Heard some people are speculating on what if Columbo could regenerate like Doctor Who. i don't think they're speculating hard enough. Columbo isn't a person. Columbo is the rumpled coat. Whoever wears it becomes Columbo, with the sum of the memories of all previous Columbi. It doesn't replace […]

There should be a search engine that exclusively indexes indieweb video game content. And, it should be called: MOOGLE

Got off the bike. I say, if I am going to someday make a road trip on it of over 100 miles, I'm going to have to get a lot more used to riding 12.

'pparently now some people are starting to call No AI No Matter What folk (pretty much people like me) haters. I mean setting aside how this economically benefits terrible companies, how the great push for building datacenters for these things will consume resources... ...how they're all made […]

I am at the point in my bash learning journey where I get annoyed by its quirks. You can have nearly any character in a Unix filename, but if you include spaces or special character then it makes shell work must more annoying to accommodate for them, and dealing with special characters in […]

I have seen the future, and it's a screen reading "𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻," with no other information forever.

Patricia's got it real bad, and honestly I felt the same back in 2008.

ha ha ha, Tomodachi Life is software that seems purpose-built for creating fun memes for sharing over the internet. So naturally, NINTENDO HAS COMPLETELY DISABLED SHARING IMAGES OR VIDEOS FROM THIS SOFTWARE. Fuck you, Big N!

Sitting at McDonalds, met an acquaintance who works here and we spoke for a bit, he mentioned regretting not getting into Bitcoin, so I went into my spiel about that. It was truly a 1-in-10,000 thing, and some of the worst people in the world are into it. And the equivalent of getting into […]

I am considering something that, to me, seems crazy: a long-distance e-bike trip, 130 miles, taking at least two days, staying at campgrounds, charging the bike a couple of times a day.

So I splurged a bit and got Tomodchi Life. It's fun, surprisingly so, but also feels like it should have been released for a system that cares more about Miis. The Wii used Miis everywhere! And the Mii Channel, and Check Mii Out, made it easy to get lots! I am one of the very few people who've […]

Working on a "simple" game idea. The kingdom is one screen. From the last war, the king knows, there is one unexploded land mine. People don't walk around much because of it. But, you gotta deliver the mail. Many people have hints to the location of the mine, but, about one quarter of them are […]

I have been burned by making early judgements regarding computer hardware issues many times, BUT-- My laptop certainly seems to boot more reliably _right now_ after removing its wireless card. Two consecutive boots made it through log-in.

Shiren 6 30%, and Shiren 5 80% off on the Nintendo eshop: https://www.nintendo.com/us/search/#p=1&cat=gme&sort=df&f=softwarePublisher%2CtopLevelFilters&softwarePublisher=Spike+Chunsoft+US&topLevelFilters=Deals

Trying to decide if I want to get Tomodachi Life now, money is tight after taxes though (refund? HA)

Found one of those bogus "Account Verification Required" posts that have been going around. Here: https://mastodon.cloud/@SupportTeam/116400764369773650

I found a page with a lot of useful information, but I'm hesitant to link it. Why? THE DAMN THING HIDES THE SCROLL BAR. I mean completely, it's just not there. There is no visible indication of how far you're into the (long) page at all. Frog that's stupid! No link from me. It's petty, sure […]

Everyone should read this I think: "CEO Said a Thing Journalism": https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

THE WHOLE DAMN US: Refund! It's tax REFUND season! Here's a thousand things to spend your FREE MONEY REFUNDDD ONNNN!! Everyone who's self-employed: fuck everything

It is very odd that sometimes Bluesky will tell me that it's run out of posts from follows and switches me over to the Discover feed, when this absolutely never happens on Mastodon.

There are three ways to play Caves of Qud. Classic mode is for those who want a challenge, accomplishment, the standard roguelike stuff. Roleplay mode is exactly like Classic, but the game saves checkpoints in villages that you can return to after dying. Wander mode starts from Roleplay, but […]

Made some more progress chewing through Qud. Just finished helping a bright but socially ill-adjusted fungus spread its spores through the world. Next up: the Tombs of the Eaters, and Brightsheol, at the mysterious site known as The Spindle.

