freya

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

wiki page: List of games that Buddha would not play XA 7 languages ~ Article Talk Tools v 1. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is thought to refer to ashtapada and dasapada respectively; however, later Sinhala commentaries refer to these boards also being used with games involving dice. 2 2. The same games played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant. 5] 3. Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places. This is described in the Vinaya Pitaka as "having drawn a circle with various lines on the ground, there they play avoiding the line to be avoided". Rhys Davids suggests that it may refer to parihara-patham, a form of hop-scotch. 4. Games where players either remove pieces from a pile or add pieces to it, with the loser being the one who causes the heap to shake (similar to the modern game pick-up sticks). 5. Games of throwing dice.

6. Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required— elephants, horses, etc.. 7. Ball games. 8. Blowing through a pat-kulal, a toy pipe made of leaves. 9. Ploughing with a toy plough. 10. Playing with toy windmills made from palm leaves. 11. Playing with toy measures made from palm leaves. 12. Playing with toy carts. 13. Playing with toy bows. 14. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back. (letters in the Brahmi script) 15. Guessing a friend's thoughts. 16. Imitating deformities.

unbelievable jam idea

guy drove past me in a pickup truck while loudly blasting that Big Iron on his Hip country song... dudes rock

Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

Exotic Dancer And Robot Photography by Gaston Paris Paris, France (c.1935)

Exotic Dancer And Robot

Photography by Gaston Paris

Paris, France (c.1935)

photo of a ruined castle on top of a hill, a fish pond in the foreground, under a mottled blue and white sky

POV you are a game developer getting a few minutes of sun on your lunch break

to be clear this is an indie (team size not apparent) project advert, so maybe the candidate would have a measurable impact, but otherwise yes I agree

they're real for that tho. luck matters

reject aspirational breakout gems, embrace the workmanlike mid

perfect encapsulation of game industry mood. hiring environment where you must be not simply competent, but excellent, whether in a big expensive AAA project or a small commercial indie one. unsustainable; and ime personal skill and game positive reviews are not 1:1 correlated...

gamedev job ad that says Qualifications Experience working on 3D game projects Released titles with clear examples of your contribution (projects with at least 80% positive player reviews preferred)

very funny requirement to spot on a game design job ad. Devs of 7/10 games need not apply

context: fighting fantasy style gamebook. the player is in a gauntlet of arena fights against opponents, each of which has the arena announcer make a pun

announcer: ROUND SIX! and that's not the only thing that's six!

enemy: six goblins

I mean, they already made a threeslop game

I think I tapped out a few dungeons before her... I got to the final layer/biome/etc of the chalices so wasn't that far, but bouncing off Ludwig killed my drive lol

I think I would love a "oops all chalice dungeons" souls game...

it's also in the chalices hanging out

I think the hardest fight I stubbornly beat was the chalice dungeon undead giant with the chains... the hardest one I gave up on was Ludwig

rather that than the nightmare frontier

in an otherwise ambiently miserable employment environment for trans women I'm grateful to have a place that not only employs but explicitly appreciates me...

work gave me a little desk trophy for being there for 5 years... feels a long time... a little bittersweet to receive after my team went through two rounds of redundancies in as many years, but I'm happy to have the trust and respect of my team, and a fun new project...

I'll be between big jobs soon, and would love to dedicate at least a few months toward prototyping the gameplay for this project.

If I made it the focus of my Patreon for the foreseeable future, could you see yourself chipping in a few dollars monthly to support it? I've got big plans!

sell seven million copies? layoffs

In From The Cold was great, albeit I did a lot of hunting around in circles for the one mech with ceruleum... did that, tower of babil, and the trial all in one evening.. absolutely stacked set of quests

that's the first Trial of the expansion???

fingers crossed a nice identifiable Axis

can't possibly imagine what these people scrabbling to survive a decimated city while mistrustful of foreign help and resolute to not betray their country is inspired by

the garlemald section of endwalker so far would not hit as well if I hadn't slogged through 350 hours of the game to date with them as the antagonists... good arc...

poppy compared this arc of the main quest to the film Downfall and, yeah, I see it...

screenshot of FFXIV. a woman sits hunched on the ground of a train carriage saying "our pride, our culture, our knowledge-- all of it, gone"

average bystander on london underground

damn Endwalker isn't fucking around huh