In 2003 I learned how to read the Daedric alphabet from The Elder Scrolls by having this map, which came packaged with Morrowind, laid out on my bedroom floor and decoding which letter matched to each on the placenames dotted around the island. I would not have done so with a link to a pdf.

Would he be willing to spend a few months standing outside the prison he's been ejected from against his will?

I think he's actively trying to be the Most Unlikeable Guy

Every day I think about how people who don’t make games utterly hijacked the videogame industry and then told everyone who makes games that the videogame industry no longer needs them. For all my rumination, I still can’t quite convey the scale and parasitic vileness of the medium’s appropriation.

Big kudos to @gavreilly.com for going for the Aurora Borealis Simpsons reference🤣 rather than the solid - but far more trodden - path⬇️ when referencing a children’s hospital that may or may not ever be finished. Two roads diverged in a yellow universe, but he went for the funnier one.

The entire internet

No tears shed on my account. That is an onion pun. A punion.

I'll playing Psychonauts 2 and it made me realise that for far, far too long I've combined Tim Schafer and Tim Sweeney to be the same person in my head, and for this I issue a full and wholehearted apology to Tim Schafer.

Just putting this out there: tea pairs very well with popcorn.

John and Brenda Romero have been in Ireland long enough that I think we can regard them as national treasures.

Batman getting dressed in the dark before his evening coffee:

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

Dealing with a person today who is a very good reminder why Intelligence and Wisdom are separate characteristics in D&D. Charisma too.

A bit of #Speirgorm promotion for a #LimerickCity artist u/deanosars who's been making dioramas of local institutions & posting them to the Limerick subreddit Their most recent submission is @cmatbaby.bsky.social's Steamboat Music gig in 2004 All pieces so far here: www.reddit.com/user/deanosa...

I think we need to remember when so much of the web was as good and stupid and charming as this. We must force ourselves to know what they took from us.

I don't know what 19th century pervert bugs got to me this week but they have just ravaged my ankles.

okay i love this. Roost. a messenger app where you pick birbs, and the message takes as long to get to the recipient as the bird would IRL. Get a free bird when you sign up with my code WZ2RF2. I'm garius on there. roostsocial.app/invite/WZ2RF2 here are my current birbs

"See the thing about Air Conditioning is-"

When you demand “featuring” credit on the gospel album or you’ll wish the rest of the family into the cornfields

One of the few plus sides to this #speirgorm weather is that my joints feel pretty nice even just sitting here at the desk all day.

A long-time element to AAA published games consistently seems to be the businesses telling the studios "no matter how successful your game is, it should be moreso". Very sad to see Destiny go out like this.

So where's that Petrova Line we were promised?

I have a friend working for Accenture who earliesr this year received an email from management saying that AI usage was being rolled into performance metrics, and leadership promotions would not be considered for those who did not hit a *minimum* level of AI use per week.

A friend of mine, who had recently left university in the UK and was very much still From London at the time, described a local museum in our town as "lacking consequence".

This is a very, very bad precedent for console gaming

Great way of controlling the second hand market. It was so easy to get GTA 5 cheap after launch because everyone bought it but didn't necessarily like it and traded it in etc.

Not surprising, they were overshadowed in their niche by the multiple parties who cropped up even further to their right

I mean, I dunno, maybe it's a good time to call it

FUCK

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Oh my God it's happening

At least one person in the UK today:

i have a controversial take and i refuse to share it with the Internet. if you fuckers knew what i was thinking about right now you'd cancel my ass so hard. the discourse alone would last for weeks. but you can't. I beat the system.

Two in one week. The kids need to be learning to read gooder.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

I decided to check my profile on clearsky.app to see who's blocked me lately, because that's such a healthy thing to do on a Friday night, and this lady was the most recent. It does seem like she has more going on though, so I'll not feel too bad, I guess?

Game audio engineers are underappreciated. One thing I look forward to every Tennocon (Digital Extreme's annual convention for Warframe) is the audio panel, it never disappoints.

Teamaking is just gentrified potioncraft.

Expect the Irish government to independently come up with the same idea within the next few weeks.

Finally settled on a watchface. Nice and simple.

Someone posted a pic of a new design of bus stop on the local subreddit & there was discussion on the hostile architecture of the seat. One guy is arguing in favour of it, asking "Would you prefer there was no seat or shelter there & everyone has to stand in the pissing rain?" Where to even start?

This not surprising, it's a topic that is very easy to get a positive answer from depending on how it's asked. Many people will not have thoughts on what's actually required to implement a ban like this beyond "yeah just don't let them use it, it must be so bad for kids' mental health"

how does this keep happening

No matter what you try and teach a Hollywood executive, it will always come away with the most facile and least useful interpretation mortally possible. It’s embarrassing. There are literal children who could have a more nuanced take than “film give money when Internet give spooky.”

Hey Bluesky, could you not sometimes refresh the app when when I tab back here from another app? Especially when it means a very long multipart post gets completely wiped? Have you programmed this behaviou more likely to happen the more difficult the post is to recreate? Because it seems so.

You should really read this thread.