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achievements are stupid but also i am autistic about them sorry

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kind of fun playing a game i've been replaying every so often for years and then being like "ooh. a new achievement"

achieved "Vanished" in Dishonored for doing the prison escape without getting detected

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...........i don't actually know how to describe what the fuck i mean by that but maybe I can try again later.

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also i feel it's generally a good idea to have the game lean into and react what the player is doing (or what you expect they might do, obviously people are unpredictable) instead of designing a game that prescribes a specific mode of fun within the game's framework. though this is hard to quantify

anyway uh. a rule of thumb I feel like, for a lot of, story driven gamey games, at least, ones I enjoy. generally every new gameplay section or mechanic introduced should be forwarding a character or story beat somehow instead of just existing for its own sake. probably? idk

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...I could explain why I have these opinions but I'd use up a lot of words. maybe i will write a big post about it (don't count on it)

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Valve is very good at pacing, generally Rockstar is on the other hand often very bad at it (and open world games are pretty dogshit at pacing in general, the genre can barely support good gameplay pacing and is practically anathema to good narrative pacing)

it's really interesting to me because pacing in video games actually means two things... gameplay pacing, and narrative pacing, and also, psyche, a third thing, the intersection of gameplay and narrative pacing which is itself its own specific art

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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i've been thinking a lot about video game pacing lately

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game designers are always saying shit like "we had to come up with a definition of fun"

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is reshade good and should i use it. and also is there a convenient way to get it working on linux with pcsx2 ...i probably have three friends who can answer this question so let's see if they see this post I guess

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not stressed or anything, just. thinking. I probably need to do a bit more to separate my online persona from the marketing of the visual novels i helped develop

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...almost 600. i don't really pay attention that much

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i'm blocked by a little over 800 people i guess. and i have only around 500 followers

just curious, did you read the edited MTL version that's floating around or the raws

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 25/09/2026

i guess they forgot to put a game over here that says "you did not ride the horse you idiot you're not allowed to walk you're supposed to ride the horse" so now nothing is happening because i didn't do the thing that the game was scripted with the expectation that i do. lol

red dead redemption screenshot. john marston walks alongside lance ricketts who says nothing as we head towards the mission location

lance ricketts has gotten off of his horse and is just standing around waiting for me to do what the game told me to do (that being ride horse) even though there is no point in doing so now that we are at the location

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i hope no one ever figures out how to make video games perfectly realistic simulations of reality. may the stupid dumb bullshit open world shootery sandbox fetch quest games stay stupid forever

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 25/09/2026

for some reason (Noah Caldwell-Gervais) i am playing Red Dead Redemption and there are probably few things more ludonarratively dissonant than watching a serious intro cutscene about the turn of the 20th century and then immediately making John Marston dopily vault onto the roof of a train station

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 15/08/2026

If you've been waiting for a postmortem on The Angel Factory (엔젤 팩토리), then wait no further! An exhaustive dissection of our great and terrible matryoshka doll of toxic age gap yuri is now available for your reading pleasure! Spoilers of course. joycestick.moe/posts/angel-...

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On Writing "The Angel Factory"

the world needs the matryoshka doll of age gap yuri, where a girl, is attracted to a younger girl, who in turn is attracted to…

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 01/08/2025

so. I wrote a blog post detailing the thought processes that went into "Prisoners in the Mirror", the story I contributed writing to for our (@gravityhousegames.bsky.social) #toxicyurivnjam visual novel, Gravity House Duology. I hope it's interesting. in some way meow

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On Writing 'Prisoners in the Mirror'

Content notice: This post contains discussions of underage sexual activity and child abuse. You should really read our VN first before reading this. The same…

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GRAVITY HOUSE @gravity-house.itch.io · 09/07/2025

Our first game, Gravity House Demo, is now live, as part of the #toxicyurivnjam. We're excited for you all to see what we've made, and we encourage you to stay followed for further developments. If you're not following us, now's a great time to change that gravity-house.itch.io/gravity-hous...

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Gravity House Demo by Gravity House

Two tales of love and pain misused

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GRAVITY HOUSE @gravity-house.itch.io · 21/11/2025

Our second game, Letters to Rosa, is out today! In a near-future Arcata, California, a young woman burdened by tragedy endures grief, loss, and phone calls in this epistolary visual novel. Available now for free! gravity-house.itch.io/letters-to-r...

A young woman with hair tied in a bun stands before a marsh, looking back at the viewer with a smile. The text "Letters to Rosa" is overlaid on top with a typewriter font.

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GRAVITY HOUSE @gravity-house.itch.io · 16/02/2026

Codename: TYPHOON, our entry to the #ryonajam, is out now! Psychic Secret Agent Typhoon is captured on a mission in the USSR, and faces off against Psycho Soldier Number Seven, a turncoat agent- and her former mentor. Can she escape before the bomb goes off? gravity-house.itch.io/codename-typ...

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GRAVITY HOUSE @gravity-house.itch.io · 12/07/2026

The Angel Factory (엔젤 팩토리), our #toxicyurivnjam (2) entry, has been released! Devised by kirin (麒麟), @joycestick.moe, and Ophelia C. Green, it spins a chilling tale of three young women, their obsessions, and the events that lead to their unraveling. gravity-house.itch.io/the-angel-fa...

The itch cover for The Angel Factory, with its Korean title of 엔젤 팩토리. One of its main characters, a young girl named Han-byeol, looks at the viewer nervously.

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 24/09/2026

well. and also ichigohara itsuki

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Joyce Fisher @joycestick.moe · 24/09/2026

it's too bad that it'll most definitely never be licensed and a proper English translation will probably never happen but anyway togawa rin

volume 3 cover of Hitozuma Kyōshi ga Oshiego no Joshi Kōkōsei ni Do-hamari Suru Hanashi showing togawa rin and ichigohara Itsuki interlacing fingers and poised to kiss

did you know that if you pay actual money for any of the visual novels listed here I get some percentage of that money? everyone else does too but. It's a true fact. I mean they're also free I guess. but you can pay money for them. it's allowed gravity-house.itch.io

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Gravity House

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I have to make some phone calls and ask why the fuck that happened but I don't want to make phone calls.

oh yeah they want $120 dollars for a vial of estradiol valerate now I don't really know what to do about that

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wren!! @tropical-rouge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want everyone to be happy, I want everyone to be loved, I want everyone to be able to experience what they want in life and not be told they have to wait until they have permission

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yknow that one tumblr post about how awesome it is when there's a ship where the younger one is taller. points at them

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she's an icon, and she deserves everything she wants

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i want everything to be okay

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i know it's not entirely mine. so i won't. but what if i did. what if i do. what if i can't take the thought of being misunderstood

what if i delete it. what if i delete all of it