Having been around places where you can actually write with detail and nuance instead of just "Thing bad, give likes." I am shocked people can function with a 300 character limit post. This is actively harmful because the nuance being clipped out to fit in the box is usually *really* important.

Huge congrats to @peebs.bsky.social for finishing his SNES challenge. 956 games over 10 years is a lot!!

After a 10 year journey, @peebs.bsky.social is finishing up his SNES challenge tonight. 5 Super Scope games remain. He just went live! www.twitch.tv/peebs

A furry group here is doing the "Is it okay to use KF as a source of info for safety purposes?" debate we had on fedi years ago. No. They will do/say anything that'll get the result they want. Nothing they present is to be trusted. Period. Not to mention the literal death count behind it all. hth

I had no idea this was what I was commentating for when I agreed to commentate Puggsy but I'm so glad it was because finding an actual identity and solidarity in being neurospicy and nonbinary has been the overarcing theme of my 2025. Just dang, what a happy coincidence that turned out to be.

I feel obligated to boost this given I just threatened a streamer with "Don't let me win a stream contest where the prize is an mspaint drawing or I'll make you draw my sona"

Puggsy commentary was one of my weaker performances but I still had a ton of fun with it.

Today's weird thoughts: My relationship with the word "Princess" and how it can imply 17,000 different things in a ton of different contexts and which ones apply to my genderqueer ass. I know a dozen people who claim that title and they all mean something different and that's kind of badass?

I wonder if 1080x1920 is just not a thing people do anymore because more and more things are hanging when they flip between responsive modes at 1200px wide and even then the mobile mode tends to look terrible at this resolution. Gotosocial does it, RHDI does it, wikipedia does it.

I love the only way to turn off ALL gAI crap in Firefox in one swipe is a heckin' enterprise policy... Sigh.

It's eevee day. It's also close enough to my birthday that I just lump the two together as far as public impressions go. You're obligated to give me affection and attention, I don't make the rules.

The IFPA's women's advisory board just collectively resigned. Multiple entire STATE scenes have stopped reporting results to the IFPA so playing there gets you no points. Response to how they've handled this is overwhelmingly enraged. The IFPA may actually die over this. What's next if it does?

Everyone should play Gon. The game is a delight. It was only released in Japan on the Super Famicom but it doesn't matter because there is not a single lick of text in it. Everything is communicated with expressive animations and sound/music work. Seriously, spend 30min finding it and give it a try

Portland ain't having it. Every day I find a new reason to be glad I moved to this area.

I'm gonna be on a GDQ Hotfix show. I don't know if it's even announced yet but I'll give details once I can. It's just commentary. Still haven't run anything in eons. But it's gonna be fun commentary.

Also IFPA releasing chats that have confidential reports from players in them, including legal info, is RICH considering they shut the original debate down "over doxxing concerns" That Kineticist published them unredacted makes them complicit I can only grasp at deliberate intent as an explanation

I guess the IFPA is in full damage control mode more concerned with addressing accusations of bigotry than anything. Making a bad decision doesn't make you a bigot. Ignoring an entire group of aggrieved people because You Know Better, then doubling down when they tell you you made the bad call does

Urge bubbling up to explain why search has become garbage and it's a bunch of technical cruft about things being turned into "tokens" and you CAN'T exact string match anymore and a lot of things store synonyms under the same "token" But ugh, I'm gonna just wave in the direction of ElasticSearch

The IFPA/Pinball thing is the biggest unforced L I've ever seen. There is zero reason to take the route IFPA has taken. Policy is clear, advisory boards are unanimous in following policy, following policy harms no one. It's *bafflingly* stupid from a management perspective and a human one.

As a lifelong event/community organizer I gotta say: the IFPA ignoring their entire women's league board and not make right on blatant hate-crime tier transphobia that biased against an entire group participating in a rated tournament is a sign of rot in the wood. www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...

Something I'm perpetually salty about is I was out as pan/enby/therian 10+ years ago and it felt isolating being in the speedrunning scene back then. I burned out for a lot of reasons but I feel like I missed the time to be welcome by a few years and it makes me sad. It's still not GREAT, mind.

Suddenly cursed by the memory wiggling up to my brain of that guy who made a retro speedrun community then went "Being queer here is politics, and politics isn't allowed here" I got a weird perverse satisfaction at seeing him banished to the Fortnite hole, then he disappeared from my radar. Good.

