Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
TTRPG design combines all the best parts of technical writing and imagining hanging out with friends.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
@mcc It's odd to think that the Popeye-Bluto-Olive trifecta has somehow defined Miyamoto's notion of protagonist/antagonist/object-of-desire relationships for four decades of gaming now, but you can sort of see how it carries over into the Mario series, and later in some ways to the tensions of the Legend Of Zelda games.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1591-CUSA10653_00-TITANICVRA151912
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Today I discovered https://www.whocanuse.com and I wanted to yell it to the world, but 56 people will have to do.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Couple photos of the galahs who visited my feeder today. Excuse the blinds/poor framing - I was doing my best to be discreet and not spook them
#photography #birds
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
2022: what if you had to find an alternative to twitter
2023: what if you had to find an alternative to reddit, discord, youtube, every single search engine, and microsoft windows
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Deadly Transphobic Scam (cw'd for boosting)
Deadly Transphobic Scam (cw'd for boosting)
@PsyChuan @categorille
(Just a CW'd version for people to boost).
I put some text on this image to make it easier to spread around.
This is literally a nightmare scenario. And is probably exactly what some of the politicians banning HRT want: to force us into dangerous unregulated medicine, so we die and then they can say "look, see how dangerous HRT is? We were right to ban it!"
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Lessons, living with parents with dementia: when an app on their phone spontaneously changes it's icon, it's a fucking disaster.
Some Google engineer launched a feature that got them a promotion and now my mom can't use her phone anymore. Silicon Valley is incapable of imagining a user who isn't a 27 year old white man.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
whoa just found out the original wilhelm scream recording is now digitized and in public domain? the blog post about the digitization process is interesting https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1515 https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675810/
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Kingdom - oil/acrylic on canvas
(Also available as a limited edition print. Please feel free to message me for details.)
Oh hey! #GirlByMoonlight is live now on Backerkit!
https://www.backerkit.com/c/evil-hat/girl-by-moonlight?ref=eh_tw
Girl By Moonlight is a stunning magical girl roleplaying game filled with tragedy and hope and fear and love that you should absolutely take a look at. Andrew has been laboring long and hard to bring this wonder to full publication with the Evilhat team and it's so exciting that it's finally ready! As a bonus, the stretch goals for the backerkit campaign are all issues of a zine to act as a companion to the game, providing inspiration, exploration, and advice from an absolutely stellar array of contributors, including myself!
I'm so excited that this game is finally ready to come fully into the world and it's pretty obvious it's going to be one of those cornerstone classics that get played again and again and inspire whole new generations of gamers and games.
Go check it out!
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Today is a day of calling institutions and throwing my resumé at people, thanks to a round of layoffs at the place I started working at in January.
If anyone has a lead on a Unity Programming role in Stockholm at the moment, give me a shout. #gamedev #jobhunting
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
a brand new essay, many weeks in the making: "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies." no-paywall link, 15 min read + over 100 references – please share & give it "claps"!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797?sk=bc6099a519dff7fdeecc2b2038b0f2fb
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
someone created a Godot plugin to open Unity packages and prefabs. this is game changing, just imagine reusing your unity assets to port a game to Godot from Unity. https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/13io0bx/load_unitypackage/
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
It feels like a big portion of social media in the broadest sense is taken up with something similar to what Aldous Huxley called the Violent Passion Surrogate in Brave New World: everyone shares intense feelings collectively, enjoys the catharsis, then returns to the status quo, making no changes, rocking no boats.
There's a point where outrage is a substitute for action. It's an easy trap to fall into.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years agoAIチャット恋人が普及してサーバーがダウンすれば集団的パニック状態が起きそうだね。人類を巻き込んだ単一障害点。
Honestly I think Mastodon should remove the DM feature from the UI given the nature of the AP protocol. Even if you encrypt the message contents it is still always going to be public information that you sent something and who you sent it to, given how ActivityPub works so given the reasonable expectation of privacy that comes with a feature like DMs, which AP just can't do, remove the feature from the interface so people know to use something else for private communication.
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Really can't wait for this new #Zelda oh geeze
(credit: guftrup)
Ash McAllan shared 2 years ago
Hey everybody, over on the birdsite, Melon has said he plans to delete all abandoned accounts' timelines so, you might, if you periodically visit your departed friends in this way, go do some archiving.