3336 - We're doing our family Christmas today (for a lot of reasons), and I'm particularly thankful for how well Cindy's present turned out. #gratitude

*deep breath* It is finished.

3335 - I wish I had more vacation than I do, but I'm thankful for what I've gotten. #gratitude

3334 - I'm thankful for some peace at the start of the new year. #gratitude

3333 - I'm so thankful my wife is back home again. It's been a very strange vacation without her. #gratitude

3332 - I'm thankful that this remastering of my childhood came today. This was my first ever TTRPG, and it still holds a place in my heart. #gratitude #TTRPG

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

Again and again, I have to ask the tech bros, "Did we read the same stories though?"

3331 - I'm thankful that Anica and I are better learning how to speak to each other when one or both of us are upset. #gratitude

3330 - I'm thankful I got to talk to Cindy for the first time in a while (what with her being gone and all). #gratitude

How I'm walking out of 2025

The best part is the robot afterwards.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

3329 - I'm thankful I had to pick up Anica and her friend from thrifting. Turned out to be a fun time in the car with two of my favorite people. #gratitude

3328 - I'm thankful we decided to order some Christmas pizza and watch some Christmas Gremlins. #gratitude

I started writing a "best of 2025" list, and it became more of an extended gratitude post, and I'm okay with that. Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/12/year... #gratitude #MentalHealth

3327 - Our Christmas this year is very weird. Feels empty in places. But I'm thankful we have some people and traditions to celebrate with even so. #gratitude

I am dead

3326 - I'm thankful Anica has picked up some of my TV/movie-watching quirks, like watching certain opening and ending credits (or at least leaving the latter on all the way through). #gratitude

"The teens picked a new funny number." 🤣 xkcd.com/3184/

I started writing a "best of 2025" list, and it became more of an extended gratitude post, and I'm okay with that. Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/12/year... #gratitude #MentalHealth

3324 - I'm thankful that the Hawkeye series isn't that long, so we can watch the whole thing in one lazy day. #gratitude

3323 - I'm thankful nobody noticed I skipped, like, hundreds of numbers in my gratitude-post numbering scheme at some point. 😅 #gratitude

Uncertainty can be terrifying. What conservatism (and relatedly evangelicalism) provides is a feeling of certainty and security, and some people will do literally anything to avoid giving that up.

A great peek into how genAI is impacting gamedev concept art. (Spoiler: It's mostly bad.)

I mean, you don't have to convince me, I do what an LLM is supposed to do, but much better, much cheaper and fueled almost entirely on snacks and Coke Zero. But then I want pesky things like human rights and a salary, so

4022 - I'm thankful for this podcast on writing with depression/anxiety/etc., in particular the reminder that pushing through emotional trauma can be just as bad for your mind as pushing through a physical injury can be for your body. #gratitude #AmWriting redcircle.com/shows/848724...

I've edited AI slop many, many times. It takes just as long—if not longer—than editing something that a human wrote. AI creates fewer obvious errors, but the errors it does create are stupider and more difficult to identify.

"two tributes from each district" I always suspected I was in District 12...

4021 - My vacation has quickly filled up with crap I have to do, and I don't get paid for it, but I'm still thankful I'm about to have one. #gratitude

4020 - I'm thankful we have a date set for our first TMNT-like Cypher session. #gratitude #TTRPG #Cypher #CypherSystem

There are good judges out there.

4019 - I'm thankful for a good long talk with Nathan about religion and church history. That boy has grown up so much. #gratitude

Heck of a timeline coincidence.

4018 - If I'm gonna be sick, I'm thankful that it's the last week of work before I take a vacation. #gratitude

4017 - I'm thankful that, at least as of this moment, all my grownup kids have jobs. #gratitude

4016 - I'm thankful we could finally add Die Hard to our Christmas movie list and that its practical effects still hold up nearly 40 years later. #gratitude

Duolingo, Wordle, Chess.com, Clash Royale, Connections, Strands, each individual Twitch channel... YOU CAN'T MAKE ME KEEP A STREAK ON EVERY APP STOP TRYING

I think I found the hardest part of the game.

4015 - "Oh, you make video games? That explains it. We were wondering why Adam was so cool." I'm thankful for random comments like this (especially for those parts of me that will *never* believe I'm cool). #gratitude

This should be pretty cool. (Full disclosure: I'm in this but maybe not the main reason you want to read this.)

4014 - I'm thankful for the daily deduction game Clues by Sam. It's like a little treat for my brain every afternoon. #gratitude cluesbysam.com (And thanks, @catacalypto.bsky.social, for introducing me to the drug.)

4013 - I'm thankful that the ability to work has been taken out of my hands more often than not this week. Forced vacation. #gratitude

Turns out it takes exactly as much work, if not more, to create a soulless ad that everyone hates as it does to make one that everyone likes... ...is what thousands of creatives have been saying for years.

4012 - I'm thankful for the season of leftover cookies (etc.) just lying around the house waiting to be eaten. #gratitude

we're at the stage where the robots are humans but not in the way anyone really expected (or tbh wants)

It's hard to have weathered a life of hearing conspiracy theories you know can't be true, and are provably wrong, only to live long enough where a true conspiracy occurs, out in the open, for all to see, and you feel crazier and crazier as it worsens day by day by day.

4011 - I'm thankful for a break from side editing projects until the new year. #gratitude

4010 - I'm thankful for the new Acquisitions Inc. episode (and that they keep putting these on YouTube where I can watch them). #gratitude #TTRPG

4009 - I'm really thankful for the new Fantastic Four. It felt to me like a return to classic Marvel, my childhood, and earlier MCU. #gratitude