So like... there's a group of people who go around and can put tags on people's posts like "This was a rude thing to say", and those tags just SHOW UP on the post when other people view it, and you can't moderate or control this tagging in any way if it's used abusively? That's kind of effed up.

I have to boost that "Jolteon driving a jeep" thing when I see it. It's law.

Me, all week

Anyway I had the most awkward "I have no idea what this person is doing but it looks like a charity thing and I like and trust them" raid after my stream today and it turned out to be something really cool so good job me for doing nothing at all and lucking into that :P

LB: The knowledge there's probably 3 minutes to save doesn't sit well in my brain. I mean a chunk of it is slot manip and a chunk of it is probably not RTA-viable but hmmmmmmmmm.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydlide. You're welcome.

I never plugged FF6RRRT here... A friend of mine extracted Final Fantasy VI's script, ran it through a battery of translation engines ending back at English, and re-inserted it. The result is... pretty unhinged and amusing IMO. dev.bardcore.org/Digi/ff6rrrt...

Retroachievements actually did the right thing. I didn't think any kind of community that went that far into "Neutrality is more important than safety" could possibly walk back. Like I entirely wrote them off because I didn't think coming back was possible; literally. Like to see it.

Upgraded my fedi server to the new version and they apparently had to run a massive migration on the entire statuses table and hmm. This is gonna take a hot minute.

One of the top 3 reasons I moved out of California was so I never had to hear mention of Gavin Newsom again and y'all are screwing that up.

Quartet is a pretty damn good RPG, turns out. Happiest mistaken discovery I've had in some time.

I have no idea if that Quest 64 account is being genuine or what but having played that game myself this year, it's at *worst* a mediocre unfinished RPG and absolutely not a terrible game on any metric. I enjoyed it, really.

Anyway Retroachievements pretty much cannot win my trust back so I've written that off and moved on with my life. On happier news, Lord of the Lost and Käärijä did that collab I've wanted since Eurovision 2023 and it rips. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRT...

So very disappointed in retro achievements :/ I know a lot of people who contribute to it too

Don't give me 4 different ways to double my attack count, that stack multiplicatively, in an RPG >:) Sorry to the Quartet devs for dumpstering their carefully designed boss! I don't even think it's *that* unbalanced. Everyone kind of pops off numbers-wise at about the same time.

Picked streaming Quartet back up and found a dialogue glitch while a dev was watching. Finding a bug live in front of a dev is always the most "Sorry, happy to help, sorry, glad I could find that, sorry" situation.

Huh.... the entire .space tld infrastructure fell down. You can't resolve anything in .space because all of its root servers are dead. That's... disconcerting!

Playing with an answer to a common critique from BBG runners that it takes us too long to tell them they're live. I keep wanting to call this a "Meatball" but I don't remember where I heard that term before. Difficulty: These color choices suck for accessibility. I need to redo this scheme.

BBG went perfectly. Like couldn't have been better. Even the one hiccup we had? We had one hiccup so I didn't sit dreading the drop of the other shoe all event. I'm so excited to polish up my stream infrastructure and get more events on this now.

Welcome to the Big Bad Game-a-Thon! Hide your feline friends as @ladyerianna.bsky.social runs ALF, followed by @seireasong.bsky.social playing Downtown Special: Kunio-kun's Historical Period Drama! After that, @graygooglitch.com will run Clash at Demonhead, and LRock617 will run Knuckle Bash!

Big Bad Game-a-thon starts tomorrow at 1pm PDT. I'll be opening and hosting for the first four hours. Pretty excited for this; it's my favorite event of the year. Not biased.

Someone going "If you keep insisting on emotionally kicking your own ass, I'm gonna come up there and physically kick your ass" would probably fix me. Maybe. Or it might make me worse, but at least it'd be a thing!

I feel like this is one of those times to go "AMA", but also I get real weird parasocial feels from those anonymous asker websites so idk. I'm an open book really.

Mastodon definitely wins on flagging posts and media with content warnings; I have no idea what the label system actually *does* here. If anything. Fedi you just go "I want this flagged sensitive" and clients do whatever they want with that info.

Since I'm being weird here, lemme share the commission I just got finished today. Supervillain jolteon paying a... visit... to some corporate CEO, we'll say. There's a deep meaningful point here speaking to the evils of capitalism and the benefits of rocking a sweet half-cape. 🖌️GavUnimpressive

I feel I may have started something...