Kara Ling @karaling.org · 29/09/2026Nothing 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 150
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 28/09/2026I 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" 0132
Reposted by Kara LingJuniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’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-...thegardenbelow.blot.imAPA-1 / So, i’m running a megagame. - The Garden BelowAn announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026. 34828
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 21/09/2026Developing 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 0125
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/09/2026Folks 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" 060
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/09/2026In the UK my account is old enough to buy the games itself and they still won't verify it 182
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/09/2026Extremely 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 0233
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 03/09/2026Really 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 😔 092
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 30/08/2026Every story has a final chapter. Every day could be your last. On a long enough timescale, everything ends. Chicken Zinger Tower Borger 3215
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/08/2026House 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 150
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 21/08/2026The 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/...store.steampowered.comThe Mermaid Mask on SteamAn 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... 050
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 18/08/2026The 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. 040
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 14/08/2026The new Phoebe Bridgers album dares to ask: what if the old Phoebe Bridgers album had weird noises sometimes 140
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/08/2026Sometimes 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 010
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/08/2026Gonna 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 082
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/08/2026I'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 070
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 05/08/2026When 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 010
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 01/08/2026If 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...open.spotify.comIf I Let It Quiet - Album by Josaleigh Pollett | SpotifyJosaleigh Pollett · album · 2026 · 12 songs 2142
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 29/07/2026The 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/...store.steampowered.comThe Incident at Galley House on SteamIn 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. 0125
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 28/07/2026Me 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" 082
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" 040
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 19/07/2026A 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... 040
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 07/07/2026My 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. 1140
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/07/2026Finished 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. 190
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 06/07/2026Harry Kane always looks like a detective who just got told some new information that made him rethink this entire damned case 1105
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/06/2026I unironically think I could do a 43 second The Bear S4 recap 020
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 23/06/2026I 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 020
Reposted by Kara LingPlus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026It'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/Xttrpg.linkMORIAH: Final CutMORIAH 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... 36344
Reposted by Kara LingZach Soares @voxels.ca · 26/05/2026I'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 9782374
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 14/05/2026New 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 110
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 26/04/2026Been 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 1120
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 02/04/2026Life is Strange: Reunion is deeply unrealistic. Not a single college student is wearing wide fit baggy jeans. 130
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 31/03/2026youtu.be/D-nMwOaSH48youtu.beSoda Blonde - Suit & Tie (Official Video)YouTube video by SodaBlondeVEVO 000
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 27/02/2026New 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 110
Reposted by Kara Lingjess @jessfrom.online · 27/01/2026hi 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! 2148108
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 25/01/2026TR-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/...store.steampowered.comSave 10% on TR-49 on SteamA 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. 030
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 27/12/2025Top 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) 170
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 22/12/2025These 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 160
Reposted by Kara Lingjess @jessfrom.online · 21/12/2025are 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! 108769
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 04/12/2025On 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! 1302
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 17/11/2025I'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-...samsorensen.blot.imCataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam SorensenCataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military 193
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 11/11/2025For @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. 149521
Kara Ling @karaling.org · 10/11/2025Kinophobia 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/kinophobiabrunodias.itch.ioKinophobia by Bruno DiasExplore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid. 010