it's new post time~!

empire of dreams is honestly tight. starts real slow which is a shame bcs they have so many expansions on the basic klonoa puzzles. far, far beyond what either console game does. ex stages feature makeshift enemy storage and plenty of regrabbing

first fantasy league got renewed... it's nearly that beautiful time of year...

oh hey i made this Cosmic Smash stick from the guts of a Dreamcast pad and my dad's table saw back in the day! it's missing a dust washer and one screw fsr but it still looks pretty sharp

the test dream and join the club just four episodes apart... two separate incredible dream sequences

dissertation draft finally submitted to the committee thank god

thank god lol

walking the halls of the college at 7pm bcs the air is too toxic to walk outside and some professor is in the faculty bathroom blaring ig reels so loud you can hear it in the hall

idly scrolling through instagram stories before seeing someone post the hegseth testosterone testing story with the text caption "This shit is beyond parity!"

where has yo la tengo's summer sun been my whole life. why did I skip this as a teenager because of a couple bad reviews. easily on the level of the rest of their classic era work

capping off my trilogy of kururin reviews is squash, the rare gamecube exclusive that still has almost zero coverage. it's the best starter game in the series thanks to analog control and a gentler campaign, while also moving in some new directions for its set of objectives. link to my review below!

night into dreams being strangely more difficult in almost every way on ps2 and onward... they made nights into dreams black label...

piss filter era – in retrospect – is a refreshing blip away from the neon-spattered norm that's defined virtually every other era of gaming

today i blogged about my current work making networked multiplayer for intergalactic puzzle touchdown, specifically the nuts and bolts of driving the game state in a way that does not suck ratttzone.bearblog.dev/the-gap-betw...

buying tickets for a show in an hour. cc security code incorrect, twice in a row. ok fine, retype the entire card number again. card declined. text from bank saying is this you? yes. another text tells me to wait two minutes and then try again. in that two minutes, sales close and I get booted out 😵‍💫

I had the incredible opportunitty to play Denshattack! and review it for Gamereactor!!! Tried to go all out on a game that, frankly, deserves all the kind words I can muster for it; an insanely fun and electrifying experience and I go on all about it here: www.gamereactor.eu/denshattack-...

Tapping the sign again. Start your playthough on August 1st for a magical experience!

anyone have recommendations for short 1ccs (like sub 15-hours)? now that I'm coming up on the end of my phd program I'm thinking about what kind of stuff I wanna cover next, and my last two arcade projects were gigantic (200+ hours for tap and 80ish for crazy taxi, ignoring <10 hour puzzle bobble)

last day driving a GTI around everywhere :( being banished into a 2015 Honda Fit starting tomorrow

The #Arcade classic "Virtua Racing" has just received a full PC, #Xbox 360, AND Series X #recomp by "Wans Zai" Featuring many QoL options, like high resolutions, widescreen support, split-screen & online multiplayer and a new 60fps mode! github.com/wanszai/Virt... #retrogaming #homebrew #gaming

returning to nights into dreams I'm curious as to what extent the design qualities it expresses are almost purely interesting from a discovery standpoint ie piecing together how the level is laid out for combo potential + how the different baffling mechanics cooperate

rewatching the nights into dreams fmv opening... elliot is a monster once he gets inside the paint but he's a liability in transition. he needs to be paired with someone who can create for him

Regen is now live on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6OJF...

engineering academia is spending six hours debugging code in some niche government research language and then realizing it doesn't work bcs the interpreter doesn't handle string/integer literals correctly

sorta prefer the retro discourse to the "wii is undergoing n64-ification (only five good games and the rest are garbage)" discourse that keeps peeking into my non-gaming feed on xitter

Here's my entry for the #toxicyurivnjam Straining Against the Limit. It's a story about true love and genital mutilation, a relationship between a hopelessly romantic trans woman and her cisgender Mistress who just wants to leave a mark on something. monochrome-disposition.itch.io/straining-ag...

yo ho ahoy and avast

WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE! LURRUNA drops on Steam & Itch.io on July 31st for $9.99. It's a Classicvania, y'know? store.steampowered.com/app/4315900/...

albums I've listened to while on my dissertation grind (all new to me other than quique and la nouvelle pauvrete). loosely ordered by enjoyment

getting called out now in my local scene bcs my gf and I have a problematic credit score gap

kind of sad no one told me how good CMR's menus were until now

realized that guilty gear notation confuses me because I use card reader pin pads way more than keyboard numpads and the former are vertically flipped 😭

my neighbor came by recently and started jumping uncontrollably upon seeing my copy of The Munchables, their favorite childhood game. we booted it up and quickly fell in love with those opening levels again. it falls off rather quickly, but the start shows what could have been. review link below!

lakespirit.love/posts/2026-0... I figure today isn't a bad day to bump my zelda 1 writeup ^o^ i'm glad ppl are enjoying this one, i rly loved the game

our new podcast is up! a disjointed, free-flowing conversation just like the game itself lol. more episodes soon!

machine girl playing at the biggest indoor venue in my city is crazy. I saw them play in a storage unit here in 2019 😭

Steam Next Fest in June once again showed us what gaming has in store for us. Check out these 5 promising demos and a lot of honorable mentions! freakingindie.com/indie-journa...

I've been doing some book cover designs on spec recently 🙏 lmk what y'all think

rewatching sopranos. best malapropism I missed the first time: tony saying beansie pisses into a "cathode tube"

proving my dissertation isn't ai-generated by writing the entire thing in a text editor with no spellcheck and including increasingly ridiculous typos every couple paragraphs

gf and I took her younger half-sister (like, 21 years younger) to go see toy story 5. they haven't yet quite captured the kind of play said half-sister does, which is act out times when her mom wouldn't let her choose the music in the car while sitting in the backseat of our car talking to her dolls

thanking keegan-Michael key's wife for sabotaging his career so they wouldn't bring back the horrible key and peele stuffed animals in toy story 5

incidentally. i published this month's faea gaming today. what a coincidence, huh. this entry is lot more aimless, in part due to circumstances i touch on in the piece, but there's a lot of meaningful stuff here nonetheless, i think. hope you enjoy reading. faearie.neocities.org/posts/journa...

never a better time for me to get out of research academia. I have spent as much time as possible avoiding machine learning topics (and ofc LLMs, which I have zero technical exposure to) and it's close to impossible to get decent papers out that aren't LLM or "AI" related anymore

New blog post time! This week's game is Black Hole Assault, the sequel to the much maligned Heavy Nova. This game's faster, more polished, and is purely a fighter, but all the tweaks and choices come at the cost of Heavy Nova's quirks that I enjoyed. You still can't block, either! #blog #gaming

it's a shame that kururin paradise has never made it to western virtual console or nso, because it outstrips its predecessor in almost every way: rotation speed control, tighter level design, and gorgeous graphics. if you love kururin 1, try out its sequel asap! link to my review below!

was shocked how quickly they added this! super cool (esp for a lot of y'all who I know also are running blogs) to have this as a centralized portal now for a lot of these blogs www.warppoint.games/blog/birthby...

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

wokely doing "VNs aren't video games" by thinking about the silver case with the respect I would give when reading a novel