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This essay by @AmyDentata​has probably influenced my thinking more than any other piece of game writing.

"In Games, Genre Does Not Yet Exist"
amydentata.com/2014/10/29/genr

Hey @AmyDentata​ you wrote an essay (in the late 2000s?) about how we don't yet have meaningful concepts of genre for videogames but I'm having trouble finding it? It was really influential to me.

Small UI decisions can shape not just individual user experience, but also the culture of an entire online space.

Something about the run animation in super mario odessey is viscerally uncomfortable to me.

I have yet to hear a single good thing about ExpressScipts. And I have heard many bad things.

I played the bitcoin simulator game one of y'all linked and it got even darker than I expected.

@stardust​ just booped my snoot and they have a similar name as me and the same avatar as I do on my bird site account so I was momentarily /very/ confused :D

Aside from relationship/communication skills, the biggest thing I've structurally learned from being polyamorous is that each person and relationship is fundamentally unique and inherently non-fungible.

Song lyric of the now: "at least I author my own disaster".

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Hey also @bb@cybre.space​ I don't think I've said yet that your avatar is really good.

Gardevoirs are precious friends.

I'm /finally/ getting around to listening to Of Montreal about two years after I was first recommended them, and this is some good shit.

Remember to tip your instance admins. Moderating online communities is a full time job that not everyone can get right.

Most times, donations barely cover server costs.

And, if you see another instance's admin who does a great job, tip them, too.

YESS mastodon now says "booped your snoot" for favs for me. Y'all on awoo dot space, change the language to "awoo!!" under settings if you'd like!

the scottish government is performing a consultation on an impending review to the gender recognition act.

notable proposed changes include allowing self-declaration of gender (potentially even for minors!) and adding a third legal gender for nonbinary folks.

if this is a matter relevant to you, please consider participating in the consultation!

consult.gov.scot/family-law/re

:transgender_flag: :intersex_flag: :nonbinary_flag:

Addendum to the gender thoughts:

I'm so non-binary I'm actually trinary instead. :-P

Hey I haven't mentioned it but Awoo does in fact feel noticeably faster now and it's making reading backlogs a lot nicer :)

*** AN IMPORTANT THREAD *** re: electrical safety, forwarded by yr friendly local electickle engiqueer

cw: text descriptions of electrical injuries (OP is uninjured)

twitter.com/PLT_cheater/status

@starkatt i learned a secret at a heckbecks a while ago which is that it's totally A Thing to order them half-sweet...

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