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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 29/09/2026

Nothing can bring me down right now. I got a "one in a krillion" answer on Krillion last week when I put "Bike Shed" for "Name an area of the school" and I've been riding that high ever since

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 28/09/2026

I had a dream I was on Northernlion's stream and said "I'm like a slightly more trans NL" and when he asked what I meant I said "You know, like how Ryan is probably he/they nonbinary but has to drop his kid off at school then yell at chat for 5 hours so doesn't have time to deal with it"

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve just spent the last two months prepping a megagame. Its a live text discord RPG set on a space station full of factional intrigue and desperate people, incorporating all the lessons we've learned since the time we all did that last October. Enjoy! thegardenbelow.blot.im/apa-1/so-im-...

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APA-1 / So, i’m running a megagame. - The Garden Below

An announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 21/09/2026

Developing a new productivity app where you have an important appointment in the morning but the other person cancels last minute, so now you're wide awake + ready to go BUT with a guilt-free fully open day ahead of you. Also the other person says you're reeaally smart and attractive

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/09/2026

I found an archive of my old MP4s from 10+ years ago

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/09/2026

Folks have turned on extraction shooters and BR games so much that the WARDOGS trailer has text cards yelling at you that it is "Not a Battle Royale" and "Not an Extraction Shooter"

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/09/2026

In the UK my account is old enough to buy the games itself and they still won't verify it

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/09/2026

Extremely frustrated by Zero Company now... Finally reached Act 2 and am running into a repeat performance issue where Cassian Andor fucks my wife! I select the option to tell him we're married but he just laughs + says "rebellions are built on hope" 😔 I have a really good PC so that's not the issue

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/09/2026

holyyy we're up to Civ XXXV already??

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 03/09/2026

Really enjoying Zero Company but I think I'm soft-locked on the mission with Anakin Skywalker. As soon as it starts I kill him to stop him becoming Darth Vader, then it says "Mission Failed" and forces a restart! I emailed support but got a cheerful AI reply saying the entire team got furloughed 😔

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 30/08/2026

Every story has a final chapter. Every day could be your last. On a long enough timescale, everything ends. Chicken Zinger Tower Borger

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/08/2026

House of the Dragon S1 and AKOTSK are better than GOT/HOTD S2/3 because they're set in peacetime and all the characters can hang out together. Hunts, parties. As soon as war starts, characters become silo'd and the eps are the same small groups of people talking in rooms about military strategies

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 21/08/2026

The Mermaid Mask is a fantastic followup to Tangle Tower. A 'simple' detective game oozing with style, love and tiny details. Funny, charming and authentically hand-crafted in a world where this is sadly less and less the case. A perfect weekend game! store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

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The Mermaid Mask on Steam

An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humo...

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 18/08/2026

The plan is simple: we'll launch a free daily word game that costs us AI tokens for you to play. How will we make back our money? That's the neat thing: we wont.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 14/08/2026

The new Phoebe Bridgers album dares to ask: what if the old Phoebe Bridgers album had weird noises sometimes

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/08/2026

Sometimes when I'm at my lowest, I think... maybe my mind never really left that Library in Mt. Holly... maybe I'm still trapped there, scanning every page of A New Clue with a magnifying glass... desperately trying to convince my therapist that TONDA ROS is valid Erajan phrasing

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/08/2026

Gonna start a cleaning service where a mean older woman tells you she's coming over in two days and if the house is messy she won't be happy

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/08/2026

I've been buying glasses online for ten years now. Just input my prescription into a new website and a woman emailed me asking me to prove it. Are my eyes that fucked? Do I have a uniquely implausible stat-line? Just put the prescription glasses in the bag sis

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 05/08/2026

When I was a kid my cousin told me he accidentally ate a metal ball from a magnetic construction set. He said it "fell into his open mouth at the exact same time as he swallowed". The next day I walked past his room + saw him hunched over, popping the metal balls in his mouth like Lindt truffles

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 01/08/2026

If I Let It Quiet by @brosaleigh.bsky.social is the best album of 2026 so far, probably. Peaks of Daughter, Laura Marling, gorgeous vocals over blippy electronic soundscapes that aren't afraid to build to real noise. Joy + Wanting; an astounding front-to-back listen open.spotify.com/album/0akL5K...

