Analog angel's thesis is pretty solid

Today we launched Ribbit — An Anagram game where you'll find every word — live to everyone! Letters are only linked if they're used in a word. As you find words, the grid prunes itself. By the end, there's just one word left. Then frogs sing to you. Play here: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...

8YO: "What's today? Thursday?" ME: "Yep." 11YO: *cheerily* "If we make it through today, tomorrow will be Friday!" 8YO: "...If we DON'T make it through today, tomorrow will still be Friday."

8YO: "What's today? Thursday?" ME: "Yep." 11YO: *cheerily* "If we make it through today, tomorrow will be Friday!" 8YO: "...If we DON'T make it through today, tomorrow will still be Friday."

Just finished act one of NORCO, and I feel compelled to say: ho ho ho, this game is cookin'

I have had the same actor's nightmare three nights in a row: I am supposed to play Hamlet and have not learned my lines. I don't want to play Hamlet. I want to have a peaceful night's sleep.

Bluesky wouldn't load and I was hit with a brief wave of elation at the thought that perhaps It Had Happened, but alas

Just pulled up behind someone who's about to get a pretty fat payout on the taxpayer dime

It's gonna be 90 degrees today and tomorrow, and we haven't found time to put the A/C units in our bedroom windows yet. 😩 If we make it through the next two nights, it'll cool back down again for at least a week, but that seems very uncomfortable

MY BRAIN: “Okay, would you like to hear a list of reasons you are worthless” ME: no MY BRAIN: “Number one: you are well overdue for a haircut” ME: …? yeah? MY BRAIN: “Wait, let me start over” ME: no, i wanna see where you’re going with this one

My 11YO asked to watch Tomorrow Never Dies, which is a pretty dumb movie, but two things I have noticed: 1) Michelle Yeoh is absolutely the coolest lady of all time 2) I would kill a man to own this shirt they put Joe Don Baker in

I am probably a bad parent for being too lax with my standards for my kids’ media intake, but they’re cooperating SO nicely trying to knock out these Perfect Dark combat simulator challenges…

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Could really use a win today. Maybe something good could happen, somewhere? Just a thought.

“I just won’t buy anything expensive until the world gets better,” I keep telling myself, which I’m sure will be any day now

I’ve got a PS4, Johann Sebastian Joust, and 4 PS Move controllers. If it doesn’t rain, my 11YO is gonna have the sickest b-day party ever

"Baby shoes bought. Baby loves 'em."

i just like to put a li'l positive spin on things, i guess

"Baby shoes bought. Baby loves 'em."

You ever just... think about Chrono Cross?

I just want to work. I just want to work!! Even fake job listings are drying up again and I'm no less burnt out. I feel disgusting. I'll keep chasing work and I'll keep fighting for a place to stand, but until that day comes, unfortunately we still very much need your help. I'm so, so sorry.

This is the biggest self-own I think I have ever committed.

My 8YO at her desk busily assembling a LEGO t-rex skull display. My 11YO in his room gluing together his first set of miniatures. My wife, upstairs in her sewing room, putting the finishing touches on a pair of shorts for the summer. Me, sitting down at social media to post this.

In a moment of idleness just now I booted up Tetris Effect, and man! Y'all remember Tetris Effect? Holy cow.

Arni Village Harbor (Chrono Cross, PS1, Squaresoft, 1999)

"-maxxing" as a suffix is funny to me because my cat is named Max. Occasionally I mentally append an extra X to regular phrases. "Yeah I just gotta Feedmaxx." "I'll get up, I just need to Snugglemaxx first."

Now watching for the first time

I hit the "random backlog game" button and it came up Content Warning (2024), but I don't have any friends with whom to slop. :(

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

Just gonna point out here in Republican-gerrymandered Ohio that the state Supreme Court told them their maps were unconstitutional and they just ignored the ruling with no negative consequences at all. So there's a precedent.

I am at about 150/200 products stocked in Wilmot's Warehouse and it's on the verge of giving me High Anxiety; I am wondering whether it is wise to continue any further down this path of housing wares

I'm deeply in love with this one from the intro to Saints Row IV, mostly because it sort of sneaks up on you. I feel like you probably don't quite clock it until the vocals kick in, and then all of a sudden the gag hits. Just perfect timing. youtu.be/cEO7pEw4HoI...

I wonder if my kids are ever going to discover that the tune I use to whistle them inside for dinner is just this: youtu.be/QfhraAQUokA?...

So glad I'm not the only one to have this reaction

Okay so this li'l guy: wilmut? wil-mott? wil-meaux??? the guy with the warehouse, how do you pronounce him

Several years later and "Get Over the Barrier" is still probably my favorite battle theme from a JRPG www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azj...

LUKE: Cal...Kestis?? Mouthfeel on that one is a little off... YODA: a double jump, he can do.

Whoever is in charge of designing the fake PS2 games for IKEA is doing a fantastic job and deserves a raise

the thing re: ambiguity in media is that if you're someone who doesn't *like* ambiguity in media, finding it is just, like, a playground for you. you get to make all that shit up. go ahead, powerscale it. fill in the cracks. write some fanfic. get a salsa company goin'.

A thing I wish I knew when I was younger is that a preference for ambiguity and blank space in storytelling is something that you cultivate as you grow as a reader/player/storyteller. An appreciation for being "invited in" to the storytelling process is something that comes with maturity.

Yes, Zoom, I know I'm muted right now. That's because I don't want to subject my coworkers to my jaunty, one-man acapella rendition of "Battle on the Big Bridge" from Final Fantasy V.

Been on the record that Garrett Martin is the best individual talent scout in the history of games media. Whatever you think about the current state of the medium, a ton of its brightest examples started with or passed through a Garrett Martin outlet.

Yep! I was only ever in the games writing space for a couple of years, but a huge part of why I was able to do it at all was because of Paste Games and @garrettmartin.bsky.social. Forever grateful.

he’s so well-camouflaged

A very merry International Workers Day to you. May we tear the rich from their perches of power and remake the world without them.

My first import, back in the day

i'm always saying this

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities