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Reposts, May 1st 2025
2025 May 01
Current Mood: tired from writing this post, lol
Now Playing: "Somewhat Literate" by Retirement Party

Cool Games

  • DOMINO: DECLASSIFIED by DOMINO CLUB — new Domino Club games were most of what I've been playing in April and I still need to play a few of them. This time there were a couple of surprising sequels to previous games, a highly secured alien porn GBC game (that I failed to decode by myself T__T), a hilarious and highly realistic horror story about a wooden closet with a chair inside, ambiguous self-fucking, infinite beast slaying, poems they don't want you to see, alien autopsy picrew, and more! Highly recommend!

  • 4 Differences by Ivoryboy — stumbled upon this flash game in one of the bluesky threads, and spent some time playing it. Couldn't beat it in the end, but I was very impressed by its art direction and production techniques. I don't remember seeing this game at all during my flash gamer years! I'm also excited to check out more archived flash games on this website.

  • Trackless by 12 East Games — huge thanks to my friend Vi for introducing me to this game (and also gifting me a copy <3)! I've never heard of it before, even though it was made by one of the former Wolfire developers, and I'm so glad I'm playing it right now. It's a first-person puzzle adventure game where you interact with the world objects by writing verbs into the input panel. I love free-input-based games (Wizardry 8 dialogue system, my beloved...), so this game is right up my alley. It also has beautiful environments and very cool character designs 👀

Cool Art

  • Club Rouge Magazine by Various Artists — a Sonic fanzine about fashion with DIY fashion tips, cosplay photoshoots, comics, and all proceeds going to a Palestine aid fundraiser? Hell yess!

Cool Music

Writing On Games

  • How to Queerly Hijack a Video Game by Matteo Lupetti — an interesting short look at the history of queer video game mods, featuring words from Robert Yang and Lily Belmira, among others.

  • Consoles Are a Bum Deal Now by John Thyer — a nice reminder to divest from the video game console industry as a consumer and look into other places full of cool DRM-free video games.

  • Reframing Abundance: Open Tools, Free Games, Distributed Culture by Em Reed — a great essay on the contemporary state of abundance in arts and how to frame it in the current political and cultural context.

    Thinking of my creativity as abundant rather than something that must compete and survive in a world of manufactured scarcity is one of the main things that has kept me going, through dry spells, setbacks, frustration, and life getting in the way. I make zines, I write, I do interactive fiction games, I doodle poorly, I cook new dishes, I joke around with friends, and all these things are a record of my mindset and experiences over time, stuff I end up doing even if I don’t have any objective reason to.

  • Flash Games Were the Internet’s Crayon Box by Alli — a big essay on the importance of flash games in the Internet culture and the special way of interaction with the Web that was lost with those games.

    But all that technical progress came with cultural amnesia. Because the internet doesn’t remember weirdness unless people are loud, and fight to preserve it. And most of the time, weirdness doesn’t have advocates.

Writing On Life

  • Being a woman in programming in the Soviet Union by Vicky Boykis's mom — I remember reading this post some years ago after seeing the link in my Twitter feed. Really interesting peek into the programmer's life in the late Soviet Union. I wish the images were still there though :(

  • KTEH Public Television and Gundam by curious quail — a post about personal experience of watching KTEH San José's "Sunday Science Fiction Night". I found out about this TV channel through the infamous 9/11 clip, but then I also remember watching some youtube essay about it, so I was excited to read about someone's personal memories of watching anime and sci-fi TV shows on there.

Writing On Web

  • 'The Bots – Past & Present' by nick — a personal retrospective post on creating social media bots. A really interesting look into the tools that were available for creating such bots.

  • 404: The Internet You Tried to Remember Still Exists by Alli — a personal essay on the way the social media, feeds, and algorithms eroded the Internet as a place to explore, that also makes a great point that the Web everyone is nostalgic about still exists, but you need to rediscover and curate it yourself.


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