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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 5h

❗ An epic adventure told from the perspectives of side quest givers. ❗

Legends & Lattes ✖️ When the Moon Hits Your Eye
👀 multi-POV
🌈 #LGBT
🎲 TTRPG inspired
✉️ epistolary chapters
🗣️ chapters in conversation
👑 royal generational trauma
💸 money squabbles
🗡️ mafia
💀 death cult
#F #A #Latine #DVPit

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 6h

Death to Chronos.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 7h

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
MCs:
🧙 country wizard 🌈 💖 rogue mafioso 🗡️
➕
🛡️ ex-royal merc 👩👧 hunted sorceress 🪄

👀 multi-POV side quest givers:
🧚 fairy in peril
👻 duchess w/ a pesky dead aunt
🐲 brainwashed dragon
💀 death match fighter
+ more!
#F #A #Latine #LGBT #DVpit

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 9h

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
A sorceress & her ex-royal merc mom are hunted by a death cult.
A country wizard returns home with something to prove & becomes entranced by a mafioso.
Together they’re stars, but they’ll take a cameo in your story
for a price.
#F #A #Latine #LGBT #DVpit

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 9h

The blog I used to find co-op board games is dead. 🫠 They're no longer posting new reviews, just listicles with suspiciously different, bad writing. Preview images for most recent articles are definitely gen AI.

Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yeah, love a unique PoV like this.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 10h

❗ An epic adventure told from the perspectives of side quest givers. ❗

Legends & Lattes ✖️ When the Moon Hits Your Eye
👀 multi-POV
🌈 #LGBT
🎲 TTRPG inspired
✉️ epistolary chapters
🗣️ chapters in conversation
👑 royal generational trauma
💸 money squabbles
🗡️ mafia
💀 death cult
#F #A #Latine #DVPit

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 12h

Love to see Galavant as a comp a decade later.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 12h

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
MCs:
🧙 country wizard 🌈 💖 rogue mafioso 🗡️
➕
🛡️ ex-royal merc 👩👧 hunted sorceress 🪄

👀 multi-POV side quest givers:
🧚 fairy in peril
👻 duchess w/ a pesky dead aunt
🐲 brainwashed dragon
💀 death match fighter
+ more!
#F #A #Latine #LGBT #DVpit

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 15h

Legends & Lattes✖️When the Moon Hits Your Eye
A sorceress & her ex-royal merc mom are hunted by a death cult.
A country wizard returns home with something to prove & becomes entranced by a mafioso.
Together they’re stars, but they’ll take a cameo in your story
for a price.
#F #A #Latine #LGBT #DVpit

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Nana Moon { game dev } - BUY KEYLOCKER! @moonana.bsky.social · 1d

Keylocker Heart Strings Update is out now on the Nintendo Switch!!

If you want to get an idea of what's in the update, maybe check out our video preview: youtu.be/zDSbEAUXKD4

There's multiple new romances, new events, quests, languages, bug fixes and even hats!

#indiedev #pixelart #cyberpunk

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · Sep 15

Honestly love that Latinx was probably originally coined in 90s-00s online queer spaces. Making cishets angy about a letter for 25 years.
Gonna make a Kingdom Hearts OC named Altin to celebrate.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 1d

There is an amount of complaining where I have to ask, "Why are you trying to join this club that you hate?"

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno why we keep getting this since we don't shop for kids, but we keep getting it earlier every year.

Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 2d

Look, I hate this too, but Mastodon and Threads are absolutely not the solutions. I mean, most of all not Threads because it's just more Meta walled garden garbage and also refusing to protect queer people.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 2d

Realizing that because all the new forms are Megas according to leaks, PLZA is the first Pokemon game in about a decade where I haven't pre-planned and named my team, at least so far. 🤔I'm pretty sure about my starter, but could be swayed, and I know there's a different mega I want to main.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 2d

Got 4 wins in Hades II today, 3 on the first final boss and 1 on the second. Definitely beefier than the first game, which I rolled credits on in about 30 hours.
Although I feel like I'm gonna run into the same issue where I beat it well before I dig far into the conversations.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, there are backup saves that I can turn into normal save slots. So with effort you could save scum I guess.

Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 3d

Just lost a whole run to the final boss of time in Hades II because the game crashed when I was in a battle. What a wildly punishing design choice. I'm more of the straight up let people save scum camp, but it's weirdly punishing to not let me keep meta-progression.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 5d

In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks!

If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏

👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 6d

I couldn't have imagined when I woke up today that I would be scolding teens for using gen AI,
but making a tourney ruleset with it for the collegiate Pokémon League I founded 15 years ago kinda pisses me off.

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 6d

a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants .

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants .

media.tenor.com

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Jim Demonakos @jimdemonakos.bsky.social · 7d

Woo! Less than 36 hours later and the documentary about #GilmoreGirls that we have on Kickstarter is fully funded with almost 600 backers already!

I'm very grateful to everyone who took a moment to share this project, it takes a village (especially these days), so I truly appreciate you all!

Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls

Honoring the 25th anniversary with a doc that transforms everything you thought you knew about its legacy & multi-generational fandom.

www.kickstarter.com

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Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 6d

My #ACPC card for September! I did all the events and collected the cookie items again. I'll probably finish out a year of these posts, but next year I'll probably just poke in to decorate every once in a while.

Professor Alex @shiningcrobat.bsky.social · 6d

Getting through podcast recs; maybe novel time again in Oct.
Finished Sunderfolk w/ hubs & wanna play it again w/ more folk. 🤭 Hades II's been fantastic.
More big social tabletops this month & I kinda missed them!
FF12 soundtrack was good for Gloomhaven. 😅 New Cafuné + The Beths + Rebecca Sugar gr9.