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She/Her. Transition unlocked my goofy smile.

Are you the pilot we're looking for? We will be showcasing Fox and Shadow in the Indie Games Room at #AVCon alongside other South Australian indie game makers.

(Word on the street is there may be exclusive swag for our pilots-to-be.)

#FoxAndShadow #PaperCactusGames #AVCon #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #RogueLikeDeckBuilder #RogueLike

Promotional image of the game Fox and Shadow, the left side says "find us at AVCON Indie Games Room, Jun 29 to 30 Adelaide Showgrounds.
The right hand side has the characters from the game in dynamic poses.
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"Oh, but the surveillance isn't on by default"

Sure, but it can be turned on, and there are a lot of types of coercive power relationships that will mean it *does* get turned on.
Even if the people being surveilled don't want it to be on.
Even if the people doing the coercing shouldn't be doing that.

Guarding against all those situations is really, really hard.

Chanting "rise" at the damper you put in the oven is a perfectly normal and sane thing to do.
...
Someone should make a cooking game where you have to make rhythmic chants or your cooking fails.

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2024-05-27

sits down to write a chapter and do prelim edits for a chapter

instead does prelim edits for 1 and a bit chapters before writing the next two.

#writingprocess #writing #transwriting

Writing update: Chapter 2 of "Dog-Gone Problems" was quietly launched today. Going to do a random release of chapter 3 sometime in the next week, then settle into a weekly release schedule.
Link: scribblehub.com/series/1097037
#writing

Happy to say that I've not only started writing again, but I'm also public releasing some writing.
Fair warning, it's LGBTQIA+, and queer stuff that's probably not safe for work..
Check it out at scribblehub.com/profile/159452

It is now time for the worst part of creative writing..
Editing.

Do I write creatively? yes.
Am I good at it? well.. soon you can be the judge of that.

@mqsalmon That just sounds like you need to go on a journey for coffee.
Do tell of any daring tales in the quest for the delicious bean soup of wakefulness.

My hot (maybe not hot?) take for the week is that big social media sites have lost the plot about what the internet is about.
According to Google's Oxford Language dictionary, the internet is; a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

you know... Multiple, different, networks. not just one.

Actual advice for trans girls watching..
The bio chemistry here is crazy. Excessive consumption of phyto-estrogens seems to be counter productive, but a small amount will help with general health around hrt.
I'm not a doctor. I've just been reading way too much.
Get a good balanced diet.

Dinner tonight. The drink is non alcoholic shiraz so I get plenty of my good friend resveratrol.

@oddtail follow up with a "I feel this"
I barely felt dysphoria during the time I was working my butt off. Late shifts and taking every extra I could. I was absolutely exhausted. Then I got to normal times and dysphoria started creeping in again.
Important to note that working butt off was not healthy either. That resulted in a mental breakdown.

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Cheshire (Alicja, Artemida and Mara)oddtail@meow.social
2024-02-10

For those who still linger on the site formerly known as twitter, we just posted about the fun little 3d printed things Paper Cactus keep on our displays.
twitter.com/PaperCactusGame/st
No pressure if you don't want to engage with twitter. But we could do with some algorithm engagement

Something happened to me. How am I able to amend a git commit using the terminal on linux? and without breaking a sweat?
I guess in the past couple of years of game dev I have levelled up my computer skills.

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Fabian Pimmingeri_am_fabs
2023-08-17

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"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/24

@vk2gpu ah! The good old burnt rope doused in sea water whiskey! Happy sipping.

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