Congratulations to my former coworkers on launching Ghost of Yōtei today!

Also congratulations to my other friend and former coworker @briannebattye.bsky.social on the recognition of her recent short story! 🥳 … I have been so very lucky to work with so many extraordinarily talented people over the years. 😮

Finally had time to pick up my preorder of my friend and former co-worker @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social ‘s new #romance novel! Can’t wait to start reading it 🥰 Also can’t believe it’s been over 15 years since we started working together on a little game called #EQ2. 😮 #books

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

The latest alpha update for Netflix Games' Spirit Crossing brings a lot of major new content to try out, including mining, a timed traversal event, new post-Storm goodies and more.  www.mmorpg.com/news/cozy-ne...

Oh, Windows Update. How I love staring at your “30% complete” screen for 5 minutes only to have it jump directly from 30% to “done” with no warning. Why even have the numbers??

Please sign: A House of Commons petition to hold MPs accountable for misinformation they circulate. *It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Happy #ToebeanTuesday from Pansy! Her tummy fur never really did grow back after the last ultrasound, but she appears unbothered. #cats

Any day is #Caturday when there’s a cat-in-ghost-costume update: this will never not be funny 🤣

I did not have “wandering around stores at 8pm Sunday night trying to find a baby onesie or a small pet costume”, and yet... 🤔 Superstore had some decent human options and HomeSense yielded this gem! (Harmony had surgery and a onesie seems more compatible with eating and drinking than a cone…) #cats

In your Spirit Crossing journey, you'll participate in waystations. Waystations are smaller communities within the larger village where you can hang out, collaborate, and build with all of the other players who share the same space. ⛅ playspiritcrossing.com

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I have somehow caught my first cold in >5 years and I fully intend to be a complete baby about it. 🤧🤧 (And yes I’m 99% sure it’s not covid, a PlusLife nucleic acid amplification test finds no sign of covid as yet.)

Like choosing a favorite child, this collection of @tkingfisher.com books have everything: love, danger, courageous intelligent women, friendship, fairytales pulled through the looking glass in the most delicious dark ways, sexy humans with swords (some IN swords) dust wives, Gnoles! Treat yourself

Brilliant

Get more #Murderbot AND support World Central Kitchen. What are you waiting for??

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

This is a GREAT SF book.

"I cannot believe we get to run around with a sparkling machete and destroy (‘harvest’) flowers the size of our heads. So wonderful" (via buglady from Discord)

A new seasonal event I worked on is now live in #SpiritCrossing alpha! Come check it out if you like flowers, and new outfits, and carnivorous plants that eat your friends, and um... okay maybe it's not ENTIRELY flowers and pretty things 😅

Anyway here is a photo of Pansy, who is very glad I’m back and has only stopped purring when actually asleep. Happy #Caturday.

Well, I made it home to Edmonton at last yesterday, 30 hours after leaving for the airport in Vermont. A trip that included Denver, Rapid City, Los Angeles, and a fly-over of the Grand Canyon. Also the last ~4 hours seated beside an unmasked man sniffling constantly and coughing occasionally. 😫

It’s now flying home time. One coworker just arrived home from VT to Portland and it took 37 hours of travel. Another coworker is on hour 15 of travel and still isn’t home in Edmonton. Wish me luck today.

So, my company flew 40 of us all around the country this week for an offsite. And let me tell you — the state of U.S. air travel is in utter SHAMBLES. More than half of us had dilemmas — late flights, canceled flights, broken planes, missed connections, stuck on the tarmac, you name it. Total mess.

(Also featuring a tiny bit of concept art 👀)

Remaining grateful that I am short enough to stand up in airplane seats without having to hunch over. NOT grateful for the current state of the US airline network, which means a Vermont -> YEG trip has thus far involved landing in South Dakota, a night in Denver, and seeing the Grand Canyon. 😫

Absolutely every MMO is haunted in its own special way, and I think that's beautiful. (ff14)

A wild @pentapod.bsky.social appears!

Proud to have just purchased the very first copy of Boomtown Snap sold in Edmonton! The author, my friend Jay Martin, will be doing a signing this Wednesday at Audreys Books - audreys.ca/events/32266... #bookSky #nowReading #YEGdt

The United States is entering its 11th massive #Covid surge.

Ouch. That really hurt. 😭

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This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. freedomtobuy.games

if this baking pun gave you a headache it could be my grain

I’m having a bad month, money wise. I hate to do this, but if you’re looking for someone to give honest opinions, write reviews or analyses of video games or analogue games or content for TTRPGs in exchange for filthy lucre, I might be able to assist.

Whether you want to scheme with a mutually bucket-clad friend on the pier or perform a solo serenade in front of a warm campfire, we're crafting a world where the possibilities are endless. Hop in and play a little tune with us! ⛅ playspiritcrossing.com

This game has been an amazing antidote to The Horrors. If you’re looking for a cozy game with community, Spirit Crossing is lovely and you should join us! (Come to tell me how much i look like my dad, lmao, stay for the amazing Ghibli vibes)

Spirit Crossing is a cooperative MMO made with you, your joy and your time in mind. Let's take a look at some features that can be found in-game, starting with the activities we've recently implemented. 🧵

In case you missed it, Spry Fox is now on BlueSky! Follow along for lots of news and clips about #SpiritCrossing, the upcoming co-op life sim I'm working on - we're in open alpha now. Come check us out! #GameDev

I also enjoy getting news of interesting new book releases but gotta say, tbh this is the quality journalism that keeps me subscribed to the ReactorMag newsletter mailing list 🤣 🖖🏼

Played #EverQuest, then EQ2, pretty devotedly from 2000-2006. Rarely reached max level and never pursued raid gear. 20 years later I STILL have friends I made in EQ1. And in 2007 I convinced EQ2 to hire me. Nowadays it’s MY job to figure out how to help players “win” MMOs. I call that #winning. 🥰

Check out the game I’m currently working on! #SpiritCrossing Alpha sign ups are now open to anyone with a Netflix account. 🥰

An excellent and informative thread 🧵

While Boromir might once have famously stated that no one simply walks into Mordor, he did not factor into the tenacity and silly recklessness of Lord of the Rings Online players.

There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”

Pretty sunset last night over #Lloydminster. Saskatchewan, I am in you.