This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

My @michiganstateu.bsky.social students' in-store signing is happening RIGHT NOW (Dec 6th, 2025, 11am-1pm). They've put a TON of work into their projects this semester and are ready to show you what they've made! Come on down to @summitcomicsgames.bsky.social in downtown Lansing!

Ope, I was gonna do something, but then did something else

Ahhh, Day Infinity of eating a cold cut sandwich instead of a hot egg sandwich because we are still boycotting Starbucks’ union-busting nonsense

Who wants to be the balance against Jordan Peterson’s malignant manosphere? I’m not nearly famous enough (nor do I ever wanna be) but I’m a practitioner and a writer. Let’s join forces?

The physical need to stop and eat is SO RUDE. Thanks, ADHD.

Dogs and dystopia, what a match! lol Please stop by so I feel less silly pulling so many items for display. We have an absurd amount, check it out at MSU Libraries tomorrow 😃

How do you take a screenshot of ONLY THE ACTIVE WINDOW on Win11 with a single hotkey? Win+Printscreen shoots THE WHOLE DESKTOP which means I have to either work 1-monitor or crop every image manually GameBar and SnippingTool work, but at the expense of a bunch of fiddly steps every single time

How, honestly, should one share personal struggles with colleagues to excuse minor, out-of-character oversights—without bumming them out unfairly? I don't want to make anyone else sad for my loved ones who'd recently passed away, but all that on top of an already overwhelming stack broke me.

Since Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 has some of y'all thinking it completely reinvented turn-based RPGs...Don't forget where we came from! lol Super Mario RPG had active attack/block button timing in 1996. Legend of Dragoon iterated further in 1999. Lots more games have done it since.

Songs that read like a ‘want’ ad… …Other than Short Skirt, Long Jacket… 🤔

Gamers know Killer Network Service is a blight. We've tried everything to get rid of it, but Killer won't be killed; it throttles our Steam downloads for absolutely no reason, eats our system memory, helps nothing. Even fully disabled, it throws up this error every startup. How do I make it STOP???

Sometimes I sit in the car and scroll after work to reset… Other times I remember The Ave is bangin out tunes!

Life hack before it’s too late: A box of pennies costs the exact value of the currency (which is rolled for easy conversion back into bills) and is the perfect size for Magic: The Gathering cards.

Hey, Valve’s new “Frame” VR headset looks pretty slick! Anyone know how much better this hardware is vs early stuff like the Vive with causing motion sickness? youtu.be/b7q2CS8HDHU?...

Library people are the best people. Sorry, for once I will not be taking questions on this!

Can anyone illuminate the quiet war apparently being fought between Google Maps and Apple Maps? iOS doesn’t have a setting for default map app, so…are programmers duking it out on the back end? Links from Google Calendar used to open in Apple Maps, but suddenly now they only open in Google Maps. 🤨

Allllright, Librarians and Library Staff! Help us with 10-15 minutes of answers about ageism in your library experience, and we'll help you avoid 10-15m of whatever task you're dreading right now. Win-win! msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Love teaching someone to find games in the catalog, and then immediately watch them teach others. Warms the cockles of the ol’ dark heart. 🫶

While we’re at it, what’s with Windows 11 now taking a solid 30 seconds to do basic things like CREATE A NEW FOLDER on a high-spec system? The OneDrive-ification of everything??

How does Windows still NOT have a setting to auto connect WiFi UNLESS plugged into Ethernet?

Every time a sucker is scammed, a bank account gets cha-chinged. Deregulating everything couldn’t possibly make this…worse???

Love that point 1-2 years into a laptop’s life when it just…takes a full 5 minutes to start up absolutely minimal apps before it will allow any use whatsoever. Feels just like my aging body!

What the fuck is “userworkspace.xml” and why the fuck does it constantly hang at 100% OneDrive sync, preventing OS restart?

Curious… Couldn’t deal with Tidal as an alt (several-second delay before any track would play, too many tracks entirely missing, etc.), so Apple is the hopeful escape. Really not looking forward to building a listening history from scratch again…😫Apple at least does new music discovery, right?

Home alone? Listen to music on: A. Headphones B. Actual stereo setup

Hey, neat: I’ve developed some armor against common academic exploitation!

Ah, my old friend: the mistake of sitting down after a long day, too tired to get up to make food to recover.

Anyone aware of a fair-cost supplier for a few-thousand retro handheld game cases? Or might 3D printing be cost-effective by now? 🤔

Sorry to blast the misanthropy out here so often in the form of every UX gripe that rolls through this cursed dome. Those of you actually here for it? Real.

What the fuck, in the year of our larp 2025, is this shit? We can't make a visual element perform a hotkey gesture? We have to instruct the user to perform it manually?

If I hadn’t spent 9,000 hours washing dishes in my life, surely by now I could’ve written more music

Some musical new additions to our shelves thanks to the amazing folks over at @intellectbooks.bsky.social 🙏 💙 For all you #Ludomusicology fans out there, be sure to check out this “Studies in Game Sound and Music” series. 🎶 📚 #GameStudies @ludomusicology.bsky.social

Remediation is inherently frustrating. Needs keep stacking up while we close the gap to enable redress. Toss a little ADHD on top, and…wait, what were we working on? 🤷🏻 Better stop cold until a catastrophic problem grabs back our attention!

The horrors persist, but so does garlic naan

Can anyone explain why it takes 3 hours to “initialize” (ie factory data reset) a PS4 console???

Ok what is going ON today??? It’s like the universal RNG went sour out here!

Today, I play a game to dissociate. But I can’t tune this out entirely, and neither should you.

This game was one of my first lessons that personal growth must persist… Been waiting a long time for a full replay!

Sorry I can’t source this image I stumbled across, but it’s been on my mind… At some point, I became a misanthrope, unable to grow, unwilling to make consistent effort, grumbling all manner of excuses for the reality that I’d closed myself off. This is my flag on a hill. We‘re done with that shit.

Ok, I’m 20 years late on this, but Tool’s 10,000 Days album is so, so solid. It’s keeping me hanging on rn. What’s giving YOU life today?

WHY IN THE YEAR OF OUR HOARD 2025 DOES GMAIL STILL HIDE REPLIES TO MY EMAIL AS SPAM?????

Curious that so many exclamations of vexation… Dude. Bro / bruh Man! …are masculine forms of address

I work in a field where INT is everything, but my points are all in WIS

Really gotta look into how I can get work to send me to GDC someday…

At last, I’ve found it: the cure for a terrible, no-good, very bad Monday! But…it’s pretty much just making sure you have a bad preceding Sunday. Sorry to disappoint.

Is there seriously NO way to report a number as spam without blocking it in iOS 18??? These AI scam calls all come from spoofed numbers, so blocking accomplishes absolutely nothing—except maybe ensuring that a later, legitimate call from that number will get blocked when you DON’T want that. 😤

What should I do before I delete my Twitter account, beeskyers?

Alright, what’s the deal with college students having quizzes scheduled totally outside their class meeting times? Is this on the rise lately? Why would students OR profs feel entitled to schedule a quiz in conflict with someone’s previously scheduled work, anyway?

At nearly forty, I finally have…a favorite song? It’s clearly an obsession, but it’s also a comeback, and enduring straight weeks into months. This world will make something of me yet!