Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2hCan’t help but wonder how many people liking this tweet turn around and talk about affordability as a huge problem in America 6452
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialbig tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026man in kitchen: fabius bile that super hero, again: ultramarines 2181
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Fold Catastrophes, Peter Watts anthology. A lot of those stories can be found elsewhere but if you don't want to bother/ want them in one convenient package. 000
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialThe Wan and Only @thewanandonly094.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Even the greatest wizards of the Arcane Era couldn't have figured this one out! Day 9 of Ebbtober: 'Riddle'. @esotericebb.bsky.social 0113
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I am somehow seeing this card for the first time. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Fellow person in Jace, this is a massive improvement on the ub set concept. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Exactly, advocating for genocide, as Juniper does, has never helped the Palestinian cause. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The United States of America does have money for basically anything lol. And Kafala is not particularly expensive. 000
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialChristoffer Bodegård @chrisbodegard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026After a lot of systems architecture bullshit, there is finally language switching in Esoteric Ebb. Only available on the Open Beta Localization Branch for now, but feel free to test it out! 2618
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Very interesting reading on 21 second god you have there. 010
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialAster Aster Disaster @as-ter-dis-as-ter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He is here!!! The Cleric!!! He was so fun to make! #EsotericEbb 011
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialTAKO🎶bardic aarakocra🪽 @takonxmz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JOHN ESOTERIC!!! @esotericebb.bsky.social trying to keep up with #ebbtober by using the last, like, three hours of the day to draw the prompts 1199
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If so then Mae Culpa, Pondsmith has won by a couple of years. 010
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reads like magic the gathering review. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This should be picture of Peter Watts as Maelstrom predates the concept of datakrash by quite a bit, (I might be wrong) 280
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 30/09/2026it simply isn't viable to continue acting as if there are not substantial downsides to making people who steadfastly refuse to engage with the social contract the primary beneficiaries of it 3537
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Blood of the lamb too. And so many others. I don't know any other game that is carried by its soundtrack this much. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lovecraftian universe where the great filter is nascent civilization inevitably fucking around with leftover shoghoths and grey gooing themselves. 111
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You do share your father's views on women. 010
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is also the notion from his newer works in that universe where consciousness only exists at a specific intelligence range as a crude tool for handling unpredicted situations. 010
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There are basically two distinct types of gender in Jor's realm, one is identical to our definition and the other is a magical measurable value for how masculine/feminine the super wizard who made the dimension would think you are. It's kinda like alignment. 120
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interesting bit of background on this, the author has stated that it's the function of the Tongues spell and the fact that it works of Jor's limited imagination about gender. Biologically they are both hermaphrodites. 110
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lol. How did you come that guy named Christoffer Bodegård is American? Also Americans might be better at writing police procedurals (such as Disco Elysium) than Estonians. 110
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But to actually pull that off you need to run it like a video game you need to use interesting mechanics and challenges, you need to use your set pieces to their fullest and you need to center the player character as much as possible. At all of these points the ES fails. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Or you can write a short story. Setup a situation and interesting characters in such a way that you can deliver a twist or a point or a punchline or whatever you want to call it at the end of it. This one is hard to do so people go for the first one basically always. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Videogame stories used in an extremely broad sense are scene, set piece and mechanics delivery tools. They are structured so you move from hopefully interesting gameplay sequence to story sequence to exploration sequence and so on. (This is extremely reductive) 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And this is the pattern for all three exceptional stories, I am interested at the very start of them, hopeful and excited. And then I get bored. There are two basic ways you can write an ES, either as a videogame story or as a short story. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He is either unable or not allowed to use mechanical aspects of the wider game. Extremely low on tie-ins amd without any actual mechanical challenges. The current story almost begs for a couple of novel burdens or at least some wounds manipulation. Yet that is absent. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I hope that Mr Rossignol will write something better than mediocre eventually. Three attempts and not quite over that hurdle. He is a master at figuring out an interesting concept and then executing it in the most boring and linear fashion. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am doubtful that it is bacon given the supposed universality of the ration. 130
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure to see my friend try to improve her life again and again and again only for those avenues to be blocked again and again and again, in no small part due to the influence of her rapist. 000
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 22/09/2026LMAOOOOO okay hold up this is hilarious The highlighted sentence here is *literally true of Platner*. 2245
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Neat reinvention of slavery where all your legal rights are fully dependent on your employer. 1390
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i fear that the politics of the future in major industrialized powers are HKSG Hukou Kafala Stimmies Glonzo 1128151
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialSpringtime for Hegseth @schroedinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Many options. $$$$$ reminders of blackmail material Trump is completely demented and he literally doesn't remember telling them no a different vizier was sitting in on the meeting this time 1112
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have only seen (and personally used) that term for games that use one of the novel aspects of DE. Such as skills being part of your personality/party members. 011
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You would maybe expect Disco Elysium as you know, left-ish police procedural, to have something to say about police/law enforcement, but alas. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The neat thing is that you cannot criticize DE on how it treats gender and feminism as it has iirc basically nothing to say about them. How Harry feels about women is not a thing the game cares about beyond the laughable "overt misogyny is fascism and by doing you accrue fascism points". 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The reason why DE works is that it's a cop/western/whatever show. Well written one with a couple of twists but the basic arc is still there, firmly imbeded in the framework of a Texas ranger bringing order to a distant lawless border town. 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Disco Elysium is pretty directly inspired by The Shield which can then trace it's ancestry through cop/detective media back to the same westerns that inspired DND. Hell DE is much closer to this concept than EE, one of the climactic scenes is literally a shootout before the doors of Saloon! 100
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wish somebody applied the same level of scrutiny that is applied to Esoteric Ebb to Disco Elysium. Because Disco Elysium is a shittier game from the actual systems and you know the game aspects wise with some very specific bugbears politics wise. 000
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My main wish is that somebody ever applied this level of critique to Disco Elysium. The police procedural where a quarter of skills are useless and everyone knows it. 100
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saying the quiet part out loud that we consider our cool anarchist direct action that effects 15 people to be better than her giving trans people cringe normie access to healthcare 21046
dwarvenmark.bsky.social @dwarvenmark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Peter Watts has written a fairly popular sci-fi book about this like 20 years ago btw. 000
Reposted by @dwarvenmark.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026is there a Nobel Prize in political science because i'm willing to accept www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...liberalcurrents.comThe Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of EverythingEverything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex. 1152662
