Emilia
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox, currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Organizer, Roguelike Celebration (and formerly !!con). Disabled (ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent.
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
https://lazerwalker.com
she/her
I have plenty of critiques of Pluribus, but I just keep thinking about how much it rocks that The Big Prestige Show Everyone's Talking About is at its core a character study of a middle-aged lesbian.
(A white cis lesbian, sure, but I'll take that in the current political environment)
(A white cis lesbian, sure, but I'll take that in the current political environment)
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I have plenty of critiques of Pluribus, but I just keep thinking about how much it rocks that The Big Prestige Show Everyone's Talking About is at its core a character study of a middle-aged lesbian.
(A white cis lesbian, sure, but I'll take that in the current political environment)
(A white cis lesbian, sure, but I'll take that in the current political environment)
Hey, Bernie has the right take on AI. It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion about what tools are transformative in what ways (or not) if the big picture is "these are tools aimed at the goal of widening instead of shrinking the inequality gap"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30N...
The Billionaires’ plan for AI | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey, Bernie has the right take on AI. It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion about what tools are transformative in what ways (or not) if the big picture is "these are tools aimed at the goal of widening instead of shrinking the inequality gap"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h30N...
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A lot of people are going to say “they killed off Morpheus in The Matrix Online”, but the important bit is they killed him off *in a live event with paid human GMs live-roleplaying*
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A lot of people are going to say “they killed off Morpheus in The Matrix Online”, but the important bit is they killed him off *in a live event with paid human GMs live-roleplaying*
I’ve learned my body tolerates rice better or worse at (consistent) different times of day, presumably because different microbes in my microbiome are active at different times.
I’m fascinated by this, and also wish this science experiment had a feedback loop other than “causing me physical pain”.
I’m fascinated by this, and also wish this science experiment had a feedback loop other than “causing me physical pain”.
I'm currently reintroducing white rice into my diet at the speed my poor body can handle, which means I started by eating literally 1-2 grains a day and now weeks later I'm up to a whole teaspoon.
It's hard to convey how miserable this is, especially if food is (was) a source of joy for you.
It's hard to convey how miserable this is, especially if food is (was) a source of joy for you.
I'm lucky in that while I was once down to literally only 3 safe foods (white rice, chicken, kale)--which took me 3 weeks and 15 lost lbs subsisting on multivitamins and broth to even figure out--I'm now up to "just" a strict low histamine diet.
But this is why we tell you to protect yourself--
But this is why we tell you to protect yourself--
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’ve learned my body tolerates rice better or worse at (consistent) different times of day, presumably because different microbes in my microbiome are active at different times.
I’m fascinated by this, and also wish this science experiment had a feedback loop other than “causing me physical pain”.
I’m fascinated by this, and also wish this science experiment had a feedback loop other than “causing me physical pain”.
A lot of people are going to say “they killed off Morpheus in The Matrix Online”, but the important bit is they killed him off *in a live event with paid human GMs live-roleplaying*
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A lot of people are going to say “they killed off Morpheus in The Matrix Online”, but the important bit is they killed him off *in a live event with paid human GMs live-roleplaying*
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Sektori is the most Finland coded game I've ever played. It feels like you got Isekei'd into a demoscene demo. This is the kind of game they'd invent in a YA novel in 1995 where dying in the game means they blow up the earth.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sektori is the most Finland coded game I've ever played. It feels like you got Isekei'd into a demoscene demo. This is the kind of game they'd invent in a YA novel in 1995 where dying in the game means they blow up the earth.
Okay I have been extremely nerd-sniped by linguistics olympiad problem sets, and you can too if "solve paper puzzles about real languages you don't speak" sounds appealing
ioling.org/problems/sam...
ioling.org/problems/sam...
Samples
International Linguistics Olympiad official website
ioling.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Okay I have been extremely nerd-sniped by linguistics olympiad problem sets, and you can too if "solve paper puzzles about real languages you don't speak" sounds appealing
ioling.org/problems/sam...
ioling.org/problems/sam...
