mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Educational and non-educational game developer, Halloween home haunter. Interested in roguelikes, procedural generation, tabletop gaming, RPG's, papercraft, haunted houses, and any cuisine that involves chile peppers. He/him.
Another example of the itch community being generous.
Yesterday I released a new “Dungeon Hero” expansion. It’s free, but if you pay $3 or more you get access to bonus content.
Several people went ahead and paid, which is not surprising, but more than a quarter of them paid EVEN MORE than that! And a few left congratulatory messages too!
Very heartening!
https://lonespelunker.itch.io/dungeon-hero-volume-four-eerie-dimensions
2026 seems to be the year of people saying, "Today, we're here to have a discussion about [technology / policy / person]. Now, of course, there are valid [ethical / environmental / privacy] concerns about this topic, and I want to acknowledge those concerns up front. But I don't want that to derail the conversation, so..."
Yikes.
How did Mattel go from the “Barbie” movie to “Masters of the Universe?”
This show is crippling male insecurity in movie form, exactly what “Barbie” was about.
Clearly, a producer was working through some stuff. If you’re OK, you don’t take a character out of their fantasy world and send them to Earth to be threatened by a black female HR manager antagonist. Or compliment a woman by calling her a man. Or cast Jared Leto.
Did Mattel not SEE it?
Okay, still trying to figure out what chapter of "Art of the Deal" this whole strategy is from:
* Straight of Hormuz was free and open to everyone.
* Kill children of people who could close it, angering them.
* They close the straight, causing us huge economic damage.
* Threaten war crimes if they don't open it back up.
* Back down when they call your bluff.
* Impotently grouse on social media that they won't open it, saying, "Open the fuckin' straight, praise be to Allah!"