Robin Johnson
@robinjohnson.bsky.social
Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
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Robin Johnson
@robinjohnson.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals
Each week, a group of storytellers gathers around a campfire. There's world-weary club MC Edgar Allan Poe, nerd dad Stephen King, violent goth Mary Shelley, squid-obsessed wimp HP Lovecraft, and other...
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Tune in to "Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals" at midnight-pals.simplecast.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or your favourite podcast site/app
(CNs: see show notes)
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Ehh. Every time the Racist Party get to kick out one of their leaders for being racist, they reassure their supporters that setting policies to hurt immigrants & POC isn't racist, saying taboo words is. (Then they continue doing both)
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ehh. Every time the Racist Party get to kick out one of their leaders for being racist, they reassure their supporters that setting policies to hurt immigrants & POC isn't racist, saying taboo words is. (Then they continue doing both)
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Midnight Pals Clive and Mary are some of the best characters in modern fiction and I do not feel I will ever need to defend this stance.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Midnight Pals Clive and Mary are some of the best characters in modern fiction and I do not feel I will ever need to defend this stance.
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To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
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Doing some research for a possible new project, and it hurts to see just how many podcast squares/covers out there are so clearly AI generated.
Hand draw that baby, even if you're not a confident artist. Find stock images and make them your own. Collab with someone! Anything is better than AI!
Hand draw that baby, even if you're not a confident artist. Find stock images and make them your own. Collab with someone! Anything is better than AI!
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Doing some research for a possible new project, and it hurts to see just how many podcast squares/covers out there are so clearly AI generated.
Hand draw that baby, even if you're not a confident artist. Find stock images and make them your own. Collab with someone! Anything is better than AI!
Hand draw that baby, even if you're not a confident artist. Find stock images and make them your own. Collab with someone! Anything is better than AI!
Reposted by Robin Johnson
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Any one of these massive AAA videogame companies could file suit against the 6-piece Chicken McNobody ringleaders harassing their employees, and that they don't is a choice. I said before of goobergate that the industry enjoys having a bunch of unpaid Pinkertons around too much to ever give it up.
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Any one of these massive AAA videogame companies could file suit against the 6-piece Chicken McNobody ringleaders harassing their employees, and that they don't is a choice. I said before of goobergate that the industry enjoys having a bunch of unpaid Pinkertons around too much to ever give it up.
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That’s a wrap on AdventureX 2025 🎉 Thank you to everyone - Attendees, Exhibitors, Guests, Volunteers and all who helped make this event great 💙
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
AdventureX
Videos from AdventureX: The Narrative Games Convention.
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
That’s a wrap on AdventureX 2025 🎉 Thank you to everyone - Attendees, Exhibitors, Guests, Volunteers and all who helped make this event great 💙
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Talks will release on our YT soon: www.youtube.com/@AdventureX
Check out the games & Sales on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Had synaesthesia this morning, more than I ever have before. White lights WERE high pitched whining noises and scraping sensations. Not reminded me of, not induced, not even sounded like, WERE. I had to ask E to turn off the lights because my ears were hurting. Surreal.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Had synaesthesia this morning, more than I ever have before. White lights WERE high pitched whining noises and scraping sensations. Not reminded me of, not induced, not even sounded like, WERE. I had to ask E to turn off the lights because my ears were hurting. Surreal.
