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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 1d

Like "give me your money so I can give you slop I didn't even bother make "

Okay so you think your audience is stupid and deserves to be robbed?? Man fuck you.

People work so hard for their wages. I want to give you something worth your time. I know how hard and bad it all is.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 1d

This is why, more and more, I just can't muster up any desire to be a success in the mainstream art world. They want AI to make "content" for people who don't care.

I care about my art, and I want to give it to an audience who cares.

An audience i like and respect.

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 1d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 1d

I do not want to be big and popular but I do want to look back on this and know it made a difference in the lives of people who needed it the most. I just need the right people to find it.

People who miss virtual worlds and find comfort in the unknown and knowing their choices have greater meaning.

Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 1d

I don't know what it is but I have this wild idea that if I just keep updating the game, expanding on the story, making art and meeting people, that eventually, Vekari might build community on the foundations. It is made by a trans man, it contains all the messaging you think it does

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 1d

Met my best friends and my husband on social media. Survived the hell that was being on OW with help from people on social media. Was encouraged to participate in an event that has altered the course of my life (/pos)

Still working on getting eyes on the thing I have dedicated years of my life to

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 2d

I am hoping for character descriptions bc I want to draw the psych's gun being turned into a pastry.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 2d

My dziadziuś made a man whose entire life passion is playing bridge, is a healer/medic, and can turn any non-alive object into a dessert of his choice for D10 minutes as a spell.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 2d

For anyone wondering, her character is a psychiatrist who has trained herself with firearms and uses her profession to gather information about people because she is basically paranoid about being caught off guard and killed at any given moment.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 2d

Slightly proud of myself for writing a character creation system that makes sense even to my Polish grandparents and has my babcia invested enough to be enthusiastically thinking of character backstory ideas days later

#VekariTTRPG

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 7d

Art vs Artist

Maury Lyle from Vekari: Remote Bypass drawn from around floor level looking up, with him about to stomp on the viewer while wearing a devilish smirk. The base of his lab coat is stained with dark blood and the image is framed like a cyber-styled poster or magazine cover

Me, cosplaying Ash Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass (image credit: Mark Dustin Briones, glowy edit credit: Bri C.)

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

#ScreenshotSaturday I am working on a text-based combat system that does more than just dealing damage/dishing out effects. Make the story an enemies to lovers fic. Find passwords in transcripts of old documents to defend against attacks. Manage the windows in your brain.

#VekariRB #indiegame

INCOMING TRANSCRIPT

heart had long stopped beating, his body continued on, stumbling through the overgrown rubble of where he once called home as a puppet on strings. The creature consumed the spoiled flesh of the people it once called family and used their broken bones to carve sigils into the walls, its guttural whisper carrying through the house. He became something more than a man that night, transcended from hated and forgotten hermit into something free of fear, something to instead be feared. What a beautif

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

I do already have a Discord server, but people have very valid reasons for not wanting to sign up there either. The best way to build a safe community space for this game, I think, would be to do this.

I think there is more to being social than bad faith debates. Time to be the example.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

If you are a BIPOC or an LGBTQIA2S+ user that would like to help out with this, either with moderating or suggesting platforms or helping with code, please lmk (and also check out vekari.net first to make sure this is something you vibe with!)

Think virtual world forums of old, but ✨more✨

Vekari: Remote Bypass

vekari.net

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

If protecting people from harmful rhetoric means I want an echo chamber then so be it. I'm done acting like these people are trying to debate anything in good faith and not just spreading death cult propaganda, and watching my community get blamed for speaking up when we get hurt

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

It would be incredibly small because of the focus on players of this game, and maybe even smaller if I can make it invite only. But it would eliminate a LOT of issues as a result and keep my players safe from TOS changes that disproportionately target victims and minorities, a trend in 2025 it seems

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

The idea is to build on a decentralized open source platform, have character accounts/programmed bots (no AI) to interact with (can affect the overall story), as well as the ability to communicate with other players, and to place focus on protecting trans users and minorities and moderating AI.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 4d

Well

I think it's about time I start looking at my options for making a Vekari-based social network of some sort. Don't really want to encourage my players to sign up here after recent events

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 5d

In all seriousness, I decided to become a game writer because I played a game with terrible writing and thought, "I could at least write this badly."

Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 29

aaron
@hillenjoyer.bsky.social
ai inspired me to start making art because instead of comparing myself to fucking leonardo davinci or whatever i just have to make something more worthwhile than the worst thing ever, a bar i can easily clear
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NeonRot @neonrot.bsky.social · 5d

Do you think crows ever get mistaken for angels?

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

#ScreenshotSaturday I am working on a text-based combat system that does more than just dealing damage/dishing out effects. Make the story an enemies to lovers fic. Find passwords in transcripts of old documents to defend against attacks. Manage the windows in your brain.

#VekariRB #indiegame

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

Maybe to you that isn't harmful, but that's an extremely priveleged stance to take. Hope someday you wake up to the harrowing realization of what you've contributed to in terms of how trans people are treated at this point in history.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

Harm is not just physical or through legislation. The stance you are taking is a broad, vocal announcement to every trans user here that you think we are less than you. That our human rights, our lives, are something that can be "healthily debated." That we are not deserving of the same respect.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

I'm so sick of this weird idea that "healthy discourse" means just letting people say whatever they want with zero consequences or pushback. Healthy discourse goes two ways and shouldn't be actively harming either party. Who is this healthy for exactly? The engagement numbers maybe but def not users

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

I will be leaving Bluesky as well if this is the direction things are going. I have tried to give the benefit of the doubt, I have tried to wait and see what your team will do, but it's becoming increasingly clear that people like me are not wanted here. That you value discourse over communication.

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Inkus Alters @inkus.ca · 6d

"Upcoming healthy discourse project" the "healthy discourse" is about whether or not I deserve to just live my life bc some bigoted snowflake can't wrap their brain around using one different word in their sentence. I left Twitter because I don't wanna deal with that shit, I just want to exist.

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