Dianna 🇩🇴
@grlpants.bsky.social
IP/Partnerships Producer | #gamedev
D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player|
Red Mage & Spoony Bard
AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴
She/ Her
#Dragonage is Life
Reformed Theater Nerd |
Owner of @thesecretlantern.bsky.social
Still Fighting.
https://solo.to/grlpants
D&D #DM & #TTRPG Player|
Red Mage & Spoony Bard
AfroLatina & #Bronx as fug | 🇩🇴
She/ Her
#Dragonage is Life
Reformed Theater Nerd |
Owner of @thesecretlantern.bsky.social
Still Fighting.
https://solo.to/grlpants
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@grlpants.bsky.social
· May 23
The Secret Lantern Books & Games | Explore & Connect Today!
Discover The Secret Lantern: Books & Games in Cedar Park, TX—a vibrant hub for book lovers and gamers. Sign up for updates, support our launch, and join our welcoming community.
www.thesecretlantern.com
So yeah, surprise! I'm opening a Bookstore + Game Store.
Donate to our Kofi: ko-fi.com/thesecretlan...
Buy some Books+ ebooks: www.thesecretlantern.com/shop-online
Buy some Audiobooks: www.thesecretlantern.com/audiobooks
Sign up for updates.
Every little bit helps.
www.thesecretlantern.com
Donate to our Kofi: ko-fi.com/thesecretlan...
Buy some Books+ ebooks: www.thesecretlantern.com/shop-online
Buy some Audiobooks: www.thesecretlantern.com/audiobooks
Sign up for updates.
Every little bit helps.
www.thesecretlantern.com
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We’d love for you to stop by, shop small, and soak in all the cozy bookish & game magic.
Your support truly means the world to us.
Don't give money to billionaires. Support small business!
Your support truly means the world to us.
Don't give money to billionaires. Support small business!
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We’d love for you to stop by, shop small, and soak in all the cozy bookish & game magic.
Your support truly means the world to us.
Don't give money to billionaires. Support small business!
Your support truly means the world to us.
Don't give money to billionaires. Support small business!
Ey. Ey. Ey
Friendsgiving isn’t boring — you just need better games. 🎲
Pick up your Friendsgiving favorites at The Secret Lantern!
Friendsgiving Favorites:
🌟 Wavelength-- big laughs + big group energy
🌟 Wordsy-- quick, clever wordplay everyone can join
🌟 Obey the Block-- easy-to-learn, addictive strategy
Pick up your Friendsgiving favorites at The Secret Lantern!
Friendsgiving Favorites:
🌟 Wavelength-- big laughs + big group energy
🌟 Wordsy-- quick, clever wordplay everyone can join
🌟 Obey the Block-- easy-to-learn, addictive strategy
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Ey. Ey. Ey
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🔥 Congrats to Scott, our art raffle winner! Thanks to everyone who picked up The Phoenix King or preordered The Burning Queen. Huge shoutout to Aparna Verma for donating this stunning signed print by Ngoc Nguyen!
#TheSecretLantern #BookstoreVibes
#TheSecretLantern #BookstoreVibes
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🔥 Congrats to Scott, our art raffle winner! Thanks to everyone who picked up The Phoenix King or preordered The Burning Queen. Huge shoutout to Aparna Verma for donating this stunning signed print by Ngoc Nguyen!
#TheSecretLantern #BookstoreVibes
#TheSecretLantern #BookstoreVibes
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"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
Owning a bookstore is pretty great because I can add books like this to our collection and no one can stop me.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Owning a bookstore is pretty great because I can add books like this to our collection and no one can stop me.
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“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo
We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now
Mehdi on the creepy dead pedophile who was threatening a creepy president, the latest from Marjorie Taylor Greene's revolt, and Gavin Newsom's ambitious attempt to unite the Democratic Party.
zeteo.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo
Then I guess the new Anno is slipping through my plans to buy it.
Pass
Pass
Ubisoft admits AI-generated loading screen "slipped through" into final build of Anno 117: Pax Romana
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-admi...
www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-admi...
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Then I guess the new Anno is slipping through my plans to buy it.
Pass
Pass
There's a part of me that says neanderthals and other evolutions of man but the scifi/horror Brain in me is like, "MIMICS, DEMONS AND FEY'
Thinking about how the Ucanny Valley effect might have been evolved to protect us from other almost-human species, and yet it's doing nothing to protect us from almost-human AIs
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There's a part of me that says neanderthals and other evolutions of man but the scifi/horror Brain in me is like, "MIMICS, DEMONS AND FEY'
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
Can I have some of this money? 😂😂😂😂
The average salary for games industry professionals based in the United States was $142,000 in 2025, according to a new report from GDC Festival of Gaming.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
GDC Survey: Average salary for US games professionals was $142,000 in 2025
Findings reveal 33% of workers feel employers are "working to close existing pay gaps," while one-tenth report no efforts are being made
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Can I have some of this money? 😂😂😂😂
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Nov 17 @ 6:30PM — Mothership: Managing the Expendables
A retro-future sci-fi horror RPG inspired by Alien & Event Horizon.
You’re a clone, you’re expendable, and something just woke up.
18+ | 2–5 players | 3-hour | $10/ ticket
Book your spot: www.thesecretlantern.com/store-events
#MothershipRPG
A retro-future sci-fi horror RPG inspired by Alien & Event Horizon.
You’re a clone, you’re expendable, and something just woke up.
