Emilia
@lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Was games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox, currently a full-time Very Sick Person. Organizer, Roguelike Celebration (and formerly !!con). Disabled (ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent.
https://lazerwalker.com
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https://lazerwalker.com
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I appreciate Pathologic 3 following in the Disco Elysium tradition of “role-play a total dipshit who can’t help but make life much worse for himself”
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
I appreciate Pathologic 3 following in the Disco Elysium tradition of “role-play a total dipshit who can’t help but make life much worse for himself”
it'll quench your thirst, alright
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
it'll quench your thirst, alright
the existence of “yinz” implies the existence of “yangz”
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 AM
the existence of “yinz” implies the existence of “yangz”
One way I would sometimes frame this for art people is that something like WTFPL makes your intent clear to individuals, but it’s gonna scare off users who work for corporations with legal teams, which may be a positive or negative depending on your goals.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 AM
One way I would sometimes frame this for art people is that something like WTFPL makes your intent clear to individuals, but it’s gonna scare off users who work for corporations with legal teams, which may be a positive or negative depending on your goals.
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You love to see it www.out.com/gay-athletes...
January 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
You love to see it www.out.com/gay-athletes...
The important flip side to this is if you spend your time complaining online about LLMs and witch-hunting and your workplace is not unionized, cool, there is a more productive and less toxic way for you to spend your time
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The important flip side to this is if you spend your time complaining online about LLMs and witch-hunting and your workplace is not unionized, cool, there is a more productive and less toxic way for you to spend your time
Sure, but I mean, “US geopolitics and corporations suck” is normal compared to “I am too physically sick to even step outside my apartment without it causing a weeklong fatigue crash”
January 14, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Sure, but I mean, “US geopolitics and corporations suck” is normal compared to “I am too physically sick to even step outside my apartment without it causing a weeklong fatigue crash”
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I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.
*Jack Donaghy voice* 现在已经下午五点多了。我又不是农民！
January 13, 2026 at 11:39 PM
*Jack Donaghy voice* 现在已经下午五点多了。我又不是农民！
This is a well-written argument.
And is roughly where I stand: I think code LLMs are interesting, but it is rhetorically important to oppose their use in the workplace in the name of the solvable labor concerns they currently exacerbate. If we win that battle, cool, bring on the next discussion.
And is roughly where I stand: I think code LLMs are interesting, but it is rhetorically important to oppose their use in the workplace in the name of the solvable labor concerns they currently exacerbate. If we win that battle, cool, bring on the next discussion.
We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI.
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down.
Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the...
yarnspinner.dev
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This is a well-written argument.
And is roughly where I stand: I think code LLMs are interesting, but it is rhetorically important to oppose their use in the workplace in the name of the solvable labor concerns they currently exacerbate. If we win that battle, cool, bring on the next discussion.
And is roughly where I stand: I think code LLMs are interesting, but it is rhetorically important to oppose their use in the workplace in the name of the solvable labor concerns they currently exacerbate. If we win that battle, cool, bring on the next discussion.
Hearing people suddenly talk about GDC is weird. It feels like I'm frozen in a time bubble, doing nothing but sleeping and meditating and tending to my gut microbiome as I live the life of a weird sick monk while everyone else's lives go on normally.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Hearing people suddenly talk about GDC is weird. It feels like I'm frozen in a time bubble, doing nothing but sleeping and meditating and tending to my gut microbiome as I live the life of a weird sick monk while everyone else's lives go on normally.
Xylitol is *extremely* weird and cool. Eating xylitol mints after every meal literally fixed my dental problems — when the bacteria that cause cavities eat xylitol, it fucks them up from the inside and causes them to functionally starve to death
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Xylitol is *extremely* weird and cool. Eating xylitol mints after every meal literally fixed my dental problems — when the bacteria that cause cavities eat xylitol, it fucks them up from the inside and causes them to functionally starve to death
I don't want to stop anyone from using the tools they want, but I think this is useful info to disseminate, especially since NONS/Enovid is both more expensive and harder to get than alternatives that have stronger clinical evidence (even if they're *all* sort of fudgy bad science)
January 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I don't want to stop anyone from using the tools they want, but I think this is useful info to disseminate, especially since NONS/Enovid is both more expensive and harder to get than alternatives that have stronger clinical evidence (even if they're *all* sort of fudgy bad science)
If you look up the paper published by the Enovid creators about its use as a prophylactic, the study design was literally without exaggeration "we gave some college kids spray bottles, didn't do anything to confirm they actually used it, and then had them self-report whether they got COVID"
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
If you look up the paper published by the Enovid creators about its use as a prophylactic, the study design was literally without exaggeration "we gave some college kids spray bottles, didn't do anything to confirm they actually used it, and then had them self-report whether they got COVID"
The evidence for NO spray (e.g. Enovid) is meaningfully worse than any other options (xylitol, iota-carrageenan, or ELAH for "non-pharmaceutical" options, Azelastine for an OTC med). It has good evidence for reducing the duration of an active infection, but there are better options for prophylaxis.
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The evidence for NO spray (e.g. Enovid) is meaningfully worse than any other options (xylitol, iota-carrageenan, or ELAH for "non-pharmaceutical" options, Azelastine for an OTC med). It has good evidence for reducing the duration of an active infection, but there are better options for prophylaxis.
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Trans people: "Fix your hearts or die!"
Scott Adams: ok *dies*
Scott Adams: ok *dies*
January 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Trans people: "Fix your hearts or die!"
Scott Adams: ok *dies*
Scott Adams: ok *dies*
It’s obviously not their choice, it’s all Apple being inconsistent abd hostile to small apps
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
It’s obviously not their choice, it’s all Apple being inconsistent abd hostile to small apps
If you enable it in a web browser first, it shows up in app!
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
If you enable it in a web browser first, it shows up in app!
The single funniest joke about a game being so bad it harms your computer is the time in ~2002 when Daikatana *literally, without a lick of exaggeration* crashed so hard it corrupted my hard drive and I had to reinstall Windows
i know it's 90% off but a warning to potential customers not to buy the steam version of heavy rain. it is not safe. it installs heavy rain on your computer
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 AM
The single funniest joke about a game being so bad it harms your computer is the time in ~2002 when Daikatana *literally, without a lick of exaggeration* crashed so hard it corrupted my hard drive and I had to reinstall Windows
I can’t believe we finally figured out what the “W” stands for
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I can’t believe we finally figured out what the “W” stands for
I think regularly about a decade-old tweet along the lines of “dogs lick us because they know we have bones inside us and they want ‘em”
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I think regularly about a decade-old tweet along the lines of “dogs lick us because they know we have bones inside us and they want ‘em”
The existence of a Mario enemy named Dry Bones implies the existence of Wet Bones
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The existence of a Mario enemy named Dry Bones implies the existence of Wet Bones