The Basement Game Scientist @BasementGameScience@mastodon.social

@BasementGameScience Right, but again, reaching into a bag for pointy objects strikes me as a mechanism to avoid 😂

@BasementGameScience I think there will be some mechanic where you are limited in how often you reuse a certain color; perhaps the colored pencils are drafted or passed after use, or need to recharge. I think due to cost considerations, we need to pass them. To avoid accidental stabbing, perhaps they're rolled across the table-- OH, it can be a partners game! So a color "recharges" for you after your partner is done with it!

@BasementGameScience So it's a roll-and-write using colored pencils, creating DNA sequences, racing to meet requirements on cards that you are trying to score and combo to recreate extinct species based on clues gleaned from their skeletons! Working title: Penciling Prehistory, or maybe Roll And Clone.

a local friend is creating Nazi/fascist-detection tools for social media, and has a working prototype that detects 14-22% Nazis out of 10k+ test accounts, with no false positives

she just launched a Patreon in case you'd like to support her work on it:

https://www.patreon.com/sarai

@BasementGameScience This seems fun, shoot me 3 random things, let me give it a try!

I see people being like "I dont want to flood the timeline with..."
LISTEN. I am here to see all your art, even your silly sketches. I am here for reading your work rants, your video game excitement, what you had for dinner, all y'all personalities. It's not bothering me, I LIVE FOR THIS

A great review I just saw of Mastodon:

"It’s like if twitter and tumblr had a baby and the baby was a significantly better, more likeable person than either of its parents."
--https://snailchimera.tumblr.com/post/167487318965

*lies upon hoard of followed art accounts like the dragon I am*

Yes. I am ... at peace.

before i go to bed
there's an overwatch emoji??? omfg cuteee

@Sargoth That... is not the reply I meant to hit... But sure, you can have it instead of @BasementGameScience

Old Ganondorf painting I did, basically asking what if Ganon was the good guy and King of Hyrule. Still really like it even a few years on.

@honestlyjon I don't know how much it actually doing any influencing what I/people do, but I really like the idea, at least, of "you only get social-media-skinner-box-rewarded for things you write, not for Finding/Spreading Good-or-Spreadable Things.

we need to produce a pamphlet called "so you went and found yourself on a social network where people introduce themselves, go out of their way to at least consider each other's feelings, and generally seem to act happy to see you - now what?" that we can print and fold and distribute at the door.

If you liked Reverse Mermaid, how does Reverse Hippocampus make you feel?

#mastoart #art #fantasy #digital #creative #wtf #sunfish #molamola #horse

https://mastodon.art/media/GaO-LzeTYzZX6IQGeuc

@And_Zoidberg The other side of the coin is that SF authors have to do all their worldbuilding in the same amount of space that contemporary authors can use for characterization and actual plot. Which is more noticeable in short stories where you haven't got as much word count to play with.

That's why a lot of people fall back on recognizable tropes.

A few veeeery self indulgent paintings of my OCs I did a while ago pretending I have some grand animated movie with them. #mastoart #creativetoots

playtesting is wild

https://mastodon.social/media/64ly4Y6ulPHSvhsNxZM