Man this week felt like an entire month 😮‍💨

I just got my results back from my Swedish language placement exam, and turns out I'm doing better than I thought! Sweden offers free language courses for immigrants with 4 levels, and I've placed in the final level. Now I should be able to study and "graduate" in no time 🙏

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

If we continue to let out-of-touch executives make out-of-touch decisions, this industry is going to look unrecognizable fast. Say what you will about Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Xbox in recent years, but they were clued into the gaming community, even as Microsoft pushed the current against them.

I fully expect it to be janky as hell but honestly it's part of the fun with Bethesda games

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The Swedish Game Awards watch party was so much fun! Great vibes, cool people, and lots of cheering on Swedish games 🥳 Thank you to everyone who came out, let's do it again next year 🏆🍻

If you're in Stockholm and looking for something to do Wednesday night, we've thrown together a watch party for the Swedish Game Awards at Kappa Bar 🎮🍻 The event is free and should be lots of fun! More deets and signup: sga-watch-party-kappa-bar.confetti.events

This morning on the metro I saw a girl using an LG Shine to do her makeup. Is nature healing?

Looks like the Swedish govt is going to push to apply the new citizenship requirements retroactively to all applications in progress when the new rules go into effect. So basically a giant middle finger to the 5 years I've spent building my life here and all the hope I had to feel secure in my home

I think my Root beta code has a few more spots open on it if any folks I know are looking to try it out

The SGAs are next week and I'm still trying to figure out how to organize a watch party somewhere in town. It's fine, this is fine.

I posted this in 2016 and I'll share it again.

I feel like a tattoo would fix me. Either that or a mosh pit. I may need to go do some research in the field and report back 🤔

Most of our friends and coworkers who were affected by the layoff said goodbye on Friday. Today the office feels full of a tense stillness. I don't think this is the sort of thing you get used to.

First Mental Health 5k Run in the bag!

Soup season also means crochet season. Do I have 3 other unfinished crochet projects collecting dust? Maybe. But what if I just make my first shawl instead of finishing any of those?

It's time to get emotionally destroyed again. At least the book is pretty!

I'm heading to Gamescom in a few weeks and so far my calendar is surprisingly light. Who am I seeing there?!

Just rewatched Children of Men for the first time in almost 20 years and it's kinda scary how apt it is at the moment (minus the no kids thing obvs)

Ended up going with a rosemary garlic instead of cinnamon sugar focaccia, but the result was delicious af regardless

One benefit of burnout leave is I finally get the chance to rewatch Doctor Who and bake whatever random recipe I feel like each day. Small victories! (Today is the end of Season 1 and cinnamon roll focaccia)

Learning a new skill is not the hard part. Learning to be okay with sucking at the new skill is. My motto recently is "it doesn't have to be good, it just has to exist."

Made it out of the house today for a little fresh air and self care. Even on a rainy day Stockholm can be beautiful 💕

Burnout hard truth: you have no appetite, get tired of eating even simple things halfway through, and are left feeling guilty and like a failure for not being able to even feed yourself properly. And then you cry for 10 minutes over a half eaten banana.

Just heard someone refer to a red light district worker as a "Hollandaise Hooker" and I don't think I'll ever be the same

Sometimes you just gotta walk around the city for a couple hours and have a beer by the water

Big fomo to be missing TC and seeing folks 😢 But at least it's sunny I Stockholm!

The Until Dawn movie was actually pretty good! I think it's the best case scenario for an adaptation that kept the spirit of the game. There's no way a direct retelling would've worked for many reasons Not sure I'd like it as much if I hadn't played the game though.

Malmö I am inside you.

Happy Ides of March to those who celebrate (lookin at you, Americans)

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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

Update on my afternoon tea experience: I don't know how strong they made those brews but none of the 6 of us who went got any sleep last night 😅

We had a macha tea time at a local Asian inspired restaurant today and it was so good! The milky oolong was my favorite and the Lucky Cat cake tasted just like eating sugar cookie dough (10/10) Turns out there's lots of cool stuff to do if you leave the house every now and then

bro have you eaten yet today had something refreshing to drink taken care of your body with gentle kindness gotten a breath of fresh air looked at something beautiful thought something kind about yourself fallen a little bit in love with something

It's a fine line between "excitedly diving into a new project" and "unsustainably hyperfixating on a fast track to burnout"

Okay I finally watched Severance, after years of putting it off. Yes, it's very good. Yes, I'm excited for this new season. Yes, I get why the only way to pitch it to friends is "a show about some people who work in an office but something's weird".

How to spend today

Finally got around to playing Grounded with a good group and I've been having way too much fun. They got so much right - from the essence of an 80s/90s kid adventure movie especially! (Sorry it took so long @mikeydowling.bsky.social but it's a rad game)

Waking up and getting caught up on the news coming in from LA. I hope everyone is able to evacuate themselves and their pets safely and quickly. Fingers crossed weather conditions play ball and make firefighting easier. That's really scary shit.

Back to work today. Who are these people, what are these meetings, what even am I doing? Tune in next time for answers to these burning questions and more

Damn, Silo is a really good show, huh? I'm playing myself though, burning through episodes and then I'll have to wait for Season 3

That weird part of the holidays where everyone is just waiting for the next big meal and no one knows how to entertain themselves

We did Christmas today 😍🎄🎁 The first thing Robin did was label the cat, and I immediately forced them both to let me take pictures of them 😅

Adding a mildly warm take here to say that unless the game is misleading or severely broken, leave positive reviews. You can recommend a game while still including constructive criticism or good to know info for other players.

I get accused of being AI a lot when it comes to player facing comms, but a lot of that boils down to being an AP student in hs, having a research heavy degree, and working in Corporate America with Enterprise clients for almost a decade before coming to games. (Tl;dr I'm old and boring)

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