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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · 11h

I wasn’t a big fan of Totodile back in the Gold/Silver days, but then when I saw its idle animation with the excited expression and bouncy little arms in later games I was DEEPLY charmed. It has a lovable *je ne sais quoi*

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · 5d

I’d played WotL 10+ years ago on an old iPad which could barely handle it and crashed regularly, so this was very much worth getting for me, but I don’t think it would be if you played a stable version within the past few years.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · 5d

If you played WOTL that recently and aren’t a die-hard fan, I’d say no. It’s a lot of nice QoL and UI updates and such, but content-wise and in terms of gameplay it’s mostly a recreation of the original. A great way to play it if it’s been a while, but not fundamentally different from what you did.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · 5d

OH AND PETTING A PUPPY

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · 5d

Things I got excited about today: seeing an Eastern Towhee, not having to put on sunscreen, someone drew a silly face on a warning sign, heard a kid do the 6 7 thing IRL, sleeping bats, really good Mac & Cheese, and being right about something in a YouTube video.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Sep 18

I was not aware of this, so thank YOU!

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Aug 29

One time I had one of the antechamber doors open and managed to reach the tile next to it, only for it to give me 0 options for doors that would connect to it even after a reroll. That was fun.

Imagined Simon just pounding his fists against an empty wall and wailing.

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Aug 18

I took obsessive notes and had both the experience of “This thing I took detailed notes on in one of my first runs ended up being crucial at just the right moment 10+ runs later!” and “Oh no, these notes I’ve been painstakingly gathering all game are for something I’d already figured out on my own.”

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Aug 11

It still has the honor of being the game that made me full on ugly cry the hardest AND made me cry the most times 👍

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Aug 5

🫂

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Aug 2

@sfemonster.bsky.social Dear Sfé, I was watching something where a question was about ranking which toy was most expensive, and it’s thanks to you that I was able to point and go “That’s a Labubu!” and then go “That’s gotta be it!” when they said it was the rarest Labubu.

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jul 17

🫂 ❤️

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jul 16

(I ended up enjoying them. They’re largely fun, fast reads, and it was nice to have quick novellas to read between longer novels to break things up. I also avoided The Locked Tomb books because the blurbs made me wary and ended up liking them, so I guess I should just trust my friends’ tastes more.)

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jul 16

TBH I had the exact same reaction to the book series title (“The Murderbot Diaries”) even though the individual books aren’t named like that, and avoided them for a long time as a result. Having now finally read them, I know it works much better in context, but without it… yeah.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jul 16

My partner’s mom underwent chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma ~25 years ago. It was very effective, it hasn’t come back since, and she’s currently 70 years old and doing great 🧡

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cooooooooool 🫠

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jun 11

I’m in such an Online Creative Bubble that I regularly forget that tons of people don’t even give a single thought to GenAI’s Myriad Issues and are only dimly aware of them, and just view it as a “fun digital tool” with no deeper thought or consideration.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Jun 11

Viewing the zoomed out thumbnail on my phone: “How did you know it was—“

After clicking and zooming in: “Never mind, asked and answered.”

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · Apr 30

anyway i'm really thrilled to have worked on art for this game!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...

my full-page, color (i know, what!) scene illustration will be one of the postcards available at higher tiers, along with other artists' amazing work. i also did some super fun creature vignettes!

Defy the Gods

The smoldering queer sword & sorcery tabletop role-playing game

www.kickstarter.com

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Apr 20

The little birdie buns are darling 💖

Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Apr 20

He was so LITTLE back then! Still incredibly photogenic, damn. Happy Birthday Spriggan! 🥳

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Apr 13

They ROCKETED out of that starting gate this season. It was WILD. Excited to see what all they have up their sleeve from here.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Apr 11

I didn’t always agree with her (nor anyone in the party), but I appreciated that her perspective had room for ambivalence, changes of opinion, some internal contradictions, and being good-intentioned without being excessively idealized or always “right” about everything.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Apr 11

I finished DAO for the first time last year. I played a Circle Mage in DAO and I thought Wynne, being neither a rebel nor a total loyalist, added a lot to my play-through, as my character tried to navigate both her affection for and loyalty to the Circle Mages and all her anger over its injustices.

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Jackie! @jmhowl.bsky.social · Mar 30

Glad to hear it! I’m frankly not sure I EVER would have beat the game without it.

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