Adamhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/Ash__Adams_GOBSMACKED/Linkerhttps://linker.itch.io/Ways you've changed in the last 20 years that have surprised youExamples of x animal software running on y animal hardware (ie. fox being cat software on dog hardware)This argument about whether erasure poetry is poetryhttps://www.tumblr.com/whistletown/753096096947011584Favourite RPG (videogame or tabletop; open to interpretation)Launching a game in the deep past.Indiepocalypse.After Journey's End vol. 2.The Monthly Tape Club. Games that are big enough or marketable enough.Getting excited about this month's PC Gamer demo disk.Zine-like game distribution. Making a small game to express a thought. Making a living making weird shit. The methods of marketing a small game. Practices that have existed for thousands of years.The boom and bust cycle and why you might or might not get in on the next boom.Making a shit-ton of money and continuing to pay your employees rather than laying them off. Whether Gen Z is savvy to the MBA brain worms. Whether Jim has a college degree.New England Sarcastic.Learning about having kids and wondering what it'd be like to have a purpose in life.Being legally responsible for the survival of the worst roommate imaginable.Other People's Dogs. How is your life different from when you were 6 years old? Becoming a permanent resident of Canada.A local theater company producing your play. Frog Fractions: it came from space.A thing that expresses the maelstrom going on in my head (or soul) The six 70s funk songs with a long enough stretch of isolated drums that they became the drums for every song ever.How to make art as an expression of human needs. Video games: they shouldn't exist. Expressing a thought with the skills you enjoy flexing.The virtues of having playtesters.Bug software running on mammal hardware. Tiny cats in the bodies of big cats. Service dogs for cheetahs.Remaining calm around humans because your dog buddy loves humans.Erasure Poetry.Oh Someone Oh God And Then Me.Formalized rules for determining who gets credit for what when a bunch of people make a piece of art.Legal precedents for copyright and reproduction rights.Magnetic fridge poetry.Inventing an art form that's even more constrained than pixel art somehow. Unity of effect.Looking at a blurry 16x16 tile and not being quite sure what it's supposed to be. RPGs: what even are they?What you can get away with within the aesthetics of a black and white Game Boy game.Whether Breath of the Wild counts as an immersive sim and whether immersive sims count as RPGsGetting into the topic weeds.Chained Echoes.Observing the sand running through the hourglass.Social anxiety preventing you from enjoying tabletop RPGs.Playing tabletop RPGs with a bunch of weird theater people.Meeting your friend at a bar to catch up on the latest events in his tabletop RPG sessions.How to use your name on social media.
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