Clarity Flowers
@clarity.flowers
🌸 a strange sort of fairy 🌱 makes things 👭 trans lesbian, 32 🏞 portland OR 🌐 https://clarity.flowers
more active on https://xoxo.zone/@clarity but I'm here too I guess
more active on https://xoxo.zone/@clarity but I'm here too I guess
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Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
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Angeline Era is a love letter to one of my favorite games: "WALKING", for the console "OUTSIDE"!
AE's world mirrors the real world: Confounding, Mystifying...
AE's also a Site of Reversible Destiny-like.Visiting in the rain was huge for the action design:
melodicambient.substack.com/p/exploring-...
AE's world mirrors the real world: Confounding, Mystifying...
AE's also a Site of Reversible Destiny-like.Visiting in the rain was huge for the action design:
melodicambient.substack.com/p/exploring-...
Exploring Japan's Site of Reversible Destiny: A Real-life 3D Game Level
Intro In 1995, the game industry had made plenty of headway into 3D game design.
melodicambient.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Angeline Era is a love letter to one of my favorite games: "WALKING", for the console "OUTSIDE"!
AE's world mirrors the real world: Confounding, Mystifying...
AE's also a Site of Reversible Destiny-like.Visiting in the rain was huge for the action design:
melodicambient.substack.com/p/exploring-...
AE's world mirrors the real world: Confounding, Mystifying...
AE's also a Site of Reversible Destiny-like.Visiting in the rain was huge for the action design:
melodicambient.substack.com/p/exploring-...
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I think vegan meat substitutes and imitations are both an insult to food and vegans.
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I think vegan meat substitutes and imitations are both an insult to food and vegans.
I really gotta do another longer stay in NYC one of these days. I love it here so much and these two-night work trips are frustrating bc I have no time to enjoy it.
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I really gotta do another longer stay in NYC one of these days. I love it here so much and these two-night work trips are frustrating bc I have no time to enjoy it.
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While Portland's freeway expansion plans are collapsing, let's talk about reviving the campaign to bury I-5 on the east side. This should be a big wonderful waterfront park full of legally sanctioned hot dog vendors!!
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
While Portland's freeway expansion plans are collapsing, let's talk about reviving the campaign to bury I-5 on the east side. This should be a big wonderful waterfront park full of legally sanctioned hot dog vendors!!
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Today I scared Earl Blumenhauer in a meeting when I suggested we add baskets of bricks at unsafe intersections for pedestrians and cyclists to carry as they crossed lmfao
It would get drivers to act right!! Just sayin’
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It would get drivers to act right!! Just sayin’
😌✨
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Today I scared Earl Blumenhauer in a meeting when I suggested we add baskets of bricks at unsafe intersections for pedestrians and cyclists to carry as they crossed lmfao
It would get drivers to act right!! Just sayin’
😌✨
It would get drivers to act right!! Just sayin’
😌✨
man there's not a lot of great stuff from 1942. I wonder if anything was going on at the time.
actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
man there's not a lot of great stuff from 1942. I wonder if anything was going on at the time.
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I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow
Embrace friction
On letterpress, tech, and the power of going slow.
eva.town
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow
and yet people keep saying we should fund the police in order to reduce traffic fatalities 🫠
Despite the driver's admission of guilt, a solid witness statement, and irrefutable video evidence, PPB Officer Alexandru Martiniuc declined to issue any citation at all. The reason: The driver felt bad and said sorry.
bikeportland.org/2025/12/05/s...
bikeportland.org/2025/12/05/s...
Selective enforcement by Portland Police adds to crash victim's pain
"I’m not trying to ruin this person’s life - just to reinforce some accountability."
bikeportland.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
and yet people keep saying we should fund the police in order to reduce traffic fatalities 🫠
I'm developing a theory of game mechanics where there's a spectrum between "upgrades" and "options". Contrast, say, clicker games (pure upgrade) with something like deckbuilding in a TCG.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I'm developing a theory of game mechanics where there's a spectrum between "upgrades" and "options". Contrast, say, clicker games (pure upgrade) with something like deckbuilding in a TCG.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Imagining an alternate universe where Dark Souls had a "parry" with generous iframes as a low-risk/low-reward choice, and a "dodge" with a narrow window that triggers a chance for a free critical hit backstab.
once again: there is no reason that "parrying" needs to be more difficult/time-intensive than "dodging" and it's weird to me that games have calcified into overly-specific definitions of these ideas
Parrying is the worst thing in video games: aftermath.site/parrying-bad
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Imagining an alternate universe where Dark Souls had a "parry" with generous iframes as a low-risk/low-reward choice, and a "dodge" with a narrow window that triggers a chance for a free critical hit backstab.
once again: there is no reason that "parrying" needs to be more difficult/time-intensive than "dodging" and it's weird to me that games have calcified into overly-specific definitions of these ideas
Parrying is the worst thing in video games: aftermath.site/parrying-bad
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
once again: there is no reason that "parrying" needs to be more difficult/time-intensive than "dodging" and it's weird to me that games have calcified into overly-specific definitions of these ideas
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
more comments should have diagrams imo
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
more comments should have diagrams imo
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Software 👎🏻
SoftWIFE 👍🏼
SoftWIFE 👍🏼
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Software 👎🏻
SoftWIFE 👍🏼
SoftWIFE 👍🏼
"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." - Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." - Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
420 blazing fast written in rust
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
420 blazing fast written in rust
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Introducing #sdfiddle , an SDF renderer that allows you to download SDFs as .pngs.
I use this for example to generate 2D light textures for my games.
https://bitbra.in/sdfiddle
I use this for example to generate 2D light textures for my games.
https://bitbra.in/sdfiddle
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Introducing #sdfiddle , an SDF renderer that allows you to download SDFs as .pngs.
I use this for example to generate 2D light textures for my games.
https://bitbra.in/sdfiddle
I use this for example to generate 2D light textures for my games.
https://bitbra.in/sdfiddle
the fact that cuomo used mamdani's own graphic design to attempt to parody him was maybe the strongest sign that he was losing.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
the fact that cuomo used mamdani's own graphic design to attempt to parody him was maybe the strongest sign that he was losing.
I think it's neat how many english-speaking people use "🙏" in their online speech in a way that is very clearly based on japanese cultural norms (implies bowing, used for both "please" and "thank you") without actually knowing why they are doing that
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think it's neat how many english-speaking people use "🙏" in their online speech in a way that is very clearly based on japanese cultural norms (implies bowing, used for both "please" and "thank you") without actually knowing why they are doing that
If I could only play one TTRPG for the rest of my life, it'd be Apocalypse World. The kickstarter for the third edition launched today. Worth your money many times over imo.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If I could only play one TTRPG for the rest of my life, it'd be Apocalypse World. The kickstarter for the third edition launched today. Worth your money many times over imo.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
type of guy who winks and says “you can keep it” when the server tries to hand him back his credit card
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
type of guy who winks and says “you can keep it” when the server tries to hand him back his credit card