Nico Ailani
@thewriterwins.bsky.social
he/him
kanaka maoli, hapa haole
game developer/filmmaker
TTRPG enthusiast
writer of wrongs
kanaka maoli, hapa haole
game developer/filmmaker
TTRPG enthusiast
writer of wrongs
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Not trying to be a dick, but if you showed shuffled gameplay clips from all these action games, I would assume it was all from the same game.
February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Not trying to be a dick, but if you showed shuffled gameplay clips from all these action games, I would assume it was all from the same game.
Sure you could watch the Superbowl this weekend *OR* you could get a bunch of friends together and do a Wall Street style Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator LAN where you see who can make the most money trading babies
158 Steam reviews! 92% positive!! We are GOBSMACKED.
Thanks for playing, y'all!
Thanks for playing, y'all!
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Sure you could watch the Superbowl this weekend *OR* you could get a bunch of friends together and do a Wall Street style Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator LAN where you see who can make the most money trading babies
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
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Seven Gates, We Deliver by @lawraclark.itch.io: lawraclark.itch.io/seven-gates-...
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Seven Gates, We Deliver by @lawraclark.itch.io: lawraclark.itch.io/seven-gates-...
If there are three things I've learned playing this game tonight it is
1. I am bad at capitalism
2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies
3. This game unequivocally rules
1. I am bad at capitalism
2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies
3. This game unequivocally rules
💰Short a baby
📱Hire strange consultants
📍Six replayable campaigns of absurd stock trading action
💸 More campaigns + modes coming every week, starting NEXT WEEK
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is out RIGHT NOW. Buy a copy--and tell a friend!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...
📱Hire strange consultants
📍Six replayable campaigns of absurd stock trading action
💸 More campaigns + modes coming every week, starting NEXT WEEK
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is out RIGHT NOW. Buy a copy--and tell a friend!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...
January 30, 2026 at 1:51 AM
If there are three things I've learned playing this game tonight it is
1. I am bad at capitalism
2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies
3. This game unequivocally rules
1. I am bad at capitalism
2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies
3. This game unequivocally rules
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This must be how it felt back when grant morrison was putting out doom patrol and animal man at the same time.....
January 21, 2026 at 6:56 PM
This must be how it felt back when grant morrison was putting out doom patrol and animal man at the same time.....
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It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting
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someday I will make an incremental game about the sheer absurdity/hubris/folly of our insistence on sustaining modern human life and like, all data centers there
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
someday I will make an incremental game about the sheer absurdity/hubris/folly of our insistence on sustaining modern human life and like, all data centers there
lfg?
Absolute Batman will be 'beating up white nationalists' in the upcoming comic special 🦇
September 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
lfg?
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This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
September 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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you are a writer (@thewriterwins.bsky.social)
"journey forth as a modern day writer in this short form typing incremental game."
Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/y...
"journey forth as a modern day writer in this short form typing incremental game."
Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/y...
August 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
you are a writer (@thewriterwins.bsky.social)
"journey forth as a modern day writer in this short form typing incremental game."
Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/y...
"journey forth as a modern day writer in this short form typing incremental game."
Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/y...
this comic is unstoppably good and everyone should read it
#printedpaper Some excerpts from Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 #absolutemartianmanhunter #denizcamp #javierrodríguez #dccomics
August 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
this comic is unstoppably good and everyone should read it
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We’re in a world where using electronic payments for sex-related games is a problem, but murder simulators are okay.
😩
😩
July 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We’re in a world where using electronic payments for sex-related games is a problem, but murder simulators are okay.
😩
😩
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I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life *going forward*, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?
Don't call 'em "friendslop": Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean they're slop, Bee Wertheimer writes. www.endlessmode.com/article/not-...
Not Every Co-Op Game is "Friendslop"
Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean they're slop,
www.endlessmode.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life *going forward*, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?
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People keep saying "audiences don't really want authorless entertainments made by AI," not grasping that the slop media landscape is a different proposition: "content" made by one person to be consumed by approx. one person, quality approaching zero. So... stop making "content" and do art crimes?!
July 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
People keep saying "audiences don't really want authorless entertainments made by AI," not grasping that the slop media landscape is a different proposition: "content" made by one person to be consumed by approx. one person, quality approaching zero. So... stop making "content" and do art crimes?!
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🌊 RISING TIDE WINNERS SPOTLIGHT🌊
Top 10 Public Vote: Vanitas
This intriguing dice-based deckbuilder captured the community's imagination and earned its place in the top 10. Check out its winning trailer below and see why this jazzy mystery game impressed so many voters!
#RisingTideChallenge
Top 10 Public Vote: Vanitas
This intriguing dice-based deckbuilder captured the community's imagination and earned its place in the top 10. Check out its winning trailer below and see why this jazzy mystery game impressed so many voters!
#RisingTideChallenge
June 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🌊 RISING TIDE WINNERS SPOTLIGHT🌊
Top 10 Public Vote: Vanitas
This intriguing dice-based deckbuilder captured the community's imagination and earned its place in the top 10. Check out its winning trailer below and see why this jazzy mystery game impressed so many voters!
#RisingTideChallenge
Top 10 Public Vote: Vanitas
This intriguing dice-based deckbuilder captured the community's imagination and earned its place in the top 10. Check out its winning trailer below and see why this jazzy mystery game impressed so many voters!
#RisingTideChallenge
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the rehearsal is back, and you need to watch the rehearsal
YOU NEED TO WATCH THE REHEARSAL
YOU NEED TO WATCH THE REHEARSAL
May 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
the rehearsal is back, and you need to watch the rehearsal
YOU NEED TO WATCH THE REHEARSAL
YOU NEED TO WATCH THE REHEARSAL
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@ the white man near me talking about your love for hawaiʻi and how you "could move here today," i am trying to make u explode with my mind
February 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@ the white man near me talking about your love for hawaiʻi and how you "could move here today," i am trying to make u explode with my mind
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ʻo kēia pōʻaono ka lā mua o ka mahina ʻōlelo hawaiʻi. e ola nō ko mākou ʻōlelo makuahine!
January 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
ʻo kēia pōʻaono ka lā mua o ka mahina ʻōlelo hawaiʻi. e ola nō ko mākou ʻōlelo makuahine!
LETS GO! WE GOT A FUNNY NUMBER THIS TIME! @ggapp.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
LETS GO! WE GOT A FUNNY NUMBER THIS TIME! @ggapp.bsky.social
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A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
December 30, 2024 at 12:41 AM
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
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AFTEROON
December 13, 2024 at 3:33 AM
AFTEROON