Am I still enjoying #kirbyairriders? YES! It's like a bigger version of the original. City Trial remains the main draw, even when I have a bad game it's still fun. You start, you build up stats over five minutes, then you get a "stadium" (which you can usually pick from now) that tests your […]

Threads is the most unhinged social network. Meta pulls people out of their Facebook sewers into a spot they never would have been. My main Threads stream is 50% friends posting updates about their life, 50% tradwife flatearthers telling me grocery store food is poison. It’s WILD.

I just got a spam email from someone offering "15 of my most profound posts." I can't see how anyone could say that about their own output. I don't think it's for any person to judge the profundity of their own work, but lots of people seem to get away with it.

Part of expressing disdain online is coming up with anger-venting yet also obviously ludicrous places to wish bad people to go to. Here is a small list to get you started: - the Mariana Trench - "extra hell" - the pit of snakes - the Gorge of Eternal Peril - Maggotsberg - New Jersey

It's not just that itch io takes nearly a month to give you your money after a payout now. It's that money isn't eligible to be paid out until a week after a purchase. You want to wait until as much as possible is in the payout, but if you get one purchase a week, you'll never stop waiting.

Is America a sick racist country? It sure looks like it these days… #racism #usa #uspol

The lesson I learned about internet comedy nonsense is: it's all the same. Ultrarandom TikToks! Ha! Ha! But I'm immune to them, because I lived through Youtube Poops. In fact, I'm old enough to remember All Your Base. It's all the same. IT'S ALL THE SAME. 𝐢 = 𝐢. Really, once is enough. If you […]

Kirby Air Riders free demo period is about to begin. Anyone here playing?

Ah ha! I just archived a web page, at the Internet Archive, that had never been archived before, and I claim my 50,000 points.

Got charged for my Kirby Air Riders preorder today. Game's not out for another week, I'm not sure why it goes through early.

I spent most of three days playing the Japanese original of Shiren the Wanderer, in order to write down as many items as I could _in Japanese_, kanji and all, to include them in the upcoming Mystery Dungeon book. One result is wanting to reverse the order of prepositional phrases involving the […]

Kirby Air Riders has a free demo in about six hours (3 AM my time!) I'm gonna be playing it, if you want to join me (or just want to add me to your friend list), my Switch friend code is: SW-4103-7970-5038

I don't want to say this is THE thing wrong with LLMs, or anywhere near the only thing. But we wouldn't have nearly as much uptake with them if the people running them faced appropriate consequences at all for the harm they generate. It goes back to the culture of corporate impunity.

A reminder that at one time Electronic Arts was among the very best computer software publishers. ANY company can go from best to worst, given a change in management.

I've thought about adding a weekly eshop discounts section to Set Side B. Atari's sale there going right now is one reason why, there's some nice games there.

Hyrule Warriors took me some getting used to, but what eventually won me over was its glorious excess. Nearly 1,000 levels! Ridiculous playable characters! Soaring over battlefields as an 8-bit Great Fairy slapping hordes of monsters silly! I played the demo of the second one, Age of Calamity […]

Internet things only oldbies will remember #3: Suck.com

Internet things only oldbies will remember #2: Bianca's Smut Shack

Internet words only oldbies will remember: Project Gutenberg.

I'm taking part in Morl Society, an online conference featuring niche talks, hosted by Sean Morley. You can also take part! Give a short talk on a niche subject you're really into! It's fun! Sign up here […]

It's surprising, to me, that I actually get slightly more engagement (whatever THAT'S supposed to mean) on Mastodon than Bluesky... which is a bit more than I ever got on Twitter.

Chain grocery store nearby advertises custom-made subs they don't actually sell. I complained on the corporate website. Hoo boy. Their contact form doesn't allow semicolons, parentheses, or even apostrophes, like they think I'm some contraction-using psycho.

I'm looking for a piece of software that will let a preschooler use a mouse or touchpad to pick up images of musical notes, plop them onto a musical staff, and play back the resulting row of tones. All the ones I've seen are too complicated. Any suggestions? #music #sheetmusic #software #toddler

Apple cider is so good, why isn't this available here all year?

rodneylives' word tips: "Impact" is not a verb. You mean to say "affect." (It makes more sense as a noun to describe an effect something's made, but in that case, use "effect." Sincerely, a monster

A reminder: "Zen filmmaker" Scott Shaw, who's worked on many a ridiculous movie, has a frequently-updated blog. And it's pretty cool! https://www.scottshaw.com/blog.html

Internet scoring: - If you submit a page to the Internet Archive, you get 10 points. - If you're told no one's submitted this page before (and it isn't your own), you get 5,000 points.

