You ever have a friend where you’re like ‘if I could get you to do two painfully obvious things I could fix your life forever’ and then you can never get them to do either thing no matter how hard you try

The little guy metrics are off the fucking charts

More doodling. Partial facelift. Ooooh what could go on the riiiight you're so curiousssss oooooh #gamedev

The observable difference between "functionally random" and "so many factors that it's impossible to know or account for all of them" is minuscule but the youtube recommendations algorithm *feels* pretty dang random.

Y'know. Normal stuff. #gamedev

Kinda been doing the #gamedev equivalent of doodling recently, in between all the other stuff

Final Fantasy V is the best one anyway here's five minutes of me talking about its best system (that they never put in a mainline game ever again) #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyV

So secretly I’ve been slowly revising the extant 100,000 words of the novel I started last year and today I wrote the first two new scenes in like six months! We are so back Also, new Five Minute Feature Feature out tonight!

I get that it's bad to *only* care about stuff like youtube views and whatever, there are definitely more important metrics to making things and reasons to do so, but like... If I didn't want people to see the stuff I make, I wouldn't post it? It's not about numbers, I just want my shit to be *seen*

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Thumbnail progression for my last video! Which, of course, you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0U... It's getting screwed over by the algorithm right now, so if you like #OuterWilds or #Pathologic3, consider watching! Please! I need views like Daniil needs morphine.

Great, Youtube's down. On the evening I post a video. The WEBSITE ITSELF is sabotaging me now. My viewwssssssss ;_;

Now presenting: The Silent Solitude of Having All the Time in the World. It's what we all crave.

I emerge from the editing mines, delirious... but victorious! New video tomorrow, whether YouTube likes it or not. It's also out on the Patreon now if you wanna, like, give me money! That I need! To live!

What did Past Reb mean by this

Not what you want to see (or hear) after running recovery tools on your corrupted audacity project

MisophoniaDankovsky.mp4 #Pathologic3

So since starting this job in late October, I’ve had, in order: - Covid - The flu - Unknown third thing - Norovirus, which has left me mostly incapacitated since Wednesday. I’m starting to have doubts about the longevity of my employment here.

Maybe everyone should be mandated into creating art of a form of their choosing until they understand why they’ve been mandated into creating art of a form of their choosing.

If I had a forehead like that I'd become a fascist too! I mean I wouldn't, because I'm not an evil moron but the temptation would be there!

Was feeling grouchy so I wrote an angry poem and now I'm still grouchy but I have one more poem for my collection. Absolute win.

Shadow YouTuber YouTube hating gang we love hating YouTube I'm not even in it for money I just like making shit but C'MON YOU CANNOT TELL ME A VIDEO THAT HAS GOTTEN LITERALLY NOTHING BUT HIGH PRAISE SHOULD BE AVERAGING ONE IMPRESSION AN HOUR

Doing something I don't normally let myself do which is try and resuscitate a floundering video with a better thumbnail. It's probably too late but--well I'm proud of this video, dangit, I want it to do well! I've added it as an A/B test, so I'll have numbers if it actually makes a difference.

Finished #writing my WW1 trench horror story! Except it... kinda didn't turn out to be a horror story, and more of just a... weird... surreal WW1 trench story. But it's done! And hopefully interesting.

Damn and blast, now the whole internet will know I'm Jacob Geller from Temu #9,145

Once again getting plenty of my favourite genre of comment. "Yo this is really good, crazy how it has no views" YEAH, IT'S CRAZY HUH anyway please watch my stupid video about paperclips and capitalism:

Now presenting: Universal Paperclips and the Futility of it all, or: What can a silly clicker game tell us about where all this is going? I realize now is a… complicated time, but if you have the bandwidth for it, I’d appreciate your viewership.

Hey guess what? I'm currently under the state's highest travel advisory: Don't! Which meant I got to spend the morning *actually finishing a project.* New video today at 3:00! I learned Blender for this one! It's probably good!

Started the editing process for the next video today—It's starting to become real, and will be able to hurt you! (All the Blender was worth it, this is gonna be a good one)

Submitted a short story and some poetry to a magazine today. This'll be this story's fourth. Fingers crossed!

Currently reading Ring (the book that inspired Ringu (the movie that inspired The Ring)) and it’s mildly amusing that in writing a novel that at the time would have felt very modern, Koji Suzuki created something that today would no doubt be considered analogue horror.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Sneak preview:

Another thousand words on the trench story today--went to the cafe like I used to. Bit nostalgic; I had to stop writing there because it was a costly habit and I was running out of savings. Glad to have an income again, though at the cost of too much energy and time. #writing

Wrote a thousand words just now. Short story. It occurred to me that there isn't enough horror set in the trenches of WWI, which I think is an ideal setting for such things, so I'm rectifying that in the only way I can. Here's the first line, which I think sells the tone quite well: #writing

It’s not fair; I finally after months of dabbling have a working prototype of a game that I think could really be something with everything done but the details of the story… and suddenly all I want to work on is the novel I was using all this gamedev to take a breather from. Brain please.

Cliche metaphor, yadda yadda, I know. #poetry

Brought me right back to when I first posted Metaphor essay and shared it in a discord I’m no longer in and like five seconds afterwards someone was like “bro you gotta take the politics out immediately the algorithm hates politics”

I’ve been doing some writing again recently and the subject also came up in the book I’m reading (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, very good, do rec), so let’s have a little thread about #writing advice. For old times’ sake.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

My hot take is that sharing Youtube (or any website) recaps at the end of the year is normie behaviour but I *was* in the top 3% of @barrykramer.bsky.social viewers this year. So that’s neat.

Hey @humblebundle.com , quick question, what the fuck? Girls Who Code? Not if they learn from this shit! Come the fuck on

So lately I've been playing with Strudel as a maybe... gentler way to make music for a beginner than plotting notes on a staff:

I'm not fucking crying at the ending to a fucking Kamen Rider fuck you I'm not I'm not

Status: currently trapped in a vortex of creative energy yet constantly too busy and/or too tired to do much with it, send reinforcements and/or caffeine and/or both

Ah yes, just have the LLM do form validation for you. Surely it wouldn't ever hallucinate or get something wrong and is reliable in all circumstances. And obviously requiring an API call to another service you have no control over for your form to work is just good practice.

No. No, no no, no no no. No. No! Nooooooo. Nah. Nope. Try again. Or don’t. Preferably don’t.

Goddammit I keep having COOL IDEAS and not getting to work on them because I’m already not working on a bunch of COOL IDEAS because I have to EARN MONEY TO LIVE for some reason

I resent this accusation

Been playing Demonschool, absolutely love it, 10/10, I'm going for an A on every encounter because combat is simply perfect, do recommend. But one thing about it does bother me...