Quick notes! Dispatch stuck the landing. New valve stuff neat-ish; VR still niche, controller is bulky and weird, but the GabeCube could really rock depending on price point. As an indie dev I'm all for easier in-roads for PC devs to deliver console games since the existing processes suck bad.

Important life lesson: when taking afternoon meds, do not listen to stand-up comedy. The end result will be liquid ibuprofen shooting out of your nose.

Wrote up a list of Photoshop tasks I needed to do for my game last night, hammered them all out in one really intense hour sitting down at my desk this morning. And now, well, exhausted. 5 1/2 hours of sleep did not help that matter. But at least it's forward progress, despite everything. Good.

Six months late on this because physically going to theaters isn't an option for me anymore, but it's fascinating to compare Superman with fantastic four. Both with a retro feel, both 90% green screen, but one is actually fun and approachable and the other one feels exhausted and self serious.

Really struggled to get anything done today. Just mentally and physically beat down. I gotta have more tolerance for that in ye olde disabilitie retirement, but it still feels bad. Like some days I'm too drained to even have fun, so I'm just in absolute torpor.

75% through a video I'm enjoying: "This video is brought to you by Draft Kings--" Thumbs down, stop video, close window. Every goddamn thing now is gambling-focused thanks to jokers like them normalizing the idea of ruining your life in a wacky fun gamey way because you don't understand math.

Good morning, patrons! Tonight at 7:30pm, @forneiavtuber.bsky.social and I will start a new chapter of City of Angles! Come on by to see what all our protagonists can do when they unite as one! #Vtubers #Vsky #Reading #CityOfAngles

Did you know? All our games (and about twelve paperback novels!) are tied together, with concepts that bleed over between them. You don't NEED to read/play it all to enjoy any one particular story! But... if you want some spoilers, we've got a document for ya. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So for the first time since retiring, I'm taking advantage of that fact to completely binge playing this game. But after two days, I think I'm possibly done. I just don't care about the story or characters enough, and the villain is incomprehensible. Combat is okay but that's not my draw.

OK, at the risk of appearing old parentheses which is fine because I am staggeringly old parentheses can someone explain both 6–7 and the meme of orange text on a blue background? I feel like I am out of touch with the youths.

Not really vibing with the story yet for OW2. Cheerful hypercapitalists and violent cult socialists spewing old timey high scrabble scoring dialogue feels like an endless series of strawmen. Not sure the game has a point, other than to say "everybody sucks" and "saving lives maybe good."

Well, since steam won't refund me, decided to cheat like the dickens so I can at least enjoy the story for Outer Worlds 2. Mods for infinite time slowing, and stronger companions. Now my inability to aim won't be an issue. But I am going to have to be careful getting FPS games in the future.

"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!

Absolute deep geek nerd fixation here in the best possible way. Just a fascinating look into every step of rebuilding a laptop from practically scratch.

Hey, @steamsupport.bsky.social , my refund for Outer Worlds 2 just got turned down because it took five hours for me to try to make it work for my physical disability and fail. Anything you can do about this, or am I just stuck with it because disabled gamers get no leeway?

Hoping Steam will refund Outer Worlds 2. I tried to get it to work, tinkering with configs and builds for a playstyle that works with my physical disability but just couldn't get it to work. It's honestly really disappointing. I was never a huge shooter fan but so many games rely on FPS style now.

I think it’s important to remember that you don’t get points for being a bootlicker, you just out yourself as a spineless little worm. The boot doesn’t care how well you clean it. It will still crush you.

Good talk here about freeing yourself from the algorithm. Will embracing your absolute creative self with authenticity bring you a lot of money? Who knows! But at least you won't be miserable. I stopped trying to be a commercial game developer, just making what I want to make now. And glad for it.

