for years, 868-HACK was my favorite video game. eventually, Michael made Cinco Paus, and that became my favorite video game. then I became a playtester for 868-BACK, and you'll never guess what happened next. please wishlist, buy, and play this game. it is unbelievably good.

first five minutes of the 868-BACK announcement on bsky vs first five minutes on twitter

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

In prep for the podcast, I just played @smestorp.bsky.social's KOMPENDIUM again for the first time in ~13 years. omfg it's sooooooo good. Sorry roguelikers, but I'm convinced that this is Michael's best game. Must-play collection of 9+ 1v1 games. mightyvision.blogspot.com/2012/06/komp...

@crimew.gay some extremely talented people i know have a hobby of hand-filling an enormous crossword grid in a collaborative google sheet, and two of them just dropped this banger section

this essay took an embryonic discomfort with the picture of the world i'd been given and raised it in an hour into a full-grown member of my [in/e]ternal chorus of rage taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

this essay took an embryonic discomfort with the picture of the world i'd been given and raised it in an hour into a full-grown member of my [in/e]ternal chorus of rage taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

a sonnet

stackoverflow, perhaps the website on which it is most crucial to know how many years ago a post was made, has found a way to make relative timestamps even more hideously useless than usual

we really gotta make corporations a lot more scared to treat their employees badly

I meant to do hourlies but instead I drew this

LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025 mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2... i wrote about recent events in the interactive fiction community and how it emboldened me to fight against vibe coders and LLM slop.

@wormfood-local-510.bsky.social hi! found your account because you're my nearest neighbor on bluesky-map.theo.io; followed because you seem pretty cool :D

carrie's self-promotion post: there's still time to be the 3rd person to solve, or the 13th or so person to listen to and enjoy, what is universally lauded as the most delectable musical album of the last several months (if not years): that beloved crossword album known only as “Puzzles of 2025”.

putting my left foot into my right shoe, just to feel something

it begins.... youtu.be/SwA-V565l2s

look out carefree bisexual vampire dolphin!! a bionic commando is rushing up from the depths like Jaws with a grappling hook!

I simply pointed out the similarities in their outfits and speculated as to what it might mean and 40,000 likes later somehow only half the comments were "good for her"

new high score! 191100 realllly playing with fire at the end here, spooky (game is adamatomic.itch.io/kolydr)

i dare you to beat my Kolydr high score/probably WR. actually don't unless you're really good at games like this, it took toooo long i'm still gonna imrpove it though adamatomic.itch.io/kolydr

after a wild 3-game comeback, i'm in loser's finals of the first Cuttle tournament of the year, come watch: www.youtube.com/live/T_aPMVT...

ok is now a time to say I 100% believe this caused /pol/ to exist because a few years ago someone texted me to say they were with moot at a party and asked if I wanted to relay anything and I said “yeah tell him to ban gamergate shit off 4chan” flippantly AND THEN HE FUCKING DID

life advice: if someone shares a google doc with you that you even remotely care about, slam that "Make a Copy" button INSTANTLY and also right now, go through your "shared with me"s and copy any you'd be sad to lose.

a curmudgeonly opinion i have is that there is no appeal whatsoever to streaming music services because you can't put them on shuffle and hear random tracks your weird friends made or recommended to you 15 years ago, or that you found by accident on a filesharing service that no longer exists

a lot of people post online about how various characters or situations frequently come to mind and bring them pleasure thereby... this experience is mostly alien to me, except with this mushroom. i often think with pleasure about the square mushroom from a 1598 reprint of an 1100s Chinese treatise.

a lot of people post online about how various characters or situations frequently come to mind and bring them pleasure thereby... this experience is mostly alien to me, except with this mushroom. i often think with pleasure about the square mushroom from a 1598 reprint of an 1100s Chinese treatise.

@riverssolomon.bsky.social hi i just finished Model Home, the first physical book I've bought and read in a couple years, and I'm so glad to have read it that way, to have found it in a small bookshop, to have sunk into it. beautifully produced and beautifully written. thank you so much.

i just realized something really fucked up... winning mystery hunt actually /fixed/ my sleep schedule. it was problematically, failed-to-fix-it-repeatedly terrible the week before, and i've been sleeping from like 1AM to 8AM every day since. wtf.

i have for my online whole life generally tried to avoid RTing posts about upsetting current events, because a lot of other people do that and i figure people who want to see them will follow those people and it's nice if people who don't want to can still follow me.

your esport would KILL for player interviews this good. melee is so sick. congrats to eve on making top 100!!

please play LOK Digital, one of my proudest playtesting credits! i worked very hard on it. primarily by playing through it once and telling the devs "it's good".

they put me in the news for a very silly reason gamesbeat.com/why-nyt-game...

Crosscord coming through with the only worthwhile kind of Oscars analysis

i've been slowly playing through Game Poems 1 and this is the first one that i Unreservedly Recommend

COW TOOLS

finally getting around to listening to this, it's awesome

@bluerosetori.com heya, saw your name on this and instafollowed, incredible work :D

please enjoy this almost unbearably clever TMBG concert intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYMb...

confirmed

i am fairly confident at this point that my team has won the MIT Mystery Hunt. this (and more importantly the subsequent hunt-writing earned thereby) has been a life goal of mine for 15 years or so, but now that it's happening i feel a little mixed about it.

it's hot garbage of in, not cold garbage can't even out eat the garbage!

this is one of the most relatable things i have ever read essy.neocities.org/reviews/text...

There is precedent for this; Swedish and Norwegian naval ships have QR codes so that when they return to port they can scan da navy in.

barely squeaked out with the comeback win in this incredible 73-turn game of Frames. was down 4-7 at one point. this game is so good, everyone should come to abstractplay.com and accept my standing challenge.

this is a good puzzle blookerstein.itch.io/showy-homes

this game was really nicely put together, strong rec if you like hard platformers (it didn't actually take me 3 hours, i left it open a lot)

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”