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Jenna "the" Yow

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hater and buzzkill. narrative menace @ko-op.com they/them 🇱🇧🇺🇸

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · Oct 30

I'm Jenna, a narrative designer & illustrator @koopmode.bsky.social for Goodbye Volcano High, Ridiculous Fishing EX, and secret, cooler things. I also have some interactive fiction about taking bodies apart at jannouna.itch.io

promotional key art for Goodbye Volcano High featuring the protagonist, Fang, an anthropomorphic dinosaur holding a guitar and checking their phone

promotional image for ridiculous fishing ex, featuring a fisherman on a green ocean preparing to catch and shoot some fish

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1h

yeah I was braced for it but I was still kind of caught off guard as to how like .... bad it was lmao

Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

I think the explanation is just that it's bad writing

Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

speaking as a games writer, i don't think the issue with any game's story is the result of writers being lazy. but i do think this was a predictable problem that they should have been better equipped for considering they had the exact same structure as the first game

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

the post game replayability was always going to be at odds with a story that has a finite resolution, and that is only exacerbated by a (supposedly) apocalyptic-level threat. so i'm not even that surprised

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

there's much to chew on. i think it can be best summarized by stepping on the same rake you set out with the first game, but this time the rake has a pie on the end of it that smacks you in the face when you step on it again

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

oh i know. i've seen mutterings as well and i gotta be honest, they're well deserved

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm exaggerating slightly but I do think it was really bad lol

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

rolled credits on hades 2. absolutely incredible game marred by one of the biggest narrative fumbles in recent memory

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

new daily affirmation

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 1d

You should all buy our new game when it comes out so that we can increase our salaries and hire all our talented friends being laid off. This is a perfect plan.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

ruh roh

Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 1d

noted

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 2d

Worker owned things will have much better time existing when people will understand that “the rich/capitalists” doesn’t mean “anybody who gets paid (slightly more than me) for their work”

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 2d

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god?

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 2d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

This exchange is a perfect example of why you can't reform the Democrats. They can't admit they were wrong. Ever. They will always blame the very people who predicted that the situation they're currently upset about will happen. They're not interested in fixing anything.

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3d

The whole empty, centrist Dem scam is collapsing in real time.

This is a leg sweep, followed by a quick boxing of Schatz’s ears. These hacks need to go away. They are killing us in so many ways.

An exchange from Twitter where Brian Schatz is bemoaning ICE and Adam Johnson points out Schatz voted to double their budget just last year.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 4d

egads!

Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 4d

hey guys what did i miss

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mcc @dryad.technology · 5d

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

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Maximum Crash @maximumcrash.com · 5d

Happy Bandcamp Friday

Got a new mixtape full of jungle, dance, and oddities I couldn’t fit in my wip albums. Enjoy :)

maximumcrash.bandcamp.com/album/heist-...

Heist Era 2025, by Maximum Crash

8 track album

maximumcrash.bandcamp.com

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KO_OP @ko-op.com · 8d

Do you want gayer games with gayer graphics made by gay people paid more to work less? Goodbye Volcano High is half off during the Steam Autumn Sale 🏳️‍⚧️

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Save 50% on Goodbye Volcano High on Steam

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is...

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 6d

whenever i talk to students or recent graduates about the state of games i try to be gentle but honest with them. and there is no gentle way of accurately conveying exactly how terrible things are

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 6d

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 6d

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

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