rolled credits on Blue Prince. absolute banger, strongly recommend to anyone who loves puzzle games, but also anyone who likes roguelikes and/or deck builders and is down for a virtual escape room (definitely play with a notebook, you’ll need it)

tattoo #2 in the books I love it so much

getting another tattoo tomorrow and I’m real excited about it because it’s the start of a themed sleeve

oh you can upload three minute videos now? that’s cool. anyway, here’s waterfall

say hello to my friends, they are extremely peaceful and I love them

meet my new best friend

I chilled with two manta rays tonight and it ruled touching grass works even if the grass is 35 feet underwater and growing on igneous rock

got scuba certified last week, hanging out with manta rays tonight

learned about this deranged sport today, the midwest must be stopped en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwa...

love to stay up wondering if my home will burn down tonight

I am being cared for by a very good boy

ok we are staying with a friend who is not fire-adjacent for the night, ty all ❤️

view of the palisades fire from the top of a parking garage over here in west la, at around 5:30pm. really crazy how quickly you can see this thing moving. hope everyone in an evac area is getting out safely

wow long day at work, time to go back home to my lovely home in the hills of west la and turn on the news

resolutions: 1. exercise (walk a mile or more, bike 5 miles or more, lift 2000+ pounds over reps, swim, or play volleyball) at least 100 days this year 2. get PADI certified and go on at least six dives 3. get good at cooking two large-format dinners I’ve never made before and make them for friends

my friends vs me playing hues and clues

A few thoughts about Hanukkah: 1. It is mostly a modern, secular-Jewish winter holiday that has been elevated so that Jews have a holiday that lines up around Christmas. Not a huge deal, but it possesses relatively little significance on a religious level.

wild that I’ve spent like four days away from work, logged out of slack or email, sleeping when I’m tired and waking up when I’m ready, and I’ve stopped grinding my teeth at night anyway, not gonna examine that fact too closely, vacation is going great, check out this neat picture I took

hello from the edge of the world

I’m on vacation for the rest of the year let’s fucking go

kooza is great and if you can make it to a show it is extremely worth

this is a beautiful post about how the college I went to is, in most meaningful ways, closing its doors.

had a weird sequence of thoughts in the shower: > man I miss giant solifuge > GS would never cut it today > someone should make a cube where GS is good > they’d have to go back to an era where stuff like damage used the stack > cube as a concept started around then > does a DotS cube exist?

played some board games with my family tonight. Hues and Clues a clear winner, plays decently at 4 and really excited to play it at 6+. also reminded that I need to get a group of folks together who want to play blood on the clocktower.

this is wild and I really want to know what causes this

cottage pie ingredients are turkey, gravy, mirepoix, fennel, blanched green beans, sage, parsley, thyme, paprika, half a stick of butter, and mashed potato over top I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be great but also the brisket pie last night was outstanding (brisket, peas, carrots, potatoes, mornay)

my smores hit hard enough that my family is out here comparing me to Hephaestus, is this what your parents being proud of you is supposed to feel like

my dad is just flipping through Facebook reels at max volume in a living room where multiple people are having human interactions. embarrassed for him. he should have the self awareness and shame to hide his social media addiction behind a hardware mute & compulsively clicking volume down

thanksgiving has been pretty good on the food front. tomorrow I get to figure out what ought to go into a turkey cottage pie, lmk if you have any good ideas

doing my big thanksgiving turkey rant early so it has a chance of improving lives 🧵 1/54

Here's my proper "Bluesky has the juice!" take: Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus. Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter. The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

truly incredible how much my mood improves by going outside and doing literally anything that involves genuine interaction with other humans, doubly so if it involves physical activity this message brought to you by my recent beach volleyball habit, which - I regret to inform you - is very good

One thing that absolutely gets me about Dem consultant brain rot is people thinking that throwing trans folks over the fence will make the wolves stop coming, yet argue fiercely why we shouldn’t feed Ukraine to Putin. Pick a lane guys, do you believe in appeasement or not?

up late thinking about these absolutely incredible shaanxi noodles I had in London a few weeks ago

definitely can’t post this one on the work account but

hello new people and also what in the world kinda starter pack did I get added to for ~200 people to follow me overnight

it’s almost the end of 2024 and we still don’t have this game, I hate it here

oh sick substantially more of my online social circle is here, let’s gooooo

Movies definitely misled me as to how violent the early morning walk up here would be

they’re saying coffin flops is not a show www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

I am extremely hype to go to Paris in a few days I have missed all of the food and the monuments and the Seine with the cold breeze blowing off of it and the tight winding streets and the parks and the squares and walking a mile through centuries old architecture to get where I’m going

@ozone.birb.house Game Dev

it is so disorienting to have spent decades of my life in left political circles and working in that world and to have inadvertently turned an account I started when I was 18 into a pseudo-corporate-megaphone type space followed by a bunch of extremely high visibility community folks

current mood (it’ll get better but it’ll take some time)

ok folks I’m going to have some free time in the evenings for the next few days, what is the best way to spend six to twelve hours on Crusader Kings 3 batshit stipulations welcomed

also hi everyone who followed me from @jeffhamilton.bsky.social’s list I don’t/won’t post about work stuff basically ever here because my Twitter presence has turned into a pseudo work space and I have found myself fairly regularly editing myself there to a degree I find unpleasant anyway hi hello

one of the things I’ve come to feel about mtg is that there’s too much stuff/things move faster than I have bandwidth to absorb, and that the Good Old Days were better is this because content calendars are actually too compressed, because I’ve gotten older and have less time, both, or fourth thing?