Okay, I’ve reached the point in my existentially odd “what the fuck is going on with my brain, it’s like I got the benefit of psychedelics without taking any” arc where I’m literally just reading Jung

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

The more takes I read about Silksong's difficulty, the more I think about Celeste. I can't think of another masocore action game where the difficulty serves a meaningful emotional and narrative purpose instead of merely "hard thing fun", and its a11y options feel like they come from that deep care.

This isn't a review of Silksong, since I physically can't play. Instead, this is a reflection of the Metroidvania genre, particularly exploring Silksong's failures and minor successes. Read my latest Access Designed on @ign.com here: www.ign.com/articles/hol...

man, every weather app (even Mr. Chilly!) swears it is a nice and cool ~62-66 degrees where I am today, but it's still like 75 in my apartment even with the AC on, and my poor heat-intolerant sick ass is *melting*.

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Man, I’m thinking about how much I enjoyed Clair Obscur, and sure, part of it was being such a great game, but also we need more story-driven games written natively in a non-English languages with full VO and that happen to be perfectly-targeted for an intermediate learner, lol

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

So the past 2 years I’ve been Big Sick I’ve consistently gotten the best sleep of my life, despite “unrefreshing sleep” being a hallmark symptom of ME/CFS. I learned the hard way this week that was *not* in fact pure luck, but the cordyceps mushroom supplement I would have sworn was doing nothing.

TIL that the phrase "evidence-based medicine" as a piece of branding was coined in 1991

I’ve been playing Go casually for like ~3 weeks, and I think it’s ruined other abstract strategy games for me. I’ve never been so bad at a game and loved it so much (despite playing chess, fighting games, kaizo mario, soulslikes, etc). It sucks the western audience is like 1/20th that of chess.

boost your brand today with a gay

you telling me this globulin binds to sex hormones?

I have never felt more "no, it's the children who are wrong" (although "two competing AI Founder Hikes meet on the same path at the same time" is straight out of Silicon Valley (2014), as is the "AI VC" with a human "meat puppet", and a hoodie that reads ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY goes hard)

guy who only half-pays attention to the news and thinks the autism "epidemic" has been blamed on a guy named Ty Lenol

A doctor referred me to a prescription “hypnotherapy for IBS and gut-brain dysfunction” app, and I’m amazed at the disconnect between how effective its inductions are for me and how asinine and cringe all of the actual “we’re trying to induce change” bits are. You did the hard part!!

Some academic psych reading I'm doing sent me down a very weird rabbithole of "okay, but what would it mean to design immersive theater meant specifically for the subconscious" and realizing I have yet again reinvented Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age (1995)

A thing that is surprising and frustrating me: there are lots MOOCs and online video courses for intro phonology, but not intro phonetics, which makes no sense — both obviously benefit from audio examples over paper textbooks, but if you had to pick one, phonetics seems way more useful to have video

Rebranding GDC, whose claim to fame is "we are the one big Serious Professional games industry event that matters for networking" (which, even if it sucks ass, is a historically extremely lucrative value proposition) as "the Festival of Gaming" is unhinged, and I'm here for the trash fire

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

I’ve changed a great deal since becoming Very Sick, but a new pattern that remains hilarious to me is when a friend suggests “hey, have you considered [symptom] might have [cause / contributing factor]?” and 15min later I’ve read three metastudies and am lecturing them on the state of the research.

they're absolutely roasting on threads

Looking up build guides for Sword of Convallaria, and I just remain impressed at how specifically "equip Senshi Dungeonmeshi with tarot cards" is laser-focused at a certain class of neurodivergent game designer

My complex chronic illness doctor admitted today how intimidated he is of me, and my therapist told me I'm doing more trauma work on my own outside of sessions than literally any patient she's ever had, so I'll take that as 2x "winning at being a patient, normal to want, possible to achieve, etc"

I somehow got signed up for the Wall Street Journal's "Investor's Business Daily" email list, and I haven't unsubscribed yet because it's too funny to get regular invites to "IBD webinars"

Bruh

Holy shit, this is a great way to put it You are not a bee. You are a predatory ape. Do you know how much rest and leisure predators need? Apes especially!

I coincidentally just watched this (I wonder if the YT algorithm has decided to boost it lately!) and it's a lovely watch. The west tends to have a real muddy view of the lineage of Japanese adventure-adjacent genres, it's neat to see one branch of it fleshed out fully on a great English piece.

okay I hate to be a "Steve never would have let this happen" jerk but why does my phone look like they let the intern design the UI refresh

Sword of Convallaria ("gacha FF Tactics") has a character who's a buff lady with a big sword who has a self-buff where she chugs a pint of beer and hallucinates a bunch of sexy bar ladies dancing. I know Chinese gachas typically can't explicitly depict homosexuality, but she is my futch queen.

man, it's killing me that I have 2XKO access but it instacrashes on my PC!

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

Oh no, it's finally happened. Using Colemak-DH on my tiny little split ergo keyboard, I can happily use QWERTY on my 'normal' orthilinear/unibody laptop keyboard with no issues, but I tried to use my QWERTY Moonlander for the first time in ages and it's like I completely forgot how to type.

"Dr. Will Powers has a custom-made pinball machine themed after him and his show cats" is a statement that is laser-targeted to make a very small number of people go completely insane. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/8/...

I hadn't realized that Blacksky is running an entire separate stack federated with bluesky, that's huge

Long COVID is not something easy that you just live with. It will make your life smaller. And you won't know how much smaller until you're trying to live with it. You don't want this.

hell yeah, I finally have a completely legitimate reason for this to be unironically the proper design for a problem

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

today in dudes rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpj...

anyone need their horse rotated?

hearing the extremely-Mormon governor of Utah verbally say the phrase "*notices bulges* OWO what's this?" is breaking me. simulation-ass world.

My hot food take of the day is that the Japanese style of grilling chicken thighs (boneless, skin-on, crispy) is objectively the best (easy and quick/everyday lunch/not part of a recipe) way of cooking a chicken thigh.

Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter

Man, actively being in the serious intense part of trauma therapy/healing while that’s butting up against having a chronic illness body is just… every week is setting a new record for “I didn’t know things could be this difficult”

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

human bodies rock

It's been ~15 years since I got my CS degree, and I don't think this is *literally* the first practical real-world code I've ever written that recursively traverses a tree (I'm sure I've manipulated a DOM this way at some point), but it sure feels like it, and think that's extremely funny

It's funny having a slow stream of friends playing Blue Prince coming to me to act as hintmaster as a consequence of the game's extremely uneven puzzle cluing. I'm not going to go so far as to say the game-mediated social interaction is *good* design, but it's certainly an *interesting* result.