Realest post I have read today

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

"What if every npc was a fully functional chatbot" is the game equivalent to asking in a movie "what if you could move the camera wherever you wanted"; it sounds so cool until you realize there is a crucial intent to the limits, and you will quickly lose the plot if you toss that by the wayside.

"I don't want to have to explain to my kids what gay people are" is ridiculous. You have to explain everything to them! They've never seen anything before! What else are you doing this about? You don't like broccoli so you just refuse to ever let your child know about what broccoli is? Okay man

it's a pleasant surprise if you find a crossdressing character in a 90s anime and the joke being told is funny

If the most important metric of a successful story is the inability of the dumbest audience to walk away with a misreading of the text then SpongeBob SquarePants is too much for many Americans.

sato shiranami at one point in paranormasight: the mermaid's curse WISHES she could play one of those new video game consoles with cartridges, as a fun new thing to experience on the television... so wait till she finds out about the famicom disk system!

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I'm in this one!!! Was just scrolling through it last night while putting off going to bed, and seeing my blog title stunlocked me. Very grateful to be included. 🩵

Snatcher & Knuckles Two pics I did for a funny twitter trend lol

When I went to Tokyo a few years ago, I spent a bit of time looking for locations from the first Paranormasight. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same with some spots from Mermaid's Curse someday!

i don't like when people say "ip" to refer to a film franchise or something. you don't work at the studio. don't talk like that

still love his movies but this is disappointing

the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

NANABABA (evolves into TROPIUS) If it feels threatened, it fully encases itself in its protective plant skin and flees. However, since it can't see where it's going, it usually trips. #pokemon #fakemon

"I hope you die" is weak. "I hope that obscure Japanese-only game you wanna play gets a fan translation done entirely by ChatGPT" is way more hurtful. It's real. It could happen to anyone.

⬇️ ⬇️ start throwing money at indies across all artistic industries and not only will you start getting more stuff of actual quality, you will see a deluge of DIVERSE quality stuff too.

Wild that Stardew Valley is 10 years old. I bought it day 1 and mostly associate its release with binging the game while trying desperately not to think about some bad stuff that was going on in my personal life at the time. Maybe that wasn’t healthy, but it really helped get me through it all

Don’t know that I actually like the experience of sifting through a bunch of Steam Next Fest demos, but so far it feels like a good blogging exercise in getting something done on a quick turnaround

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

i think we all need to normalize just being comfortable with giving earnest compliments without weird caveats. if your friend does something cool, tell them it’s cool. i don’t necessarily thrive on compliments, but it does means a lot if a friend goes out of their way to say something kind to me.

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

happy new paranormasight

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

In Japanese, you address elder men as OG-chan and i think that's beautiful

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

i often think about this review

New blog! Decided to try start a semi-regular series writing about free games to hopefully help me get into a rhythm of blogging, and give me an excuse to play more of them. Starting with Shy Guy Surfing, an endless runner Mario fangame I’ve been enjoying: pancaketime.home.blog/2026/02/13/f...

Re: the #discord ban and me being stuck in baby face jail due to the Australia under 16 ban

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

The actual, academic meaning of “performative” is (to paraphrase probably too much) a speech act that enacts a material change. Saying “I now pronounce you man and wife” or “it’s a girl.” These are phrases with legal weight that impact lives.

games getting worse because they're chasing the trends set by Mihoyo call that Genshittification

maybe this time we can finally internalize that anyone who whines about stuff like “sjws” or “wokeness” is either doing so because they have fucked up motives or because they listen to too many people who do

Wank Sinatra

i made this on my shared work canva account

Everything that appeases capitalism eventually pivots to nostalgia to minimize risk. In gaming, that means a feedback loop of remakes that slowly cannibalizes the very creativity that built the industry. #blog #gaming