2 AM purchase: found out that my favorite pirate metal band is playing in Anaheim this weekend So I guess I get to listen to some fukkin' PIRATE METAL LIVE this Sunday youtu.be/c967usVxYq0

Hades (2020) ★★★★ I may be a bit contentious with this one! Hours played as of review time: 24.5 I've been meaning to play the first Hades for a long time. As the "roguelike guy" at work, it's gotten to the poin... View full review on @popfeed.social

"Now you must sit in the husk of your failure. A reminder... and a warning"

TIL that Wally Boag (long-running performer at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe and voice of Jose in the Tiki Room) had an apartment at Disneyland... ...and that apartment was located in what's today the Adventureland Attractions management office. I always felt that place was very apartment-like

Peglin (2024) ★★★★ Peglin is roguelike Peggle. If that interests you, this is the game for you. If it doesn't, well... One thing that I really appreciate about this game is that it knows what it is and doesn't s... View full review on @popfeed.social

Titanfall 2 (2016) ★★★★½ I played through the Titanfall 2 story all the way through for the first time. This is technically my second time trying to play the game. The first time around I stopped when I got to Eff... View full review on @popfeed.social

Halo: Reach (2010) ★★★★ (Trying out this Popfeed thing!) Watched a friend play Halo: Reach for her first time a couple weeks ago, as her first-ever Halo game. Seeing that brought me back to waiting at the midnig... View full review on @popfeed.social

Went to LA Union Station with @group160ntrak.org and ran some model trains! Sadly had issues with one of my locomotives and half my cars, but that's just realism, right? (Alt: An N-scale Santa Fe Warbonnet locomotive moves left-to-right across a suburb scene. It has 7 autoracks and a caboose)

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

The guy playing the Sheriff at The Hanging this year at Knott's is an old skipper friend! What a surprise to see someone I used to work with on stage like that! He's also one of the skippers they interviewed for the Jungle Cruise episode of Behind the Attraction; he's great

I found where they farm the scaries

I hear they farm scaries here? Haven't seen the scary fields yet

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

@ludumdare.com is a month away, and its founder/operator Mike is still among the Unemployed Legion. If you're glad #LudumDare exists, you can donate to help it keep going: ludumdare.com/support-us/ (Or maybe you're looking to hire a network engineer?)

How your email finds me #caturday

San Diego is represented this year!! This was a European-only event, but this year they have teams from every continent with a tram (sorry Antartica). Here's a recap of last year for those curious about what it entails: youtu.be/0zQ9jt9L5sk He'll be doing a recap of this year in a couple weeks

Another tackling perf tip: - Show a big FPS counter on screen ALL the time. - Make it a little annoying to turn off. - Have it turn yellow and then red as the fps drop. Bonus points: smaller text showing gpu and cpu usage etc. to help easily pinpoint where the issue lies.

Ooh, they're adding Hagrid's Motorbike coaster and Soarin' to the new Planet Coaster 👀

Source code is the last bastion of great ASCII art. Emojis are a curse upon the land. Even in comments but especially in variable names

This sent me on a rabbit hole to the 1970s and 1980s-era WFJC scripts on Parkendium: mediagraph.io/parkendium/e... It's wild (heh) how many jokes from the 1976 Jungle Cruise were still in the script in my day. I even used 1970s jokes! The 1980s version is even closer; you can really see it evolve

I think I have determined I don't know what an Immersive Sim is. "Oh Dishonored and Bioshock are ImSims" "Fallout isn't an ImSim though, it doesn't have interacting systems" "Breath of the Wild isn't an ImSim because you can't interact with the story" But BOTW is more open-ended than Bioshock??

In Battlefield Mobile, we had a bug where the suspension on the tanks would sometimes go absolutely nuts, bouncing up and down like an old 1920s cartoon. We called it the "dancing tanks" glitch and it was so sad when it was fixed

Gamedev peeps! You should go give Soupy a follow! Fantastic designer from OG Infinity Ward/Respawn; he made Rust in COD MW2 (2009), he made Into the Abyss (the factory level) in Titanfall 2 (among other things), he's done a GDC talk (youtu.be/CkHGuHd9BgU), and he somehow has under 100 followers here

I wrote a second designy bloggy thing. It would seem that I'm in coincidence territory! www.fairlysoupy.com/bloggy/devma...

Is he going to sing?

Moo on this #caturday

As a former Tiki Host myself I'm pretty sure that this has the tell-tale markings of someone deciding it's fun to play with the hands on the clock rather than it being an accurate show time 😉

I had a camera on the charger and it fell under the bed. We kept it there because the kitties sleep under the bed and it's cute to watch them. Sometimes we talk to them through the camera. I think Togepi has realized we can see/hear her and that we are "in" the camera

This is actually a really bad sign for Americans. Ethereum is going up because the US Dollar is losing value. Compare these charts. Ethereum went up 27.8% in Europe but 44.4%(!) in the US. That's the dollar going down. I'm no crypto fan; you see it in gold, too. It's just easier to see with crypto

Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank weeks after $100K-bail case

For those unaware, the quote-skeet is actually a Kurt Vonnegut quote, not a Team Cherry quote (improvisedlife.com/2021/10/19/k...). This, however, _is_ a Team Cherry quote

Did you know that you can walk among 30 species of beautiful butterflies at the seasonal Butterfly Pavilion at @nhm.org? Plan a visit before the exhibition closes this Sunday, August 24. nhm.org/experience-n...

Get in losers, we're doing mayhem!

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

from the depths they come decaying while they call out "let me eat krill brains"

An inquisitive look from Togepi this #caturday

This reads suspiciously like a phishing scam, I know, but it is actually a legit ARG: www.argn.com/2025/08/its_...

In lighter news, the Momma kitty we TNRed had a good surgery! Our neighbor has decided to adopt her, so we stopped by to drop the kitty off plus give her a care package with everything a cat could ask for (Alt-text: a black kitty with a clipped ear stares out of a blue cat carrier)

Cat rescue folks, maybe you can help me out (TW: Sadness, loss): One of these babies is not doing well. The vet has her until 5:30. She is on a heating plate and on oxygen. Unfortunately they close at 6 and can't keep her overnight. Is there anything I can do to save this little one overnight?

Well, uh, the neighbor next door to where this baby was trapped found these little gals shivering on her porch, so...

One little baby, trapped and ready for her TNR surgery tomorrow! (I realized I forgot the newspaper lining and had to sneak it through the gate!) She is such a sweetie ❤️

I loved this movie so much and idolized Scott because of how hard I related to everything he did in this movie. Then I read the comic, and the comic helped me realize that, like Scott, I was actually being a major asshole to every girl in my life and needed to fix myself

Some good news about the stray kitty that we're trying to TNR! I stopped by a local TNR place and they're willing to help! We're going to try to catch her this Tuesday, with an appointment Wednesday morning. Then our next-door neighbor wants to adopt the kitty! So she's getting off the streets! :)

WILDFIRE SMOKE ADVISORY (Friday, August 8th - Sunday, August 10th): the #CanyonFire burning near #Castaic Lake is affecting air quality. Learn more: aqmd.gov/advisory

For those in the Los Angeles area that don't know - the LA County Fire Department is active on Bluesky now, and they only have ~140 followers

We have a feral black cat on our street who had kittens earlier this year (and probably last year, we think Mothman is her child based on how he reacts to her). Our neighbor is worried she's going to have more kittens, so together we're setting up a TNR setup and I'm super nervous for some reason

Lots of activity along this section of the San Andreas recently. All small quakes (largest was a 4.5) but there's been a whole swarm of 'em