Xeni Giardiniera
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Since almost everyone I follow/follows me here is now game design-related, I'll do a little thread about my stuff and (too many) works in progress...
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Societal atomisation being expressed in a boom of solo games, as well capitalist realism translating into the inescapability of Gygaxian Fantasy, which now dominated big publishing (WOTC, Darrington, MCDM) as well as Indies via the OSR.
It's great to be a designer, but it's awful to do so...
It's great to be a designer, but it's awful to do so...
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Societal atomisation being expressed in a boom of solo games, as well capitalist realism translating into the inescapability of Gygaxian Fantasy, which now dominated big publishing (WOTC, Darrington, MCDM) as well as Indies via the OSR.
It's great to be a designer, but it's awful to do so...
It's great to be a designer, but it's awful to do so...
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Every spec fic take on the British: oh they all want to run about looking like medieval knights
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
real Lunar spacesuit designed by the British interplanetary society.
I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)
I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Every spec fic take on the British: oh they all want to run about looking like medieval knights
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
Me: nonsense
Actual British futurism:
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Picturing this guy's now on the run from the same feds who hunted down Alf
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Picturing this guy's now on the run from the same feds who hunted down Alf
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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Man, everyone in Dracula really guzzled the Dumb Bitch Juice as soon as Lucy died, didn't they?
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Man, everyone in Dracula really guzzled the Dumb Bitch Juice as soon as Lucy died, didn't they?
I'm a little nephrospicy (it burns when I pee)
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I'm a little nephrospicy (it burns when I pee)
What are the best current smartphone options for AI haters?
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What are the best current smartphone options for AI haters?
You Can't Hoverboard on Water, Charlie Brown
Unless You Got Power, Charlie Brown
Unless You Got Power, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You Can't Hoverboard on Water, Charlie Brown
Unless You Got Power, Charlie Brown
Unless You Got Power, Charlie Brown
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[leonard cohen hallelujah voice] cowabunga
December 14, 2023 at 2:52 AM
[leonard cohen hallelujah voice] cowabunga
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You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
All my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
All my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
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I'm hearing that Trump has removed his trademark suit and replaced it with a simple proletarian jumpsuit and has declared that every state must immediately convene a worker's soviet.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm hearing that Trump has removed his trademark suit and replaced it with a simple proletarian jumpsuit and has declared that every state must immediately convene a worker's soviet.
I'm not sure the word "Antifa" means anything anymore
Watching the funeral of VP Dick Cheney and listening to his daughter, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, speak. One can only hope that this GOP will find its democratic compass again and reject all things fascist. I didn’t always agree with VP Cheney BUT he was antifa. He always put country over party.RIP🙏
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm not sure the word "Antifa" means anything anymore
This and their test videos of Christmas trees exploding are among my favorite holiday traditions
Notice how adding water is bad.
Follow the instructions that come with your turkey fryer. Use your turkey fryer away from your home. Have a working fire extinguisher.
Follow the instructions that come with your turkey fryer. Use your turkey fryer away from your home. Have a working fire extinguisher.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This and their test videos of Christmas trees exploding are among my favorite holiday traditions
Surely not
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Surely not
I'm still waiting on an answer...
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm still waiting on an answer...
Good to know:
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Good to know:
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
Y'know what else they did to the Romanovs?
The fact that this is all to soothe Rowling's bruised ego over the original kids talking shit about her is still so wild to me, that's the kind of thing they did to assuage Romanovs
Did you know that the HBO Harry Potter TV series has decided that a good use of its money is to make sure that they are using authentic 90s trains (because the enduring success of the books is their...period setting apparently?) but not to tie the cast, young and old, from doing other projects?
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Y'know what else they did to the Romanovs?
Pronouncing "Lunchables" like "Les Miserables"
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pronouncing "Lunchables" like "Les Miserables"
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[sinking in quicksand]
me: oh no
wife: we’ll be fine if we just remain still and wait for help
me: ok
[mambo no. 5 starts to play]
me: OH NO
me: oh no
wife: we’ll be fine if we just remain still and wait for help
me: ok
[mambo no. 5 starts to play]
me: OH NO
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
[sinking in quicksand]
me: oh no
wife: we’ll be fine if we just remain still and wait for help
me: ok
[mambo no. 5 starts to play]
me: OH NO
me: oh no
wife: we’ll be fine if we just remain still and wait for help
me: ok
[mambo no. 5 starts to play]
me: OH NO
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remember back when Cuomo's career collapsed the first time, and it came out that TimesUp, the leading organization behind MeToo, had been serving as a catch-and-kill operation for the Dems
safely burying all the stories of Cuomo molesting staffers, for the sake of the Party
safely burying all the stories of Cuomo molesting staffers, for the sake of the Party
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
remember back when Cuomo's career collapsed the first time, and it came out that TimesUp, the leading organization behind MeToo, had been serving as a catch-and-kill operation for the Dems
safely burying all the stories of Cuomo molesting staffers, for the sake of the Party
safely burying all the stories of Cuomo molesting staffers, for the sake of the Party
My man's going through it
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My man's going through it