2.5 days late and distrokid still has not uploaded my new single to streaming services but you can hear it on bandcamp! lo-fi jangle pop recorded to 4-track cassette on a foolhardy quest to become... the song of the summer harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/track/the-so...

Stan Laurel: Great to see you, Peter. Should we do a silly face for the camera? Peter Sellers: No, I don't think so.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

making art in 2026

love this track and video. really singular and odd and lovely music

never played a PS1 final fantasy game but i have bought a copy of FF8 for reasons i cannot explain

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 20,1949

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

i'll be releasing a new album, The Autumn Tape, in september. it's a fragmentary exploration of tape aesthetics drawing on jangle pop, K records, 70s psych folk, and other stuff. give the first single a listen over here: harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...

musicians - are there preferable alternatives to distrokid that i should know about? their service no longer seems to work properly on a basic level and i just heard they're union-busters too

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

the day is 3/4 over here on the east coast and distrokid still has not sent my stuff to digital stores/streaming, i scheduled this release 10 days ago, is this just how things are now?

So for this Juneteenth, I went back and updated my feature on the need to incorporate more Blackness into your gaming perspective, more relevant now than when I wrote it years ago. Check it out on @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/cel...

music is the transference of mysterious vibrations from one living soul to another. whatever it is that AI is creating, it isn't music

ah yes the five forms of creativity, music, law, science, e-books, and apps

Bulk spam email has turned everyone into a correspondent

yesssss. music people don't miss this.

👂 bsky.app/profile/hple...

i'll be releasing a new album, The Autumn Tape, in september. it's a fragmentary exploration of tape aesthetics drawing on jangle pop, K records, 70s psych folk, and other stuff. give the first single a listen over here: harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...

i love strangely melancholy music in games where it doesn't seem really appropriate for it. it implies hidden sad depths behind the surface of what the game purports to be. sad animal race kart where they have to stop racing and go back home to the zoo www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfE1...

the real reason stuff runs slower in a VM is that computers simply don't like doing that. it is an insult

doesn't seem right that you need to have a quarter on hand to use a shopping cart at aldi. there should be some sort of optional Shame Ritual that can be performed

it would be worth it to be a computer just to know what it's like to run age of empires

‘Recently​ I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding in St Louis, greyscale city of my teenage years, and the last place I truly believed in demons.’ A Diary by @tricialockwood.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i have always felt it was an unconscionable cruelty to shut off a computer that is running age of empires ii and now i have proof

this is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...

can anyone explain why this typeface is suddenly everywhere

maybe there's a technical reason for it but i'm assuming that trump wanted to do this in versailles purely for the drama

the voice of space, rené magritte 1928 interactive buddy, shock value 2004

crazy how every tech company's logo is now just white text on black background, with maybe a weird and offputting sigil of some kind in there

Okay - a quick thread on Microsoft's latest greenwashing nonsense, because it's really bad The message is basically increased efficiency *per query* means the future demand of AI services will be muted -->> www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... archive.ph/wip/POQ6A

when your dog keeps wanting to detour his walks to check on the spot where he recently found a vile, fossilized hamburger

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

it sucks that i waited long enough to Get Good at game development that i now have to compete with the magic plagiarism machine you type game idea into

another sad example of government failing to understand technology. Bluesky is a user-to-user platform whose purpose is to enable misunderstanding jokes.

[to flight attendant] Can you give the pilot this poem I wrote

not into manifestos. make art instead imo

If you’re wondering how are there so many clones nowadays, this just popped in my Google Alerts

sports victories are referendums on the cosmic moral-spiritual superiority of everything we hold dear. sports losses are just some dumb thing that happened

looking through my watchlist, trying to decide if i'd rather watch the ape (1940, boris karloff, 2.4 stars average rating) or the ape man (1943, bela lugosi, 2.3 stars average rating)

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

sciatica is a beautiful name for a girl

im getting word that my trolls are taking advantage of their newfound ability gather in darkened chat rooms to accelerate their plans to; you guessed it, murder me . is that Responsible Use as delineated in the Terms of Service? No it is not

the tyranny of autocorrect and grammar suggestions has led me to the unthinkable: i am a Passive Voice Defender

I'm looking for a part time, paid gig. I can make unique, hand-crafted models, scan them to 3d (high poly or lower), give them a basic rig. If you want to make a game with my unorthodox, IGF/ Indie Game Awards nominated art, let me know.

It's impossible to overestimate how important the RPG Maker community is to video games, so many classic games in the past 35 years were either made by the community or inspired by them. To see one of their main knowledge banks nonchalantly wiped away like this is disgusting.

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.

throwback thwednesday: thinking about the old VRML Saturn Valley added to starmen.net in 2001. VRML was a sort of web 3d model viewer platform that let people make explorable 3d environments, and it Blew My Freaking Mind at the time. i spent so much time "hanging out" in this 3d saturn valley