I think most of all I love that flames that came before jim and merril passed through them to me and my friends and on to others who will make their own things unknowingly inspired by jim and merrils work and quiet social work keeping teens out of trouble.

shout out to jim ward whose memorial quietly passed on the IGF screen the same night we won our award, his work was a great inspiration to me, and I wish I had got to meet him while he was still around, but I hope I carry some of his falme with me through his work

shout out to the librarian merrill at west regional library who was many of our first dungeon masters as kids, running brutal oldschool 1st edition D&D games for local teens in the quiet florida evenings.

It's so fulfilling to share that legacy with the world.

Increasingly glad I bailed on this the second I saw them trying to do idol stuff in the intro.

Yep. Supposedly they're a years-long journalism vet, but literally no one explained embargoes to them. Truly baffling.

I am so, so glad and lucky that this behavior is absurdly rare in the doujin/indie space.

DQB2 is actually *not* an AU, it fits perfectly with the original DQB2. I'm super curious to see how well HD preserves that.

my thiung said this mostly unprompted

As someone who has gone through "onboarding" at a Valnet website, it is 100% believable that this person has never even been told what an "embargo" is and the difference between that and a "deadline".