Calliope

@gdcalliope

A scholar and a gentle-flan. Ph.D. in Victorian studies, specialization: literary magic. Tarot reader. nonbinary: they/them my site: my games and tarot spreads:

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Calliope@gdcalliope· 28d

I actually click the menu and hit "Don't Recommend Channel" for clickbait bullshit like this -- and I think everyone needs to start. Coming at an Ultima retrospective with the idea that "no one talks about it" is both ludicrous and unhelpful.

screenshot of a youtube recommendation. The thumbnail says "The Ultima Story." The actual title is "The Most Important RPG Nobody Talks About"

Calliope@gdcalliope· Jul 7

I was excited for the new GitS but I hadn't caught until now that it's on Amazon. So I had to stop watching anything on Prime video because it all looks like this Does anyone know how to fix this? I've searched and searched and all the support assumes one is using an app. This is just in firefox.

screenshot of the first minute of Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell. All the colors are swapped like a photo negative, and also the subtitle menu popped up right before I took the screenshot for no reason.

Calliope@gdcalliope· Jun 10

someone in chat told me my victory screen looked like a meme, and that Hondor and Radahn should be captioned. I'm drawing a blank though, so I bequeath to you the uncaptioned image. Go, and let inspiration carry you to new heights

Screenshot from Elden Ring. PC's back is to camera; she's wearing a cape and a giant clay pot on her head. Facing us, past the PC, is a giant dumbass in fancy lion armor, holding a sword. Their creepy boo's luminous hair is visible behind them; they've been giving their boo uppies.

Radahn, the idiot, is stumbling backwards in a comical way, bent at the waist and back but with both feet still planted on the ground. The usual detritus of a Fromsoft game's UI is around.

Hondor used the Fingerprint Shield and the Antspur Rapier, I know one of you sickos is going to ask. You can see them equipped in the bottom left corner of the UI.

Calliope@gdcalliope· May 10

Something that baffles me is all the directors and actors and fans obsessed with "method acting" (despite not knowing what it actually means) who won't frame or laud shots like this

Photo of Yojimbo, where Mifune is midly disgusted stage right while three geisha dance and flirt at the camera and their madam smirks at Mifune

Calliope@gdcalliope· May 9

For what it's worth it certainly is "does your dog bite" according to the songwriter, who sells vinyl albums now with the lyrics on a custom sheet

A lyrics sheet including the line "does your dog bite"

Calliope@gdcalliope· Apr 29

At certain angles, the Analogue screen is very reflective, I've learned

A yellow Analogue Pocket (a modern FPGA Gameboy console) sits on a partly filled crossword printout. Jeff Gerstmann's face is reflected upside down in the Pocket's screen.

Calliope@gdcalliope· Apr 21

Can anyone identify this truck? I got to trying to remember it and it's just about the only photo I have. I think it was a Ford but I'm not certain. It's possible I'm mixing it up with an older truck

A photo of a red truck inconveniently parked behind a large spray of flowers so you can't see the badge.

Calliope@gdcalliope· Apr 16

I had one of those shouty "we don't make them like this" moments and this was the frame

Photo of my TV with a still frame of The Long Goodbye. A beat up bus has arrived in a small Mexican town with tree-covered hills prominently rising in the background

Calliope@gdcalliope· Apr 10

it's Dungeon Man! The one from Earthbound

Calliope@gdcalliope· Apr 10

I can't tell you how many times I've told my partner some variation of "you could have won a gentleman"

Calliope@gdcalliope· Mar 12

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Screenshot of the title page of the trailer of the Laid Back Camp game on steam

Screenshot of the recommendations / relevancy on the same page, suggesting I'd be interested because it is similar to Elden Ring and Sea of Thieves

Calliope@gdcalliope· Feb 9

LLM Ghouls understand anything even once challenge, failed.

screenshot of an email I received at my institutional address. The text reads:

We’ll also cover:

How to align innovation with institutional priorities like equity, access, and retention.
How to automate the drudgery of feedback and reclaim your time.
Creating motivation-rich spaces using Self-Determination Theory.
Redesigning assignments to focus on inquiry over final products.
Real examples from the field: What’s working, what’s failing, and what’s next.

It’s time to stop fighting the "AI arms race" and start building a future that works for both you and your students.

