This is how I find out that Robert Redford died?? Bloody hell.. We lost a beautiful man. AFAIK, no controversies, no creepy behaviour, no antivaxx, not a racist bastard. (yeah, the bar is low 😔) Just wonderful performances & a smile that would melt you. May the soil be soft for you, Robert. ✌️

These seats in a bus look like a 90s texture, before bump mapping or any of that fancy nonsense. Nothing but simple optical illusions, just like god intended. #textures #texturing #gamedev

One more #gamedev got hit. #ABZU & #ThePathless are both stunning. Not personally familiar (yet!) with #SwordOfTheSea but based on the trailer, it’s just as gorgeous, with beautiful enviros, views & vistas. Know someone looking for anything related to environments? You know what to do.

Made some “fancy” noodles last night with an untranslated guide. Surely Google Translate would have my back, right? Google Translate did not, in fact, have my back. “Stir, stir, add dried water.” “Separation of powdered powder and powdered powder.” Truly words to live by.

Ended up trying Forest Shuffle at a local Con (shoutout to #ropecon) & what a delightful game it is! You get to create a forest! With animals! And plants & berries & moss, etc! Such a feel good game. Engine-building like Wingspan but a bit simpler & more animals. And trees! Can’t forget the trees.

Please tell me it’s not just me but this wear a mask-sign I ran into screams more “warning, cyborg ahead” than anything health related, right? Right? I could be persuaded to see Hannibal Lecter as well, now that I think of it. 🤔

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I saw this & I made one of my quickest & strongest double take in a while. “Friendfarming”? “Friendslop”? Sir, we’ve reached levels of terminally online previously thought to be only theoretically possible. I’m afraid to push further because anything beyond this has never felt the touch of grass.

Midsummer came & went, as it does every year. I hope y’all had a wonderful nightless night, wherever you found yourself. 🙏 On these shores midsummer magic was stamped out a long time ago but on eves like these, it’s easy to see why they came to be. The nightless night is full of whimsy & mystique.

🎉I’ll always celebrate ppl getting their game out there (a Steam-page with a demo counts def counts)! 👏 Doubly so when it’s their first game! 🪐 Triple-y so when it’s a cool concept (4X space game with a great proc. generated world and surprising anomalies, events & planets is pretty slick)!

My local video game store (1 of the 2 still standing) is throwing a midnight launch party for the #switch2 Haven’t seen those in a while. Now wondering -Am I too old for this? -Should I take Friday off? ..would younger me be disappointed that I’m even wondering this instead of just doing it? 🤔

Safe to say that Expedtion 33 has broken through when even my non-gaming, boomer dad reaches out to me to froth about the game. 🤔

We’ve just become the Todd Howard’s of our own lives. This and the Skyblivion and Skywind and Tamriel Rebuilt. The people, not Bethesda, are rereleasing and remastering the Elder Scroll’s games.

This might be a daft question, but what genre is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? I don’t think “turn-based RPG” is really a genre, even if that’s what Wikipedia is calling it with a straight face. Game genres don’t make a lot of sense and I reckon #JRPG is outdated. idk 🤷‍♀️ #clairobscur #expedition33

More Remedyverse? More Federal Bureau of Control? Yea please!

Don’t wanna flex but I met this dapper lil’ gent today. Eino is his name & today is his 9th birthday! Look at his lil’ booties! He has them bc his paws are a bit sensitive. 🥹 He was so hyper it was real hard to get a good shot but I think it only adds to the pic, showing the true nature of Eino.

@remapradio.bsky.social Yo, this might be a whack question but how does the question bucket work these days? Is it still to send an email with the topic of “QUESTION” and then praying for any & all gods that it gets picked?

Bada bastu! Let’s goooo 🇸🇪! Never been more proud of Sweden than tonight: Choosing a Finnish band to rep Sweden in #Eurovision. ✌️ The wound Sweden inflicted in the 2023 Eurovision may finally start healing. <3 Fun fact: In the past 25 years there’s been only 2 acts in Swedish, both by Finns. :D

I’m watching Breaking Bad for the first time (yea yea yea) & I gotta say, great storytelling, compelling characters & delightful cinematography. Enjoying season 3. BUT! I always thought people exaggerated the Mexico-filter but goddamn..! Someone turned the colour correction to straight up lemon. 🍋

White strawberries? Has science gone too far? 🤔 That look like -they’ve had all the juice sucked out of them? -someone thought “you know what, strawberries _are_ too spicy” & then made an affront to nature. Made me question this whole “let’s form a civilisation, what’s the worst that can happen?”

Following @pantmonger.bsky.social & @cerberusxt.bsky.social got me into figure painting again. Been 20+ years since I’ve painted but it was so fun! Need better glasses tho. :D Tried painting highlights from a light source for the first time & while it isn’t great (but decent-ish!) I learned heaps.

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. Michael Jackson’s Dangerous as a preused cassette. Good times. The first brand new album with my own money was Offspring’s Americana. I sang along a *lot*. My parents must’ve loved it. Yea, I (thought I) was a pretty fly for a white guy.

