AndrewKateIs it okay to make a game that is boringMy friend wants me to play WoW. Should I?How to melt chocolateKate's Wallace and Gromit songhttps://bsky.app/profile/hownottodraw.bsky.social/post/3lfctso62a22qVFX is like cooking, game design is like bakingLooksmaxxingAdam Atomic's Pico-8 renaissance.Vampire vs. Pope ArmyStill Kate.Grass and flowers and touching them.The bifurcation of Bluesky into Twitter 2 and Mastodon into Not Twitter.The different kinds of people who tell you you're doing it wrong on different social media services.Looking at Bluesky and realizing it's just like Twitter, and having a reaction to that realization.Comparing your mood before using an internet service to your mood afterwards.You're the cow, baby!A story about living in a village of fewer than twenty people where nothing happens for thirty years.Countervailing forces preventing your game design from becoming a worry stone.Going outside and being bored until being bored stops feeling like an assault on all your senses.Talking to your mates in the pub about your new socks.Your mayonnaise manufacturing district.YAGNI.That time your ex-husband stole your knife and without a knife you can't cut food! Or ropes!Needing medical help and asking the guy in your village who owns half an encyclopedia.A miserable experience that is worth doing.The big advantage of playing World of Warcraft in Hardcore mode.WoW Classic and WoW Classic Classic.A game about killing 40 rats.The game for children that do annoying dances.Who knows about causality?The two year period when game designers played nothing but World of Warcraft.Getting addicted to an MMO and never contributing anything to society ever again.Entering into an activity with a miserly determination to not have fun.What it takes to do a dungeon.The spaces between the exciting parts.Melting chocolate on top of parchment paper.Melting chocolate with a hair dryer.A Fraught Bark Experience.Mouthfuls of raw flour.Cake Batter Bark.Rescuing seized chocolate.Counterintuitive chocolate behavior.Baking: It's Stupid.Adding a tart cheese to cream of mushrooms soup.Reading the poem as if you're not singing it in your head.Asking the vicar to share a stir-fry.Adding swear words to the Wallace and Gromit theme.Leggy Desert Boy, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.The verse in Eleanor Rigby where they talk about cooking and eating dinner.Words that rhyme with "pint."Rhyming "pint" with "2019."Inventing an OC named "blorange" to solve your rhyming problems.Taking flavors and synthesizing new flavors.Hammering on the "fun" button for forty or fifty years.Having the one hit and not needing another hit.Exploring a multidimensional design space and tapping on all the walls to see which ones are destructible.Starting to make a game and finding out whether it's an easy game to make.Langoliers.Night Snacker.Releasing games exclusively in the Topic Lords discord.The art of turning your mortal vessel into a weapon.Softmaxxing vs. Hardmaxxing.Doing tongue exercises to sharpen your jaw.The Wikipedia page with the most scare quotes on it.Limb-lengthening surgery.Dabbing: it's just extremely short-term looksmaxxing.When two subcultures have two different words for the same idea.Whether the Xes in "Looksmaxxing" are the kisses and the Os the hugs, or vice versa.Whether the Xes in are the kisses and the Os are the hugs or whether the Xes are the dead eyes on the cartoon face.Archiving the VODs.
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