Luther Patenge
@ironwhale.bsky.social
Pretty dresses, plastic chainsaw knights, and designing video games. Formerly of Monolith Productions. Designer and writer of ‘Ambition: A Minuet in Power’. Horny on main. (They/She/He)
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
It’s hard not to feel like life’s a party I showed up late to. The dance floor’s empty, the booze down to the dregs, and everyone else is already in their own circles of strangers, full up on glamorous friends.
Like I spent too long getting ready, and the house lights are about to come up.
Like I spent too long getting ready, and the house lights are about to come up.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
It’s hard not to feel like life’s a party I showed up late to. The dance floor’s empty, the booze down to the dregs, and everyone else is already in their own circles of strangers, full up on glamorous friends.
Like I spent too long getting ready, and the house lights are about to come up.
Like I spent too long getting ready, and the house lights are about to come up.
Wanted to make games since playing Mechwarrior 2. Graduated in 2009, directly into the crash. Had a design job offer at EA that was rescinded (layoffs).
3 years of applying for games jobs, doing game jams, going to the GDC, and moving twice. Clawed my way in as a community manager.
3 years of applying for games jobs, doing game jams, going to the GDC, and moving twice. Clawed my way in as a community manager.
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Wanted to make games since playing Mechwarrior 2. Graduated in 2009, directly into the crash. Had a design job offer at EA that was rescinded (layoffs).
3 years of applying for games jobs, doing game jams, going to the GDC, and moving twice. Clawed my way in as a community manager.
3 years of applying for games jobs, doing game jams, going to the GDC, and moving twice. Clawed my way in as a community manager.
Trump, 5 minutes after meeting me: “GW, they dropped the ball with Ferrus and Fulgrim, always said it. Should’ve written them as lovers. It’d add layers, big layers of meaning to them. Some people, small people, say they’re brothers it’s gross. I say, it’s a gross universe. Supposed to be gross.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump, 5 minutes after meeting me: “GW, they dropped the ball with Ferrus and Fulgrim, always said it. Should’ve written them as lovers. It’d add layers, big layers of meaning to them. Some people, small people, say they’re brothers it’s gross. I say, it’s a gross universe. Supposed to be gross.”
It’s Trans Day of Remembrance and I don’t have the heart for how depressing it is. Instead, have @f1nn5ter.com, genderfluid Twitch Streamer and OnlyFans star, using their porn money to fund access to gender affirming care.
Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.
Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.
Being Trans Shouldn’t Be This Hard
YouTube video by F1nn5terLIVE
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It’s Trans Day of Remembrance and I don’t have the heart for how depressing it is. Instead, have @f1nn5ter.com, genderfluid Twitch Streamer and OnlyFans star, using their porn money to fund access to gender affirming care.
Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.
Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.
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Smut artists and sex workers are crushed underfoot while AI gets a green light to steal your yearbook photo to make hard-core porn with the caption "AI GIRLS NEVER SAY NO"
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Smut artists and sex workers are crushed underfoot while AI gets a green light to steal your yearbook photo to make hard-core porn with the caption "AI GIRLS NEVER SAY NO"
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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From all of us who worked with Becky at Interplay Entertainment, and the rest of us who have deep respect for her contribution to our industry, we want to extend our condolences to Rebecca Heineman's family and friends. Her spirit will live on in all who learned from her and loved her.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
From all of us who worked with Becky at Interplay Entertainment, and the rest of us who have deep respect for her contribution to our industry, we want to extend our condolences to Rebecca Heineman's family and friends. Her spirit will live on in all who learned from her and loved her.
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Oh, we don’t need immigration to fix our demographics. We can just do natalism, a policy aim no country in the world has been able to achieve, and in only 18 years that will fix it
June 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Oh, we don’t need immigration to fix our demographics. We can just do natalism, a policy aim no country in the world has been able to achieve, and in only 18 years that will fix it
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
what are your top 4 movie genres? mine are:
Sworn siblings commit crime together, but their bond is threatened!
The worst people for the job are the only ones left
The tragedy of power, the momentum of history, the gruesome pageantry of war
What if someone cared and loved the same way you did?
Sworn siblings commit crime together, but their bond is threatened!
The worst people for the job are the only ones left
The tragedy of power, the momentum of history, the gruesome pageantry of war
What if someone cared and loved the same way you did?
what are your top 4 movie genres? mine are:
The people in charge are trying to kill us
Welcome to the secret world hidden in plain sight
Self mastery will fix most of your problems, actually
Group of idiots solve everyone else's problems
The people in charge are trying to kill us
Welcome to the secret world hidden in plain sight
Self mastery will fix most of your problems, actually
Group of idiots solve everyone else's problems
what are your top 4 movie genres? mine are:
people stuck in a room
we got asked to do an impossible thing and it fucking sucks
existential dread road trip
quirky detective is extremely effective
people stuck in a room
we got asked to do an impossible thing and it fucking sucks
existential dread road trip
quirky detective is extremely effective
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
what are your top 4 movie genres? mine are:
Sworn siblings commit crime together, but their bond is threatened!
The worst people for the job are the only ones left
The tragedy of power, the momentum of history, the gruesome pageantry of war
What if someone cared and loved the same way you did?
Sworn siblings commit crime together, but their bond is threatened!
The worst people for the job are the only ones left
The tragedy of power, the momentum of history, the gruesome pageantry of war
What if someone cared and loved the same way you did?
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
Hey, I just got back from asking the Monkey's Paw for more visible bi representation. What I miss?
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hey, I just got back from asking the Monkey's Paw for more visible bi representation. What I miss?
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Very funny to compare this to the Valve hardware announcement video, and think back to the Amazon guy on LinkedIn who was like, “why can’t we compete with Valve??? It is a mystery!!!”
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very funny to compare this to the Valve hardware announcement video, and think back to the Amazon guy on LinkedIn who was like, “why can’t we compete with Valve??? It is a mystery!!!”
Slowly learning to embrace the fact that my aesthetic might be ‘clocky in a cute way’.
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Slowly learning to embrace the fact that my aesthetic might be ‘clocky in a cute way’.
Me: “You see, Dracula Flow is like mayonnaise. Lame, even offputting on its own, but sublime as a component in greater things.”
My Therapist: *Circling the word ‘Euthanasia’ in my file* “How does that make you feel?”
My Therapist: *Circling the word ‘Euthanasia’ in my file* “How does that make you feel?”
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Me: “You see, Dracula Flow is like mayonnaise. Lame, even offputting on its own, but sublime as a component in greater things.”
My Therapist: *Circling the word ‘Euthanasia’ in my file* “How does that make you feel?”
My Therapist: *Circling the word ‘Euthanasia’ in my file* “How does that make you feel?”
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friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
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New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good!
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good!
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
1400s Catholic Monk Who Doesn't Realize He's Asexual: "Wow, I am absolutely crushing this whole celibacy thing. This shit is easy. I don't know what everyone else is complaining about. Must not care about God enough, I guess."
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
1400s Catholic Monk Who Doesn't Realize He's Asexual: "Wow, I am absolutely crushing this whole celibacy thing. This shit is easy. I don't know what everyone else is complaining about. Must not care about God enough, I guess."
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I won Judge's Choice in this year's Armies on Parade! Thank you to Dan for the nomination and the kind words! #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #paintingminiatures #warhammer40k
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I won Judge's Choice in this year's Armies on Parade! Thank you to Dan for the nomination and the kind words! #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #paintingminiatures #warhammer40k
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Here ya go. I have a Firefox extension that sometimes works. Thanks for sharing.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Here ya go. I have a Firefox extension that sometimes works. Thanks for sharing.