Emily C Taylor

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

This #Caturday added a new member to my family… name still being pondered. No string is now safe. #CatsOfBlueSky

Oh wow, I never thought about Cole when thinking about the spirits in Spirit Crossing 😮 #DAI #SpiritCrossing

One of the best uses of light and shadow ever. Original post

There is no escape

If there were any justice in the world, every day would be #WorldWombatDay, but today is the official day to celebrate these glorious creatures that crush their enemies with their buttocks, dig burrows tens of metres long, constantly regrow their teeth, have babies called wombatlets, and poop cubes.

I know it's a meme but, I'll admit, this one got me. 😔

Going to give my own takeaway on the demise of Bioware, which still makes me very sad. The TLDR: Bioware was not killed suddenly by a private equity acquisition. It was slowly strangled by idiots who didn't understand what made Bioware great - some at EA but also some inside of Bioware leadership

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

Dragon Age has become a huge part of my life right now and seeing the news that Bioware is shutting down sure stings. But remember that a lot of the devs are off starting their own projects and opening new studios - there are still stories to be told. Go out and find them, support them.

BioWare was my "I can fix him!" game dev job. I loved it so much even though it put me through the ringer. I have complicated feelings towards my ex, but I never wanted to hear that they fucking died.

Man, BioWare getting closed down has me incredibly sad. For all the ups and downs I experienced there it was my home for many years. My heart goes out to all the people affected in today's layoffs.

A referendum should be the easy part. If you can’t pull that off cleanly, the hard part, actually running a country, would go quite badly.

Very relatable to Alberta's referendum.

Glad #Alberta voted to stop talking about leaving Canada, but heartsick how many also voted yes on every other barely-disguised racist question that will be used as an excuse by the UCP to destroy more minority protections and make life harder for immigrants AND many who voted on this too. #ABpoli

"That's a cow, right? You can tell by the vivid orange." #OverheardAtDnD

"I'm not going to ask you guys to roll anything else right now because you guys roll like shit" #OverheardAtDnD 😖

Edmontonians! If you’re into Halloween but less into the bar scene, come to our Halloween choral show, rock a fun costume (or not), listen to a talented band, get some snacks and drinks, and help us raise money for the Edmonton Food Bank! Saturday Oct 24 - 7pm Caernarvon Hall

#doom

Harold Godwinson getting arrowed. Guillaume de Normandie: 'Oui... AH AH AH... OUI.'

Happy 100th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh and 20th anniversary of "sickos", apparently.

Octopuses are solitary creatures, which is pretty understandable when most species engage in cannibalism. However, larger Pacific striped octopus are an exception. This undescribed species has been known to live in groups of up to 40 octopuses and mates in a beak-to-beak position. #OCTOtober

On October 13, 1949, Pope Pius XII pronounced the Madonna del Ghisallo the patron saint of bicyclists

Is Trump the tiger in this metaphor #ElbowsUp

A lot of people are wondering why they keep getting sick and I'm hoping this can connect some dots.

Relatedly, I firmly believe the fastest way to improve your worldbuilding tools is to make your tools engineer sit next to a Worldbuilder for a day and just watch them use it. Worldbuilders are used to suffering in silence. Sometimes, tools engineers need to experience shame.

It’s fun to finally have a little social experiment on “what if we try helping people”

what if the shaders just, like, stayed compiled. did no one ever think of that

Poor Agatha!

Discovered an unsuspected crisis in Edmonton today. Why are the news media sleeping on this?! One article from the Toronto Star in April and nothing since??? #marmite

More #EQLegends fun last night with @druidsfire.bsky.social, this time rampaging around Blackburrow. Teeny tiny shenanigans ensued once we looted an item that had a 'shrink' clicky effect. 😆

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Finally, the kind of sports news that interests me 🤣

The war with the bicycles was over and the humans had won.

260 years ago, on the 2nd of October 1766, ‘Cheese Riots’ broke out at the Nottingham Goose Fair after Lincolnshire merchants had bought large quantities of cheese with the intent to sell it back home. The residents of Nottinghamshire did not want food to leave their county. #otd #history 🗃️

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a novelty popcorn bucket that I can really love… spoke too soon.

The Feast of Bears begins TODAY in #SpiritCrossing! It’s a 2 week seasonal event that’s all about our lovable square bears🐻. Get bear ears or a bear onesie! I’m super proud of this event which was the brainchild of yours truly. Wishlist and play on Steam today! store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

Tried “birthday buns” for the first time at dim sum brunch today with friends and they are charming little tear-shaped buns dusted with pink and filled with sweet lotus paste. Considering my close-to-20-year fondness for dim sum, how had I never tried these before? 😮 #YEGfood

Content creator (and sometimes MMORPG contributor) @druidsfire.bsky.social sat down with the #DDO team to talk all things U82. www.mmorpg.com/videos/exclu...

Other than Danielle Smith, presumably.