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Caution is good but young people (everyone really) need to know specifics about how to keep themselves and each other safe, and who to talk to and when to speak up.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 18h

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 5h

She is a catgirl she can probably reach even without her super robot claw

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

Ah, but you used it just now!

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

* changing how it works would worsen it for everyone.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

And as a disclaimer because this is Bluesky: yes i know some people click on easy mode. yes i know some people never reload in bg3 even though they can. yes i know some people cheat all the time. theres all kinds of people

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

artificial as clicking on a cheat menu or switching to easy mode, even though it ought to be the other way around. Scarlet Hollow's ditches the dice and tries to aim for situations where the outcome is never just good or just bad, outside of trait saves. At that point saves are sort of immaterial.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

feels like choosing to not reload. This is where the bad feeling comes from - that taking the L is paradoxically the active choice and savescumming is the passive one. Choosing to sit with a bad outcome when the game isn't even trying to make you can also harm immersion because it feels just as

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

let you. So when there's a reload option, that doesn't feel like a concession, because it's such a standard part of gameplay for all players. Choosing not to take the reload when you flub a dialogue roll in BG3 therefore does not feel so much like accepting what the dice have decided so much as it

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

them. Most of the players I have talked to about this in the course of collecting feedback and fixing things are not conscious of that decision making process, it just appears to be human nature. You want to win and you want to feel like you won because of how talented you are, not because the game

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

number of players who declined to use cheats and easy modes will abuse the hell out of them, I think because it allows them to still feel like they are cleverly overcoming the challenge in a way that "outsmarts" the game, while cheats etc feel like the game is making concessions or condescending to

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

Similarly, most players won't use things which are overtly called or presented as cheats, at least not in normal gameplay. They will, however, overwhelmingly look up guides/wikis, try to figure out the most optimal tactics instead of doing what seems fun, and on discovering an exploit, a shocking

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

comes up a lot. People don't usually like picking easy mode because frustration is how entertainment works. People don't know this, but it is. That's why plots lean on tension/conflict and e.g. romance stories are always about will-they-won't-they instead of just jumping immediately to the wedding.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 6h

I am the developer of a permadeath game. Changing how it works because that would worsen it for everyone. Nothing is for everyone, so that's fine! The psychology of the "easy mode" thing is very weird though. I have thousands of hours of professional experience in this space and this

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 11h

paid a lot more for them, if your channel is monetized. Youtube also lets you block certain advertisers from running ads on your channel. The average age and maturity levels are much higher on Youtube and Youtube has extremely robust moderation and safety tools.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 11h

Twitch gets more viewers but they are way less engaged. There are way more ads. Everything is more invasive and the it sucks to watch on mobile. Youtube is a thousand times less shitty. You will get fewer viewers, but they will be there because they want to be. If you choose to run ads, you will be

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 11h

The problem is in no way limited to the right.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 11h

I think I tried to play Max Payne for the first time in like 2012, and at that point it felt very primitive. And yeah that game is just the same fight against the same goons over and over. Very little felt challenging or clever in its mechanics.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

Which goes back to the thing about the Right and porn suddenly pivoting to "femboys" super hard. The core of it is just hating women, and the worst type of woman to them is someone who "chose" to be one.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

It is really kind of worse then that because somehow it is more acceptable for a man to date another man than for him to date a trans woman. If he's gay he's just gay but if she's trans then he's some sort of third type of worse thing. Guys IRL are definitely carrying around that anxiety too.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I would fight every cop for this antelope(?) lady though

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

Every photo of her somehow looks like an SNL player pretending to be her for a bit.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I can't really think of anything that wasn't a joke.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I liked the story just fine and Jesse looks cool so I liked her a lot.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

OP was referencing Swan Boy where the titular character, a cis guy, is dating a trans girl, in case you wondered. And it's hopefully obvious why you don't see cis authors writing hetero t4c very often :(

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

It is weird how little you see this. Media is so desperate to avoid depicting trans women at all, and when they do it's often a queer author depicting queer relationships. I'm bi and I've found it way easier to date women (cis or trans) irl but it does feel sort of like being gay in prison.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I have started a lot of Remedy games but never finished one.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I have started a lot of Remedy games but never finished one.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

And if that puts some people off, good! Games shouldn't try to be everything to everyone, they should commit to doing something well.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I don't think "comfort" is a worthwhile consideration. Players will always tend to prefer to seek advantage even when it is to their own detriment and the only real way to break that habit is just to remove the possibility of indulging it.

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 29/09/2026

It makes sense that people savescum. I savescum. People want optimal outcomes, and anything else feels extra bad when it's from random chance. But optimization is anathema to good storytelling: it removes tension and minimizes dynamic character relationships. It reduces narrative to power fantasy.

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 29/09/2026

As exciting as a lucky dice roll can be in a story-heavy game, they often feel like a vestigial holdover from TTRPGs, where the abstraction of dice for social/story checks is necessary to keep events flowing forward. There also isn't savescumming in TTRPGs. Players have to adapt to a bad roll...

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 18h

combat hit grunt

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 14h

I don't often mention being a perfectionist because I feel like it sounds like I'm conceited enough to think the work I have put out is perfect. No, I can see all the many flaws! It was put out under protest and was simply the best I could do!

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 15h

Was reading about the War of the Roses and this sounds like a Monty Python bit.

"Many areas undertook little effort to improve their defences; city walls were either left in prior ruinous states or only partially rebuilt, as was the case in London, whereby the citizenry was able to avoid devastation by persuading the Yorkist and Lancastrian troops to stay out, after the inability to reconstruct adequate walls, thereby rendering the city indefensible."

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 15h

Was thinking about it some more and this applies to every Remedy game and it's why I have never really enjoyed them very much.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 22h

The parents in Children of the Corn never used to let the children live in the corn. "You can't live in that corn," they'd say. And they paid the price

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 29/09/2026

But your work does speak to a lot of people, so I have to insist that it is effective even if you wish it was effective in a different way.

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 29/09/2026

better in a technical sense do get immediately flagged as literary. You don't really get to decide what your inner universe looks like, so it's always felt very arbitrary. I drew comics when I was younger but I always felt sort of iced out just based on that more than my actual skill level (low).

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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 29/09/2026

I like your art very much and your writing is so good that I was shocked when I found out how much younger you are than me. To park on the self loathing for a minute, I do think you have a bead on something re: what type of art is considered serious in comics. There are styles which while not any

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