Pippa Brooks
@pwbrooks.bsky.social
they/them 🧑💻 software engineer for algo trading and game dev 🤖 AI but not _that_ kind of AI 🔊 audio tinkerer 💭 rpg & interactive fiction enjoyer
my least woke opinion is that i am very eepy
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
my least woke opinion is that i am very eepy
I will never stop talking about the theme from level 6 of Double Dragon II for PC Engine CD that sounds like a lost RZA track and samples Leonard Nimoy from a 1987 new age album where he reads poetry over sounds of humpback whales.
double dragon 2 pc engine level 6 OST
YouTube video by shadowAOD
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Just abolish the BBC. There’s no reason for there to be a publicly-funded mouthpiece for Nigel Farage and assorted transphobes. GB News and The Guardian already exist.
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just abolish the BBC. There’s no reason for there to be a publicly-funded mouthpiece for Nigel Farage and assorted transphobes. GB News and The Guardian already exist.
Spam is an amazing invention. If you're hungry, you just open a tin of it and suddenly you're no longer hungry. Also, you now have a tin's worth of spam.
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Spam is an amazing invention. If you're hungry, you just open a tin of it and suddenly you're no longer hungry. Also, you now have a tin's worth of spam.
The Lion King may be Disney's thirty-second animated movie, but it's had lasting cultural impact despite its brevity.
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Lion King may be Disney's thirty-second animated movie, but it's had lasting cultural impact despite its brevity.
wtf. I was just going to pay the 30 quid but apparently they've been taking my data without my knowledge or permission for who knows how long
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
wtf. I was just going to pay the 30 quid but apparently they've been taking my data without my knowledge or permission for who knows how long
Jonathan Coulton's Furry Old Lobster is actually about kobolds
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Jonathan Coulton's Furry Old Lobster is actually about kobolds
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Big Tea-Powered Games news - Elemental Flow now has a Steam page, ahead of its demo release on November 5th! Our conversation-centric RPG set in Solarpunk Argentina uses active encounters to capture the feel of conversation - thread (1/6)
store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...
Elemental Flow on Steam
A modern RPG with no combat, only conversations. Follow Clara, a young woman returning to Latin American-inspired Jacaranda to figure out her place in a Solarpunk world. Using Clara's magical communic...
store.steampowered.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Big Tea-Powered Games news - Elemental Flow now has a Steam page, ahead of its demo release on November 5th! Our conversation-centric RPG set in Solarpunk Argentina uses active encounters to capture the feel of conversation - thread (1/6)
store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/4004580/...
So are Minovsky particles, like, the Gundam equivalent of the Holtzman effect?
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So are Minovsky particles, like, the Gundam equivalent of the Holtzman effect?
What is your favourite tutorial battle theme and why is it Trisection
October 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What is your favourite tutorial battle theme and why is it Trisection
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Don't spend your money on GDC. Support Roguelike Celebration which always has a stacked schedule, pays speakers, and has a MUD hangout space.
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html
Roguelike Celebration - Event 2025
www.roguelike.club
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Don't spend your money on GDC. Support Roguelike Celebration which always has a stacked schedule, pays speakers, and has a MUD hangout space.
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html
Suddenly very nostalgic for hifi systems with brushed metal facades and wooden endcheeks
September 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Suddenly very nostalgic for hifi systems with brushed metal facades and wooden endcheeks
Since Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live for contradicting Trump, Knights of Guinevere's pilot is perfectly timed.
I cannot express in words how much venom this show has for Disney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...
I cannot express in words how much venom this show has for Disney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
YouTube video by GLITCH
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September 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Since Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live for contradicting Trump, Knights of Guinevere's pilot is perfectly timed.
I cannot express in words how much venom this show has for Disney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...
I cannot express in words how much venom this show has for Disney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAd...
Don't say Keir Starmer lacks vision. His vision is of a country where elderly peaceful protestors are arrested as terrorists, immigrants are demonised, the poor must make sacrifices to support the rich, trans people can't safely use public toilets, and kids are forced to undergo the wrong puberty.
September 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Don't say Keir Starmer lacks vision. His vision is of a country where elderly peaceful protestors are arrested as terrorists, immigrants are demonised, the poor must make sacrifices to support the rich, trans people can't safely use public toilets, and kids are forced to undergo the wrong puberty.
My hot take is that Hexen is a soulslike
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My hot take is that Hexen is a soulslike
Virtual Private Networking is integrated into modern operating systems. Even if you could somehow ban Linux, etc and force Google, Apple, and Microsoft to verify your age before they let you use that OS feature, you'd still be banning teenagers from most computing jobs
If VPNs are such an obvious massive loophole, why didn't you put this in the law originally? Could it be possible you're all so tech illiterate you didn't realise everyone would just get a VPN?
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And if so, should you be let anywhere near an online safety law?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.
www.bbc.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Virtual Private Networking is integrated into modern operating systems. Even if you could somehow ban Linux, etc and force Google, Apple, and Microsoft to verify your age before they let you use that OS feature, you'd still be banning teenagers from most computing jobs
I have nothing against 19th-century male Russian writers but their utility in conversation is not as great as some people imagine
August 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I have nothing against 19th-century male Russian writers but their utility in conversation is not as great as some people imagine
Has Chiitan ever met Mr Blobby
August 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Has Chiitan ever met Mr Blobby
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Lucky enough to be one of the writers involved in bringing this wild stygian world to life! If you've ever wanted to barter with a dead swan god or infiltrate the fortress where souls go to be flensed, wishlist this game...
😈 Announcing Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, a procedural narrative RPG by A Sharp @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and published by us!
▶ Wishlist the game now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
▶ Wishlist the game now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
August 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Lucky enough to be one of the writers involved in bringing this wild stygian world to life! If you've ever wanted to barter with a dead swan god or infiltrate the fortress where souls go to be flensed, wishlist this game...
I wonder whether xAI's product will eventually invert the definition of "grok" so that it means to have a spurious and unreliable understanding of something
August 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I wonder whether xAI's product will eventually invert the definition of "grok" so that it means to have a spurious and unreliable understanding of something
"Blackguard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "bollard" is actually pronounced and "bollard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "blackguard" is actually pronounced
August 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Blackguard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "bollard" is actually pronounced and "bollard" looks like it should rhyme with the way "blackguard" is actually pronounced
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Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…
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Hadean Lands is now part of the Boston-Based Indies bundle on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/56056...
Five titles, 15% off:
- Hadean Lands (me!)
- Monster Loves You Too! (Dejobaan)
- MewnBase (Cairn4)
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule)
- Loki's Revenge (OWL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/56056...
Five titles, 15% off:
- Hadean Lands (me!)
- Monster Loves You Too! (Dejobaan)
- MewnBase (Cairn4)
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule)
- Loki's Revenge (OWL)
Boston-based Indies on Steam
store.steampowered.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hadean Lands is now part of the Boston-Based Indies bundle on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/56056...
Five titles, 15% off:
- Hadean Lands (me!)
- Monster Loves You Too! (Dejobaan)
- MewnBase (Cairn4)
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule)
- Loki's Revenge (OWL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/56056...
Five titles, 15% off:
- Hadean Lands (me!)
- Monster Loves You Too! (Dejobaan)
- MewnBase (Cairn4)
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule)
- Loki's Revenge (OWL)