#MSTClub is running a full day of Halloween video things, if you're interested sometime today you can join us at https://cytu.be/r/metafilter_mst3kclub

So there's a new Animal Crossing New Horizons update coming and... Nah, I think I'm good? Maybe I should get it in order to update the Black Book of Animal Crossing, but I think I'm finally done with Animal Crossing. Life's too short.

Firing up a new browser that doesn't have an adblocker installed yet, thinking "Ugh, I hate ads," and then remembering no, ads are great, I love ads, what I hate is LIES. I hate CRAP THAT GETS IN THE WAY. I hate being spied on. I hate interruptions. I hate seeing reminders about Products I […]

I just wrote out every game I have in my Switch account. 271! How? I keep an eye out for sales, for one thing. Sometimes I'll pick up a game that's out for really cheap in case I want to play it someday. Keep doing that, and you'll build up a LIST. The games I've played the most, by far, are […]

Saw a conversation where someone in annoyance at the idea of using natural language to interact with computers, and i agree with it, but wanted to launch from there into a side discussion without attaching it to their post... One issue with natural language with computers is imprecision. I want […]

According to a stats package, On October 18th, one page on our gaming blog Set Side B got over 20K visitors. This page: https://setsideb.com/youtuber-reviews-almost-every-game-at-the-nintendo-museum/ Can that be right? The same package says the post on October 5th got over a million "hits." […]

Well, I'm back on "my bullshit." I recognize I need to be specific, since I have around 20 different kinds of bullshit, this type is training amiibo in Smash Ultimate.

A lot of people registered their disgust with #itchio for caving in so completely to payment processors regarding adult products. That was, and STILL IS, atrocious, and I'm not aware of them reversing that decision even if people seem to have forgotten about it. But there's another problem with […]

I found out that LocalThunk's dev name is a combination of an injoke, a friend who called things "thunks," and a reference to a Lua construction. It's weird because I thought it HAD to be a reference to Win16/32 coding, a thunk is a switch between modes! Weird!

I spend rather a lot of time scouring wherever I can find (Youtube, of course, is one place) looking for things to post on Set Side B to meet its daily schedule. I'm starting to wonder if I could keep up with a twice-daily schedule. Hmm....

LocalThunk promised a 2025 update to Balatro that would add a ton of new things to it, but was burnt out for a while and it's been pushed to 2026. They apologize in a long blog post here: https://localthunk.com/blog/im-slow Personally, I think they can take their time! They've has nothing to […]

This is the kind of thing that I love Metafilter for, a post made about a D&D adventure written several years ago, set in New York City, about ethics in government: https://www.metafilter.com/210782/COIB-has-the-power-of-disgorgement#8777876

The thing that gets me is, there's literally MILLIONS of people in the country who aren't even SLIGHTLY nazi-adjacent. It's not hard to just pick someone else! There's non-nazi careers waiting to be made.

In a culture that is brutal in its suppression of #sexwork, including disapproval, punishment, debanking, and every other means of devaluing the people who do it, to see #ai companies pivot to “horny" is even more awful than many of their other industries. Let me get this straight: it's okay to […]

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Let me tell you about a kind of person. This person, if you tell them about something bad that's happened to you, will literally not waste an INSTANT telling you about what you should have done to prevent it. If you leave a valued object somewhere and lose it, they'll say "WELP, I guess you'll […]

I remember when the internet was regarded as a great hope for mankind, a way to spread information easily, instead of a way for blitheringly stupid new forms of idiocy to spread, like that awful greek letter thing. Now people are fucking "alphas" or "betas" or "sigmas," or whatever, and every […]

I found myself musing about the pop cultural construction of a Barbarian, as some general fur-underwear-clad adventurer, as obviously inspired by illustrations of Conan, and wondering if we might get people adopting that look as a furry-like persona some day. Call them "Barbies," hah.

Tied my best win streak at random scenarios in Party House, at 24 wins. I might have to revise my strategy guide.

I follow some people on Patreon with free memberships, because I don't have the money to pay for a lot. Today, Patreon sent me an update email from one of them that was just a big blurry image, and a message to "upgrade" to paid to read it. Congrats Patreon, you got me to unsubscribe completely […]

The year is 2084... the Robotrons, in their mission to obliterate social media, have armies of their Grunts and Hulks posting 24 hours a day. There is only one way to combat them... (Brings to bear a mending machine with cameras and probes)... PRESENT YOUR ASS FOR THE CAPTCHAIZER. (Note that […]

So, I got a new Link amiibo, so I put Smash Ultimate back in to training it up. I thought this game wasn't getting updates any more? But there are new spirits in it; I just earned an Elephant Mario, a reference to Super Mario Wonder, which was released years after Smash Ultimate's "last" update.