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Riff Conner

@rifflesby.bsky.social

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Writer for the “of Loathing” series of video games. He/him

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · May 16

tell your friends
tell your uncles and aunts
type it into the chat in ALL CAPS
tip your barista and then tell your barista
be like "Shadows Over Loathing is on the Sony Playstation store" every time your dentist takes her fingers out of your mouth

Asymmetric Games @asym.bsky.social · May 15

Shadows Over Loathing is (finally) available digitally on PlayStation 4 and 5!

store.playstation.com/en-us/search...

An image of a house and the dark words "Shadows Over Loathing" silhouetted in front of a giant moon, tentacles reaching in from all sides.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 14h

...i don't even know how many pieces are in a chess set, it turns out

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 14h

he will definitely win, no way can I beat a fuckin wizard

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 14h

I'd hire a team of master cat burglars to break into the houses of the world's top 36 chess grandmasters and steal one piece from each one's fanciest chess board, creating the world's most valuable, most chaotic, & most illegal chess set.

I suck at chess & have no particular interest in the game

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 19h

does 'hilarious' count as positive

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 19h

J.B. Harold Murder Club

don't make me think about jb harold murder club

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 21h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 1d

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 2d

beans + feet = shrimp

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

he really is, the best to ever do it

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

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flavourtoothpaste @flavourtoothpaste.bsky.social · Sep 4

POV: you're supergreatfriend

My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · Sep 3

This spooky season I will watch horror movies with you and make a kinda goofy “Ah!” noise whenever a scare happens so it doesn’t get to you. Hourly rates available on request.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

come on book publishers, the greeting card industry has been kicking your ass for decades

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 1d

books should come with soundtracks. there should be electronics in the spine that detect what page you're on and play music appropriate to that part of the book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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kc g reen @kcg.bsky.social · 7d

SHORT HORROR; short horror that makes you go "NOT LONG ENOUGH, AAAAH!!!" // THE CAT WITH HANDS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzri...

The Cat With Hands (2k 35mm scan)

YouTube video by Robert Morgan

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2d

this is literally what Bungie came up with when trying to imagine what stairs in an alien spaceship would look like in Marathon

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 2d

i still kinda do

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_;
Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 3d

i trimmed this pic of ethan yellin from the stream in case you want a new twitch emote
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Jam2go @jam2go.com · 4d

I've been testing out adding greenscreen footage into Unreal, but compressing it to look like it's a 90s FMV game

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 3d

and also just actual 12 year olds. the internet makes it too easy to forget that sometimes a dude with a stupid opinion is just some dipshit teen

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 4d

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Steam review that reads “game is good but im some bugs”

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 3d

past me is a dick

Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 3d

something dumb i like to do is limit shopping list entries to four letters so future me has a little puzzle he has to solve

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 4d

Entry 10

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 4d

The procgen systems I work with are much much *much* simpler than yours, but I do try to ensure that every random name/trinket/book title generator can accidentally produce "Bobcat Goldthwait".