Gonna make a procgen game about running a space restaurant that is easier to spell
(Something something last best hope for pizza)
(Something something last best hope for pizza)
Gonna make a procgen game about running a space restaurant called Bourguignonne Five original idea do not steal
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Gonna make a procgen game about running a space restaurant that is easier to spell
(Something something last best hope for pizza)
(Something something last best hope for pizza)
Alasdair Beckett-King: If my face looks familiar, it's because of the Judeo-Christian tradition
Dave McCabe: If my face looks familiar, it's because I'm Alasdair after he's let himself go #AdvXConf
Dave McCabe: If my face looks familiar, it's because I'm Alasdair after he's let himself go #AdvXConf
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Alasdair Beckett-King: If my face looks familiar, it's because of the Judeo-Christian tradition
Dave McCabe: If my face looks familiar, it's because I'm Alasdair after he's let himself go #AdvXConf
Dave McCabe: If my face looks familiar, it's because I'm Alasdair after he's let himself go #AdvXConf
(Now it's Charles Cecil on Reinventing Classical Adventures but I think I'm gonna just listen to the rest)
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(Now it's Charles Cecil on Reinventing Classical Adventures but I think I'm gonna just listen to the rest)
Anyone following me for the #AdvXConf skloots, this gives me a nice excuse to plug the podcast I produce, the most recent episode of which contains BOTH Stephen King and Richard Bachman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
"The basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate and colourful" - Stephen King
Johnston: And nobody can accuse Stephen King of not caring about his words. Richard Bachman, maybe, but not Stephen King. (cc @midnightpals.bsky.social)
Johnston: And nobody can accuse Stephen King of not caring about his words. Richard Bachman, maybe, but not Stephen King. (cc @midnightpals.bsky.social)
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anyone following me for the #AdvXConf skloots, this gives me a nice excuse to plug the podcast I produce, the most recent episode of which contains BOTH Stephen King and Richard Bachman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Christopher Morrison on "Conflictless Storytelling"
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Christopher Morrison on "Conflictless Storytelling"
Gonna make a procgen game about running a space restaurant called Bourguignonne Five original idea do not steal
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Gonna make a procgen game about running a space restaurant called Bourguignonne Five original idea do not steal
Now it's Anthony Johnston with "How to Get Autocorrect to Ruin Your Surname Forever From Now On", no not really it's "Just One More Level" - how to make your readers or players want to keep going #AdvXConf
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Now it's Anthony Johnston with "How to Get Autocorrect to Ruin Your Surname Forever From Now On", no not really it's "Just One More Level" - how to make your readers or players want to keep going #AdvXConf
Please enjoy this animated pixel-art kangaroo that I may or may not ever use in a game
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Please enjoy this animated pixel-art kangaroo that I may or may not ever use in a game
Now it's Stark Holborn's "Murder She Modularized: Authored Narrative in a Procgen World"
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Now it's Stark Holborn's "Murder She Modularized: Authored Narrative in a Procgen World"
First talk today: Sagar Beroshi on cutting your narrative #AdventureX
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
First talk today: Sagar Beroshi on cutting your narrative #AdventureX
One of the more proudly weird tablers has cat-ear headphones for their demo, which I learned are functional as you can tell which way round is correct to wear them!
On the flipside, you can see from across the room when someone else is wearing them backwards *twitches* #AdventureX
On the flipside, you can see from across the room when someone else is wearing them backwards *twitches* #AdventureX
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
One of the more proudly weird tablers has cat-ear headphones for their demo, which I learned are functional as you can tell which way round is correct to wear them!
On the flipside, you can see from across the room when someone else is wearing them backwards *twitches* #AdventureX
On the flipside, you can see from across the room when someone else is wearing them backwards *twitches* #AdventureX
I played! I died. I died. I died. For my 'prize', @robbotron.bsky.social dangled a copy of Another World, one of my top 5 games of the 16-bit era, for the Megadrive, a console I own, in front of me, then snatched it away, an entirely diegetic AND mimetic (and funny) act, the hilarious bastard
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I played! I died. I died. I died. For my 'prize', @robbotron.bsky.social dangled a copy of Another World, one of my top 5 games of the 16-bit era, for the Megadrive, a console I own, in front of me, then snatched it away, an entirely diegetic AND mimetic (and funny) act, the hilarious bastard
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that is so fucked up bro. y’all are missing out on my favorite hobby, dunking on men
16% of women gamers surveyed kept their gaming a secret; this correlated positively (!) with being proud of their gaming achievements.
Women who consider themselves good at videogames are the most ashamed to admit it.
Women who consider themselves good at videogames are the most ashamed to admit it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
that is so fucked up bro. y’all are missing out on my favorite hobby, dunking on men
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Fools! It should be bigger boobs, BIGGER WEAPONS. Zweihanders all round!!!
A correlation in FFXIV: nearly all make characters carry weapons.
Women's likelihood of carrying weapons correlqtes to their boob size. Bigger boobs, fewer weapons.
Women's likelihood of carrying weapons correlqtes to their boob size. Bigger boobs, fewer weapons.
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Fools! It should be bigger boobs, BIGGER WEAPONS. Zweihanders all round!!!
Now it's Mairi Nolan on diegetic puzzle design
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Now it's Mairi Nolan on diegetic puzzle design