Something a bit different than my usual video game content! Two years ago we were invited to help produce a quirky coming of age film about a family of bearded ladies. The Bearded Girl premieres at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 17th. Check out the teaser trailer.

Thanks Trump.

I'm installing Ubuntu Linux to try out gaming on it again on my primary PC. During the install it showed a banner with "Great for gaming!" with a picture of Dota 2. I'm like, cool, I helped make that.

Watched Netflix's Adolescence again with a friend. Still a gut punch--the ending just tears me up emotionally. It's so well written and produced and the acting is just stellar. Stephen Graham's performance as Jamie's dad is a particular standout. You can just feel his despair. Highly recommended.

Every once in a while I remember @hbomberguy.bsky.social 's "most fuckable twink" line from his video on plagiarism as the funniest thing I've ever seen in a video and quietly chuckle to myself.

I need to stop doom scrolling. Fuck.

One of the weirdest (worst?) things of recent news is having to explain "Leopards ate my face" to friends and family. Sigh.

Well that's different. I live in Kelowna, the third largest city of British Columbia. The main bridge across the lake is closed this morning due to a bomb threat. Crazy. Never expected that in Canada. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Its been almost twelve years since Boards of Canada released their last album. I still have hope.

They did it again! Nintendo is not including the original Retro Studios credits in Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. Nintendo's policy of not including the original credits for remastered games is unacceptable. Their work is still there! Story below...

Does anyone else have issue with 5G on their phone where initial use of web or social app takes many seconds to load? This goes away if I switch to LTE (4g) connectivity. 5G has long establishment times? 5G+ is even worse. Maybe specific to my carrier, Telus?

I'm pretty sure all Canadians including myself will politely say "no thank you" to the idea of becoming part of the United States.

Path of Exile 2 is amazing, but then there's stuff like this. I get notified the map is complete, so I look away for a second. Four seconds later the ground explodes and kills me. My character makes frost patches so I had no idea the ground wasn't my own effect. There needs to be more clarity.

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game (29 years between the two)

There is a new patch for Horizon Zero Dawn for PC that adds "transmog". I love how this feature in multiple games was named after the "Transmogrifier" from Calvin and Hobbes comics and is now common vernacular in gaming. Thanks Bill Watterson.

I've been enjoying Path of Exile 2 Early Access quite a bit. The improvement in the art and animation is so good it leaves the first game far behind. The skill animations in particular are wonderful to watch and feel great. Now, if I would only stop dying so much....

One of my favorite things is the day Metroid Prime went gold (Oct 2002) I took this poster around to everyone on the team to sign. It's a record of our memories working together. You may notice everyone signed around Samus, never on top of her. It was just how everyone respected the character.

Started playing Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered this week. Cleared 100% of the game. Going to finish the Frozen Wilds DLC then move onto Horizon Forbidden West! The improvements in the remaster in graphics, models and performance is very noticeable. Still a great game.

Getting ready for Path of Exile 2's Early Access launch in a just two days! Normally I run Path of Exile's standalone client, but for PoE2 I'm going to run the Steam version since I like Steam's new game recording feature. Will be useful playing during early access.

Checked the old blue site today and on my Following feed the first three posts were friends saying they will no longer post there and to follow them here. Guess its time to make this my primary site.

I never learned Emacs except for Ctrl-X Ctrl-C.

Following up on this. It is a very good time to buy a new TV. Good quality large size TVs are priced very low. I just bought a new 75" microLED TV for $1700 CAD ($1200 USD) for example. It's the season of huge TVs I think.

It's increasing looking like there are going to be many tariffs coming next year especially from China. If you were thinking of buying any electronics like TVs, computers, video games, household stuff like vacuums etc now is the time before prices are going to go up significantly soon.

I'm having a love and hate relationship with Balatro. I'm trying to play harder and harder decks and I'm at the point where it's always me losing at the last ante due to some bullshit. Well time to start another round....

