I've been using LibreOffice for about ten years now for regular freelance work. I haven't encountered any word processing or spreadsheet situations where Microsoft Office, sorry, Microsoft 365 Pilot App, was necessary. Don't give these clowns your money

whoops haha Microsoft's rebranding of Office into Copilot App confused me so badly that instead of using it or giving them money I accidentally donated $10 to @libreoffice.bsky.social

every time a company tries to change their extremely well known and recognizable brand I think of a time working in retail where we were showing an old man the rebranded version of the product he was asking us for and he insisted "I know what I buy and that isn't it!"

so Kirby & the Amazing Mirror is notable for being a 2D open world Metroidvania-ish kinda game where you could have up to 4 players independently exploring at the same time. Are there any other games that are like this?

Daily Gup #4 - New Year!

I've given up hope that we'll ever see Donald Trump in prison. Whether it's this year or 10 years from now, he's not leaving the White House unless it's in a coffin. But maybe, just *maybe*, we'll survive long enough to see JD Vance go to prison.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

#RandomGameSaturday I was blessed with randomly finding Valis III in my parents' basement this weekend, a game I don't remember ever seeing or playing as a child. It's a cute game but unfortunately far too frustrating for me to casually recommend it, particularly the platforming.

Booting up in a cloud of SEGA; good morning, y'all. 💜

by the way, no matter what anyone says, the correct response to this morning's news of US military intervention in Venezuela is to be horrified and outraged. Even though this kind of thing is "normal" for the US, it doesn't matter. You are correct to feel the way that you do.

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

up early today for work and the way the immediate sense of dread hit as soon as I opened this app...

Affirmations for playing games in 2026: It's OK to play on Easy. It's OK to stop playing a game if it's too difficult or frustrating. It's OK to skip ahead past a game you "need" to play first if you really just want to play the sequel. It's OK to look up the ending on Youtube.

this guy is (ALLEGEDLY) directly responsible for the 3DO CD-R debacle btw

bleak and horrifying read but my takeaway is that if you use any of these delivery apps, you NEED to be tipping in cash as well. Even if it's just a few dollars, all of that goes directly to the driver and it remains entirely outside of the company's control.

True to LRG form, he silently delayed his release without proper notice.

In spite of all the everything else, 2025 was a pretty great year for my YouTube channel. I doubled my subscriber count, got over 100,000 views, and most importantly, am very proud of the videos I made. I started off in January looking at some of Saitek's truly bizarre gamepad hardware:

youtube theory videos used to be called stuff like "Is John actually DEAD in Silverorb 2???" and "All the Secrets of Red Night 3 REVEALED" now they're just called stuff like "Blimbob: the GLORBO Theory" with a picture of a sinister looking guy on the thumbnail and no other information

it’s stupid when gamers say gaming is expensive, yet ignore ROM hacks. It’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a fan translation of Linkle Liver Story on the ground outside

Baroque (Sting - PSX - 1999) obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/8025689...

When running certain older games on my PC, I've found that 720p is a great happy medium between having a better resolution than you would have gotten back in the day, but not so much as for it to be TOO clean. For example, here's Sonic Adventure DX (with Dreamcast Conversion and other mods):

Preparing for an adventure, Japanese D&D Rules Cyclopedia, style! The three-volume bunkobon localization and release in 1994 of the Cyclopedia was a turning point for D&D in Japan, shedding the western-style form factor and artwork of previous releases.

a bunch of "self defense experts" got mad at me when I said that owning a gun makes you less safe

Sonic 1 "Coming Soon" artwork from Naoto Ohshima redrawn as a Sonic 1 Sprite (from 2022)

Reading my old twitter archive and finding the exact moment I got into collecting retro games:

I've been seeing a huge increase in random anime girls from japanese accounts reskeeted onto my timeline nature is healing

Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be

The puppet has had enough

reading this thread and I'm realizing that someone needs to explain "ripping CDs" to me. what do you mean the linux software for "ripping CDs" is bad? I open the CD in the file browser and I copy+paste. what are yall doing???

I'm tempted to do the "suggest me 12 games to play in 2026" thing but I have way too many game I already own to play. Maybe I should take a picture of a bunch of games I have and let people suggest which ones I ought to focus on?

Play Sega Saturn!

Almost done with Metroid Prime 4! This game certainly does a lot of things different, and I can understand why people wouldn't enjoy it as much, but I've had so much fun with it, and I hope the next game takes a lot of the constructive criticism to heart! #metroid #samusaran #samus #metroidprime4

I've found this site to get more engagement reliably for my art that doesn't have "mass appeal". My followers actually SEE my posts here unlike on the bird site. That site is still easier to get bigger numbers on, but big number means NOTHING compared to having your followers actually seeing you.

man i really feel like i sat on my hands all year doing fuck all but i did do two big fanTL/romhack projects... i guess... one of which was a bucket list item ive wanted to do since like 2018 or something..... whatever. doesn't count. i have to get stronger next year

In 2024, I made the decision to focus on my BlueSky account over my Twitter account, and eventually deleted my Twitter early this year. I had at most ~275 followers on Twitter, which I'd been using since 2018. Here I already have double that amount in less time.

Did you know that on Linux it's actually safe for you to run without ever needing Antivirus software? From Ubuntu documentation:

Six of them. #RandomGameSaturday

Finally got batteries for this thing, it works! It's pretty advanced for an LCD game, there's a whole dungeon with items that spawn in random locations. I found a laser sword, killed a monster with it and then wandered around until I ran out of oxygen.

I went through and finally toggled everything to either "Warn" or "Off" because the amount of stuff I've seen that has been incorrectly or maliciously labelled has been far more than the amount of stuff I've seen correctly labelled.

That moment when you just got Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble - Legendary Banana Edition (Banana Suit Included) but your Switch isn't charged so you have to wait for it to get enough power for you to be able to play Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble - Legendary Banana Edition (Banana Suit Included)

Love this guy being like yup I’m impaled on the God Core because you sinned so bad it ruined the universe. Now go shoot our insane Divine Creator with this gun.

Got a magic button here for any post-holiday haze you may be experiencing! Every prod takes you to a new and easily scrolled article, which could be on anything from Panzer Dragoon Zwei's scoring system to one of this year's new indie releases: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com?random

My advice for having a nice bluesky experience: - follow *and boost* anybody who posts weird/interesting stuff. If your paths diverge you can mute them - interact with people in good faith and you'll often be met with the same (and gain followers) - post the kinds of things you want to see more of!