I am setting a trend of allocating money for endometriosis research.

Saw my first Cybertruck in the wild yesterday, as the missus and I went to get ribs from RIBFEST. Didn't process it at first. From the back, I thought it was a kitchen appliance, like a stainless steel fridge made cheaply. Then I worked it out a moment later.

This weekend is Ribfest, where rib-smokers across the continent fight for a trophy. And next weekend is Shawarma fest. This city is a major epicenter of Things Shawarma and they will fight for our pleasure. I am gonna explode so hard but it will be worth it.

I love the hell out of this thing; tunes I didn't know I'd like until I did, a visual style that's people drawing stuff with actual human limbs. And they sometimes take me seriously too. When I grow up I want to voice a character for them.

Some people play car games to drive cars. I may try that some time.

Just pleased as punch all my Forza Horizon 5 designs are still around. Now time to butch up Forza Horizon 6, starting with this Équipe PEET Team GR86, with bremboop sponsorship.

If you like a twin stick shooter this is the business.

It's been entertaining beta-testing something while talking to the developers, except for the part where I realized mid-test (and mid-chat) that I promissed some output to a buddy doing his own project and forgetting to do so. Sorry Tursi! Public grovellings.

If you've been, you've been.

Missus G and sometimes Squint have been doing some Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries to get revved up for a new campaign dropping early next week. And I was trying to explain some of the enormously arcane tidbits the computer game obfuscates (engine rating vs. mech weight).

So, uhh, sure, I could look, but I never did buy a sub to that good search engine and you know the rest are rubbish these days. FELLOW HUNAMS OF BISKY! What is a good email provider that isn't gmail? If you say "host it yourself", may I borrow your hammer to keep the spams from killing my pipes?

A thought that arose during a conversation that I kept to myself, and now share with you, and it's trite AF. ET the Extra Terrestrial, but voiced by Merv the Cat.

Yesterday I went on about this game, ADRIFT. And I am today as well. It's been out since December, it has like five reviews. What the hell, this this is (despite a few warts) such a gem. Well, a gem, inasmuch as it's coded for me. Made me think of making an "underappreciated gems" section.

It's such a trivial thing but I was agonizing over what to set as my 300th Steam review, as I wanted it to be somewhat impactful. And then I found a game that takes the very core of rallying, strips out the competitive aspect, and builds a structure around the rest. It's weird but it totally works.

There's a certain musical contest, which I won't name. There's a lot I'll skip with a timely "if you know, you know." I found it enormously watchable, and I am wildly out of what the stereotypical target demographic. Still, I made a yearly ritual of it with pals. I have a solution for this year.

I have not shaved my face for at least a month. One of the horror stories to get Canadians fired up about Afghanistan was that, apparently, Taliban members would measure a man's beard by grabbing it in a fist and seeing if it came out the other end. Beatings if not. But! Likely propaganda.

I just saw the sloppiest AI-slop game I've ever seen in all time. Didn't even have animations. I've never seen somebody so proud of something that took so little effort. (I even saved the steam link of it so I can rickroll somebody later.)

I'm just gonna add quietly the missus really liked driving a Marauder while flanked by a pair of Locusts. And I may have made little chick peeping noises while racing all around her like a child on way too much sugar.

This isn't the only dad joke I did, but I liked this one enough to enshrine it. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner/cl...

It is hilarious to me that I need to reboot my alarm clock every now and again to overcome software woes. (I purchased it. Lord, it is not my code. I'd never let myself hear the end of it.)

I've had a teenaged thought process of late where, unbidden, I remembered Descartes' "cogito ergo sum". I think therefore I am.

As a child, I thought, "Hey, the concept of Purgatory doesn't sound so bad, I can just think for ages without distractions!" I'm presently away from actual social contact (other than giving my wife much space). I'm kind of going bonkers. Child me would be disappointed. I'VE BECOME SOCIAL.

You know, it's hard for a man to find suitably crunchy and new music. I might be an old punk, but it doesn't mean I listen to old punk, you know? (Suggestions are welcome though!) I did find a radio station that's close. And I was like, "noooo, play at 128kbit, as a nod to older rips I made."

Did the Steam survey just to get at the stats. This was fascinating to me: All the Windows gains came at the expense of MacOS (-0.3%) and Linux (-0.8%). But I was just really focussed on Windows 10 remaining at 25%.

