@hamlette.bsky.social q-up game may be your jam. Spatially based+item builds Some interesting classes/characters Most characters are (mostly) set skills per level but there is a roguelike character to unlock It goes Full Balatro eventually

Q-Up is definitely a thing We live in interesting times

Not to advertise but it seems that Libro.fm doesn’t suck at all for audiobooks Seattle Built is a great little local company for a new pc build

Tired: unemployment benefits Wired: UBI

Uncertain if it’s seasonal or layoff related but doing 1-3 not recurring, self-initiated things per day is destroying me Today it was pushing on the “please take your hardware back, ex employer” thread so now maybe I’ll get shipping boxes. and filing for unemployment. Some things are nicer -

There are way way way too many screws in electric keyboards I may never return it to an assembled state And Since the kb still needs more disassembly (it stinks) Might as well go all in

You can learn so much by adopting a baby creature Like how to take apart an electric keyboard so you can get the cat pee out of it

Brushing up my resume and poking at the job search assist service ri*t games gives me thru May of next year I uh Was at Microsoft a long time. The very real possibility of maybe going back for one of their game studios or something has jogged a lot of memory

The kitten(8.5mo old): chewing and weird mouth things in his sleep Me: aww he’s dreaming about eating plastic

*beastie boys* well old homer simpson made nuclear POWER getting paid peanuts by the HOUR all the employees are taking TURNS getting abused by mr BURNS and so he became a union MAN going on strike for a dental PLAN didnt want his daughter to make FUNNY FACES because after all LISA NEEDS BRACES

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I am, it turns out, pretty sad about my little r&d team getting canned I’ll be ok but looking for jobs in the dark season is dreary!

My partner is the best pet photographer I could ask for.

I am laid off! I get paid a little longer and there’s severance, although the industry is not what it once was. Regardless I’m going to de-stress and get a new gaming/dev pc as a treat. My video card is from 7 years ago and my cpu was low heat for a tiny build so this should be very exciting

Fast forwarded some dialogue in cyberpunk and my partner was like “did you just skip the emotional labor??”

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

man I dunno this is just off the top of my head, probably missed some things

The people in the apt building office aren’t the cause of pantsless elevator person possibly taking a dump in there But “did you call the police” no I don’t want anyone hurt also I don’t want to talk to the police maybe I can leave an amazing review online and greystar will suffer a little

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

lmao

PSA non makeup folks who are doing a makeup for oct 31 Your makeup will look better to you with less panic at the last second if you watch some YouTube tutorials and practice it a couple times before the big costume party. Oh and get some makeup remover.

I made some orange cran pecan bread (basically cake) Anyone want a slice ?

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I'm covered in paint from making a haunted castle set for a disabled goat's halloween pen and I'm just really content that this is where my life has ended up.

The horrors persist But so do- No you know what I’m going to be fully pajama mode for a while. Just An unthinking blob that doesn’t know anything

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Not a lot is “worth” getting Covid for But the open raw oyster bar at that wedding outside Boston? Well. It took some of the pain out of flying at least.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

if anyone's curious there is an official answer for why unreal is in its own quadrant by itself

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

Try making your own socks Like I’ve never had my feet be so warm It turns out they were cold for valid reasons, I don’t actually have subpar circulation, my socks were just bad

We stayed in the comfy zone too long in 7d2d And now the bee shooting zombies are too terrifying

Not incredibly happy about my project getting reduced to the point I’m not on it but at least there’s internal job interview opportunities to examine I guess

Dandadan, my dress up darling, and the female gaze

There’s something so nice about tiny bites of stone fruit eaten with a fork

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Big stretch! Have a snack, take your meds. -You can be kind and full of rage. They don’t cancel each other out. -The Lurking Horror is sulking on the couch in a nest of pillows and refuses to talk about the bannister. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

I wish I could meet some if my fellow game devs from here but I hate flying and crowds so game industry events are pretty rare for me

Ok the musician dandadan was something else

fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either

on one hand I am irrationally annoyed with this copy because I feel that the senate becoming a rubber stamp happened during Augustus. on the other hand it’s extremely galaxy brain (positive) to put the beginning of the fall of Rome at Augustus

Again with the ruins and roots