Riff Conner
@rifflesby.bsky.social
Writer for the “of Loathing” series of video games. He/him
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Riff Conner
@rifflesby.bsky.social
· May 16
Shadows Over Loathing is (finally) available digitally on PlayStation 4 and 5!
store.playstation.com/en-us/search...
store.playstation.com/en-us/search...
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
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
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hell, i'll eat a bratwurst lunch. mother likes them boiled but father knows the secret to the perfect bratwurst - basting it in shadow oil. we milk it from the obsidian monolith; it reeks because of all the dead birds at its base, but the oil it secretes is divine. it made me strangle the stable boy
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
hell, i'll eat a bratwurst lunch. mother likes them boiled but father knows the secret to the perfect bratwurst - basting it in shadow oil. we milk it from the obsidian monolith; it reeks because of all the dead birds at its base, but the oil it secretes is divine. it made me strangle the stable boy
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it rules to pivot at this point in time from metaverse to ai wearables. it's like if your 8-track tape company finally realized no one was going to want them in the age of the CD, so you changed the business model to only recording nursery rhymes on wax cylinder.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
it rules to pivot at this point in time from metaverse to ai wearables. it's like if your 8-track tape company finally realized no one was going to want them in the age of the CD, so you changed the business model to only recording nursery rhymes on wax cylinder.
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A film is just a TAS of a play
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A film is just a TAS of a play
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I still think this is one of the biggest discourse generators: games are like 5+ different mediums we use the same word for.
Imagine if we didn't have separate terms for novels, poetry, plays, scripted film/TV, and they were instead all called wordseq (sequential word-based media), and we had people arguing that films weren't actually good wordseq because they didn't focus exclusively on words.
Disco Elysium is a great work of art that is also a relatively weak game, and does not make a strong case that games are art because it doesn't do what the best games do, which is allow meaning to emerge from the intersection of game mechanics and the player's decisions.
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I still think this is one of the biggest discourse generators: games are like 5+ different mediums we use the same word for.
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These are the last two Nightmoth / ritual red cups I’ll have because the ritual red is a discontinued glaze
www.crwnstudios.com/products/kra...
www.crwnstudios.com/products/kra...
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
These are the last two Nightmoth / ritual red cups I’ll have because the ritual red is a discontinued glaze
www.crwnstudios.com/products/kra...
www.crwnstudios.com/products/kra...
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NEW: I spoke to the creator of Blue Prince about what's next for the game, why he won't option it for a film, whether he'll ever say what happened to Mary, player obsession, and much more.
Here's a very fun, spoilery chat about one of the year's best games: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Here's a very fun, spoilery chat about one of the year's best games: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Blue Prince’ Creator Answers (and Dodges) Our Biggest Questions
Tonda Ros says he’s still working on one more big update for the critically acclaimed game
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NEW: I spoke to the creator of Blue Prince about what's next for the game, why he won't option it for a film, whether he'll ever say what happened to Mary, player obsession, and much more.
Here's a very fun, spoilery chat about one of the year's best games: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Here's a very fun, spoilery chat about one of the year's best games: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Our Dumb Century was dreadfully significant in the development of my sense of humor, there are too many great gags to name but starting off the most significant event of the 20th century with a typesetting joke is peak
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our Dumb Century was dreadfully significant in the development of my sense of humor, there are too many great gags to name but starting off the most significant event of the 20th century with a typesetting joke is peak
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Games are new enough that they’re defined by the vessel - computers - and not what they actually are
If we did this for stages then plays, award shows, debates, spelling bees, ballet, etc would all be called “stagies”
If we did this for stages then plays, award shows, debates, spelling bees, ballet, etc would all be called “stagies”
Games are such a funny medium to generalize about because like, games is an absurdly broad umbrella that we've decided is one medium even though you can easily come up with two examples of a "video game" that are more unlike each other than any two movies or novels
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Games are new enough that they’re defined by the vessel - computers - and not what they actually are
If we did this for stages then plays, award shows, debates, spelling bees, ballet, etc would all be called “stagies”
If we did this for stages then plays, award shows, debates, spelling bees, ballet, etc would all be called “stagies”
the tag urself to end all tag urselves
(i'm potion of rat)
(i'm potion of rat)
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
the tag urself to end all tag urselves
(i'm potion of rat)
(i'm potion of rat)
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Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
YouTube video by Every Frame a Painting
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
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new pin :3
dirtbag MAHJONG is out now!! s.team/a/3488460/
come play a single-party riichi mahjong game with party elements, a story mode featuring bespoke challenges of various difficulties, and cute pixel art. comes with a tutorial if you're new to mahjong!
#indiedev #pixelart
come play a single-party riichi mahjong game with party elements, a story mode featuring bespoke challenges of various difficulties, and cute pixel art. comes with a tutorial if you're new to mahjong!
#indiedev #pixelart
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
new pin :3
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(Black and white footage of a woman holding a casserole slipping and falling in her kitchen comically)
Are you tired of slipping on the lubricative fluid of the eel, of which you were unaware of its presence?
Are you tired of slipping on the lubricative fluid of the eel, of which you were unaware of its presence?
July 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
(Black and white footage of a woman holding a casserole slipping and falling in her kitchen comically)
Are you tired of slipping on the lubricative fluid of the eel, of which you were unaware of its presence?
Are you tired of slipping on the lubricative fluid of the eel, of which you were unaware of its presence?
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Today is not the only day you can repost this. In fact, you can repost it most days if you want
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Today is not the only day you can repost this. In fact, you can repost it most days if you want
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Watching a documentary called "How to Change Your Mind," and the first episode is about LSD... and all these people are talking about how they had a spiritual awakening from taking LSD.
I have taken SOOOO much acid in my life and had zero spiritual experiences. But I did once eat a Barbie Doll.
I have taken SOOOO much acid in my life and had zero spiritual experiences. But I did once eat a Barbie Doll.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Watching a documentary called "How to Change Your Mind," and the first episode is about LSD... and all these people are talking about how they had a spiritual awakening from taking LSD.
I have taken SOOOO much acid in my life and had zero spiritual experiences. But I did once eat a Barbie Doll.
I have taken SOOOO much acid in my life and had zero spiritual experiences. But I did once eat a Barbie Doll.
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man Doctor Who got dark
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
man Doctor Who got dark
Dogs Bower, the only believably realistic man in all of video games
Dogs Bower, Blue Stinger
Fat Robin, Romancing SaGa3
Gogo, ff6
Fat Robin, Romancing SaGa3
Gogo, ff6
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Dogs Bower, the only believably realistic man in all of video games
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My wife just took an old pregnancy test we didn't realize had expired during the George W. Bush presidency and her result was "Ace of ♣️: Qusay Hussein". We don't know how to read this or why the Defense department made a bunch of Iraqi Most Wanted playing card branded urine tests. Is Qusay good news
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My wife just took an old pregnancy test we didn't realize had expired during the George W. Bush presidency and her result was "Ace of ♣️: Qusay Hussein". We don't know how to read this or why the Defense department made a bunch of Iraqi Most Wanted playing card branded urine tests. Is Qusay good news
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This is one of those truly perfect images that gets funnier the longer you look at it
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is one of those truly perfect images that gets funnier the longer you look at it
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writers artists
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
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criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
writers artists
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
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the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
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very amused that to some folks this meme is my greatest contribution to game design
September 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
very amused that to some folks this meme is my greatest contribution to game design