I'm not keen on nostalgia, maaan, but this song hit hard when it came out and holy shit is it relevant now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzlZ... (TW: NY Hardcore Punk.)

NetHack. Remember NetHack? Well. NetHack 5.0 just dropped. Maaaan, I haven't touched it since like 3.1.

Here's to a term that's essentially done, save for a little bureaucracy and surely a dozen grade appeals. I can taste the sunshine and a summer of G&T picnics.

I'm having a terrible time getting my end-of-term work done in a timely manner, so I'm skipping today's reading session. I'll try to find some way to make it back up later.

I'm having a Frankie Boyle moment on Steam, where people run in to my reviews whilst flinging a heckle, getting dunked-on and then running off for somebody else to step in. Are they... enjoying this? I'm okay with that, but I'm feeling like I should start getting paid.

I forgot to mention: I did up those illuminated profiles for the sake of doing some cooperative streaming. You'll see my end of it in... 25 minutes from this post. And, goshdarnit, one day I'll get a less-disturbing Twitch avatar. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

I've been asked to guest-star in a few streams and they wanted me to do this fugitech avatar thing. Well, I'm no artist. But I am a bumbler with prefabs and sliding things around. There's ample room for improvement (like thumbs over the oar shaft, etc.) Good enough for government work!

So I stumbled on this thing and I have to give it a stream. (7 PM EST) Mostly because I can make my own documents! There's also a game but really, I'm anxious to try and render scifi concepts or a page or two of course notes as illuminated documents. store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...

Jesus murphy, I have 1.9 gigs of assignment to download now. (THough I'll bet one gig of that is several 4k webp animations.)

Bsky, what is the most underhanded thing you saw today? For me, it was this packet of naan I bought. Helpfully annotated. (secrets contained in alt text.)

I was quick to get hold of 1000xResist (a story in game form), and these guys are on my shortlist.

I saw this thing today. Have you seen the picture? Noted the googly eyes? Yes? Good. Now you're the one carrying the curse.

Do you know how hard it is to find an alarm clock? Let alone an alarm clock that plays music and isn't buggy? Not kidding, I have a musical alarm clock but it's so buggy it would be funny if it wasn't risking my career.

10/10, no notes.

Monitor knowers. Suppose you've pranged your monitor hard enough it's got a vertical stripe. Is there some kind of monitor recycling or is the whole thing trash? Asking for a me who pranged his monitor with his cellphone. Phone still works at least.

Hello my Canadians, how do you feel about headlight glare? Here is a survey. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Bit more on that Attie business: Maybe writing is not your jam, 300 characters is just too hard. But using AI for a 300-character post is just giving up. For fuck's sake, when I was your age, I had to write the 300 characters myself in the snow. Uphill. BOTH WAYS. Seriously. Kids these days.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

It's "Eliza Getting On" now because there's apparently like five books of her enduring her husband, and we just started book three. Book three! Basically now. Pop in, let me read you the testament of her patience, and also some of the audience drolleries. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

For the first time in months, I found value in LinkedIn. (And it's gonna irritate a buddy or two of mine.)

A scifi "Chants of Sennaar"? I mean, turning language into a game is a rich indulgence, and I am very here for it.

So I'm conflicted. I mean I want to share the joy/outrage (in equal measure) when the real of who "master" was in Clash (colon, subtitle), but it's also spoilerish, but then who else has played the Zeno Clash series and who would I be spoilering it for?

How about me reading some more Eliza? The woman who endures her husband who was born a century too soon to feature on Intellecutal Jackass the show (which I just made up now). In 13-ish minutes from this post. www.twitch.tv/fdejeuner

With trepidation I fired up another Ace Team title, "Clash: Artifacts of Chaos." I got a game that looked like it was drawn with coloured pencils, getting "sketchier" as a function of distance. It was like they told Randy P: "My good man, hold my brandy." So nice. The missus was agog.

This breaks my heart a little to write, but I couldn't do ten minutes of The Eternal Cylinder, an Ace Team game (and I adore Ace Team otherwise), because of all the mouth noises in the narration. I mean saliva snaps and irregular breathing. Brrr. Clean vocals are laborious but super-important.