J. Thomas
@nullspeak.bsky.social
Lead Writer / VO director of The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. | he/him
Working on @thekillingstone.com at Question, LLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
Working on @thekillingstone.com at Question, LLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
There's an area of our game only visible in the editor, where Ripe Nith, a demon lord - has been abandoned by one of our frosty windows. Idk why, and... I don't want to know, really.
If she's a redundant instance, I hope they never move her
Long year. She's just... got a lot to think about
If she's a redundant instance, I hope they never move her
Long year. She's just... got a lot to think about
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There's an area of our game only visible in the editor, where Ripe Nith, a demon lord - has been abandoned by one of our frosty windows. Idk why, and... I don't want to know, really.
If she's a redundant instance, I hope they never move her
Long year. She's just... got a lot to think about
If she's a redundant instance, I hope they never move her
Long year. She's just... got a lot to think about
C'mon, academia dot edu. Don't do me like that. Yes, as w/ many: my 2025 did indeed suck in some bold new ways... but I wasn't - like, the main character, jeez.
And as of YET, a chorus of masked assholes has not shown up to loudly lament my fate.
And as of YET, a chorus of masked assholes has not shown up to loudly lament my fate.
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
C'mon, academia dot edu. Don't do me like that. Yes, as w/ many: my 2025 did indeed suck in some bold new ways... but I wasn't - like, the main character, jeez.
And as of YET, a chorus of masked assholes has not shown up to loudly lament my fate.
And as of YET, a chorus of masked assholes has not shown up to loudly lament my fate.
Show me how your 2025 went
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Show me how your 2025 went
WTF nooo. BHVR wisely has a grandfather-clause for existing owners, etc - but licensors, take a seat:
If you license your precious OC: being in > one game is a WIN. This short-sighted, grabby policy which sterilizes *retroactive* competition says "don't buy the new thing, it hates the fans."
If you license your precious OC: being in > one game is a WIN. This short-sighted, grabby policy which sterilizes *retroactive* competition says "don't buy the new thing, it hates the fans."
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
WTF nooo. BHVR wisely has a grandfather-clause for existing owners, etc - but licensors, take a seat:
If you license your precious OC: being in > one game is a WIN. This short-sighted, grabby policy which sterilizes *retroactive* competition says "don't buy the new thing, it hates the fans."
If you license your precious OC: being in > one game is a WIN. This short-sighted, grabby policy which sterilizes *retroactive* competition says "don't buy the new thing, it hates the fans."
Behold my "Horse Girl Dark Triad"
Ripe Nið - the grudge queen.
The quip is WIP, and there's debug info in the screenshot, but I don't care, I love her, and she can see you right now
Ripe Nið - the grudge queen.
The quip is WIP, and there's debug info in the screenshot, but I don't care, I love her, and she can see you right now
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Behold my "Horse Girl Dark Triad"
Ripe Nið - the grudge queen.
The quip is WIP, and there's debug info in the screenshot, but I don't care, I love her, and she can see you right now
Ripe Nið - the grudge queen.
The quip is WIP, and there's debug info in the screenshot, but I don't care, I love her, and she can see you right now
TBC friends - Erika Ishii, our friend and and former god - is in this. Decent chance that among our players, there are some fans of musicals - who'd like to see them rock out.
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
TBC friends - Erika Ishii, our friend and and former god - is in this. Decent chance that among our players, there are some fans of musicals - who'd like to see them rock out.
If AI removes all grunt work: consider the lost art of truly humiliating "stub" text, or bright pink prop furniture, etc. I bet when DaVinci needed to imply ambiguous future content, he just drew a dick.
Behold: our weary, perpetually hung over species at our great labor. Are we not magnificent? 🫠💤
Behold: our weary, perpetually hung over species at our great labor. Are we not magnificent? 🫠💤
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If AI removes all grunt work: consider the lost art of truly humiliating "stub" text, or bright pink prop furniture, etc. I bet when DaVinci needed to imply ambiguous future content, he just drew a dick.
Behold: our weary, perpetually hung over species at our great labor. Are we not magnificent? 🫠💤
Behold: our weary, perpetually hung over species at our great labor. Are we not magnificent? 🫠💤
Or
Hear me out
Watch Warlock on loop and pretend it’s the same universe
Don’t let the fascists define “fun”, “healthy” or “meaningful”
Don’t let them tell you this is “absurdist masochism”
You’re beyond all that now. Dread enlightenment awaits
Hear me out
Watch Warlock on loop and pretend it’s the same universe
Don’t let the fascists define “fun”, “healthy” or “meaningful”
Don’t let them tell you this is “absurdist masochism”
You’re beyond all that now. Dread enlightenment awaits
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Or
Hear me out
Watch Warlock on loop and pretend it’s the same universe
Don’t let the fascists define “fun”, “healthy” or “meaningful”
Don’t let them tell you this is “absurdist masochism”
You’re beyond all that now. Dread enlightenment awaits
Hear me out
Watch Warlock on loop and pretend it’s the same universe
Don’t let the fascists define “fun”, “healthy” or “meaningful”
Don’t let them tell you this is “absurdist masochism”
You’re beyond all that now. Dread enlightenment awaits
Sorry to be the one to tell you this: You may be a 17th century polymath with your very own demonic tutor.
