live now playing old windows xp games on an actual windows xp computer... featuring sonic, spongebop and much more.. www.twitch.tv/socpens

i miss vgcw

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

A few weeks ago I was on a subway train when it stopped in the tunnel and the lights went dim I tried to capture the scene as well as I could in the 15 minutes before everything started moving again

today's reoccurring call of "god y'all please go review as many games as you can that you've played and enjoyed on steam" is inspired by, despite all the glowing press I've seen about it and who it's by, finding out perfect tides station to station has only barely passed 100 reviews

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

CSP just dropped a new version update, and this alone may be worth finally upgrading for me. The lack of embedded color profiles and the inability to select the exact color within a preview profile has been the bane of anything I have EVER colored in CSP, and the workarounds were an epic pain.

Monday Sketch: Diegetic Inventory #archive

reminder (or fresh info for those who dont know yet) that Chiropracty is a complete bullshit pseudo-science and the guy who created it, no joke, claims he learned it from a ghost

Well it took a while but here it finally is, the 18 months (and more) of behind the scenes work it took to move into our current offices. youtu.be/YRbpmQjR85s

An American kestrel perches on an "IMPORTANT BIRD AREA" sign in the Montrose Beach Dunes.

there's a Logic quote i think about all the fuckin time. he said "the greatest rapper in the world is probably stocking produce" and the thought of it kills me. human potential has served the rich for too fuckin long, man.

ryan seacrest, give it up! let's do it, your top two. and for everyone who's yet to see this artist live, it's unlike any performer in pop right now -- he takes the stage alone with just a guitar, just a mic, and captivates *stadiums* without the help of a bunch of stuff goin on

Happy birthday to Stephen Sondheim and absolutely no other musical theatre composers today!

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

this is absolutely my fault for looking at tadc fan comments after ep 8 but I do wish something that was going around less was this odd pushback on considering fictional ai characters as, well, real characters. it's all fictional! gummigoo and caine are supposed to be approached the same as the rest

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

I've only had to deal with a few people like this in my career and I have enormous sympathy for everyone who has to deal with them regularly. It's fine to not have the talent or experience to do the work but if you literally cannot imagine a finished asset in place of a temp asset, please exit.

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

hourlies

oh my god this is extremely funny

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

speculative dragon behavior

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

over 50 recs in here so far and still more to come later!

today's reoccurring call of "god y'all please go review as many games as you can that you've played and enjoyed on steam" is inspired by, despite all the glowing press I've seen about it and who it's by, finding out perfect tides station to station has only barely passed 100 reviews

"Can you show me the biggest number there is?" "I'd be delighted," he replied, opening one of the closet doors. "We keep it right here. It took four miners just to dig it out." Inside was the biggest 3 Milo had ever seen. It was fully twice as high as the Mathemagician.

Some dragons and a cool cement guy

Today in Kusogrande we allowed racers to use passwords. Unfortunately this is the game's idea of how to draw H, N, and M. We don't know in what order.

negative steam reviews of a 'who wants to be a millionaire?' game that are cracking me up

All the Saxon Musk posting reminds me of one of the all-timers

Screen testing the new MST3K setup

🐢🌴Isles of Sea and Sky🌴🐢 is 80% off on Steam until March 26!!! Turtle riders! Tell your friends, family, pets, random strangers! store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #pixelart

I made a puzzle tribute to @gamechanger.dropout.tv for the 2026 MIT Mystery Hunt! A giant thank you to @samreich.bsky.social for making this puzzle extra special! 🧩

i don’t like this painting in my hotel

lol I kept getting hit up on LinkedIn by this weird racist guy who seems to be aggressively contacting everyone he can find in retrogaming. Very difficult to maintain a public profile as "the cool retro game YouTuber" when your entire other career is "yelling about Muslims and vaccines"

first and foremost: this song whips and i am so glad young people are still getting into jazz second: one of the comments was "smoking the shit that made Wayne shorter" and it fucking killed me

Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

sometimes you see something so stupid and so funny that it feels like god is giving your brain a high five

I know people know LRR mostly for magic content (especially here) but we also spend a lot of time making bonkers sketch comedy, like this video about how to kill a rock. youtu.be/-BZjRtXjs6w

Gaiares (shmup i've been playing) has the best character design and name of all time. im in awe

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, more obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

the thing about certain works is that they sort of test whether or not you as the reader/viewer/etc treat "this is the writer's thinly veiled fetish" and "this has important literary themes" as two separate, mutually exclusive things, or two parts of a whole that can exist simultaneously

In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, we're bringing back one of our popular designs from AGDQ 2026 in collab with @gamesdonequick.com this tee designed by @kduffles.bsky.social is available now and we're donating $6 from each tee sold to the Transgender Law Center: theyetee.com/gdq