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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3h

It's got limitations, but when it lands it *really* lands. A well-designed scenario makes a lot of difference.

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 10h

Or maybe something like... designing games to be enjoyable as a primary driver is all well and good, but doing that requires a certain level of technical and artistic skill? Like, you can't wholly separate one from the other? I dunno, my thoughts are kind of unformed.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I've been turning the same thing about the art/trash distinction around in my head and it doesn't sit quite right. I think... whether a game (or film) is entertaining is dependent at least in part on the player (watcher), *but also* you can design games to be more (or less) enjoyable?

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 12/10/2026

NEW STOP CARING ESSAY IS LIVE Our first of a two-part commissioned series of women's perspectives on Marvel's Wolverine. @dykedeitz.bsky.social reviews Wolverine, so utterly lacking in merit that she has some strong words for the state of criticism as a whole. www.stopcar.ing/everything-o...

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Everything Old is New Again

Sticks and stones won't break his bones, but they really should.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 10h

There's an okay plugin for Notepad++ that does that, but I like Obsidian better for it. I use exactly zero of the advanced features.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11h

Ah, but now there's also the hobby (my kids are old enough that I can go to a regular game night again).

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11h

around that time, giving us games like Apocalypse World in 2010 alongside the rising popularity of early Kickstarter, which really kicked off the current/latest golden age of RPGs. (Whether it's still going or has ended depends on who you ask.)

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11h

I probably contributed to at least some of them. Although with hindsight, the early 2000s were the d20 boom, when everything felt great but was built on a foundation of sand. But that gave us OSRIC in 2006 which was the start of your modern OSR movement, and the Forge was also doing... something...

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11h

In 2012 indie tabletop RPGs were just entering the PbtA boom, and there were a few other influential indie titles floating around as well. We were right at the start of the Kickstarter wave too, so we got a whole load of cool and interesting stuff through the first half of the 2010s.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12h

The original post was about a project I wanted to back, but their 'sign up to notify me' link is a link to their mailing list, not a project-go-live page. Which is annoying. With Backerkit it's just ridiculous. It feels like every time I glance at that site I end up on six more mailing lists.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12h

I don't mind asking people to sign up to my mailing list. They know what they're doing, they know what they're getting, and I respect 'no'. But some people are out here doing shady shit! (This was not a post about Backerkit, but Backerkit are pretty undefeated at spam.)

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12h

Fuck's sake, I don't want to sign up to your mailing list! I want to be notified about *exactly one thing* when it goes live, not whatever you feel like shitting into my mailbox!

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 17h

Annoyingly, actual medical researchers have been making huge strides in curing cancer. I can't imagine spending my life battling lung cancer only for these verminous shitsacks to take credit if I succeeded.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 17h

I was just reading an email telling me how AI would help get my "war room" in order and thinking something very similar. It's a fucking website, Steve.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And that's credits on Dressmaker. Not quite 100% but close enough. My one, sole, solitary complaint is that I would have liked to see the dresses I made on the women who ordered them. I understand that would have been a staggering amount of work, so I know why it's not there, but still.

A picture of a dress in dressmaker. I believe the style is 'coat style', although I've added these awful poofy sleeves to it which I regretted but not enough to redesign the damn thing from scratch.

The dress is green, partially in a snake-patterned velvet and partially in a gradient silk which fades from teal at the top to black at the bottom. The front has a stripe of black silk with yellow highlights where it catches the light, and a thinner stripe of honey yellow cotton next to it. Because I used *so much* honey yellow cotton. There is a thin gold chain around the waist.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminded of this post which I saw just this morning:

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only problem is if there's significant overlap between those three people and the people who read what you wrote in Discord.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Or maybe what I originally typed: A Star Trek away tram.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Still the most blocks I have attracted in the shortest period of time is for going 'the male love interests in BG3 are either Meant For Karlach, On A Rebound, Deliberately Evil or A Child-Killer But That's Fine Apparently'.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I worked in a library in ~1997 and it was huge with the kids of the time.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When I did my year's study abroad in the USA I joined my friend's college bowl team for one contest and it turns out that 'knowing things about countries outside the US' was an incredible superpower in that context.

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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft v2.7: Fixed an issue where newspapers could report a kidnapping case too early

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Larpers will tell you it's 'larp' all lower-case, like a proper word.

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

That orange streak is Mercury with its glowing sodium plasma tail, passing in front of the Pleiades cluster. Impressive capture by Dr Sebastian Voltmer. spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload...

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dressmaker game of the year 2026, no question.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ooooh its leg day in the studio

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Pleased to announce that my daughter has figured out that in Dressmaker burlap is free, but you can sell fully-burlap off the rack dresses for like 21 gold a shot.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919. It’s a topic that appears to have fascinated Wadsworth. I love every single one of his takes on the subject.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was just thinking the same thing. They have an alert system, you know.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For once, it looked like an open-and-shut case.

The monster of the week is a suitcase. [Meitantei Precure]

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Melpomene 🔓 @melpomany.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"It looks delicious," she said, "but one question, what actually is 'homemade ghee'?" its butter i clarified

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waterfox + Ublock Origin. No more Youtube ads.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone remember the name of that company that makes RPGs specifically for people in prison?

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Somebody whose approach to marketing isn't just "uuUUggGh", for example.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would love to help, but like the last time someone asked about publishers for their game, I'm confident that you can find someone with a much bigger footprint than me.

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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am still serious about this and am shopping for the perfect publisher partner that would like a blend of surreal, stand-alone fiction and game content!

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was just thinking Truckful looks a bit Pacific Drive, and lo and behold they're in a Steam bundle together.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

She did, then we started making her do her own laundry and now I don't care.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was thinking of giving them a go. How's their library compared to Spotify?

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@troopersjp.bsky.social was talking about RPGs ages ago on Twitter and noted that in music 'indie' is a marketing category, not a meaningful genre marker. Changed the way I think about this stuff. (Apologies if I've misremembered the details.)

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