But you're still gonna drop dead before you finish that custom Warhammer army
But you're still gonna drop dead before you finish that custom Warhammer army
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sorry to be the one to tell you this: You may be a 17th century polymath with your very own demonic tutor.
But you're still gonna drop dead before you finish that custom Warhammer army
But you're still gonna drop dead before you finish that custom Warhammer army
I don’t post enough about the upcoming game until the zero hour - which is a pigheaded indulgence I gotta shake in 2025
This is about a story mode we’re hoping to include. The team seemed to like it so here ya go-
Kind of a mood
This is about a story mode we’re hoping to include. The team seemed to like it so here ya go-
Kind of a mood
September 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I don’t post enough about the upcoming game until the zero hour - which is a pigheaded indulgence I gotta shake in 2025
This is about a story mode we’re hoping to include. The team seemed to like it so here ya go-
Kind of a mood
This is about a story mode we’re hoping to include. The team seemed to like it so here ya go-
Kind of a mood
We're still unreleased and have no official icon art yet so I guess Steam makes its own...?
This is like when a well-meaning parent or relative looks at your favorite cartoon / game and *tries* to make a cake in the rough shape, but ends up making a delicious insult to art, life, and god
Adorable.
This is like when a well-meaning parent or relative looks at your favorite cartoon / game and *tries* to make a cake in the rough shape, but ends up making a delicious insult to art, life, and god
Adorable.
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We're still unreleased and have no official icon art yet so I guess Steam makes its own...?
This is like when a well-meaning parent or relative looks at your favorite cartoon / game and *tries* to make a cake in the rough shape, but ends up making a delicious insult to art, life, and god
Adorable.
This is like when a well-meaning parent or relative looks at your favorite cartoon / game and *tries* to make a cake in the rough shape, but ends up making a delicious insult to art, life, and god
Adorable.
I'll stick with the original, because famously, older= better!
See? When this version intoned earnest nothings, it then had the decency to simply explode.
(not a dunk on OP, obviously)
See? When this version intoned earnest nothings, it then had the decency to simply explode.
(not a dunk on OP, obviously)
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I'll stick with the original, because famously, older= better!
See? When this version intoned earnest nothings, it then had the decency to simply explode.
(not a dunk on OP, obviously)
See? When this version intoned earnest nothings, it then had the decency to simply explode.
(not a dunk on OP, obviously)
also - hire a team that won't fear you, and ideally will end your entire family line with a JPG
August 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
also - hire a team that won't fear you, and ideally will end your entire family line with a JPG
@radiatoryang.bsky.social your “new game idea” format is so powerful that I want you to know I had no choice of how to read this website logo
August 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@radiatoryang.bsky.social your “new game idea” format is so powerful that I want you to know I had no choice of how to read this website logo
game writing is grave, spiritual work done by uniformly serious people
July 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
game writing is grave, spiritual work done by uniformly serious people
I know what you're up to, Margaret Cavendish (1666).
Disney's Robin Hood, out here Awakening certain individuals of 'singular taste' long before it existed. 🦊💘
Disney's Robin Hood, out here Awakening certain individuals of 'singular taste' long before it existed. 🦊💘
June 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I know what you're up to, Margaret Cavendish (1666).
Disney's Robin Hood, out here Awakening certain individuals of 'singular taste' long before it existed. 🦊💘
Disney's Robin Hood, out here Awakening certain individuals of 'singular taste' long before it existed. 🦊💘
Choosing to believe this is what you meant
May 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Choosing to believe this is what you meant
Yep - that checks out. Sums it all up. (And no, I didn't name that meeting, that's cheating.)
May 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yep - that checks out. Sums it all up. (And no, I didn't name that meeting, that's cheating.)
without downloading any pics, where are you mentally? (art by @annazee.bsky.social)
April 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
without downloading any pics, where are you mentally? (art by @annazee.bsky.social)
This is about you, of course
He was subtweeting you in 1869
Happy Friday
He was subtweeting you in 1869
Happy Friday
January 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is about you, of course
He was subtweeting you in 1869
Happy Friday
He was subtweeting you in 1869
Happy Friday
Ending an extremely meta, very schedule-challenged D&D campaign tonight.
And as per my brand, I am experiencing ongoing self-inflicted psychic damage and just, y'know, posting through it
And as per my brand, I am experiencing ongoing self-inflicted psychic damage and just, y'know, posting through it
January 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Ending an extremely meta, very schedule-challenged D&D campaign tonight.
And as per my brand, I am experiencing ongoing self-inflicted psychic damage and just, y'know, posting through it
And as per my brand, I am experiencing ongoing self-inflicted psychic damage and just, y'know, posting through it