My favorite aspect of Alan Wake I so far is how deeply unapologetic it is in building out its own Definitely Legally Distinct version of Twin Peaks. #HorrorGameOct

Maybe this is only news to me, but signal boosting this anyway because it can't be understated what a treasure trove this archive of Game Freak's zines is. These volumes only show up VERY occasionally online and command a lot of money; obtaining a full set to scan would've cost thousands of dollars.

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

For how nosy modern autocorrects are, every single one lacks the feature I really want: Refusing to send or save communication if it detects that you've used a Three Letter Acronym without writing out the full phrase first.

Gunpla

Oh no... Andrew Dice wasn't just a cool, friendly pillar of the community, he was one of the people most influential in bringing down the boundaries between the Japanese indie games scene and the rest of the world. He opened doors and brought so many great stories to us. Farewell to a real one.

Back when I was in university studying software engineering, a constant point of guidance was building *lean* programs. We spent semesters learning to shave KB of memory, slough of unnecessary assets, etc. This week Samsung pushed a 3GB AI-centric app to my phone with no way to opt out.

Let's have a wander through one of my favourite genres: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/03/08/e...

About a week left to pick up a half-dozen or more #Shmuptember titles! Street Cleaning Day and Antecrypt have been my biggest winners so far, but fingers crossed for a Voidblazers compatibility update!

RPG Time never got half as much attention as it deserved. It's like being a kid again, toys and erasers reimagined as heroic treasures: store.steampowered.com/app/1839510/...

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

a classic

Tetap Kacau is a neat lil' area defender with a lil' guy who just can't stop groovin' ahead. Nice little low-pressure option bolstered by a lovely BGM track. #Shmuptember

A strong handful of little picks in here for #Shmuptember in here! Gonna thread a couple of them together as I play them:

Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!

A happy holiday to those who observe: youtu.be/KBXsx1ZHgg0?...

That's what being literate is all about: enjoying sentences like this

I do love me a tight little one-session game, and a solid comedy act. Sam & Max kinda feels like if the Muppets did a PG-13 detective serial in that way. ...Jim Henson Co., get on that. #MysteryGameAug

Every project needs qualified peer review.

Some jokes are simultaneously smart and dumb enough to cross cultural and linguistic boundaries.

TikTok's damages to online video are legion, but one of the stickier wickets is its insistence that plasticky-fake machine voices are an acceptible aesthetic rather than an assistive tool that wants for and deserves a raise in production standards.

fish

Gotta love a good inner frame.

HOLD ON! Everyone going crazy over the positivity they see in Superman, YOU, yes you reading this! You need to watch Kamen Rider Fourze (2011) RIGHT NOW!

The reviews are in... IT GOOD!

It's the height of #JRPGJuly and so time to repost this particular idle-work playlist (which surprisingly has only tripped one copyright strike since last year): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Is there a good word for the metatextual tension when a book only has 20 pages remaining and you're not sure whether a problem can be solved within that space? Anyway, Project Hail Mary is good.

what i tell people when they ask me what I've been playing for the last week: #JRPGJuly

it's scary how powerful ai is getting every day. i just talked with a genie who was able to somehow guess what i was thinking of by asking a series of yes or no questions

cc #JRPGJuly

You can pry my em dashes — one of my favorite punctuation marks and one I often use — from my cold, dead keyboard.

Finally catching up on my RSS reader, and it's uncanny how this article about Hyrule as an in-between space was published literally days before TotK took the concept and sprinted into the sunset with it. www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/04...

Well, clearly the Fightgame Brainworms have done their work on me since I'm watching Wimbledon and it's mostly making me want to pick up Street Fighter again.

I had to actively disable CoPilot in *Notepad* today - the thing that's supposed to be a no-fuss zero-options text editor. The reckless spread and consumption of AI "assistance" is analagous to cancer. (with apologies to anyone suffering actual cancer)

June is about LGBTQ+ pride, certainly, but also in some small part about Saiyan Pride this year. Here's a breakdown of everything I played (and read, and watched!) for #CommunityGameAlong 's #JuneForToriyama month imgur.com/gallery/june...

Just finished @decassette.bsky.social 's World Heist, and it's simply admiration-inducing. At risk of being reductive, it reads like an extrapolation of Yoshitaka Amano's character art. Outstanding mix of storytelling both inside and just outside the frame.

Just over halfway into the main build for Bulma's bike. Chrome coating, actual rubber tires, a functional spring mechanism... after doing 2-3 mecha kits in a row, it's kinda nice to work on one that uses more materials than just ABS/PS plastic. #JuneForToriyama

Top 10s of the 21st Century are playing out, time to highlight to the Most 7/10 of 1995 in Particular This week on Geek to Geek: Ryu Knight and the Cherished Middle geektogeekmedia.com/geekery/keyw...

New programming just dropped at the local 35mm

So the rule was, if there's a dog, you should be able to pet it. And this got misunderstood as, you add a dog so it can get pet. No, the point is, your interactions should reflect the reality of the game space; it's bigger than dogs. Anyway, if you equip a hat in Death Stranding 2 you get a choice

open for the finest chart I’ve ever seen

POWERFUL agree. Censor-dodging is one thing, but poetry has given us *so many better euphemisms* for passing on that don't turn *the last thing a human ever does* into a cutesy little soundbite word that robs it of its gravity. The very word itself is disrespectful to the dead.

(Spotted while job-searching) Are you a boy, a girl, or u͟n̡̕͜k͏n̕͜o̧ẁ͜a͟͠bl̨̀ę

cc #JuneForToriyama

Tips for a good first impression: ✅ Open Posture ✅ Strong Eye Contact ✅ Smile

I like taking a sip of my water then pouring some onto my potted plant... we're buddies... cheers bro