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)

Bring back Geocities webrings and niche forums

I'm switching roles at the new year so that plus this being the last few days before Christmas means I have literally no motivation to do anything other than invest all my work hours into Infinity Nikki plshlp

The Great Circle is so much fun, I've been missing a single player adventure like this. There's so many little details that elevate the experience, and I really love how many different environments there are 😍 Kudos to the entire team!!

Company Christmas party was a success! We stayed so late security had to come in and kick us out (see last photo)

Putting presents under the Christmas tree is one of my favorite things in life tbh

It's one of those weekends where I have no plans but at the same time I have way too much to do. We're in dangerous territory, I might just end up doing absolutely nothing if I don't decide where to start soon 🫠

Sinterklaas visited Stockholm early! Also, can we take a sec to appreciate how freakin cute this wrapping paper is 😍

Friendsgiving was a major success! We even suffered through Hot Frosty together, which was so so so terribad

I just got my bill for 4 nights / 5 days in the hospital including my ER visit and gallbladder surgery. It works out to $35.74. I have never been happier about the Swedish Healthcare system than I am in this moment, thinking about the tens of thousands of dollars this would be back in Texas.

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

I saw Wicked last night in imax and omg that was so much fun! Can't wait for part 2 and I definitely need to catch the actual show at some point. Big bonus points to my theater audience for not singing 🙏

I wish you could make a Starter Pack one of your feeds rather than following everyone and incorporating that into your main timeline. I feel like that would make the experience a bit cleaner, especially for niche interests

I'm committed to giving almost entirely handmade gifts this year for Christmas, but it's hard to know what folks would find useful and what would just collect dust - especially when it comes to crochet. Maybe baked goods is the safer bet 🤔

It's that time again. If you're working on the promotional side of the game industry and are new to Bluesky and don't know where to turn for a starter pack: be sure to request an add below. I still have plenty of spots left. Reposts are appreciate. :) bsky.app/starter-pack...