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People often ask me if Clover is a sphere or a disc. I am here to announce that Clover is, in fact, a floppy salami. The "How The Sausage Gets Made" update for Clover's Quadrants is now live! Featuring 80+ levels that didn't make the cut. The game will also go on sale sometime tomorrow!

It's silently costing people friends and other connections, too. If I see that you are posting or reposting gen AI content I'm unlikely to say anything but I will immediately lose interest in striking up any kind of conversation, friendship, or working relationship. And I know I'm not the only one.

All you have to do to get through a hard game is to give yourself the space to adapt and improve. The pushback builds you as a player and makes the payoff so much sweeter, baby. #blog #gaming

the free proof of concept that i played and enjoyed a while ago got a full release while i wasnt looking & its really beautiful store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

Don't sleep on Clover's Quadrants, it's a gorgeous puzzle game with a really interesting key movement mechanic! It's a mind-bender in all the right ways, but also forgiving and doesn't waste your time with unnecessary failure modes. Lots of fun

I have the pleasure to announce that I was the English to Japanese translator for Clover's Quadrants, an adorable, challenging puzzle game by @idolon.bsky.social. You can read a debrief of my translation process on my website rubyrawlins.com/projects/202...

Clover's Quadrants #Windows #Linux <Two-Headed Deer> が、配信開始されました。1147円(7/4(土)2:00まで)。 store.steampowered.com/app/31...

Clover's Quadrants is available NOW! It's a challenging puzzle game where your four directions of movement are also inventory slots. Check out the demo / buy the full game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

Anyway I'm just going to say it outright: if you're an indie dev using AI for coding, above and beyond any other objections, what you're telling me is that you have no solidarity with anyone else in games. Not artists, not writers, not other coders. You beleive in personal convenience at all costs.

they never stopped their plans, only delayed them don't care what guarantees Discord or any third party ID Verifier provides, requesting PI such as this a ticking timebomb before things are breached and Sensitive Private Information is harvested

“I just use AI to make my job easier.“ That’s wild, yo. Have you tried just being good at your job, or is that too much work?

@dogspawn.net hey mate I just played the demo for WOIM. Very fun, I especially enjoyed the cutting mechanic and the vibes were very pleasant. Seeing what was above the soil gave me a chuckle as well. Best of luck with your development!

"The AI generated assets are placeholder and will not exist in the final game"

The meaning of women nudity. Nudity had so many meaning across human history, yet in modern time we’re so busy that we decided to treat it simplified.

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Tumblr with another banger

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

despite allegedly being a leftist echochamber this site feels very pro-censorship and bans users a lot for art and opinions that some no-name didnt like. ruin someones career in a button click to save themselves from 1.7 seconds of discomfort and rub it in even that theyre powerful and you arent.

GenAI is not a serious tool for making art because it's impossible to make transgressive art with GenAI 🐦

whispering, ghost hunting, shopping #art #vividlope

just remember that if you're against censoring freedom of expression you're far more numerous than you think, it can be hard to see because when a hate mob comes after you it's one sudden shot of a bunch of people being sent to target you, when everyone who'd support you and defend you is scattered

I'm often shocked (though maybe I shouldn't be) to see people I would consider my allies picketing to limit art, expression, and speech. It must be such a privilege to only hold party-approved thoughts and to cast stones at others for their thought crimes.

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

This week in The Stacks, Rex Nabours III (@rnaboursiii.bsky.social) tracks the rise and fall of Gainax through a comprehensive history of their software. thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...

dislike the internet (and society writ large) sliding into harder distinctions between “artistic” nudity and ones that are not. the discretion is from companies, not artists. deeply frustrating.

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

Volume 3 of my magazine, RRRRRR, is live. In this edition I write a bit about Cutey Honey, Marquis de Sade, and the benefits of reading beautiful writing. I've also included a pilot chapter (sort of) of new prose I'm working on. Enjoy! rubyrawlins.com/projects/202...

Volume 3 of my magazine, RRRRRR, is live. In this edition I write a bit about Cutey Honey, Marquis de Sade, and the benefits of reading beautiful writing. I've also included a pilot chapter (sort of) of new prose I'm working on. Enjoy! rubyrawlins.com/projects/202...