I don't really follow twitch streamers but every single time one of you posts a northernlion clip it has this exact tone and cadence

tbh my most anti-doomer opinion is that this *isn't* a generational thing. There's a divide between people who spend their free time on hobbies/research/niche enthusiast communities, and people who prefer zoning out watching unchallenging mass entertainment. every generation has both groups

isekai where the author's autistic hyperfixation is not relevant to its pastoral fantasy setting. protagonist is unable to improve the village's deteriorating crop yields, recounts a detailed history of the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge before starving to death in the ensuing famine

wonder what fraction of playstation owners have never purchased any game besides nba 2k it's gotta be like Shockingly High right

there are more skeletons than humans

I think the last time I played an EA game was mirror's edge catalyst (2016)

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tactical nexus patch notes never stop being incredible

writing mouse-input code for UI stuff. wondering if rightclick should always cancel an in-progress drag operation "lemme see how Explorer handles it" start dragging a file, hit rightclick. explorer displays the rightclick menu, then completely hangs until I close the window lmao

hey remember a few weeks ago when I was like "holy shit, windows 11 color management actually works, this might actually be a legit reason to use it instead of 10" well guess what it silently breaks and turns itself off every few hours. incredible work by the computer geniuses over at microsoft

remember when they tried to perp walk luigi mangione but accidentally just made him look unbelievably hot and everyone online was like "wow he looks like jesus!" I'm still mad about this. he didn't look like jesus he looked like *saint sebastian* dumbass. get your catholic twinks straight

linux guy running straight towards the Perfect Dark laptop gun because they have an instinctual response of "oh shit i could install linux on that"

All of 'Xenoblade X's designs' look like the 'action figures' I saw in 'toy stores' when I was 'a kid.' It has 'that feeling' that appeals to 'the teenage boy,' whereas 'Xenogears' is kind of 'gay' ('homosexual') by comparison, more in line with 'stuffy adult stuff,' like 'eating your vegetables.'

Me: Also James Dobson died so that was a minor event ha ha Therapist: Who is James Dobson? Me: James Dobson. You know him. Therapist: I... maybe I do? *taps at laptop* Me: At the very least you've spent your career undoing his career.

I think the biggest lesson we can learn from fire emblem three houses is that a surprising number of you would convert to catholicism if the pope was a milf

"autism announcement" is a fire emblem crit line

what if i played three houses a third time

I've personally disagreed with many of donald trump's political views, of course, but it *was* nice of him to announce autism

autism announcement

randomly thinking about the beginning of Bioshock (2007) and suddenly remembered the giant "no gods no kings only man" statue at the beginning is actually LESS on the nose than the ayn rand novels it's ostensibly critiquing. in atlas shrugged it's literally a giant gold statue of a *dollar sign* lol

In light of the GDC news, @bitbashchicago.com will now be a conference where some nice people sit quietly listening to a talk about optimizing shaders while thousands of tech bros mill about an exhibition hall hawking the shadiest businesses you've ever heard of

not the biggest problem any of us are facing but the ios weather app is literally always wrong. by like a lot. what is up with that

blue prince was made in unity and therefore did not actually use blueprints at all. should've named it sea's harp

we should bring ಠ_ಠ back into the vernacular it's been long enough the cringe has worn off, and we have need of its power

do you have any idea how Fucked it is that I know how to use win32 now horrendous incredibly specialized knowledge that can only be used to make my own life worse

want to learn something upsetting? on windows, the discord taskbar icon is dpi-aware, but *the notification dot isn't* the logo has sharp edges, but the "1" is blurry as shit and the edges of the red dot have a bunch of scaling artifacts lol

sometimes i think the second great awakening genetically encoded rapture faith into americans like they breed sheep herding into dogs

funny thing about gamedev is you basically never deal with the filesystem except for async stuff or a giant Load Everything At Once phase I've been writing some non-videogame code, and I knew conceptually that disk access is slow, but now I'm actually *profiling* it and uhhh holy shit

in the 00s tigsource era there was a really ambitious cave story clone [not derogatory] named underside and then when undertale started getting massive pre-release hype I thought everybody was talking about a demo of an unfinished cave story clone I'd played several years earlier

any of you nerds know a good desktop checklist app. this is completely impossible to google. I don't want a kanban board and I don't want an open-source notionlike and I don't want a webapp and I don't want a self-hosted webapp I want a .exe that lets me write a list of tasks with checkboxes

doing Error Handling

this site is not twitter 2 its ultimately just a mastodon server but with the worst mods imaginable. we can just all go to mastodon if we all agree which serv-- ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

for real tho its almost comical how much the people who run this website are so mad it doesn't have brands or, like, CNN guys posting on it constantly. staff that sees Threads as something to aspire to. ceo who wakes up every morning sad they can't fav a Pepsi tweet

it's wild how "we have updated our Community Guidelines" actually means "we have made them Worse" literally every single time in the entire history of the internet

re: metroidvania shitposting, it's pretty funny they all have dark souls bonfires now. Fromsoft tying health to enemy respawns was genius for 3D action-rpgs, but in a sidescroller it's......... not actually all that different from super metroid just resetting the enemies when you leave the room lmao

adopting the maximalist position that a metroidvania is any game where you see a door you can't open and then later obtain an object that lets you go back and open it Descent (1995) is a metroidvania

I realize this made sense in the 2000s, but the term has gotten so overloaded that calling cave story a "metroidvania" in 2025 just feels like an insult lmao

thinking about Cave Story for no particular reason man I realize this is partially due to Playing It At An Impressionable Age, but the hell route/true ending stuff is still one of the coolest things a game has ever done

gotta be honest I don't think I was ever consciously aware that jimmy kimmel and jimmy fallon were two separate guys

why am I suddenly gaining followers from out of nowhere did somebody popular RT that ancient graphics-programmer Starter Pack again?

fun fact: the notorious terrirost group "antifa" is short for "annunciando tifa", an italian parent organization tied up in a federal corruption scheme. google "tifa italian senate" for more info

guy whose internal monologue refers to them as 'guy' but who feels kind of weird and uncomfortable about it. guy who has decided not to think about it too hard

programn the computer

holy shit new extremely long tom7 video from out of nowhere lets fuckin gooo

you know what fuck it im deleting those

listen sony if you give me more money than anyone has ever spent on a videogame I promise to make the most expensive videogame in history. you won't fuckin believe how expensive I'll make it. I'll make druckmann's shit look like tic tac toe. my dms are open sony you don't want to miss this chance

guy who invented husbands must've really thought he was onto something

it's funny that every proposed solution to social media's awful problems converges on "there should be an internet and everyone should run their own webpage". we DID that and the problem was it's very hard to find other people and form social connections so everyone moved to big centralized sites

extremely agreed, and the funniest part is mastodon inherited the "instance" concept from Diaspora, the open-source facebook competitor that completely bombed in 2010 because everyone looked at their "pod" system and correctly went "that seems like an absolutely insane way to run a social network"