@gothpanda Aah I had a look at the contributed links to Neato just now, there are two and both are obviously spammers. Joy.

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The theme song from Benson just randomly entered my head.

[cats are weird] The farmsitter said that our 2 house cats, who are littermates and have lived together their whole lives, completely hated each other while we were away. One of the cats chased off the other cat every time he came near her, and he spent a lot of time hiding from her in the […]

Just finished doing taxes. I was hit for $617. Self-employment sucks.

Neutron flux: the cockatrice corpse of Caves of Qud, a single item with amazingly many ways for it to kill you extra dead if you mishandle it.

Inspired by Casey's thread earlier, here's a few semi-random picks from my Steam wishlist that I'm excited for. Starting with... 1: Chainstaff - The latest psychedelic platform shooter from solo studio Mommy's Best Games. Looks and sounds like a prog-metal album cover come to life. Out this week.

Caves of Qud makes me heartsick. Why aren't there more things like this?

Because of my dad's weird pronunciation, the word "digital" always sounds like "digikal," like how Popeye would say it, in the cavernous spaces of my brain.

The Zooliminology Project has released a new video about the care of creatures from the nearby parallel world called the Far Plane: Leaf Mimics. https://youtu.be/x3jmSy2EhXg?si=4wU8nOVzp6P5aEKp

Me once: "Oh boy, learning regular expressions will be so easy and useful!" Every tool with its own different options, features and bespoke implementation that it takes a web search to discover: (chuckles maliciously)

Darren Mooney at Second Wind says interesting things about the new Mario movie: https://www.patreon.com/posts/column-who-are-154680288

It's weird, there aren't really many reasons I _have_ to use command line tools and programs, but I find myself looking forward to doing things with them more and more. I think it might be because GUI software has become so bullshit?

Darren Grey and I talked for a bit on Omega Labyrinth Life, a questionable Mystery Dungeon-style roguelike. We really don't recommend that you play it, but you can hear us recounting the psychological scars we got from it here […]

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I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test: (1) Two named Klingons (2) Talking to each other (3) About something other than honor

I thinking of making a general Fediverse post on Metafilter. I'm in the casting-about phase, does anyone have any ideas for services to mention?

@pronoiac I notice that Hometown has updated! Thanks for keeping up with the server here!

The difficulty with writing substantive things about many true roguelikes is that they're so BIG. And it often takes many plays before you feel like you can do a good job of discussing them, because there's angles to the game that only become evident once you've won multiple times. It's the old […]

Ah. I see the big meme right now is mugshots of deranged-looking people, probably AI generated, and comical (but fake) captions claiming they're from Florida. I got caught by these one time. Not again. Please don't be fooled by them now

Argh... Seems my town doesn't have a No Kings rally tomorrow, despite having one last time. How frustrating.

I don't know, half the time I think I'm slowly degrading mentally, but half the time I think my standards are going up, and although I'm not meeting them I'm actually improving in subjective terms.

I saw a post about a rumor that they're remaking Ocarina of Time. I hope they don't ruin it. There are lots of things about Ocarina that could be improved, like how the N64 struggles so hard to render Hyrule Field there aren't many polygons left for enemies. Or how empty most of the overworld […]

Controversial take of mine I guess: talking about games in terms of dopamine and serotonin is reductive and annoying. When I think about games, and even plan to make them, that is not what I think about, and if I did think of them in those terms I would not want to have anything to do with them.

I've been using my electric bike within a range of about two miles since I got it. I'm starting to wonder if it might be worth trying to go farther. The issue with that is my town is not very bike friendly. Not a lot of bike paths, and we live about seven miles away from the town proper where […]

Well, it looks like MST Club's episode for this Thursday is going to be the now-found KTMA episode, against my better judgement because as early KTMA it is SLOW, long gaps between riffs.