Alright, so inspired by @NPurkeypile's bee post yesterday, here is one of my favorite bits of Skyrim oral history - the myth of the treasure fox.

I've told this story before in talks/etc, but I don't think I've shared it with twitter. Here goes. Among Skyrim players, you'll occasionally see this tip: if you see a wild fox, follow it and you'll be led to treasure.

Sometime shortly after shipping, we saw this going around online, and an informal investigation started. Who made foxes do this?!

I said goodbye today to River, who most of you know as Fallout 4’s Dogmeat.

Heartbroken doesn't cover it, but I won’t eulogize her here. For twitter, I thought it'd be appropriate to look back at her impact on that game.

(plus, writing about game dev hurts less than grieving) But first, I encourage you to volunteer w/your area rescue. If you can’t volunteer, make a donation to @ASPCA, @HSIGlobal, or a local group.

Consider rescue animals first when adopting, and choose responsibly when working with breeders.

Please spay/neuter + vax your pets. 💙

I joined a gripe-fest last night about LD "diagrams" that are just receding lines over a screenshot.

I wanted to interrogate my pet peeve, though: there's nothing *wrong* with markup analysis! Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon!? (For context, this is the tweet in question, which dunks on this style of diagram. If nothing else, it helped me feel a bit less alone in my annoyance.)

https://twitter.com/FactsValve/status/1352290654773153795?s=20