Rourke Bywater, Notorious Dyke
@rourke.bsky.social
Narrative Designer @ Hidden Door. lesbian. 💜 procedural systems, women, folk music + art with a touch of melancholy and bitterness. Organizer @ Roguelike Celebration
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A thing I enjoy about Go is how extreme the names of famous games tend to be
(the blood-vomiting game did in fact end with someone vomiting blood on the game board and dying, and the atomic bomb game was interrupted by the Hiroshima bomb)
(the blood-vomiting game did in fact end with someone vomiting blood on the game board and dying, and the atomic bomb game was interrupted by the Hiroshima bomb)
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A thing I enjoy about Go is how extreme the names of famous games tend to be
(the blood-vomiting game did in fact end with someone vomiting blood on the game board and dying, and the atomic bomb game was interrupted by the Hiroshima bomb)
(the blood-vomiting game did in fact end with someone vomiting blood on the game board and dying, and the atomic bomb game was interrupted by the Hiroshima bomb)
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an ADVENT calendar, where each little door reveals an interactive text adventure depicting a different part of Mammoth Cave
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
an ADVENT calendar, where each little door reveals an interactive text adventure depicting a different part of Mammoth Cave
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
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In case you missed it, we have a new, never-before-published Alan Dean Foster novelette! 🐛👽🧠
I, like many of us, love piloting my meat mecha. But, what if a tiny alien bug was piloting instead... 🤔
Read Dead Man's Tale Here: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
I, like many of us, love piloting my meat mecha. But, what if a tiny alien bug was piloting instead... 🤔
Read Dead Man's Tale Here: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In case you missed it, we have a new, never-before-published Alan Dean Foster novelette! 🐛👽🧠
I, like many of us, love piloting my meat mecha. But, what if a tiny alien bug was piloting instead... 🤔
Read Dead Man's Tale Here: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
I, like many of us, love piloting my meat mecha. But, what if a tiny alien bug was piloting instead... 🤔
Read Dead Man's Tale Here: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
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Hidden Door is heading to the stars!
This month, we're unveiling a new slate of science fiction adaptations. Each world is a doorway into a different kind of future - from mind-linked revolutionaries to lonely androids and wisecracking aliens.
This month, we're unveiling a new slate of science fiction adaptations. Each world is a doorway into a different kind of future - from mind-linked revolutionaries to lonely androids and wisecracking aliens.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hidden Door is heading to the stars!
This month, we're unveiling a new slate of science fiction adaptations. Each world is a doorway into a different kind of future - from mind-linked revolutionaries to lonely androids and wisecracking aliens.
This month, we're unveiling a new slate of science fiction adaptations. Each world is a doorway into a different kind of future - from mind-linked revolutionaries to lonely androids and wisecracking aliens.
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Dead Man’s Tale – Based on a never-before-published novelette by Alan Dean Foster, experience an alien symbiote literally living rent-free in your head, in a buddy comedy where death isn’t necessarily the end.
Read the Dead Man's Tale novelette now: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
Read the Dead Man's Tale novelette now: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Dead Man’s Tale – Based on a never-before-published novelette by Alan Dean Foster, experience an alien symbiote literally living rent-free in your head, in a buddy comedy where death isn’t necessarily the end.
Read the Dead Man's Tale novelette now: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
Read the Dead Man's Tale novelette now: https://www.hiddendoor.co/title/dead_mans_tale
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Nexus – Based on Ramez Naam’s acclaimed trilogy, dive into a near-future where mind-linking technology blurs the line between human and machine. Join the activists, scientists, and spies racing to decide the fate of post-human evolution.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Nexus – Based on Ramez Naam’s acclaimed trilogy, dive into a near-future where mind-linking technology blurs the line between human and machine. Join the activists, scientists, and spies racing to decide the fate of post-human evolution.
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Saturn’s Children – From Charles Stross, a darkly comic space opera set in a solar system where humanity is extinct—but its robot heirs are very much alive. Play as an android navigating the remains of human civilization in a story equal parts noir, adventure, and existential absurdity.
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Saturn’s Children – From Charles Stross, a darkly comic space opera set in a solar system where humanity is extinct—but its robot heirs are very much alive. Play as an android navigating the remains of human civilization in a story equal parts noir, adventure, and existential absurdity.
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excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable
I would really like to play Riftbound, but I also don’t really want to pay 80 dollars for a normal Kai’sa. Oof
(I know Kai’sa is meta rn, but also she’s may favorite and has always been my main so I’d like to play her!)
(I know Kai’sa is meta rn, but also she’s may favorite and has always been my main so I’d like to play her!)
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I would really like to play Riftbound, but I also don’t really want to pay 80 dollars for a normal Kai’sa. Oof
(I know Kai’sa is meta rn, but also she’s may favorite and has always been my main so I’d like to play her!)
(I know Kai’sa is meta rn, but also she’s may favorite and has always been my main so I’d like to play her!)
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
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Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
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While The Discourse is focused on video game acting, it might be pertinent to mention I’m chairing a panel on the subject at GDC next year. Yuri Lowenthal, Cissy Jones, Ashly Burch, Elias Toufexis, and me. schedule.gdconf.com/session/stop...
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
While The Discourse is focused on video game acting, it might be pertinent to mention I’m chairing a panel on the subject at GDC next year. Yuri Lowenthal, Cissy Jones, Ashly Burch, Elias Toufexis, and me. schedule.gdconf.com/session/stop...
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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[Medieval monastery]
Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?
Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.
Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?
Me: lol yeah
Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?
Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.
Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?
Me: lol yeah
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
[Medieval monastery]
Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?
Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.
Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?
Me: lol yeah
Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?
Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.
Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?
Me: lol yeah
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“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact
spreadsheets
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
spreadsheets
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I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”
Considering attending PAX Unplugged, I didnt realize how easy it was to take a day trip from NYC! Will any of my mutuals be there?
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Considering attending PAX Unplugged, I didnt realize how easy it was to take a day trip from NYC! Will any of my mutuals be there?
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Sorry one more
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Sorry one more
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