The Odyssey just came out, and already someone wrote the best review of it. 😂

the criminal has arrived, and he has nipples

🌩️ storm season 🌩️

Happy #WorldSnakeDay! Garter snakes are good swimmers

Was watching a short about the importance of game accessibility in the face of people decrying it, and saw this comment and reply. And just...excuse me? I didn't know it was possible to victim-blame people looking for accessibility options in games, but this is absolutely reprehensible.

I'm funny

Ugh...am I going to have to start boycotting Sony too? I'll be honest, I'm struggling with what that would even mean atm. Not covering Sony-published games? Not covering anything PlayStation exclusive? Not covering anything I played on PS5, period? Frick...this one's exhausting, I've gotta say. :(

If you were ever curious about what Fork Fight's music sounds like this music video is extremely close to how I imagine it.

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Dude who radically changed important details about Animal Farm and justified it by saying Orwell would have liked it is very insistence that casting black people to play Hobbits would just be weird and not faithful to the Shire.

shark week #art #sharks

Thinking I need to make a personal rule that if someone comes to my door selling something or collecting donations, I need to just say, "Thanks, I'll note it down and look into it later." Otherwise I get flustered and anxious and end up paying for things and regretting it immediately after. 😓

every pundit falling over themselves and spilling coffee on themselves today furiously trying to be the first to type 'pete hegseth gender affirming care' then sitting back and achieving climax over how intellgient they are

Star showers and rain ghosts Watercolour on arches paper #art

If AI is fine for brainstorming, you're not anti-AI. If it's fine for storyboarding, you're not anti-AI. If it's fine for coding, you're not anti-AI. If it's fine for summaries, you're not anti-AI. If you ever say, "It's okay for *this*," you've thrown humans under the bus and you're NOT. ANTI. AI.

I'm on-call at work, so logically I should go to bed at a reasonable hour in case I get paged in the middle of the night. ...instead my brain goes, "We should stay up super late playing Mario Wonder so you don't get woken up if you get paged! This is good and smart and surely won't backfire. 🙂‍↕️"

eee if you were curious about the references for these two!! thank you for commissioning me!!

It's never "we proudly use Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT" in the AI disclosure because the purpose of generative AI is to lie to your audience, cheat workers from their money, and deceive higher ups into thinking they don't need those fussy workers anymore

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Kobold Shopping trip! 🦎.𖥔 ݁ ˖ִ ࣪₊ ⊹˚

Well, I sort of wrote about this. As much as possible, I don't name specific games; any bad art being produced by companies on my blacklist is a symptom of the rot, not the cause. Partly an excuse to rant, but also lays out (and invites discussion on) my future plans. olivigarden.ca/2026/07/10/w...

I'm 15-ish hours into Mario Wonder, and I already have enough Thoughts™ about it that I may write two separate articles in addition to my review. Who knew the latest flagship entry in the biggest 2D platforming franchise could be so thought-provoking? 😅

I know there's countless initiatives to spend money on, but if you value a quality wank, definitely consider supporting the people behind your favourite porn. It's depressing just how much the search results (especially for more niche kink material) are absolutely flooded with AI slop these days. 😞

You can tell how well I'm coping with the heat based on how I react to spilling water on myself: Well: "Aw beans, now I've got wet spots on my shirt..." Not well: *keeps deliberately drinking way too fast so half of it sloshes out of the glass and down my chest to provide a modicum of cooling*

As someone who this did kinda happen to (I'm 2 metres tall 😅), I sure do wish this was more commonplace!

“I don’t celebrate death” okay well skill issue

seeing a lot of Palworld chat since it's entering 1.0, for people that care and don't know, the devs also have a game on steam centered around generating AI images store.steampowered.com/app/2154230/...

Screw the metaverse and quit trying to make it happen, but also: they've got Matt Booty as CCO and now Matt Ball as chief strategist. Is there a Matt Dick they can hire as CTO or something to complete the trifecta?

If a company requires its employees to periodically be on-call 24/7 in case of emergencies, it should be forced to provide smartwatches to them, or at minimum to anyone femme-presenting.

round and profound 🦭 #art #seals

The sequel to birb… bingle.

ADHD is so damn frustrating. I keep struggling to sit down and play more "involved" story-driven games, but I can mindlessly do Picross puzzles on my Switch whenever. Yet now I'm playing a game all about bite-sized levels with great variety, and I play 1 or 2 and think, "That's good for now." 😓

Well, I sort of wrote about this. As much as possible, I don't name specific games; any bad art being produced by companies on my blacklist is a symptom of the rot, not the cause. Partly an excuse to rant, but also lays out (and invites discussion on) my future plans. olivigarden.ca/2026/07/10/w...

Hey chat, is this anything?

when it's boiling hot but the kitty wants to cuddle

*stays up past midnight on a work night one time* am i dying, is this what dying feels like

Usually when I'm making ungodly noises into a pillow, it's either depression or sex-related. Super Mario Bros. Wonder has the auspicious honour of making me do it out of a mixture of both exuberance and exhaustion. 😅

Trying to decide if it's poor form to be largely excited about my nephews getting older because it'll mean I can finally break out some of my high player count party games at family gatherings. 😅

is it good that every single games studio i still own is having all its staff leak comments like "we cant possibly make games under these conditions" in ten thousand articles

It's been a while since I've played a 2D Mario game, but is it just me, or did they make walljumps require more precision in Mario Wonder? I feel like I keep faking myself out by trying to walljump when it turns out my character hasn't even contacted the wall yet, thus missing the timing and dying.

I'm getting really worried: looking through my notes app, I've got three separate documents where I've brainstormed different game ideas (two board, one video), and I'm afraid it may be only a matter of time before my ADHD compels me to try making one of them more than just an idea. 😅

sorry

Today's very special, because it's not just Millie's birthday; it's her Birthday Birthday! In other words (since this was a silly thing I came up with as a kid, lol): it's the birthday where her age matches her birth date (she was born on 2019-07-07)! Everyone wish her a happy Birthday Birthday! :3🧵

I think the weirdest aspect of the whole “anti-blocking” mentality Twitter has is that a lot of people think “blocking = hate”. I don’t hate the people I block (most anyways). In fact I’m happier never thinking of them again, hence why I prefer to block in the first place.

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

I feel for the family and friends of Benredouane. But the fact that Michel Mizrahi was also killed during the shooting, yet the massive procession being held is specifically to honour the cop's memory? That makes me sick. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pardon my language but "wahhhh i'm a solo dev I HAVE to use AI : (" is such a pussy mindset.

You go with your fare evasion, l’il fella!