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If I Let It Quiet - Album by Josaleigh Pollett | Spotify

Josaleigh Pollett · album · 2026 · 12 songs

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 29/07/2026

The Incident at Galley House is a Steam remake of Type Help, an incredible puzzle game that's well worth playing. I wasn't sure if I'd play through but I'm glad I did; there's tons of improvements and extra bonuses for people who played the original. Buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

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The Incident at Galley House on Steam

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 28/07/2026

Me sipping my glass of implied drunk driving wine: "I'm getting strong notes of vehicular manslaughter... I think this would pair really well with being bonded together by a dark secret that haunts us forever"

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 24/07/2026

"I would *love* to come, I *really* would, but I just remembered I need to uhhh.... un-beach 15 sperm whales. yeah they are beached to fuck it's wild"

"Notes: Withdrew due to a scheduling conflict with a prior wildlife conservation commitment involving sperm whales."

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 23/07/2026

...And they're making out with no makeup on

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 19/07/2026

A friend is on a flight to Madrid during the world cup final. Says the pilot came over the tannoy to excitedly announce that Spain had scored! Then had to sheepishly come back on and say there had been a mistake, no goal. Even the damn pilot got VAR'd...

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 17/07/2026

asking my landlord if my boiler needs leaded or unleaded

screenshot of a discord between two users named Kara and Robert

Kara: and i had to be up early for gas safety inspection
Robert: Like Car gas or Apartment gas
Kara: people dont say car gas here they say PETROL
Robert: of course my apologies
car petrol or apartment petrol

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 14/07/2026

The english language can be beautiful

Screenshot of a tiktok video of a trailer for a movie where Pedro pascal is holding a violen. The comment section is open and the displayed comment says "Not so much reheating Tar's nachos but like they're also in the kitchen making a quesadilla"

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 07/07/2026

My electrologist says I'm the best to ever do it. She said no other client is better at laying still and getting electricity shot at them. She said I'm so good at not moving and pretending it doesn't hurt to have electricity to shot at me, it's almost like I'm dead! Her words not mine.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/07/2026

Finished Zero Parades. Really good. Disco Elysium is my #1 or 2 fav game so I went in skeptical and came out very impressed. Feels like a proper spiritual successor; a well executed thing made by people who learned a ton of lessons making Final Cut. I'm also a sucker for any spy themed stuff.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/07/2026

Harry Kane always looks like a detective who just got told some new information that made him rethink this entire damned case

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/06/2026

I unironically think I could do a 43 second The Bear S4 recap

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 23/06/2026

I have a new strategy for dealing with the generational UK heatwave where I just pretend I'm in the sauna. I'm not over-heating, I'm enjoying a relaxing sauna. Also its a sauna where they let you watch Northernlion Librarian vids on your laptop

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's Kyle Tam's Birthday/launch day! Moriah is @percypropa.bsky.social #TTRPG about ordinary folks facing the extraordinary. The game asks, "What will you sacrifice to save what matters most?" This is the Final Cut of the game with expanded text & visual design! Back it at ttrpg.link/moriah 1/X

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MORIAH: Final Cut

MORIAH is a simple role-playing game of ordinary people facing the extraordinary. It is a game of sacrifice, where people living quiet lives at the base of a holy mountain must attempt to ascend it in...

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Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 26/05/2026

I'm looking for work! - Characters - Environments - Animations Whatever your needs, I can do it 💪 I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 14/05/2026

New MUNA (Dancing On The Wall) has really grown on me. The back half of the album especially. Girl's Girl, Buzzkiller, So What, Big Stick. All the singles are good, even the little interludes. A throughline of upbeat poppy breakup yearning. Album goo

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 26/04/2026

Been drawing for the first time in years, some characters I'm playing in TTRPG type games. I do some 'graphics design' (read: photoshop pixel-pushing) but zero illustration so it's been fun to practice

A digital painting of a white woman wearing a dark blue suit with white shirt and blond hair in space buns, against a blue background with a magenta starburst behind her head. The post/outfit is from Hunter Schafer 2025 Met Gala. No AI was used to create this.