A few years ago I had a project that involved extracting the art assets from a copy of MS Bob, and you may be either delighted or horrified to know that the entire thing is a series of Access database files with bitmaps embedded directly in the DB
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A few years ago I had a project that involved extracting the art assets from a copy of MS Bob, and you may be either delighted or horrified to know that the entire thing is a series of Access database files with bitmaps embedded directly in the DB
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Welcome to Springfield - Fortnite | The Simpsons
YouTube video by Fortnite
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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literally nobody else in the entire retro computing community I've seen so far has done this, and this is a VERY conservative group. fuck John Carmack.
I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
literally nobody else in the entire retro computing community I've seen so far has done this, and this is a VERY conservative group. fuck John Carmack.
Been thinking about the tension between "transition is a thing you complete" and "transition is a lifelong journey".
For most there's a sense of "after a few years, the mechanics of hormones etc fade away".
But I don't think you can separate the larger project of psyche unification from gender.
For most there's a sense of "after a few years, the mechanics of hormones etc fade away".
But I don't think you can separate the larger project of psyche unification from gender.
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Been thinking about the tension between "transition is a thing you complete" and "transition is a lifelong journey".
For most there's a sense of "after a few years, the mechanics of hormones etc fade away".
But I don't think you can separate the larger project of psyche unification from gender.
For most there's a sense of "after a few years, the mechanics of hormones etc fade away".
But I don't think you can separate the larger project of psyche unification from gender.
Welp, a guy I’ve been considering reaching out to for help with my microbiome is suddenly out on The Bad Site cheering for the CDC page saying vaccines cause autism, so I guess that’s a bullet dodged.
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Welp, a guy I’ve been considering reaching out to for help with my microbiome is suddenly out on The Bad Site cheering for the CDC page saying vaccines cause autism, so I guess that’s a bullet dodged.
Bill Nye is short for William New Year's Eve
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Bill Nye is short for William New Year's Eve
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It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.
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Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
This is a 30 Rock bit
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is a 30 Rock bit
I adore GB Studio so much. My inner child is so happy that on of the most accessible free game-making tools produces games you can literally run on a physical 1989 Game Boy.
somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I adore GB Studio so much. My inner child is so happy that on of the most accessible free game-making tools produces games you can literally run on a physical 1989 Game Boy.
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i wonder what it feels like to be compiled from source
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
i wonder what it feels like to be compiled from source
hell yeah, they finally made a sequel to Lawyer and Law2yer: Raising The Bar
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
hell yeah, they finally made a sequel to Lawyer and Law2yer: Raising The Bar
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
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No, trans woman; I did not refer to you as “him”. I said “‘em”, a standard clipping of “them”. Phonetically identical to “‘im” (standard clipping of “him”) due to the /pɛn/→/pɪn/ merger (Labov et al., 2006) in my Southern dialect. I apologize on behalf of the English language?
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
No, trans woman; I did not refer to you as “him”. I said “‘em”, a standard clipping of “them”. Phonetically identical to “‘im” (standard clipping of “him”) due to the /pɛn/→/pɪn/ merger (Labov et al., 2006) in my Southern dialect. I apologize on behalf of the English language?
“Bay Area culture” feels abstract to me since I’m too sick to leave the goddamn house, but if I think about a hypothetical future where I’m able to exist in the world again, there’s a large tension between the SF that I love (and moved back to the US from Canada for!) and the SF that exists in 2025
The bay area needs to get cheaper so the weirdos can come back. We also need brand new weirdos. More weirdos please
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Bay Area culture” feels abstract to me since I’m too sick to leave the goddamn house, but if I think about a hypothetical future where I’m able to exist in the world again, there’s a large tension between the SF that I love (and moved back to the US from Canada for!) and the SF that exists in 2025
Web dev a11y PSA: this isn’t a thing I’ve found anywhere other than a 2016 WebKit blog post, but setting `font: -apple-system-body` (or similar) on your root CSS element will allow your whole webapp to inherit iOS (and presumably MacOS?) system dynamic font sizing.
webkit.org/blog/3709/us...
webkit.org/blog/3709/us...
Using the System Font in Web Content
On iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, specifying “font-family: -apple-system” allows you to use Apple’s new system font: San Francisco.
webkit.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Web dev a11y PSA: this isn’t a thing I’ve found anywhere other than a 2016 WebKit blog post, but setting `font: -apple-system-body` (or similar) on your root CSS element will allow your whole webapp to inherit iOS (and presumably MacOS?) system dynamic font sizing.
webkit.org/blog/3709/us...
webkit.org/blog/3709/us...