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Riff Conner

@rifflesby.bsky.social

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Writer for the “of Loathing” series of video games. He/him

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · May 16

tell your friends
tell your uncles and aunts
type it into the chat in ALL CAPS
tip your barista and then tell your barista
be like "Shadows Over Loathing is on the Sony Playstation store" every time your dentist takes her fingers out of your mouth

Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · May 15

Shadows Over Loathing is (finally) available digitally on PlayStation 4 and 5!

store.playstation.com/en-us/search...

An image of a house and the dark words "Shadows Over Loathing" silhouetted in front of a giant moon, tentacles reaching in from all sides.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 4h

Pearls Before Swine (idiom): you have to eat your pearls or you won't get any swine

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 6h

Entry 08

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 9h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 12h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 7h

I once arrived at a psych 101 class & found I'd totally blanked the paper due that day. Asked if I could turn it in after mid-class break & she said sure. Sat in the front row & wrote it longhand, ran to the comp lab to type & print it, and ran back. Got an A. "I can't believe you pulled that off."

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 10h

Personally I’m not interested in debating people who think it’s okay to fry “just” the lower half of King Triton. That’s not what I use social media for. A moral baseline is that the entire mermaid is off limits for culinary purposes

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 18h

Today I showed the designers that you can name cells in spreadsheets and use the names in formulas (i.e. "=PLAYER_LEVEL" instead of "=C12"). You can then use the Name Manager to track or rename them. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so sharing that tidbit here.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 12h

it's a struggle i know all too well

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 12h

oh shit you're right. no you are correct to call me out on that, I went to graphic design school and should know better

Arial is what we use for Kingdom of Loathing, is why I was confused

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 13h

(whoops alt text: a photo of my screen, black arial on a white background, "a game happens: heads 500059 tails 499941")

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 13h

just testing our rng

no reason

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 13h

the forbidden wild cherry jolly rancher

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 14h

someone buy me this and i'll send you feet or hole pics comics.ha.com/itm/animatio...

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 13h

holy cow

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 13d

why do they call them children, they have like zero chill

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 20h

Doing some long-overdue cleanup on the English language this morning… "Carcinogenic" is now "cancerogenic." "Floor" is now "foor," the opposite of "roof." Complementary colors rhyme (red/gred, orange/blorange)

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 17h

lisa kudrow from friends.

("it's stylized and a bit abstract, like a posterized outline — evoking her kind and expressive Phoebe Buffay energy!")

an image of an alien head, attached to a skull.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 14h

there's a thing called Dextrous that I haven't investigated thoroughly but I've been keeping this video about it in my Watch Later in case I ever needed it www.youtube.com/watch?v=waKg...

The Best Tool for Rapidly Prototyping Your Board Game

YouTube video by Dave Jeltema

www.youtube.com

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 16h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 16h

The era of AI junk calls for a BIG TIME return of the word "ersatz." Let's all dust it off and get ready to wield that mother.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 17h

seconded

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · May 25

Tina Fey, perhaps best known for her voice work on the 1997 Williams pinball machine Medieval Madness,

upper play field of pinball machine showing plastic castle, ramps, trolls.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 1d

Bumper sticker that says
"My other car is legs."

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm attending a NATO conference today and someone has done the funniest thing possible with the name of their wi-fi network

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

and not that you asked, but His hog is the exact dimensions of a 16-car N700A Shinkansen bullet train

it's all in the apocrypha

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

now, if you ask me how long they are? They are unimaginably long, of course; god is unimaginably tall, it is only to be expected

but the thing is, even in proportion to his own height, they're mad long. like down to his knees

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