A digital painting of an Asian woman in a military uniform with her black hair pulled up into a bun, she has black eye point. The background is green with abstract leaves. No AI was used to make this.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 02/04/2026

Life is Strange: Reunion is deeply unrealistic. Not a single college student is wearing wide fit baggy jeans.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 27/02/2026

New Mitski album is good but I kinda wish all the songs were like That White Cat, If I Leave and Where's My Phone? It's cool she still wants to write songs like that all, she'd be well within her rights to have moved on completely. Album feels like its pulling from more 'eras' than TLIIASAW

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jess @jessfrom.online · 27/01/2026

hi folks! i'm looking for full-time remote work in game design! my specialty is tabletop games (i've both self-published and contributed to award-winning & bestselling TTRPGs) but i've also written for jam-winning video games! is your company hiring? get in touch & i can send my portfolio!

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/01/2026

TR-49 was really enjoyable, another good Inkle game. I managed to get all the entries in one (long) session with no out-of-game hints. If you like detective, investigation, database-search type games this is a must play: store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...

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Save 10% on TR-49 on Steam

A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 27/12/2025

Top Ten games I played (for the first time) in 2025 Editor's Note: I played Blue Prince last year (was #2 on my 2024 list)

Top 10

1. The Roottrees Are Dead
2. OVER/UNDER
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong (with mods)
4. Scarlet Hollow
5. Despolete
6. Type Help
7. Expelled!
8. Nubby's Number Factory
9. Cabernet
10. The Seance of Blake Manor

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 22/12/2025

These are the best new albums (and EPs) I listened to in 2025, in no particular order. Playlists in replies "album of the year" is probably Trains Running Backwards by Hana Eid, which is wild because it only just came out. Swallow the Knife (Sir Chloe) + Precipice (Indigo De Souza) also great

best new albums 2025 in no particular order

Trains Running Backwards - Hana Eid
Noelle - Nep
Is It Now? - Automatic
Bleeds - Wednesday
moisturizer - Wet Leg
Swallow the Knife - Sir Chloe
R is for Rocket - Rocket
Are You Dreaming? - She's In Parties
Navy Blue - Porch Light
WE WERE JUST HERE - Just Mustard
Super Pedestrian - Annie DiRusso
When Are You Leaving? - NoSo
Precipice - Indigo De Souza
COSPLAY - Sorry
DOGGOD - L.A. WITCH
Altar - NewDad
Welcome to My Blue Sky - Momma
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You - Ethel Cain
Homesick - Flora from Kansas
Eaves - Select All
Dreams Go - POLIÇA
tangible sphere - copperplate
Fleeting - Unflirt
Anamoly IV - Flawed Mangoes
Some Like It Hot - bar italia
11:11 - Biig Piig
The Longer This Goes On - Forth Wanderers
System - Prewn
Straight Line Was A Lie - The Beths
Adult Romantix - Winter
You Are The Morning - jasmine.4.t
If Only You Knew - Blackwater Holylight

Album cover for Trains Running Backwards by Hana Eid, featuring a blurry painting of a woman squatting in a vague nature scene while looking backwards

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jess @jessfrom.online · 21/12/2025

are you jewish and do you think you can gather 2-5 players for TTRPG playtest that must take place in the next 48 hours? if so, send me a DM!

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 04/12/2025

On launch of #Vanitera450 we ended the day with twice as many Cataphract orders as we processed. So we paused the game for a week and I built a bot that fully automates letter sending + delivery with correct node-based pathfinding for messenger NPCs. We've reopened for a few days, so far so good!

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 17/11/2025

I'm co-running a modified Cataphract game which starts in one week. It's a 'play-on-Discord' wargame set across two fantasy medieval continents and will run for 1 year realtime. We have 55 players(!!!) signed up but will need more, if you're interested let me know samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...

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Cataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam Sorensen

Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/11/2025

For @samsorensen.bsky.social's #OVER/UNDER I created WEATHERVANE, an in-universe themed combat simulator. Using it, our faction was able to predict the outcome of any battle with a high degree of confidence. It helped us price mercenary contracts and go into any combat knowing the expected outcomes.

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Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/11/2025

Kinophobia is a good, free Search and Detect game. It's a touch rougher than the commercial ones but it also has the best hint system of any of them, no guides or joining discords required. If you enjoyed Roottrees or Type Help, play this! brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

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Kinophobia by Bruno Dias

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

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