.social · 2d

I've got a note:

Kara Swisher doesn't check for AI before posting.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 2d

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