The point about the drudgery of feedback has been underlined.

Calliope@gdcalliope· Jan 9

G-Warrior my beloved www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ut...

my WoL sitting on the shoulder of the G-Warrior

screenshot of two characters sitting on the shoulders of Alphonse, a mech from Patlabor

Calliope@gdcalliope· Jan 7

I am ashamed of nothing

Calliope's chocobo saddlebag. I guess the only really notable thing is the number of maps

Calliope@gdcalliope· Jan 1

Getting in a round of my top rogue like of 2025

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 31

A... feckless traveler who doesn't seem to work freeloading on his friend who is landed gentry and therefore absolutely does not work (Irving, Bracebridge Hall)

A green square with white text reading: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 21

remind me why I use crunchyroll? (monopoly shit I know) I have English set to my default subtitle language in my profile settings and not only is it displaying in German for some reason, but I *can't choose English at all* This would have been easier for them to just put all languages in this menu

crunchy subs menu showing German, French, and Italian, and absolutely nothing else

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 16

I scrolled through every game I played on steam this year and I think "fox" is Dungeons of Aether

image of Fleet from Dungeons of Aether, an anthropomorphic fox grinning with his eyes closed

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 16

oh yeah right what the fuck is "fox?" Also these numbers are unfortunately kind of bullshit because ff14 isn't included, nor is Grim Dawn which I spent the summer replaying. And I'm playing a lot of the og Doom games atm

Calliope's Steam Replay 2025. 77 games played, 24 fewer than last year. 420 achievements unlocked (haha it's the funny number), 261 fewer than last year.

12% played with mouse and keyboard. 88% with controller.

Elden Ring is 19% of my playtime, 176 sessions played.

Hades 2 is 9% of my play time, 73 sessions played.

Monster Hunter Wilds is 8% of my playtime, 51 sessions played.

a heat map thingie shows that I played a lot of souls-like games, as well a a number of hunting, action roguelike, tactical rpg, and roguelike deckbuilder games. also I didn't play much of a category labeled only as "fox."

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 14

the way bsky displays threads led me to initially read this very differently lol

bsky skipped the skeet upthread that has the actual punchline

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 12

Ughhhhhhhh

Sad Puppies was an unsuccessful[1] right-wing[2] anti-diversity[3] voting campaign run from 2013 to 2017 and intended to influence the outcome of the annual Hugo Awards, the longest-running prize (since 1953) for science fiction or fantasy works. It was started in 2013 by author Larry Correia as a voting bloc to get his novel Monster Hunter Legion nominated for a Hugo Award, and then grew into suggested slates, or sets of works to nominate, in subsequent years (led by Correia in 2014, and then Brad R. Torgersen in 2015). According to the Los Angeles Times, Sad Puppies activists accused the Hugo Awards "of giving awards on the basis of political correctness and favoring authors and artists who aren't straight, white and male".[1]

Calliope@gdcalliope· Dec 11

"Wow, something went wrong with my yoyo." *Opens it, peers through bifocals at the axle housing. "Wait hold on"

Half a yoyo with the response pad badly torn off the surface

Calliope@gdcalliope· Nov 9

I don't know what to tell you I bought it and it's soooooo good (but they still did one of my favorite game dialogue lines dirty so I quote the OG)

Mamdani sign meme generator reading "BLAME YOURSELF or god," a quotation from the original translation of Final Fantasy Tactics

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 30

I cannot sufficiently explain in words the delights that come from having subscribed to Terry Cavanagh on Itch (here's the game link: terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg )

screenshot of an email announcement of Cavanagh's new game, Egg. It says, "Why not be an egg" and "egg, egg, egg , egg"

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 29

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 25

I'm pretty sure it's the back of Gomez's chair, you can see the support sticking up as well

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 24

Let's goooooooo

Cover and bright pink disc of the album Polaris: Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 17

Ya girl (gender tbd) is wiped out by an illness or allergies or fucking something so

Album sleeve for Wussy's What Heaven Is Like

Disc of Wussy's What Heaven Is Like sitting on a turntable.

A teapot and bowl shaped tea cup sitting on a table.

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 16

this too is yuri

my WoL staring at Admiral Merlwyb in a longing fashion

Calliope@gdcalliope· Oct 16