18+ | 2–5 players | 3-hour | $10/ ticket
Book your spot: www.thesecretlantern.com/store-events
#MothershipRPG
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Nov 17 @ 6:30PM — Mothership: Managing the Expendables
A retro-future sci-fi horror RPG inspired by Alien & Event Horizon.
You’re a clone, you’re expendable, and something just woke up.
18+ | 2–5 players | 3-hour | $10/ ticket
Book your spot: www.thesecretlantern.com/store-events
#MothershipRPG
A retro-future sci-fi horror RPG inspired by Alien & Event Horizon.
You’re a clone, you’re expendable, and something just woke up.
18+ | 2–5 players | 3-hour | $10/ ticket
Book your spot: www.thesecretlantern.com/store-events
#MothershipRPG
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Our hearts (and shelves) are full. Thank you for 1K followers, sold-out nights, and a community that glows brighter every day.
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our hearts (and shelves) are full. Thank you for 1K followers, sold-out nights, and a community that glows brighter every day.
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The amount of folks saying that I'm brave for speaking out because of the article, thanks. I'm doing my best.
It's hurt my career but it's worth it.
When I go to bed I feel like I've done my best and I wasn't complicit in hurting people. That is important to me
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
It's hurt my career but it's worth it.
When I go to bed I feel like I've done my best and I wasn't complicit in hurting people. That is important to me
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The amount of folks saying that I'm brave for speaking out because of the article, thanks. I'm doing my best.
It's hurt my career but it's worth it.
When I go to bed I feel like I've done my best and I wasn't complicit in hurting people. That is important to me
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
It's hurt my career but it's worth it.
When I go to bed I feel like I've done my best and I wasn't complicit in hurting people. That is important to me
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
🔥
If you're not speaking up bc you still want your games at the big show, fine. But then hire the Future Class alumni so they don't end up being punished as well as insulted. Most were voted for by their peers for doing the very thing they're doing now - speaking up against wrongs in the industry.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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My one takeaway from Mr. Keighley's annualized situation is this:
There is plenty of space for someone else to step in and do better.
There is plenty of space for someone else to step in and do better.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My one takeaway from Mr. Keighley's annualized situation is this:
There is plenty of space for someone else to step in and do better.
There is plenty of space for someone else to step in and do better.
We have this man so many opportunities to prove us wrong and he inevitably disappoints us again and again. The decision below proves that he doesn't care about people. He cares about profits.
The price of tickets, the sponsorships, the amount folks pay for trailers, features and more... So yeah
The price of tickets, the sponsorships, the amount folks pay for trailers, features and more... So yeah
Apparently, Keighley doesn't have time to reply to @alyssamerc.bsky.social's request for comment, but he sure does have time to post about his latest business deal surrounding the awards on LinkedIn.
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We have this man so many opportunities to prove us wrong and he inevitably disappoints us again and again. The decision below proves that he doesn't care about people. He cares about profits.
The price of tickets, the sponsorships, the amount folks pay for trailers, features and more... So yeah
The price of tickets, the sponsorships, the amount folks pay for trailers, features and more... So yeah
Christ... Late stage capitalism sucks and it's made worse when the people who control it admit they're trying to make you obsolete. Lol
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Christ... Late stage capitalism sucks and it's made worse when the people who control it admit they're trying to make you obsolete. Lol
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I want to thank Alyssa for talking to us for this story. It's hard to see a program like The Future Class be abandoned when it had huge potential.
I wanted to share more of my thoughts that include Future Class, Game Awards, and accessibility so I made a video about it: youtu.be/nNcvtsba90M
I wanted to share more of my thoughts that include Future Class, Game Awards, and accessibility so I made a video about it: youtu.be/nNcvtsba90M
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I want to thank Alyssa for talking to us for this story. It's hard to see a program like The Future Class be abandoned when it had huge potential.
I wanted to share more of my thoughts that include Future Class, Game Awards, and accessibility so I made a video about it: youtu.be/nNcvtsba90M
I wanted to share more of my thoughts that include Future Class, Game Awards, and accessibility so I made a video about it: youtu.be/nNcvtsba90M
We are not props.
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We are not props.
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Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
What in the "There Is No War In Ba Sing Sei" is this???
Like... What??
Like... What??
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
What in the "There Is No War In Ba Sing Sei" is this???
Like... What??
Like... What??
And then when you push back or give ideas he's threatened and acts mad defensive.
My GUY, you have the power and the ability to bring significant change to the industry and you choose not. Like, have confidence in that. Embrace it. Id rather you're a fake to my face then id know how to come at you
My GUY, you have the power and the ability to bring significant change to the industry and you choose not. Like, have confidence in that. Embrace it. Id rather you're a fake to my face then id know how to come at you
I wrote a couple of replies to this that I deleted because it just wasn't funny.
He wanted to cloak himself in diversity when he thought it was beneficial, and didn't give a shit about it for real. He's just like fucking Target.
He wanted the appearance of being "a good guy".
He wanted to cloak himself in diversity when he thought it was beneficial, and didn't give a shit about it for real. He's just like fucking Target.
He wanted the appearance of being "a good guy".
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And then when you push back or give ideas he's threatened and acts mad defensive.
My GUY, you have the power and the ability to bring significant change to the industry and you choose not. Like, have confidence in that. Embrace it. Id rather you're a fake to my face then id know how to come at you
My GUY, you have the power and the ability to bring significant change to the industry and you choose not. Like, have confidence in that. Embrace it. Id rather you're a fake to my face then id know how to come at you