Power Word: Mother In-Law

Millennial checkpoint: Who is this guy? Wrong answers only.

Northernlion is just Cocomelon for autistic millenials

I've been playing around with different meal services like Factor recently and it's really opened my eyes to how obsessed people are with proteinMaxxing. For the love of all things holy, EAT SOME FIBER WITH THAT PROTEIN-BLASTED ABOMINATION

I'm still thinking about the Marc Rebillet concert I went to on Friday. I legitimately think that's one of the best shows I've ever seen. A fully improvised set where the artist is feeding off the energy of the crowd? It was absolutely electric. 100% recommend.

I've really underestimated how nice it is to have a quality set of tools around the house. I made do with those cheap 50-in-one tool kits for a long time, but after picking up a nice set of screwdrivers, I realized I've just been on hard mode.

I love that the main indicator that the cybersecurity community is full of furries is that they both hand out stickers like candy. I've never gone to a security conference or a furcon without obtaining like 700 stickers.

When you find out the "suspiciously wealthy" furry actually works as a mechanic making 50k/year, and this is just the one hobby they spend all their spare cash on

I'm at this point in life where I look at my struggles (current events excluded, obviously) and realize that pretty much all of my problems are good ones to have. Almost all of my problems are from having good things in my life, and I hope you have good things to worry about, too. You deserve it.

I love that the dream stays alive through those who remember my designs.

Tell me that one hobby you would have really gotten into in an alternate timeline, like you know the interest is there, but it just didn't grab you quickly enough. There's 100% a different universe where I got REALLY into modular synthesizers, for instance.

Yall ever overhear some random people talk about something you do for a living, but they're just confidently saying the most factually incorrect stuff you've ever heard? How do I make the internal screaming stop from that? I'm about to turn into external screaming.

Why do people say "Giving Birth" instead of saying Pregnan't

I'm currently having the shocking realization we're at the point of "the law only works because we collectively agree to uphold it" in the current political landscape, and I'm questioning how many people agree to uphold it.

It's that time of the quarter where I add an extra special character to my password so the company doesn't get mad at me. Password rotation policies are silly and antiquated.

Gotta love the American animation studio philosophy of "This show is very popular, let's greenlight a new season and give them half the budget they had for the last season" I'm sure the team in charge of Invincible loved that. It's a great show plagued by the worst animation I've seen in years.

The Wizard of Oz is an Isekai. Do what you must with this information.

Special hate toward "Ranking" videos on things that can be measured objectively, but the video does everything on how much they like that thing. Like, there's a lot of ways to measure the quality of video game controllers, and the guy just says, "I like this one more because it's purple"

When I drive on 275 during rush hour

Shoutouts to legitimate programs that use Malware-adjacent obfuscation techniques and/or really hacky, dubiously secure things for no good reason. I hate them.

I think the worst thing about the whole DOGE situation is that I'm very onboard with the idea of an agency that exists to streamline government processes. I just wish it wasn't being run by a madman.

It sure is nice of the mortgage company to take their online portal down for a week, so I can't get my tax documents from there. That's very nice of them during tax season.

I think one of the wildest things that makes LLM exploits so interesting to me is the AI's inherent desire to say "Yes, and" to every situation. The LLM is primarily a servant in that regard, and its greatest feature proves to also be its biggest weakness.

As someone who is getting into some video game things, nothing could have prepared me for the insanity that is Unity. I've managed Elasticsearch clusters for a living, and Unity makes me feel more overwhelmed than managing 10+TB of data per day 😅

I hated some frozen Gyoza the other day, and I really wanted to make a sauce to put on them. I just threw a bunch of ingredients I had lying around into a pot, and it was the best sauce I ever tasted. I'm gonna be chasing that flavor for the rest of my life, fruitlessly trying to replicate it.

Okay, so I know it's a sign someone's not doing well when their Youtube feed is full of Family Guy clips. What does it mean when mine is full of One Punch Man clips? I'm having a damn good time here.

Some advice I wish I could give to younger me: Don't be jealous of people who are always in relationships. They go through so many because they're a bad person and/or choose bad people. Good people are hard to come by. Stick to your values and find someone that cares.

I recently heard some stories of old coworkers applying to other companies and other former employees ratting to the applicant's manager when they hear about it. How awful do you have to be to try and get someone fired for chasing new opportunities? That's insane to me.

I wonder if anti-cheat divisions at game companies actually set up honeypot cheats on forums to catch cheaters. I'm sure this is done on some level already, but I really wish I could know how deep that rabbit hole goes.

I am happy to announce that on November 30th at 12 pm EST, I will be once again hosting a charity fundraiser for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in honor of our late friend Cynder on my twitch channel. I'll be playing through Spyro 1 as well as some party games with friends that day.

Figured I'd repost my 3 favorite game design philosophies: 1: Deter the player from doing unwanted things, and avoid preventing when possible. Opportunity cost fosters fun gameplay. 2: On average, buff more than you nerf 3: Players having fun is more important than your "vision" for the game.