gender encoding of augury

An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.

hey there my #gamedev peers, can I interest y'all in a free & CC0 pixel font?

MONOGRAM

it has support for...
...English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek...
...and ★ 𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓼 ★ ?

please check it out!

https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram

Tiny Glade is out NOW on Steam (Win & Linux) 💗🎉

Thank you so much for following the development and being so supportive of our little diorama builder.

We hope you have fun, and I can’t wait to see what you make 🤩 If you post your glades, add #TinyGlade so I can find 'em :D

Transphobia as we know it couldn't exist without white supremacy and colonialism.

The imposition of the gender binary reduced a global kaleidoscope of genders to two and made them immutable.

White trans people should be anti-racist and, if that being the right thing to do isn't reason enough, our own self-interest should be.

I'm telling my fellow white trans people to care about bigotries that don't apply to them but really is that even true?

There's no transmisogyny without transmisogynoir.

Mastodon instance with a "scramble suit" functionality where every time you make a post it comes from a random account handle with a random display name and a random avatar

"Spread Transgenderism"
Pasteups spotted in so-called Ypsilanti, Michigan

I posted this on Tumblr. I didn't think it would go far. But ... people have clipped it from Tumblr, shared in on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, it's had at least ONE AI read on Tiktok, and a few on Youtube ... so ... just so you know who posted it ... Hi. My pharmacist stole my deadname.

"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)

#ThanksEU #GDPR #AIAct #DMA #TormentNexus

Hello everyone. I started a new studio called Weird Flex.
We are having an engagement party with Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria on October 10. During #migw Come touch grass, and play with nature 🍃🍃
https://gamesweek.melbourne/events/2024-events/greening-the-screen

The Caves of Qud team are making their final preparations for 1.0 launch later this year!

✏ Tutorial beta early next month
🔥 Feature Fridays pausing after this week (to focus fully on dev)
⏰Price is going up Oct 29th

Read the full update on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/6973349936528070885

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257

so, today i learned that BIC ran an advertisement campaign 10 years ago, one that actually yielded something interesting, a font that was an average sum of people's handwriting! it was called the "universal typeface experiment"

...but the campaign got taken down the year after, and it was extremely hard tracking down the fonts for the longest time.

so, someone on reddit randomly popped up with a sketchy download link to it, so i snagged it and plopped it on internet archive so that this shit doesn't get lost lmfao

https://archive.org/details/universal-typeface-experiment

The Dig

A killer feature cohost had compared to every other social media site I've been using is rich webpage embeds. Any webpage you linked to, it had a high chance of embedding a usable, readable, etc. copy of whatever is at the site. It wasn't just OpenGraph previews, but a richer embed of the site's actual content much of the time. Means there was less of a culture of sharing inaccessible screenshots, and more just pasting links.