It's that special time of the year when the whole world slams to a dead stop and you're supposed to do nothing but reflect on your weird nonsense life. I feel like an exhausted old crank, answering the occasional inquiry about something I said or did 30 years ago in webring times when I still […]

Sometimes a meme gets your head and you gotta draw it from scratch.

I wasn't a console gamer, but I keenly remember what stuff sounded like in the '90s when the limits of technology were opening up, yet still existed, and creators were exploring all the possibilities. It was a sort of computer jazz whose entire spirit was simply "this is neat." I am struck by […]

Happy Halloween to anyone wondering about me. I just haven't got anything going on. Escape Simulator 2 just dropped and everyone's talking about uninstalling ES1, so that's the end of everything I built in it, finished or not. There's a room contest for ES2 with a ten-day deadline (which would […]

Most everything I get into seems to involve teaching myself a process that won't be useful for anything else, putting all my focus into finishing one thing, and arriving at the conclusion that it was worth doing once but mostly only for the lesson that it won't be worth doing again.

Monotype reached out because they want to phase out "outdated" agreements and I still haven't signed my rights away. I'm still pondering how best to tell them to eat sand.

My main objective is to not start tomorrow exhausted, but I keep noticing things that I need to spend enough time cleaning to make them merely look like they were last cleaned a long time ago, as opposed to never.

Really I'm just constantly stubbornly distracting myself from the fact that I have one week to fix my sleep patterns and get all my shots before my parents visit me on their way back from an Alaska cruise. They know I'm anxious about it; I already begged off of meeting them in the city when they […]

[game tinkering] Because my focus has to be increasingly pointless so I don't bait myself into hoping the things I do with my time will mean anything to anyone, I have been going through the image files in Balatro and enhancing them pixel by pixel. Noting that […] [Original post on dragon.style]

[food waste] This evening I found a big box from one of those meal prep companies outside my apartment, delivered in silence to entirely the wrong building. Because I've been languishing inside all week, I have no way to know exactly how long it's been sitting there. The cold packs were […]

So! TaskFaster 2 is ready to play in Escape Simulator. Hope someone likes it! People liked the first one, with qualifications. I am proud of my caricatures. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3555427114

Focus on the inconsequential is how I get anything done, but not anything I need to do.

Today I went into a movie theater for the first time since 2018, because Craig strongly recommended the new Naked Gun and I trust his expertise on such matters. Y'all, it is the real thing. I have enjoyed reimaginings; this is not that. This is not "we have the rights to the name and we're gonna […]

I was feeling bitter and morbid about everything for about a week, and it seemed like I might stay that way, but I finally managed to stop thinking about it, and I had a extraordinarily restorative nap today. I took a shower without procrastination and headed out to get some stuff done. I […]

Jesus Christ, Monotype.

[kinda heavy reflection] If, during the rare events of social connection in my life, someone had successfully impressed upon me the truth: "There is no test to pass or fail here. This is not your chance to belong if you do everything just right. It does not lead to anything. This is the prize […]

I chose to delete something I made just to stop people telling me they hate it. I don't expect to have to do this again, but it's worth noting how impossibly low the return for creating anything at all continues to drop.

@Phorm Some of the good stuff https://youtu.be/hnFbGDwUOh8&t=130

Huh... Men Without Hats just reappeared and dropped a song and video, "I Love the '80s", that, even though it's obviously a fact they were around in the '80s, has all the hallmarks of the limited imagination of someone who was not. It's fine, I guess, but it smells of desperation. "MWH released […]

[Blue Prince] I've been wringing the last secrets out of this game. The Get Smart tunnel was fun. For a while I thought grinding to see how far the spiral goes was all that was left. I am glad both of the things I didn't look up and the things I did look up with regards to the Core thing. With […]

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