Oh that's neat, I changed my bsky handle to @threewave.com Still have the domain after all these years.

It's so pretty! The white limited edition Steam Deck OLED just oozes coolness.

Do you ever actually use the Scroll Lock key? If so, what for?

It blows my mind that we are over 8 billion matches of Dota 2 played. Since its unveiling at Gamescom in 2011 that works out to an average of about 19 matches per second for the last thirteen years.

20 years of Metroid Prime 2! This was a fun interview to do. Jack and I still get along great. Although trying to remember stuff from 20 years ago is always fascinating--I laugh when I see myself on camera rummaging around in my head trying to remember stuff.

I'm glad to be back in Canada. The BC and Federal gov't have spent almost a billion dollars on upgrading to fiber internet throughout the province and country. My provider just announced upgraded speeds available so I put the 10Gbps NIC on my motherboard to work. SO FAST!!!

Most times AI image generation spits out crap. But one use I've found for it is generating logos for my various group chats. Here's one I used for a group chat with my sister and her husband. We both live in British Columbia. She loves it.

Tinnitus sucks. A few times a day my left ear rings for about two minutes. Got tested and learned my left ear can't hear in the 2000Hz range anymore so there may be some damage there along with just getting old. Sigh.

Whoa, I'm guessing the block change on Twitter (X?) is causing a lot of people to sign up on BlueSky. I've had more follows in the last few hours than the last month! Welcome!

Unicode now has Pac-Man, 1CC6B through 1CC6E. "BLACK LARGE CIRCLE MINUS LEFT QUARTER SECTION" Is that Evil Otto I spy at 1CC6F? www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U...

Started playing Astro Bot this morning and can't help but smile a lot while I play it. So cute and fun.

I've enjoyed Siracha for years. I've started buying other hot sauces. Picked up a kanzuri based one with Carolina reapers and really love the taste of it. Oh no, have I started a terrible hobby? Will I be putting hot sauce on everything soon? Yum!

Today is my pup's birthday. Fiona is eight years old. She's an incredible dog and is loved by everyone who meets her. Happy Birthday Fiona! 🎂🎉🥳

After Nintendo left myself and the original team out of the credits for Metroid Prime Remastered, its nice to see id Software do it right and include everyone who worked on Quake II in its re-release. This should always be how its done.

Quake II Re-Master is out today! Includes the game and all its expansions and also Threewave Capture the Flag. Split screen coop too! Nightdive did a great job on the re-master. XB: https://bit.ly/47jHNnU PS: https://bit.ly/3YudsyV Switch: https://bit.ly/3s4rE5R PC: https://bit.ly/3OyjbiE

I also have this book. Its probably the most esoteric book I own and I love it.

I realized I hadn't posted a picture of Fiona yet. She's an amazing dog. Her favorite things are laps and chasing squirrels. She's a rat-cha crossbreed which explains it. She'll be eight years old this August.

Bluesky seems to be exploding with invites this weekend. I had so many people appear here for me to follow. Seems like we're starting to hit critical mass. Twitter got bought and then succumbed to enshittification. I wonder how many years we've got on Blueksy before it also enshittifies.

I was flying south to Oregon earlier this week and the flight passed right by Mount St Helens. Got an amazing picture of the crater. Still impressive after it blew up in 1980.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 My wedding anniversary to my wonderful husband is also in June so I get to double dip in Pride celebrations. Be strong, be proud, be awesome.

I've been noticing random minor ringing in my left ear occasionally over the last few weeks. It's not disruptive, just noticeable. I guess I'm getting old enough now that I'm starting to suffer from mild tinnitus. I hope it doesn't get worse! *ring*

I ordered fast food today via Doordash (lazy Sunday!) and noticed it offered a double dashing with an option to add to the order from a local drug store. There was an "intimacy" section in the order screen. Welcome to the gig economy: you can order a burger with a side of vibrator.

New digs. Simple and clean. Wonder how long that will last!