Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the best games I've ever played, but two years after I took a break from playing I've finally admitted to myself that it was over and hit the uninstall button. Is it more important to push myself to beat the game or to enjoy it for the hobby it is without feeling burdened?

Thinking about Bob Weir and his passing. I saw him with the Grateful Dead in 1995 and with The Dead in 2004, but I think the best time I ever had seeing him was when Ratdog opened for @ekoostik.bsky.social at Spring Hookahville in 1998. Seeing Booby up there with Hookah...what an amazing time...

Soon Thanksgiving will be over, and it will be time for the traditional new Skyrim character. Another stealth archer will soon be born!

LLMs are great for working on projects as long as you can get the work done in one session. I feel like if I'm working on a project and need to stop and come back, when I resume work the model has been updated or changed and things go completely off the rails. 😩

MSG puts the yum into high sodiyum

@nin.com Hi! I thought you might like to know that I was listening to Year zero today on Amazon music, and the great destroyer did not show up as a song on the album. Are you guys being censored, or is this a glitch on their part?

Would it be possible, just once, to go to bed tonight in a world that's not shittier than the one I woke up in? Just once, please?

I really enjoyed Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, but I still feel that the Gamecube Zelda games (Windwaker and Twilight Princess) were the best Zelda games. I've played both these games on my PC, and they're fun but it's not the same as playing them on my TV

I'm turning 50 later this month and thinking about the fact that life is just short. I've also been thinking about all the things I've never done and the things I'll never do again. I finished a Half Life series playthrough recently and wondered "Have I played Half Life 2 for the last time?"

My wife and I are watching the #SNL50 special and I just realized that I've never heard Kim Kardashian's voice until right now

@gearboxofficial.bsky.social any chance of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands headed to the Switch? If it runs as well as BL3 on that platform I'd pick it up for sure. I personally prefer playing on a PC where I love playing Wonderlands, but the Switch is great for dad gaming time.

My wife got me a copy of City of Six Moons for Christmas - it's a card game written in an alien language played by said aliens. I picked it up tonight and I'm at the point where I can put tokens on the board and I feel like maybe this is how it's supposed to go...?

I beat Half Life 2 today for the first time in well over a decade. I can't help but notice it has aged *extremely* well. You can look at individual elements and say "yeah, that's a 20-year old game" but taken as a whole this game is still one of the most complete gaming experiences I've ever had.

I'm looking at the Steam sale and thinking about all the games I'd love to play if I had the time

I'm watching the new Nate Bargatze special on Netflix right now and all I can think of is how much the sound of his voice reminds me of the Grateful Dead's vocals in 1973-1974

I'm watching Die Hard with my wife. It's the first time I've seen this movie in maybe 25 years and I cannot help but think that this movie inspired a generation of action games

Hungry Hungry Hippos

My daughter has been watching the Descendants movies non-stop lately. While I'm glad we've moved on from Dora I'm just feeling...Descended. But! I'm watching these people in their outlandish outfits and angsty backstories and I'm thinking...maybe she'd like Final Fantasy X-2...?

I will not be playing Intergalactic on the PS5 because I do not own a PS5.

My six-year-old daughter and I were playing a game on Dolphin this weekend and I was explaining to her what save-states are and how they work. She was all over that and wrote me a note so I wouldn't forget...❤️

I feel like demoing guitar tones on YouTube doesn't work if you're getting all the sound from your smartphone camera

Here's the problem I have with The Witcher 4: There's no way I'm ever gonna have time to play this game.

I used to live in Altoona for six glorious months in 1998. On the extremely rare occasions when Altoona comes up in the news I can say "I used to live there!" and then comes the extremely rare occasion when I actually have something to talk about

Been thinking a lot about that scene in Spider-Man 2 where all the people on the subway see him without his mask, and agree to keep his identity secret.

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

Blue sky is amazing but I wish the app for the iPad wasn’t just the iPhone app

I'm seeing Donner guitars going for $1500 on eBay. Did I miss something?

I am pleased to announce I have won my second game of Balatro

I made a lasagna for dinner tonight. I forgot to take any pictures of it but please rest assured it was beautiful and delicions

So my 6yo daughter said she wanted to start a new tradition where we would all watch the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving. I was 100% down for that because my wife and I both watched it while we were kids so yeah let's pass that tradition down. Was this parade always so ADHD?

I installed Skyrim Special Edition on my PC tonight but when I try to stream it to my Steam link all I get is failure. Not sure what the problem is...every other game I own gets the job done. Let's try good old OG Skyrim and see if that works

Confession time: I've been playing Skyrim on PC off and on since launch but never really used mods except for Dragonborn Manor and a ring that eliminates the carrying weight limit. Who's got some good mod recommendations?

Today I used ChatGPT to help me dial in a 1974 Bob Weir-esque tone for my Katana guitar amp. I'm finding myself using ChatGPT more and more for things I would have googled a month ago because I get the information I'm looking for upfront instead of a page of SEO pages that don't really tell you much

I think it's absolutely fascinating that I can go to an AI, describe my Access database and tell it to write some code, and get that code in seconds. I will think it's absolutely even more fascinating when the code works

Does anyone else struggle playing FPS games with a controller?

I wish Nihilist Arby's would make the jump here.

I was thinking that if messaging was the issue, the LGBT community should consider rebranding themselves. What if instead of rainbows representing the different parts of the LGBT community they used the color red to represent the blood of those who died for the rights and freedoms of the community?

@jefftiedrich.bsky.social I don't miss Twitter but I did miss you. Glad to see you here

So, I'm still screaming into any abyss here but it seems much cleaner and nicer than the last one.