kate
@thegladdestthing.itch.io
she/they, thirties, tme nb, bi/ace. aa and indie games of all stripes enthusiast. owned by a large tuxie. pfp by @schoute.bsky.social, header from against the storm.
currently playing: caves of qud, clanfolk, against the storm
currently playing: caves of qud, clanfolk, against the storm
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kate
@thegladdestthing.itch.io
· Apr 21
resharing some of my fave games to pspsps fellow fans:
caves of qud
wildermyth
arco
against the storm
tiny glade
rimworld
children of morta
fields of mistria
dwarf fortress
wh40k rogue trader
pentiment
tyranny
crusader kings 3
pillars of eternity + deadfire
the witcher 3
caves of qud
wildermyth
arco
against the storm
tiny glade
rimworld
children of morta
fields of mistria
dwarf fortress
wh40k rogue trader
pentiment
tyranny
crusader kings 3
pillars of eternity + deadfire
the witcher 3
crucial update:
suzerain.
suzerain.
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whenever an author represents telepathy via < > symbols I'm like, ah, yes, you too know the old magic
August 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
whenever an author represents telepathy via < > symbols I'm like, ah, yes, you too know the old magic
go play arco NOW 🏹
Hey there now can grab Arco for less than 10 bucks 💫 it's the first time Arco is 50% off so if you ever felt itchy about trying it out now is your chance 🌱
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
Save 50% on Arco on Steam
A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.
store.steampowered.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
go play arco NOW 🏹
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I'm going to bang this drum yet again:
If your great white hope is adding to the existential threats faced by a marginalized group and members of that group tell you they will not support someone who makes them less safe, *you personally* are a threat to them when you scream about their disloyalty.
If your great white hope is adding to the existential threats faced by a marginalized group and members of that group tell you they will not support someone who makes them less safe, *you personally* are a threat to them when you scream about their disloyalty.
August 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I'm going to bang this drum yet again:
If your great white hope is adding to the existential threats faced by a marginalized group and members of that group tell you they will not support someone who makes them less safe, *you personally* are a threat to them when you scream about their disloyalty.
If your great white hope is adding to the existential threats faced by a marginalized group and members of that group tell you they will not support someone who makes them less safe, *you personally* are a threat to them when you scream about their disloyalty.
glotrot got them 😶
August 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
glotrot got them 😶
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Scandinavian problems
August 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Scandinavian problems
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HIS MAJESTY THE WORM offers some suggestions for "Why" the megadungeon known as the Underworld exists.
August 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
HIS MAJESTY THE WORM offers some suggestions for "Why" the megadungeon known as the Underworld exists.
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"I don't mind when bigoted jokes are leveraged against people I think are horrible."
Okay, but you do understand you've just communicated that your willingness to oppose bigotry becomes negotiable if you dislike the target? You see how that makes you sound completely unsafe to others, right? Right?
Okay, but you do understand you've just communicated that your willingness to oppose bigotry becomes negotiable if you dislike the target? You see how that makes you sound completely unsafe to others, right? Right?
August 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"I don't mind when bigoted jokes are leveraged against people I think are horrible."
Okay, but you do understand you've just communicated that your willingness to oppose bigotry becomes negotiable if you dislike the target? You see how that makes you sound completely unsafe to others, right? Right?
Okay, but you do understand you've just communicated that your willingness to oppose bigotry becomes negotiable if you dislike the target? You see how that makes you sound completely unsafe to others, right? Right?
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warmup i got reallyyy into c:
August 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
warmup i got reallyyy into c:
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![[MasterCard logo which reads Censorship]
there are some things money can’t buy, for that you can thank MasterCard ®.
For years, MasterCard has led the way in pressuring platforms that host and sell adult content. Most recently, we have pressured Steam and Itch.io, leading to dozens if not hundreds of games being delisted, and their TOS now updated with draconian content standards.
Please, tell us how we’re doing:
In US, call +1 (800)-307-7309 (Phone tree nav: 1-1-2-2-2-1)
International, call +1 (636)-722-7111](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36nuuzb2ntaux7yu737agmef/bafkreiddihc4tjngtswilimu2rclhcnakfjkwe33qwlvujrrgptr37xqsy@jpeg)
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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"shrimp emotions" redefined to mean "that feeling when you set off a geiger counter after hitting up the seafood buffet"
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.link
August 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"shrimp emotions" redefined to mean "that feeling when you set off a geiger counter after hitting up the seafood buffet"
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You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
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I think characters like Doctor Who and Captain America and Superman and James Bond and Indiana Jones are so fascinating because each is an idealized avatar of a particular cultural identity and when we talk about what they can and can't "be" we are inevitably discussing the heart of that identity.
August 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I think characters like Doctor Who and Captain America and Superman and James Bond and Indiana Jones are so fascinating because each is an idealized avatar of a particular cultural identity and when we talk about what they can and can't "be" we are inevitably discussing the heart of that identity.
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I screamed so loud my partner asked me if I was okay
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I screamed so loud my partner asked me if I was okay
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lmao at whatever brand consultant is going around saying "remove HBO" "remove NBC" and getting people to agree to it. top tier trolling
How to eliminate a brand you’ve built over years - along with the trust, recognition and value it holds - and burn millions in one simple step:
August 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
lmao at whatever brand consultant is going around saying "remove HBO" "remove NBC" and getting people to agree to it. top tier trolling
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@jamiersutcliffe.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay contextualizing Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right in Art Review!
Space Racism: How the Right Captured Science Fiction
Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief
artreview.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@jamiersutcliffe.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay contextualizing Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right in Art Review!
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We heard you like sword games, so please say hello to Sword Celebration ⚔️
Our upcoming Steam Event features games on sale, with playtests, demos and awesome upcoming games! See you on September 1st!
Our upcoming Steam Event features games on sale, with playtests, demos and awesome upcoming games! See you on September 1st!
August 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We heard you like sword games, so please say hello to Sword Celebration ⚔️
Our upcoming Steam Event features games on sale, with playtests, demos and awesome upcoming games! See you on September 1st!
Our upcoming Steam Event features games on sale, with playtests, demos and awesome upcoming games! See you on September 1st!
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Scholar and author @aarontram.bsky.social spoke to us about play's blurry other side -- where it isn't always fun or consensual -- and what we risk by ignoring it.
What we miss when play is only pleasurable
Professor Aaron Trammell on torture, military strategists at conventions, and learning from his cats.
www.rascal.news
August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Scholar and author @aarontram.bsky.social spoke to us about play's blurry other side -- where it isn't always fun or consensual -- and what we risk by ignoring it.
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If VPNs are such an obvious massive loophole, why didn't you put this in the law originally? Could it be possible you're all so tech illiterate you didn't realise everyone would just get a VPN?
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.
www.bbc.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
If VPNs are such an obvious massive loophole, why didn't you put this in the law originally? Could it be possible you're all so tech illiterate you didn't realise everyone would just get a VPN?
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If you’ve been curious about what I mean when I talk about using history in “non-historical” games, then this design diary I wrote about Amberspire will give some insights.
It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history
lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...
It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history
lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...
Micro and Macro History
Hello! I’m Holly Nielsen, a historian, writer and narrative designer. I’m lucky enough to be working on Amberspire, and Nic has kindly offere...
lunardivision.net
August 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you’ve been curious about what I mean when I talk about using history in “non-historical” games, then this design diary I wrote about Amberspire will give some insights.
It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history
lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...
It’s about finding inspiration in the tension and meeting of micro and macro history
lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...
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Even the smallest bits of this game were so good and evocative.
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Even the smallest bits of this game were so good and evocative.
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this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line