Ruby Quail

Hello all I'm Ruby, I'm a designer, technologist, and artist. I currently design, write code, and prototype for ACMI, and I have mostly generative digital art practice. I enjoy weird gender™️ and sci-fi stories as well as puzzle games. Felathea Aeortis In Sofia (FFXIV)

It’s amazing how two little chunks of white stuff pushed into a small cut on my arse can make me feel less like every cell in my body is trying to kill me and my brain is screaming at me to die. It can’t fix the existential crisis that’s going on, but not having perpetual crippling dysphoria helps.

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I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

Another big @puzzmo.com jubilee monday. We've shipped 'All Games' which handles the 'we have 17 games on the website' problem Now the homepage is tight and we've added 2 more card games: Flipflop Solitaire and FreeCell blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/1...

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

Yissss

Here we go. The corrected Gay Pride Flag of Brazil, shown on VGAPride 0.7 for MS-DOS, running on my Gateway laptop.

I know they’re an Australian nut, but do other countries get macadamias? like they are just like, a better fatter hazelnut.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Brazil and Serbia what a day, god is that what hope feels like?

Can someone at RMIT tell me when is like the optimal day to check out the grad shows to see MDIT, ID honours, and masters/batchelors of game design? do not like trying to figure out when things are on

My partner’s friend said she remembered me because I apparently laugh like Seth Rogan and I would like to shrivel up and die please send help.

I don’t know who Ethan Kline is and definitely mistook him for Ezra Klein which I think makes the whole thing funnier? Or certainly harder to follow.

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

"This is such bad news, such a devastating historic event all I can say is that it's utter bullshit. Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed."

I think still my favourite BioWare thing is just fantasy England seeing that girl Jesus had a dog, decided to make that dog their whole entire thing.

made a quick october blog post. i'm still offline mostly but also thinking about abandonware and the end of the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ellesho.me/page/website...

I don't even like debating the utility of LLMs any more because you get trapped there without talking about the consequences. The consequences fucking suck.

hello, some news. next week is my last at screenhub. i’m moving onto something new, exciting and non-games journalism next! i have had such a wonderful time writing about games. i’ve met so many cool people! i went to new york for the switch launch! disneyland for star wars jedi! a true blast!

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I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I can confirm I actually look really hot in slightly oversized freakon merch

I've had someone unironically argue that it's actually good if all these jobs are lost to AI because it's actually better when people make things as a hobby instead of "selling out"

I still think Angel Fuel deserves all the awards for the Infohazard video, somehow the build to just endless photos of cell towers before transitioning into standard just endless like millenial tumblr photos, sure not a novel idea, but definitely one of the best to ever do it.

This is sort of my feeling, we can talk about a possible benefit of widespread ai use once we’ve solved at least one of the big problems with it, yes it sucks that you’re toys might be taken away and you weren’t even doing anything wrong with it, but you were fine 6 years ago, let’s try this again.

I adore the sizzle been subscribed for many years and it’s really good to have a a perspective on tech from Australia, it’s really well written, witty, and I’ve saved plenty of money from the bargains, which is great because my god I love myself to much to ever dive into ozbsrgin

Veilguard was quite good, like, very weird in how it interacted with the lore of Thedas (antivan crows, wtf) and just the bow-tieing of “it was elves, everything was elves” aspect but I quite liked all the characters (certainly more than DAI)

My ‘I don’t want trans people dead’ T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

every year my students have to write a piece about life affirming games and dragon age or mass effect *always* comes up for its care and resonance w queer players, its legacy is undeniable and it’s fucked that greed has cut its future off im so sick of this shit

very few queet people in their 20s-30s in the bulk of gamer demographic that did not experience their first “canon” foundational queer romances in a BioWare rpg. devastating. just absolutely devastating.