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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · May 31

still annoyed i misspelled "announcement" in this post btw

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · Mar 14

ANNOUNCMENT TIME

A new public build of PAX RODENTIA, a classical roguelike in which you play as a small field mouse, is now available on quiggy.itch.io. This represents six months of work and is a significant technological overhaul of the version I published in November.

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 2h

didn't feel like skonging or playing ff14 so finally started up shiren 6

god how i adore this series

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 5h

make games shorter ffs

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 5h

i truly want to finish silksong but im starting to burn out on it. it's so goddamn good but it's also so goddamn long, and i have more games waiting in the wings i want to get to

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 6h

there's a reason every other VR game just has floating hands lol

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 6h

we use IK to draw actual arms from the player's body to their hands, using the VR controllers to determine hand position. i had to try to update that and it was awful

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 6h

IK is the fucking devil

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 8h

i literally do tech work in a creative industry and i *never* see times when AI would be beneficial to work

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 8h

god forbid we insult [checks notes] the ku klux klan

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 13h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 12h

that's what i'd like to know!!

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 12h

i've never done coke but my understanding of it is that it's not something that lines up with the violin and whistling man

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 12h

the one time ive gotten to see Andrew Bird in concert i got stuck behind four white girls doing coke

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Got into a Decemberists “MySpace Secret Show” in Austin in 07. Tiny venue called the Mohawk. Decemberists not a very loud band. People loudly talked through the whole show. When I asked people to shut the fuck up so I could hear the show they said “we got here before you, we’ll do what we want” ????

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · Mar 3

Been to a lot of shows in my time and I figured out a surefire way for you to avoid people who talk through/over concerts:

1. Get there early, ideally in line when doors open
2. Hang back and see where I post up
3. Be anywhere else
4. Those motherfuckers are guaranteed to be directly behind me

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 12h

can we just skip ahead to the part with the blue army and the gray army this is taking forever

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 13h

why does every piece of AI-critical media out there still say "it's a useful tool"

it's not! even remotely! what the heck!!

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 16h

the sun isn't even up yet

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 16h

70F before 7am on Oct 8. we're not gonna make it fam

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

[nodding] qbasic

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

well that's the wildest chess game i've seen in ages

lichess.org/fttlHSw5/white

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

i got to see a talk by the creators at GDC, would you believe this is a student project?

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

oh wow the silksong lava escape

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

because chess is perfect information with no randomness, from the perspective of an engine there is no such thing as a good move, only moves that are less bad. every move always makes your position worse.

gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 1d

*described, obvs

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