Fired up the Learn to Kaizo SMB hack, have determined that shelljumps disgust me. Something about having to put yourself at the apex of your jump and at the right distance from the wall (when moving) is just not clicking, so Test 2 is walling me.

Beowulf recruiting new allies #FFT

Big Fish With Big Naturals

I started up my saturn hardware, saw that the battery i had replaced was unable to keep the system time/memory functional, and was instantly off of everything. I'm just.. so tired of everything being hard. So tired of having no way to actually feel relaxed or refreshed.

Alright, done with Pokemon Z-A. Yomi: Undernauts isn't clicking, I think it's just too many unknowns for me right now. Nothing's clicking, really. Nnh.

that record of lodoss war metroidvania is good as hell btw. i love springing it on people who were all the way in on anime in the era of suncoast video VHS tapes for 30 a pop minimum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5IU...

The boundaries aren't as firm as you think. The walls aren't as high. The concepts aren't as rigid. Connect things that weren't connected before. Mix things, blend things, create things. Be open to the non-binary in every part of your life. Queer everything.

my first reaction to '2016 posting' was just... incredible anger. who the fuck would have given a fuck about a picture. and wotc lit coverage records from the era on fire. god knows albequerque didn't get video coverage since it was opposite another GP but I also visited NZ that year. so maybe

*looks up the endings to Outer Worlds 2* Yeah, that's kinda not fun. So in a post Baldur's Gate 3 world, Outer Worlds 2 comes off poorly because a lot of the things you might want characters to do, thematically, are hard Speech skill gates. The best ending is locked behind a Speech 20 skill gate.

My mood this evening has been very much I want to be done with things. I wrapped up my Outer Worlds 2 playthrough because I had successfuly demonstrated a loop. I'm real close to falling off Z-A before reacing the end of the post-credits content. I'm kinda done with Guild Wars 2.

Republicans took on the name of the moral majority, the silent majority, the Real American majority, all as lies which the media kept buying, and then got high on their own supply Modern Republicanism is full of people who believe the lies Republicans made up to make them sound and feel popular

My TV went through a weird journey in the past couple weeks, where the bottom 20% was a complete mess of stutter and lines that seemed like it got worse over the time of a day, and now it's... not. I have no idea what happened. maybe it caught me searching for/planning to acquire a 'dumb TV'

Google's initial ability to provide a solve to adjacency without manual curation in the internet era was truly an enormous societal change. Pre-internet, we had yellow pages (curation), libraries (curation), location (adjacency), word of mouth (adjacency), and advertisement (adjacency), etc.

Still having a lot of trouble with being overwhelmed and functionality with the new meds. Being overwhelmed isn't new, but it wasn't even close to my primary failure mode before. My tools for being overwhelmed are so much worse than my tools for depression, but depression was on average worse. Mmm.

In my new med world, my ability to be... pleased and taken in by games, and express what is interesting about them, is different. It's not like I couldn't do it before, but it feels more innate than possible, now. Like I can't look at a game without slicing up what's neat about it.

YT link to the film Dave is referencing in his short yet 🎯 video: youtu.be/0zPmQKoHfV4?...

Just rolled first credits on Pokemon Legends Z-A, and I think they did really well here. They make the most of the 'inside of one city the whole time' idea in several ways. Moving to cooldowns with action combat, instead of Arceus's action overworld/bosses w/turn based, is a working formula.

I beat Final Fantasy XIII after so many years poking at it! My final thoughts on the game are about the Crystarium. I use this moment as an opportunity to look forward in the children of lightning project. noescapevg.com/part-1-9-the...

Back in 2022 I caught some COVID and spent a very weird week recovering and playing some backlogged games. The highlight of that week was 'Get In The Car, Loser!' At that time in my life I didn't know it, but I needed that story. At this time in my life, I think we all need a little more Grace.

So I pushed through the Outer Worlds 2 earlygame a bit, and things are humming along reasonably well. While it continues to have some fairly annoying quaternary option dialogues, a lot of ways to lean into various aspects of the mechanics pay off, and you can do some truly amazing stuff.

A Neurodivergent Dilemma: You have two options when you have a thought/opinion. 1) Say the thought without explaining how you got there. 2) Explain how you arrived at a conclusion. If you do the 1st, others say they can't follow your leaps. If you do the 2nd, others say you're condescending.