Yet another youtube channel I've dropped as they pivoted to "Generative AI is Good, Actually." I'm trying not to mindlessly hate on AI -- I want to MINDFULLY hate on it. To hate because of the ethical and legal problems involved in training data, and short term value at expense of human endeavor.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

I know that I technically have anxiety, like clinically, but it doesn't flare up very often. Weirdly, it seems to when I'm playing a brand new video game? Like I approach it with some trepidation and nervousness. There's no reason to, nobody is judging me, but entirely new experiences are unknowns.

Bought my one and probably only AAA game of the year, Outer Worlds 2. I'm a little hesitant. Since my disability kicked into high gear, first person shooters are not really my thing because I have to use a controller now. Hopefully it has a very generous aim assist and alternative win conditions.

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Good morning, patrons! Tonight at 7:30pm Central, @forneiavtuber.bsky.social and I will be reading some more City Of Angles! We're really seeing all the story threads coming together now, so I look forward to seeing you there! #Vtubers #Reading

Me from 4-10pm: my brain isn't braining I can't focus or even defocus this sucks Me after 10pm: OKAY I'm alert and ready to kick some wait what it's almost bedtime argh

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

Dared to look at the Steam forums for Dispatch. Whooole lotta incels out there, folks. As an ace/aro I honestly found Invisigal refreshing -- she's bratty but also incredibly honest and doesn't play 'read my mind or else' games. Admits when she's interested and is willing to feel things out openly.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Played all four episodes of Dispatch (so far.) i'm loving the story and the acting, but I am absolute garbage at the strategy mini game. I'm really hoping it's not going to lock me out of a decent ending because my luck is terrible and I couldn't predict the right moves to make.

Probably my favorite poem reading, and extremely appropriate since I woke up at 5 AM to the tune of various health complications and now feel utterly exhausted by everything holding me back and holding me down.

Epic releases a few Simpsons promo items, and it detonates a nuke under their entire game store infrastructure for a full day. Say what you will about Valve's own scummy practices but at least they can keep a service upright. And Amazon thought they had a chance at unseating them? It is to LOL.

Unusually high anxiety day. No immediate threats, but doom scroll of the news plus uncertainty about my own game writing plus a general restlessness equals this weird aura of unsettled vibes and pending troubles.

ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORS LUCASARTS 1993 SNES

Ghosts and goblins are nothing. The real Halloween horror was seeing ScanDisk run when you just wanted to play Doom.

It is the distant year 202X. You are starving. You approach the vending machine; it's only 0.23 in crypto to roll food. You roll again and get nothing. You roll again and get an uncommon foil which you're allergic to. You could buy a monthly food pass to improve odds, but maybe you'll win big!

Switch 2 Animal Crossing, heck yeah! ... but it's just an update to the existing game. Bummer. I mean it's been five years and a whole new game system, can we get an actual sequel going and not a paid patch to bump up from 720p plus a few random features?

you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Disc Station 10 // Compile // PC-98

You guys, look at this thing. You just jam a whole stick of butter in there and it melts it and you can just spray hot liquid butter on whatever. The 80s really was the decade of insane kitchen appliances.

The problem with strategy guides/videos about roguelikes is they're all "This game is so easy, you just need this exact combination of completely random legendarily rare items that only actually unlock after 20+ hours and some very specific esoteric actions and then you're fine!" Dude. Not helpful.

"why are games so expensive" "why are mass layoffs happening" "why are games getting cancelled" "why did that popular studio close" it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

Get up, losers, new Aesop Rock album just dropped for free aesoprock.com/pages/i-hear...

For AS:TNC, I did weeks of research to figure out if it was legal or realistic to have a connecting door installed between two city apartments. The workload, permits, etc. I was sure that the audience would reject this. Nobody noticed or cared. Sometimes authors are too close to their own work.

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

Do you live in Asgard, but wish you could view shows only available in Niflheim? Then you should use Norse VPN!

"Pitchforks and torches? In THIS economy?" neatly summarizes a lot of things from multiple angles.

Trans speedrunners be like "okay we got bad rng on the character creation but if we spam E repeatedly a chest will appear"

This shit is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S!