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I've been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I'm a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods.

Which, honestly that was a bad tactic back on Reddit, my inbox was a nightmare. But here it's gone much better, so thank you to anyone who ever received one of my corrections with good grace!

It's also brought quite a few DMs my way from other women who try to stay more anonymous with their posts, a choice I can completely understand.

So today on International Women's Day I just want to wave hello to the other women out there, even if you don't want to break cover and wave back. Anonymous or not, cis or trans, I see you out there and you're killing it.

This may break the community rule on encouraging discussion, if nobody wants to out themselves to say hello back. So I guess I should also ask a question.

Um...anyone else using it as an excuse to treat themselves today? I've given myself the day (mostly) off work and am doing some fun gamedev all afternoon instead, then we're planning a takeaway tonight. Easily pleased, perhaps, but sounds good to me πŸ˜„

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging like that, what kind of game are you developing?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's a very minimalist city builder thing, barely a game at all really. There's some screenshots over on my alter-ego's Mastodon if you're genuinely curious, although they're mostly hidden in a stream of nonsense from all the TV tooting I do on a weekend πŸ™ˆ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I was kinda hoping you'd say it was based on Dragons

Yes, I'm old...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Love the visual style! And the concept sounds chill too. Wishlisted!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Cheers, everything looks better in hexagons πŸ˜„