Need some opinions. Specifically game devs and game designers but all opinions are welcome. ✌️ We had a looooong discussion at work about jigsaw puzzles. 1️⃣ Are they board games? 2️⃣ Are they games at all? We’re kinda at a standstill. Need some outside opinions to bring peace to our slack. 🙏

Backed this bad boy earlier today & now it’s on my feed bc of ppl here sharing it? Coincidence? I think not! It’s the Kickstarter illumati! Ooor it’s likeminded ppl interested in similar things? Who’s really to say? 🤷‍♀️ A nice, easy way to find new, not just AAA, games to play? Yes pleeease. 🙏

Didn't realise I can play Jacob Geller in Saros. A spiritual successor to Returnal was all I needed to hear. I was already in, baby. Seeing the face of Geller? More than hyped! Housemarque, are you making this game just for me? Because I'm here for it. 🙏🏼 @jacobgeller.com @silliet.bsky.social

Man, I’m always proper pumped when people get their games out! Congrats! 🥳 It’s time to enjoy the fruit of your hard work. Well, that and the bug fixes & fixes & all that fun stuff but that comes next week. Now it’s time to celebrate! 🍾

Yo, why did nobody tell me that #DragonAge dwarves have face tattoos that are essentially just aggressive contouring? Thanks to this, I accidentally created a dwarven gigachad. Wife adores the Dragon Age games so I promised her to play them all & Chaddius here is my guide through Origins.

“Further, their standing with fans has also been shaken by their adoption of DEI-based corporate philosophies, as many players have found themselves fed up with any such political or social agendas coming anywhere near their video games.” This is CDPRs problem according to the writer? Cont. ->

This looks proper fun like! Twisted Metal meets Carmageddon meets Mad Max. Grand work man.

As someone who has dealt a fair amount of snow & ice, I appreciate when games do them well & #indianajones did this rather nicely. Not perfect but a LOT better than many games. Especially the ice was nice, full of small details that show the devs having dealt with ice in their life.

Paid the last instalment of my student debt today. Wasn’t an insane sum but goddamn if it don’t feel good to be (student) debt free. … Now we get to focus on just my wives student debt. 🥲 And mortgage… Damn it, it never ends, does it?

I thought the trending-thingie could be a nice little addition to Bsky but goddamn if it ain’t a downer most of the time. I understand it only mirrors what is happening in the world but my Bsky experience before it was far more positive.

🚨 STOP THE PRESS! 🚨 You get Adventure Points (exp) if you take photos of cats in Indiana Jones, y’all! Don’t be like me & miss opportunities! 😭 Go take aaaall the photos! 📸 #indianajones

Some bloody big moves by the state of NY. Nice. Hats off and keep ‘em coming! 💪

HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN A BABY MOOMIN BEFORE!? I live in the land of Moomin, damn it! This is borderline illegally adorable. If you don’t know Moomin, this is your chance to get lost in a whimsical world. The animated one is Finland’s Ghibli in many ways, the vibes, the world, the characters.

When moving, you find all sorts of all stuff you've not thought of in years. I've such fond memories of these games. ⚔️🛡️ HoMM 2 & 3: I'd probably be halfway fluent in a language if I spent as much time learning one as I spent with these. 🪖 Commandos: It felt like a whole new genre! ->

- Dungeon keeper - Warcraft - Black & White (it was a 3D hand but still) Aaand a bunch of 90s games of which names I don't remember. I can't even remember the last time my cursor did become a gauntlet/severed hand/skeletal hand. How far we've strayed. 😔

Got it!🙏 The art in Returnal is absolutely fantastic. Was nice to see & read more about the bosses. Shame the descriptions of the weapons weren't in the book bc those were my favourite; the more you learn, the worse it gets. 2021 GOTY, easily. Now, how about that signature @silliet.bsky.social ?

Can't say I've ever been a swiftie but I'll happily stan a someone who actually, properly compensates their crew. Reminds me a lot of Keanu Reeves and his personal donations to the film crew. gg Taylor, gg

Joining my pipe people! Pipe time is a good time, I say (literally never said that before now, but hey, who's counting). The ritual of loading the pipe, slowly smoking it, letting it warm your hand & then cleaning it takes roughly 30-45 min but that's all part of the charm. Pipe it up, folks!

Enshittification is a word that, in many ways, describes 2024 so very well. And in general, it fits the past few years of services changing for the worse. Macquarie knows what’s up and speaks for all of us. 🙏

Post you from a different era (high school, circa 2003)

Not my expertise but always happy to learn more! Real interesting thread with solid pointers. Maybe something you might be interested in/have something to add, @silliet.bsky.social ?

Look at this absolutely adorable black chook I ran into!

I do talk a lot by myself but having no other option than taking by yourself for a creature as social as a dolphin is really rather heartbreaking. 😔

This is a solid read and bloody hilarious to boot. Summer interns, truly the bane AND the saviour of our modern lives. How many messes have they created? Too many to count. How many situations have they solved? Another uncountable number. Godspeed summer interns and their patron Saint Andrew. 🙏

Control II being an ARPG is maybe the best, yet most confusing news I’ve heard in a while. :0 I just hope they either remake the “crafting” entirely or drop because the progression was otherwise fine, it’s just the damn crafting that was laboursome and annoying. Let’s gooo Jesse!

I was positively surprised by how green Athens was but specifically how many people just had an absolutely silly amount of plants in their balconies. I love it & I’m mad jelly.

Just how old does this random ad I got think that people born before 1980 are? I knew we’re getting older but goddamn, didn’t realise 40 yo ppl are hitting their Miss Marple phase.

Absolutely deserved. Your narratives and characters have been some of the best I’ve enjoyed. Thank you for all the great moments in games. 🙏🏼 Shine on, you crazy diamond!💎 ✨