you gotta play this one. you just gotta. preferably both the original paper puzzle at letibus.itch.io/lok, and the digital version, on PC and now also switch. it's really special (and i helped a little bit :D)

@rob.cooked.social don't spam-follow people to advertise your garbage. blocked & reported.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.

i'm very unlikely to play the game but this trailer is incredible, please watch it

this video is really good. most interesting bit is near the end, where we find out that Black-sounding names are discriminated against by employers... but ALSO strongly correlated with increased lifespan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKE...

huh. back when, I could FC this chart (on keyboard) no problem. today on a whim i thought i'd try again, figuring it would take me four or five tries. instead it took like 100, and somehow what got me to finally stop missing in the same stupid section over and over was... turning the music off.

wrote some about movie letterboxd.com/jseakle/film...

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

so let me get this straight. they printed a new card called Boomerang Basics, inspired by the classic card Boomerang. but the new one says nonland on it, so you can only Boomerang Basics, and never Boomerang Basics Basics? what the fuck

i'm learning about a whole new world of people who have strong opinions about bots liking their bleets

folks, i have become the first person to solve Puzzles of 2025, and I am here to tell you that it is a fuckin' blast. very reasonable difficulty if you've done a crossword before and are willing to google some stuff, and the songs are AMAZING. puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

Here it is, “Puzzles of 2025”. It's 40 tracks long! Hopefully there's something to delight and annoy all sorts of music fans, especially fans of albums that are also crossword puzzles. be well ! ! ! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

My insistent view on "systems" and "narrative" is that the two things are the same thing at different scales, in the same way that sufficiently fast rhythm becomes pitch.

bandcamp knows who i really am

WHAT THEFU CK bandcamp pauses things playing in OTHER BSNDCAMP TABS when you press play?????? i SPEXIFICALLY wanted to listen to two songs at once thankj you!! how else am i supposed to keep up with banfdcampf riday ok???/

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

while attempting to get to the wikipedia page [[Portal:Current Events]] via the search box, i was given this fairly surprising suggestion

i would generally not share a thing that i'm currently waiting for access to, but i know & trust these folks, this seems really neat, AND their engagement bait tactics (more signups = quicker access for people already signed up) have unfortunately worked on me :P

my music opinion is that in 80% of contexts where the same thing happens a lot of times, it would be better if one or two of those times the thing was a little different.

HALIMEDE SAYS PLAY SYLVIE GAMES

(remember that you can listen to 3 tracks of "Puzzles of 2025", and follow us on "Band Camp", and listen to the whole farraginous thing when it comes out on Friday…) puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

David Byrne has been uploading a themed playlist of music on the 1st of every month for over ten years now, and it's grown into a pretty incredible archive. www.davidbyrne.com/radio#filter...

how does one select the right entry point to share to a complex online media experience? it's impractical to try to guide others along the same path you yourself took, like "hey please read this blog post, click the link near the end to the multi-hour videogame, play it, »

i feel like such a weird little goblin every time I share the fact "most mammals are shrews." not even counting tree shrews or elephant shrews!

the context: in an ideal world with better information hygiene and better circumstances in general, i do think there's merit to having a personal flavor of misinformation. for me, it's this fact about shrews! It's not true; it's almost true and can seem true, but it isn't true (because rats exist)

but other than in aggregate, no one is harmed by this mistruth, and when repeated it becomes a kind of aesthetic comedy. "Did you know," pursued juliet, "that most mammals are shrews?" "no!" you say. "that's because it's not true" juliet confirms. our lives are a bit richer for that small unreality

le guin in the intro to LHoD dismisses Apollo and then says: "I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor."

These are dangerous times for misinformation. I admit to playing with fire, but it is, ultimately, a kind of play, and if we all had one dishonesty that we are perfectly open about, maybe we could be more open and playful people as a whole. maybe it could be easier to say what is not true, after all

ok so i've been playing more & more "puzzlebox" games recently and i'm slowly whittling down my thoughts on Puzzles, what i like & what i don't like... "spatial" and "rules" puzzles are my favorites, i think "riddles" are pretty fun but can be frustrating, and i think "room puzzles" are just okay

It's the last day of the month and my first blog post in a while... so, how do you paint November? A blog about Pentiment, creativity and game development. florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/11/30/h...

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how the FUCK has "users probably don't want to hear audio for the first 1.5 seconds of each video they watch" become common wisdom among designers of mainstream websites

i have this problem where i theoretically want games journalism to exist, and every few months a respected site dies horribly and the writers band together at a scrappy new independent outlet i should support.... & then i discover that they've mainly done games journalism there, and i lose interest

i'll die before i unsubscribe from r/aprilfools2011

discovered a brand new emotion by coming across a post by my ex in a "funny tumblr screenshots" thread

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

discovered a brand new emotion by coming across a post by my ex in a "funny tumblr screenshots" thread

New @draknek.bsky.social game looks pretty cool.

seems like there's a lot of cool stuff to find in here, but maybe not today — the servers seem to be massively overloaded and most things don't load. but i did manage to find this li'l friend escaping!

the algorithm has me pegged

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Puzzles of 2025 is so ambitious and hilarious and good. the tracks are all in completely different genres and there are 40 and they are also crossword clues and there's a prize. please get excited about it and tell all your friends!! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

one time in like 2004 mark rosewater recommended "A Whack on the Side of the Head" in his column and linked to the amazon page. when i clicked on it some kind of bizarre glitch caused the title to render as "A Whack on the Side of Whack Side of Head" and this phrase has lived in my brain ever since

Puzzles of 2025 is so ambitious and hilarious and good. the tracks are all in completely different genres and there are 40 and they are also crossword clues and there's a prize. please get excited about it and tell all your friends!! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

i've now listened to the sample tracks and they are all so good. i'm really excited about this!! also i've already solved some of the clues and i'm gonna win the prize bsky.app/profile/some...

“Puzzles of 2025”, by me and Hedra Rowan, is now up for pre-order!!!! it'll be out on December 5. meanwhile, you can read the liner notes and listen to 3 of the 40 songs now, which should give you an idea of how deranged of an undertaking it is. enjoy! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

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i keep thinking about this. what a blessing