4 days into not having a job and i'm already reduced to figuring out how to patch and build a linux kernel to fix an audio issue, god this has really hit me hard huh

after almost 16 years my time with id is done as layoffs ravage everyone across the companies. i'm going to be fine money wise, but if you have money to spare, donate it to the game worker hardship fund! uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

wrote a thing for rhythm heaven groove on backloggd. its a great game, but it doesn't hit the peaks of megamix and fever. backloggd.com/u/spongeh/re...

there’s probably no better way to wire up this power button to this psu than with a hot glue gun, especially since the e tape didn’t work

this is a better worded version of what i think of this situation, except my thought ends with "fuck the esa"

mina the hollower is probably one of the most frustrating games i've loved. wrote a lil thing on backloggd. backloggd.com/u/spongeh/re...

since i've had two people ask me if i still have a job today, nothing has happened yet AFAICT. i do think it will be bad, but i don't buy the current sets of rumors. if it hits me i should be more than fine for a good long time (esp if union is able to help) so worry for others!

i don't think i'll ever have a professional legacy that anyone beyond me or my friends will know or care about, but if i do, i want it to be the compass in quake 2. i fucking love that thing and how well it worked, and its opt in nature especially as the Yellow Paint Discourse continues.

trying a new split keyboard, wanted a few more keys and fully wireless, both halves. had trouble finding keycaps that matched this layout, i hate when caps lock is actually ctrl and so on.

the 9th or 10th best zelda game is getting a remake

still awake, waiting for the troops to come down the chimney to leave gifts of fresh ground beef for grilling tomorrow

the public transportation is always severely lacking at every horizon festival, none of this is walkable!

reset the "days since i caught something with the wrong sprite aspect ratio" counter!

i'm choosing violence with my backloggd retro game of the year 1998 choices backloggd.com/u/spongeh/go...

my hot take: vampire crawlers plays more like a solitaire game than a deckbuilder

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

lake ontario looking like the bryce3d default scene

a game idea for an audience of 4: multiplayer car combat that requires you to have a steering wheel, pedals, and sinden light gun. one hand on wheel, other hand on gun, foot for pedals. it'd be the best car combat game ever made and absolutely nobody would ever get to play it. i want it so bad.

Continuous Orgasm! Black Emperor

i love/hate when the shorthand for "computer code" in media is "lets just grab some html source" it always sticks out like a sore thumb. just throw some random x86 asm in there!

man the virtual boy music is criminally underrated

starting to get an impression that this graham platner fellow might not be entirely on the level!

i'm not sure how much i'm liking the game yet, but holy crap the ui design and general aesthetic in the new marathon is just incredible. just some absolutely bold choices, bright colors, and really going into that kind of 80s vaporwave aesthetic. nothing else like it in AAA games at least

having skyrim analysis paralysis. i haven't really played it in over a decade, i loaded up the switch 2 ver to find that the 60fps mode feels really good now, but do i want to play it on PC instead since i can use whatever UI mod is out there? or do i plug my steam deck into my tv since i don't

looking for a matching his/her pair of bedsheets on temu that says "number 1 pussy eater and his cum queen"

if Ladies Love Cool James, does that then mean that L.L. Bean stands for Ladies Love Bean

if you’re cold, your computer is cold. let it inside.

boy season 5 of xena really actually isn't that good, is it

went to the protomen autograph session at magfest while wearing my nightdive quakecon shirt, and found out commander is a huge doom 64 fan. accidentally held up the line while we talked about how good the doom 64 remaster is. what a wild moment.

I won a golden snail and a quan chi from arcade pit! Thanks @smight.bsky.social and everyone else!

super thrilled to finally release Quake Brutalist Jam 3! an absolutely insane amount of work was put into this pack, so much so that we decided to put together a standalone release, no purchase of Quake required! www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

what if duke nukem was an annoying weed guy instead? i'm going to turn you alien bastards into my bong. -weed duke nukem

christmas lights are the original gamer LEDs

fuck you downy woodpecker learn how to eat, you suck shit, dumbass bird

i am officially a union boy now

my (probably what will be a weird-ass) top 10 games of 2025: 1. Hades II 2. Avowed 3. Riven (2024 but i beat it in 2025 so fuck u) 4. DOOM: TDA 5. Baby Steps 6. Peak 7. DK Bananza 8. Rematch 9. Timberborn 10. Ball x Pit

i have just learned first hand today that final fantasy 10 blitzball is kinda fuckin stupid

throwing on some dimmu borgir because i got my flu/covid boosters today and now i'm full of heavy metal fuck yea

first snow!!!

boy redis pivoting *hard* into AI after people cheered the license change for sticking it to big tech really feels like a pyrrhic victory now huh

Celebrate this Halloween with the grand old tradition of the original uncensored version of the Monster Mash www.youtube.com/watch?v=31zM...

hello hacker fucker this is matt furniss heres the deal. if you hack this game i will find you where ever you are and break your legs and thats a promise

Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell that was released 10 years ago this week by a tiny team at a tiny game studio in WNY. Not only was it way before it's time but it deserved way more attention than it got. Vampire Survivors fans, check this out! #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/402120/D...

i hope that some day games get past "we're going to force you to click this stuff" as tutorialization. i'm not a moron i know how to click things in a ui. explain WHY i am doing this. for as many board games i've played with bad instructions they at least start with what is the point of all of this!

loving BALL x PIT so far, but kind of wish they didn't add bullet hell style bosses to an otherwise really fun breakout/ballz kind of game! feels like a weird skill check for a skill that isn't tested much by the rest of the game (on top of my massive distaste for/bored by that genre in general)

grafield minus grafield

kind of surprised none of the various retro youtubers have made a video about microsoft streets and trips. driving pre-gps! didn't even know it was technically around in the late 80s, thought it was always a late 90s-early 00s thing.

hoping this is positive news, i've always been a big fan of splash damage and it would be a huge loss if they went away! www.gamesindustry.biz/splash-damag...

i'm pissed off about floss. oral-b glide has some new fucking microtexture bullshit that just gets shredded up and stuck in your teeth and feels like ass and makes it harder to get through tight gaps. i need to find a different floss brand now. floss enshittification!!!!!