I was really enjoying Silksong until it randomly deployed Eternal Darkness mechanics on me for no reason. Apologies for the potato quality; I couldn't play and hold my phone to shoot the video at the same time.

Verizon might regret sending me this survey. I've worked with tech support agents since my family first got a cable internet connection, when I was 14. I've been in IT professionally for a decade and a half. When I say this was the worst customer support I have *ever* experienced, I'm not kidding.

I was unironically asking my wife this just last week.

computer gaming world, magazine, cover (1983) archive.org/details/Comp...

chelsea's rules of online 1. You Don't Have to Post 2. Nobody Asked, Probably 3. Not Every Post Is About Your Thing

Most of the dudes around me before I dropped out of HS leaned right or fell into disease of despair with pills & shit. Finding my way into US underground arts is fr the thing that kept me from going down that road. Only thing Id ad to this is creating a pathway for a living wage in the arts as well.

You think Bette Davis was an organ donor?

@jay.bsky.team - Respectfully... A large community awaits an answer from you.

I love the nuance that @kyleor.land brought to this @arstechnica.com article about Silksong and its difficulty. My hot take is that customizable difficulty is good, full stop But even so, the experience of a player who uses these features will be different from someone who beats it "as intended."

Bluesky is now 20% random posts by people refusing to acknowledge the news of the day, 30% people reacting to the news & main characters of the day, & 50% exhausted artists trying to sell their work with strained, cheerful posts. Nevertheless, we persist. Throw a coin to your Witcher if you can.

this is very exciting for me because I co-wrote this movie, along with you and everyone else who has ever posted words on the internet

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Happy Star Trek day! Please enjoy the original Badgey drawing and some Titmouse Boimler expression tests from Lower Decks season one.

Post a screenshot from a game that you can immediately hear.

New bansky at the royal court of justice in London.

Peter Weir's Johnny Mnemonic

call me old fashioned but 12+ likes is still a banger in my heart

Crap, the ONE time I publish some upbeat happy songs for a change...

I've been dealing with a weird bug in Silksong. When I use my 8BitDo controller, Hornet breaks into an uncontrollable sprint after every ledge grab, and then the R trigger stops working. It seems to only happen with my 8BitDo. Anyone else experiencing anything like this?

I've sent my top man for the job

I think I'd put it in a jacket pocket and then forget it's there until the following fall, when I'll be pleasantly surprised to find a random $10 in my jacket. Also, just sayin'... My EP is $5, so if two people buy it, we can turn this dream into a reality!

It's #BandcampFriday on 5th September—that's tomorrow!! Support your favourite indie musicians and their music, on a day when Bandcamp waives their % cut. Feel free to share your links here—it would be helpful to know the genre(s) too 🎶

Happy #bandcampfriday everyone! I released a new EP last week, and today is the best time to buy it because Bandcamp lets artists keep a higher percentage of the sale price today. $5 will get you for new songs of mine that (for once) aren't total downers!

Next time I'm feeling impostor syndrome, I'm gonna think of the Verizon Business support ticket I have open in which it took an entire team ten days plus a visit from an onsite tech to figure out that the issue I reported (our phone service repeatedly dropping) was a problem with the phone system.

Respect to all my fellow musicians/artists doing the damn thing past 35. We can’t look back now. This is who we are.

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

I will never apologize for a post

I hope all those kids that were in the interludes on the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill are doing well

I don't love waking up super early, but walking the dog at sunrise is definitely a mood. (Three of these are from yesterday, one from today.)

"What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...

I had never put this into words before, but you just perfectly summarized why I wanted to produce a music podcast and not, say, a blog or column.

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

And we're live! Come check out my new EP, Jon Porobil is Your New Best Friend, on Bandcamp! $5 gets you four new songs tied together by the theme of joy. Enjoy a bit of my lighter side! jonporobil.bandcamp.com/album/is-you...

Oh no, this one hits too hard. 😭

I've been posting about my upcoming EP, Jon Porobil is Your New Best Friend. I wanted it to come out near the end of summer, so I picked the last Friday in August, the 29th. Only this week, it dawned on me that this August 29th marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I'm stuck in traffic on my way home today, but with this view, I can't be TOO mad about it.

I found this on the lock screen of a computer in my office this morning. Wait, wait, I know this... Just give me a minute to think.

every morning

get yourself a friend like him

I almost missed the joke; had to read it twice. 🤣

My nine year old, who has gotten REALLY good at the drums, listened to one of the programmed drum fills from my new EP, smiled, and yelled "ANIMAL!" It's one of the best compliments I have ever been given.

This thread about Internet communities, platform collapse, and walled gardens is full of recognizable insights. Also, as a 39 year old (who created a bsky account at age 38), I both relate to what @pookleblinky.bsky.social is saying and also feel a bit called out.

I'm still high off of finishing these songs and submitting them last night. Hope you enjoy these songs!

I've finished mastering my new EP and sent it off to the streaming services! Check out JON POROBIL IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND, four brand-new songs united by joy, on August 29th!

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.