thinking about how there’s more than one guy out there who meets people and is like “yeah I have like a character I do on social media. It’s… God? yeah like the Christian one. yeah no exactly. I mean the idea of him, I guess. The signifiers. Old guy, beard, omniscient. I don’t really get into the religion stuff. No, yeah, it’s more like I roll my eyes at Republicans. Yeah, like 15% of all BlueSky users follow me. No, I haven’t met Lin-Manuel.”

Jolly Jinglefest to everyone out there who's still enjoying Orb Minders: Weavecast in its FOURTH YEAR! With the year winding down, but the Jinglefest season heating up, we've got one more announcement for the community this year that we think might just make your holidays a little more merry.

Patch 13.2.1 on Tuesday of COURSE features the bugfix that will allow us to FINALLY restore Rince the Skin-Flayer to the Mercenaries pool (when the Witching Hour remains unbanned by your warband, of course). We appreciate your patience while ol' Rinny has had to sit on the bench due to that exploit we all caught thanks to SneakyPete's viral Twitch clip. But if the whole idea of a bugfix release is putting you to sleep... don't check out just yet, because there may be a special little guy who's tagging along for the ride!

Flurbo is purely cosmetic, adorably cuddly, and is ready to be your best pal.

Flurbo grants NO ADVANTAGE in-game, is a purely optional purchase, and after you dismiss one shop notification about "new items", we won't ever nag you about its availability again.

Flurbo was hand-animated by longtime community member Kendall Price, who's never done professional work in the industry before this moment. This addition to their resume represents the start of us paying back everything they've contributed up until this point purely for the love of the community. Thanks Kendall!

Flurbo is your friend. Its design was done under the supervision of a record seventeen sensitivity consultants.

Nothing can possibly go wrong with Flurbo's launch, and we won't allow you to ruin this for us.

Flurbo approaches. Do NOT resist Flurbo.

li wrote:

what is the funniest emoji

the funniest emoji is 🪤 because despite the proposal itself showing the modern plank + spring mouse trap design, almost every major implementer, when faced with the design, was like "yeah no that's too gruesome we're gonna do the cartoon thing with the box and the stick"

in 2025 we’re not saying we’ve “beaten” a video game any more. we’re saying we’ve “bested” a video game. much more refined

ME ON THE CORPORATE CHRISTMAS PARTY ZOOM CALL

heh, yeah... I've got some fun ideas I want to "hack on", over the break. You know, just for me

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natalie wrote:

if cole slaw is cold then there should be a ware slaw that's warm. bonus points if it's extra polish somehow

circulating this post in all the relevant discords

it's interesting^{[citation needed]} to imagine whether FFXIV's cutscene scripting in-memory representation could be marshalled into something a visual novel engine could use, then sold back to me for some upsetting amount of money

I remembered last night that Feedbin (my RSS reader of choice) has an API and now I’m having Dangerous Ideas for December