Just heard "The tears were literally the wettest he ever made you. So why are we missing him?" I know a lot of girlies felt that in their chest. 😭

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Alright, it's about that time! My jankuary.com timeslot starts here at twitch.tv/mechalink , I'll be playing Home Alone for the Gameboy in a few, we'll see how that goes, maybe I'll have to do something else for the last half hour.

For kusoge followers, I am 5 hours out from my Jankuary slot, which is a DIFFERENT game that Kusogrande introduced me to than The Running Man: Home Alone (Game Boy). It's kinda a port of the SNES version, but controls better! If you're going to be up at midnight eastern, be sure to come over!

Some fun facts: only half of US citizens have passports. Almost 10% either don’t have, or can’t access, their birth certificates. We don’t carry our passports to prove ID or age; most people carry driver’s licenses for that. In several states you don’t need to prove legal residency to get those.

Whhy am I getting anxious. Nothing has changed. Why am I getting anxious.

This hits so many good points about the approach to GenAI that its boosters are taking, and the sales pitch they're making, to universities. The point about how the book's solution to plagarism being 'change your rubric so that ChatGPT output never gets higher than a C' is itself damning!

Announcing ICE Breaker: A charity speedrun event by myself & @rrlat.bsky.social on Jan 30 - Feb 1 to support Minnesotans in defending from ICE. Submit runs: oengus.io/marathon/ice... Volunteer: forms.gle/51HEcBmhUC8X... Run submissions close Sunday. Volunteer apps have a soft deadline of Saturday

One behavior I haven't really enjoyed in my new meds scenario is that I've been trying to avoid things that I think will affect me overmuch, and it's been leading to not doing things I want. I don't like this behavior, but I don't have the tools to manage the downside risks here. It's annoying.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

oh. adhd as, fundamentally, an emotional disregulation thing, and RSD as trauma response. oh.

Final Fantasy 2 (4j) had a bug in it that was so notable that Nintendo Power had a sidebar mentioning it as a curisoty. That bug is how modern speedrunners skip the last 50-60% of the game.

My systems analysis capability is exceptional, with evidence from both hobby and professional spaces. But that's not the first thing that cmae to mind when this came up. Instead, I thought of old trauma around self-deprecation and how it is required as a social signal in places.

Every moment of my life, I am sad and angry that nobody is interested in producing a wearable octular viewscreen without a pile of AI cameras. It would be really nice for me to have a 0 camera HUD, or as a low vis person, to be able to magnify dynamically without pictures or recording.

I feel myself bouncing off of Outer Wilds 2, and I think it's the game standing in the way of letting me engage with its mechanics. If you do not have 2+ of lockpicking, hacking, engineering, and speech at multiple levels, you're stuck with 'lawful good, neutral, chaotic evil' and can't get places.

So due to the 100 hour policy change, twitch isn't going to let GDQ keep historical VODs, and youtube doesn't let you upload chat with their videos. My understanding is that this means that the twitch chat of my GDQ run will disappear within, at minimum, 6 months. I'm unhappy about this.

Alright, fighting game folks: what are your favorite ARTICLE-LENGTH (no books) things people have written about the FGC or fighting game culture, from your perspective?

oh my god, someone pointed out that 6 times 7 is 42 and I feel like the law of fives is with us in this room on the internet today

Watching my #AGDQ2026 run back on twitch (so there was a chat) and... I'm not real familiar with the feeling of 'my heart is full', but I think I got close, thanks to a run at 8 in the morning at a hotel in Pittsburgh.

Home from AGDQ. The way I managed myself at this AGDQ was way better than in 2024, so that's a success. Staying in the hotel was a big win. Was happy with Kusogrande Live. Still considering Rags to Riches. Feel like I could beat Drelbs. Suburban Commando... hrm. Socializing... still not the best.

On the bus to the airport and nodding off slightly. Hope security is fast so I can line up a nap.

7 hours to burn until my flight home from #agdq2026. Huhm. Yeah I got nothing for ideas.

Aw yeah. Werk, Mawlie

aww, now im sad I didn't see the recruitment for the 70 start relay

Fucking lit Discord up in their AI survey. A communications platform which wants to shove user data into the Lying, CSAM, Plagarism, and Suicide Advice machine to replace human interaction is failing in its purpose.

My body is finally calling in the debt I accrued this week. Time for some sleep.

Also, if modern genAI/LLM worked well when exclusively trained on a small corpus, it would have existed 20-40 years ago. This is not an exaggeration: the techniques of the era would have done the job. Since that didn't happen 'exclusively trained on (small amount of data)' is either a lie or bad.