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Hobbyist game developer & writer, and software engineer by day.
Developing a browser MMORPG called Blasphemess.
Pronouns 🏳️‍🌈She/Her only
Bloghttps://blog.blasphemess.com/

Lately i have noticed multiple strange uses of the collective “we” on fedi.

“We” are going to war with Iran, “we” bombed schoolchildren, “we” have failed to build an efficient railroad network.

I'm a bit boggled by how even progressives (even leftists?) identify with their national goverments to the point of incorporating into a single “we”.

“You” did not do any of that. Your government and your ruling class did it in your place, in spite of you.

@FinalGirl Oooh, good luck! I mostly imitate the effect with wallpaper invocations and a lot of iteration in my drawings to get things lined up as I edit drafts.

Maybe I should look into making my own latex documentclass for once...
I know a lot of people that would enjoy it.
If only we all had more time, argh! I've got too big a TODO list at the moment to devote to yet another project.

@FinalGirl I found my old post about it!
Includes a Github gist from my inspiration source:
https://peoplemaking.games/@True/113863765271572603

@FinalGirl I wrote a python script that takes a pdf input and produces a booklet/zine imposition output. pdfjam looks cool from the other comment here, similar idea.

My script doesn't scale beyond one signature's worth of pages though, currently (so if I have more pages than I can staple it'll not work).

I use my script to make micro zines (1 piece of paper, 16 tiny "pages").

I'm trying a 16 page A5-sized paper zine right now actually, a booklet basically made of 4 pieces of A4 front and back printed.
A4 paper is cleaner for making zines with the way I do (folding A4 into A5 or smaller sized pages).

@Icarus I frequently jam small games or mechanical prototypes.
Game Jams are the usual venue, but there's no need for formality. Learning by doing is valid!
@FinalGirl That's rough, take care as best you can...

Character Creation in Blasphemess

The themes of Blasphemess include "meaningful choices." How then do I illustrate that from the very start, with character creation?

https://blog.blasphemess.com/character-creation-in-blasphemess/

Character Creation in Blasphemess

The themes of Blasphemess include "meaningful choices." How then do I illustrate that from the very start, with character creation?

Blasphemess
@mindpersephone I don't think they like me there. 🙃
"Suffering builds character" or whatever misguided notion in writing.

@scumsuck fwiw I picked up the doodle last night from the mail and I loved it! We're going to frame the doodle of the cats. The valentine's card cracked us up too.

Social media being a nightmare is... a sad part of the times we live in.
I long for a kinder, better world. Where artists can make art that's deeply interesting to themselves without getting so much negativity.
Creation can be hard enough without that, and creation in all its variety is so worthy.
If only more people learned to ignore art they disliked and uplift artists who try making myriad things.

@b4ux1t3 In my case I knew the R&D Director from a prior job. I liked his approach to management and leadership, he has almost anarchistic approaches -- but of course he's a somewhat liberal older guy, so I can't drop the everyday anarchism word around him.
And he's on board with AI adoption.
He has reasonable expectations about its value, at least, but I know it's coming from top down: the board wants executives to pressure workers to adopt it.
I don't have the safety in this hierarchy to stand up for the principles and reality. I don't have the social capital to spend time arguing against it.
Here I am just hoping it's not going to get as bad as it has with you, with mandatory usage.