kate
@thegladdestthing.itch.io
she/they, thirties, nb/bi/ace. aa and indie games of all stripes enthusiast. owned by a large tuxie. pfp by @schoute.bsky.social, header from against the storm.
currently playing: v3, rimworld, suzerain
currently playing: v3, rimworld, suzerain
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kate
@thegladdestthing.itch.io
· Apr 21
resharing some of my fave games to pspsps fellow fans:
caves of qud
wildermyth
arco
against the storm
tiny glade
rimworld
children of morta
fields of mistria
dwarf fortress
wh40k rogue trader
pentiment
tyranny
crusader kings 3
pillars of eternity + deadfire
the witcher 3
caves of qud
wildermyth
arco
against the storm
tiny glade
rimworld
children of morta
fields of mistria
dwarf fortress
wh40k rogue trader
pentiment
tyranny
crusader kings 3
pillars of eternity + deadfire
the witcher 3
crucial update:
suzerain.
suzerain.
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I put the founding date of Free Law Project as the BlueSky birthday of @free.law, and so that’s how we lost access to the account today:
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I put the founding date of Free Law Project as the BlueSky birthday of @free.law, and so that’s how we lost access to the account today:
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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I think about this a lot.
balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I think about this a lot.
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PancitoMerge out now on Steam!
Drop, stack, and merge *pan dulce* into delicious mega‑treats!
Thanks @lagshowcase.bsky.social for putting together a beautiful trailer!
Featured on #LAGS2025
Drop, stack, and merge *pan dulce* into delicious mega‑treats!
Thanks @lagshowcase.bsky.social for putting together a beautiful trailer!
Featured on #LAGS2025
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
PancitoMerge out now on Steam!
Drop, stack, and merge *pan dulce* into delicious mega‑treats!
Thanks @lagshowcase.bsky.social for putting together a beautiful trailer!
Featured on #LAGS2025
Drop, stack, and merge *pan dulce* into delicious mega‑treats!
Thanks @lagshowcase.bsky.social for putting together a beautiful trailer!
Featured on #LAGS2025
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if you've got 5 minutes this is a very good little video game
December 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
if you've got 5 minutes this is a very good little video game
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Always hilarious to see ppl realize that even the most benign piece of media is the outcome of many many hours work and decision making, and slopping loads of shit together with no direction somehow doesn't quite feel the same - probably spent more on this than a normal ad
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Always hilarious to see ppl realize that even the most benign piece of media is the outcome of many many hours work and decision making, and slopping loads of shit together with no direction somehow doesn't quite feel the same - probably spent more on this than a normal ad
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Beautiful women named Adobe Acrobat are sending me these love letters every day
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Beautiful women named Adobe Acrobat are sending me these love letters every day
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
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Was chatting with @mattsheridan.bsky.social a night or two ago about how rarely I find parodies of Warhammer40k funny, and he replied "That's because Warhammer itself is fundamentally an absurdist parody, and it knows it's a parody and acts like it, and making a parody of a parody never works well"
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Was chatting with @mattsheridan.bsky.social a night or two ago about how rarely I find parodies of Warhammer40k funny, and he replied "That's because Warhammer itself is fundamentally an absurdist parody, and it knows it's a parody and acts like it, and making a parody of a parody never works well"
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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hades II's core issues weren't fixed with its post-launch update. I went long on two characters that demonstrate its deeper problems: sisyphus and persephone youtu.be/zMa6nDH8KvQ
Hades II's ending isn't fixed
YouTube video by Jay Castello
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
hades II's core issues weren't fixed with its post-launch update. I went long on two characters that demonstrate its deeper problems: sisyphus and persephone youtu.be/zMa6nDH8KvQ
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Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Hi! Game expert here, this is not funny. The video game industry only releases ports of a game through 4 console generations when its in distress
Listen, only when we stop seeing new Skyrim ports will I think that gaming is truly dead.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hi! Game expert here, this is not funny. The video game industry only releases ports of a game through 4 console generations when its in distress
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Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
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On Games for Impact:
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On Games for Impact:
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
“It's good that it's there, but it's also, in a way, kind of insulting. Because giving a special award for a game for actually meaning something or having some human content... we should be aspiring for that in every category."
postgame.substack.com/p/the-histor...
i should start a naked brutality rimworld run. that seems like a nice stress free morning activity.
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i should start a naked brutality rimworld run. that seems like a nice stress free morning activity.
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Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.
"kindest regards" alright alright calm down
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
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I genuinely believe If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was propaganda for Reaganomics
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I genuinely believe If You Give a Mouse a Cookie was propaganda for Reaganomics
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if you give a mouse a cookie
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
if you give a mouse a cookie
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This is buying everything now.
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is buying everything now.
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"Grand Theft, not wage theft": Rockstar protest in NYC draws tech workers, members of multiple unions
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Grand Theft, not wage theft": Rockstar protest in NYC draws tech workers, members of multiple unions
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
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I can not impress upon you how cool The Banished Vault is. The easiest pitch is if you've ever enjoyed a medium to heavy euro game, play it. Did you like the design of Dune? Are you cool with being even a little bit of a freak? Would a black space cathedral on the run interest you? It just rules.
We'll be talking a lot about The Banished Vault this week, and it's on sale until Sunday.
It would mean a lot to us if you shared the game among your friends! I promise a "hey check this out" message is the number one way to get a niche game in front of people who are interested in it.
It would mean a lot to us if you shared the game among your friends! I promise a "hey check this out" message is the number one way to get a niche game in front of people who are interested in it.
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I can not impress upon you how cool The Banished Vault is. The easiest pitch is if you've ever enjoyed a medium to heavy euro game, play it. Did you like the design of Dune? Are you cool with being even a little bit of a freak? Would a black space cathedral on the run interest you? It just rules.