Speedrunners love to put "Best Possible Time" in their splits but then you watch them and they're having the worst possible time.

"Why didn't Nintendo ever revisit the design of Zelda II??" Because they were waiting for a cool-af transbian furry to do it for them: store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #EnigmaHeart #Steam #Zelda #Zelda2

I got to play a beta copy of Enigma Heart by @clarissa.hadrosaurus.net and I honestly might consider coming back to speedrunning for a bit for it when it comes out. It's fun and gay and cute and just the right amount of Nintendo hard imo. store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

youtu.be/3k9Yy-o6tpo I like how every castlevania game after the first few just makes you wonder why Simon Belmont sucked so much at running, jumping, and whipping when apparently all his ancestors were so incredible at those things. Anyways this looks fun!

Thank you everybody for the support and signal-boosting today! We picked up a bunch of new wishlists for Enigma Heart, and now we're getting really close to 1,000! Think we can push it the rest of the way? 😊🦕 store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #IndieGame #WishlistWednesday

If you like queer themes and Zelda 2, check out and wishlist Enigma Heart! store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

youtu.be/oV8qO2-PsCA This best of three super metroid map rando tournament match is incredible.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I have to impress upon you that Sudokuvania is a fully realized Metroidvania. It is merely expressed as 20+ integrated variant sudokus. There is nothing else like this. Solving it is one of my proudest achievements. It is a $0 website. Use a laptop. sudokupad.app/6u61fsw0di?s...

Welcome back artists!🖌🎨✨️ Quote Post with an old piece that you still like! Pink Link🩷🩷🩷

this is just a feeler post but are there any devs out there who would be interested in contributing code to SMRPG randomizer, namely building UI stuff and doing settings flag parsing? literally no modding knowledge required at all

Anyone know first hand if the Metroid Prime 4 switch 2 version cartridge runs if you put it in a switch 1? I do not find the text on Nintendo's website clear on this.

Anyone know first hand if the Metroid Prime 4 switch 2 version cartridge runs if you put it in a switch 1? I do not find the text on Nintendo's website clear on this.

New post: a defense of lock poisoning in Rust. Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at @oxide.computer dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations Please give it a read!

There sure are a lot of local queer orgs whose entire web presence is on Facebook and Instagram, which means that I can't find out about their events bc I deleted my Meta accounts in January after Zuckerberg changed the TOS to allow transphobic hate speech.

Oh hey there's a new Dram World hack out. I wonder if I should play it... *Watches a video of barbarousking playing it where he takes like 5 hours to do 4 exits* Uhhhh maybe.. someday....

Cars might work fine in California or Florida, but they’re not practical here in Canada. We have winter.

"Every man has three BlueSkys... The one in the advertising campaign, for the world to know. Another in the office, just for the developers. And a secret BlueSky which no dev may publicly acknowledge. That is the BlueSky that the userbase actually wants to use..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUR7...

My opinion on video game pricing is that every video game that costs less than $30 should cost $10 more and every video game that costs more than $40 should cost $10 less.

“I Saw the TV Glow” writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is doing a series at Netflix based on Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” comics (which also have a long on-off history with movie adaptations). Details here.

GOOD THINGS ARE POSSIBLE ??!

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Chills. Thousands of Alberta high school students walked out of class to the legislature. They’re fighting back against UCP attacks on education. They’re standing up for teachers. They’re our future and I couldn’t be prouder. ✊🩷

I made a series of NES accuracy tests and then ran them on all of Nintendo's official NES emulators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjY...

Note, you do NOT need to be a citizen to sign this— non-citizen residents of Canada may also sign.

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

An eternal constant tension in speedrunning category definition arguments: people who think the rules exist to be a rigorous categorization of types of tricks and glitches vs. justifying the existence of types of runs that are some combination of fun for the runner and entertaining for non-runner

The evil brilliance of focusing on trans people in athletic competitions is that inattentive cis people who are not intensely transphobic misread it as just a minor concession, while enthusiastic opponents of trans liberation understand how it advances their cause < thread >

The problem with speedrunning modern games is that modern controllers have way too many analog inputs. (This post brought to you by me trying to learn the first few tricks in the Metroid Dread speedrun)

don’t get why people are so hyped for silksong. game’s gonna have a ton of bugs.

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

My Twitch account was hacked, and a hacker is masquerading as a partnered account on Twitch. Twitch won't do anything to help fix this. How many more of us need to be hacked and lose everything until they decide to help restore our accounts?

LATEST: I recounted my experience at Minneapolis People's Pride, which I attended with @storster.bsky.social! It was a fantastic time, and shows how Pride should be - a community ran event without corporations or cops. Ty to @ryan.staticnoi.se for editing! 🧵 thefreeradical.org/opinion-minn...

This is probably a spicy take but I bet we'd have more soundtracks as memorable as Undertale's if more composers got to be fulltime, integrated creative collaborators for the full duration of a project instead of contractors handed an asset list

Websites I am begging you please to test your responsive design on any phone smaller than a phablet. Please.

can't believe i forgot to post my magnum opus here: garftroid

one of my partners (who is an ADHD coach) is playing Against the Storm on a stream and talking about video games and ADHD with some fellow people in the field on stream, if you're interested in that topic :) www.twitch.tv/theattention...

my most important opinion is that all regional pizzas are vital parts of the overall pizza ecosystem. you hate chicago deep dish? then you hate pizza. you hate provel cheese? you hate pizza. you hate little caesar? he is the emperor. show some respect. all pizza is canon

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Congrats to Kirby703 for being the first to attain GM rank in Tetris the Grand Master 4 www.twitch.tv/videos/24540...

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Hey. Weird trans women. What's the vibe check on this anime

Where you might know me from if I follow you: - I used to be a speedrunner and streamer of Zelda 2 and some other games. "glitches are queer!" - work, if you happen to work on a weird operating system for a megacorp. - are a local to Edmonton. Maybe the word "brunchwar" means something to you.