Sam Kabo Ashwell 🎸

Interactive fiction, storygame RPGs, blaseball, crit of same; third-culture, filthy leftism, futile overthinking. he/him.

[Sam Kabo Ashwell 🎸 @tsawac]

Scents & Semiosis: a story/game/toy about perfume, memory, and new meanings, with heavy use of procedural generation.

I've been working on this for far too long, but it's ready! (Ready, not *done*. Procedural content games are never *done*.)

https://t.co/J50CFlUp47

[Sam Kabo Ashwell 🎸 @tsawac]

welcome to twitter! for your reading pleasure we have selected the worst 300 thoughts ever conceived by a human. now fuck off until your energy bar refills

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@vandroidhelsing until around the age of 10 I thought of pizza as a miserable health food because I only ever got the low-sodium home-made version. but EVEN SO I never got 'cardamom is the path to an early grave'

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@scott_bot @GalaxyKate the yarrow-stalk process of I Ching is slower (and a worse random method) than the coin-flipping one, but taking longer and doing repetitive, fiddly manual tasks is kind of the *point*

('the I Ching is digital' is technically true)

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@lizardengland "y'all are going to make some really great scattered audio logs"

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@NotBrunoAgain being a gamer taught me to never let my dreams be constrained by fundamental limits of physics, like whether the shear will turn my neurons into a frothy consommé

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@catacalypto 'i've grown beyond la croix. let me show you'

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@tithenai I am willing to dissect Matty Groves all day but this is a more cursed take than I could have imagined, good job

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@red_sun_saint tfw your last two high-profile efforts were universally derided and political correctness also exists

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@TracyEOBrien I dunno how big astroturf / review-trading is in self-pub but I'm sure it's not *zero*

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@ArkadyMartine hmm. turns out it's a problem when you turn art into a self-regarding loop that looks only to itself and disregards nature. if only there had been any centuries-old theories of aesthetics that had some bearing on this problem

[the garages (the band) @thegaragesband]

Our latest album, the garages (learn nothing) is up on spotify! https://t.co/1daG8ed2Jm

a huge thank you to all our supporters over the last few years! it has been incredible. we have a few things lined up we would still love to share with you, so stay tuned!

[Sam Kabo Ashwell 🎸 @tsawac]

@_stephenbell_ just gonna go 'park the corvette', fellas, back in a minute

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@tithenai you rang?

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@red_sun_saint wait this *isn't* drilbot

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@hottestsingles pratchett had it right, the real hell is a waiting-room

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we were always pre-mourning #blaseball

(from the Blaseball Team Affinity Quiz, which we wrote between Discipline and Expansion)

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@NotBrunoAgain bookbinding for notebook purposes is pleasant, straightforward, functional and a colossal affectation. the mechanical keyboard of notebooks imo

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@Iron_Spike did cookies come before or after cake pops. is the embarrassingly kickstarted cake-poppery in my neighborhood defying the curve

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@catacalypto wow. the san francisco lovers really screwed their stadium up in Expansion hunh