For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

I wrote a blog post? now surely that can't be right ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...

I wrote a blog post? now surely that can't be right ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...

i just wanted to play Santa

It's that time of the year again

It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email. flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210... tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si

It's weird, I could swear we as a society figured out the optimal UI for "logging into a webbed site" a good 30+ years ago, but lately devs keep trying to come up with new and innovative ways of making it worse.

The phrase "perfectly balanced" being associated with a Marvel villain is stolen valor from Guthix.

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements. retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Extremely disappointing that yet another thing I care about seems to be catering towards pure, shameless hatred. Here's hoping the admins come to their senses before too much damage is done.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Xp... haha what if I took my channel that's almost exclusively for game dev and used it to make a youtube poop, wouldn't that be crazy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Xp... haha what if I took my channel that's almost exclusively for game dev and used it to make a youtube poop, wouldn't that be crazy

Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!

Sudden flashback to using Gameshark on the N64 port to skip a fight I was stuck on, only to corrupt my save in a way where one of the area warps always led to an out-of-bounds forest section.

Let the sad times paunch! New Strong Sad Paunchbaby from @fangamer.com. Get yours here: www.fangamer.com/collections/... youtu.be/vdh97LOknp4?...

And it's done! Just southeast of Atlanta, GA. Felt appropriate to place it around there.

Well, wplace seems to be having some issues at the moment so here's the mostly finished Stinkoman art I've been making.

The Sonic Frontiers soundtrack rules. It's like a nine hour grand sweeping orchestral suite that keeps getting interrupted by the dubstep rave and the heavy metal concert next door.

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...

I'm not one to talk about NSFW topics or media online generally, but this ongoing wave of delisting and deplatforming creative works is extremely concerning. I made a call the other day that I *think* went well, but if nothing else I at least want to help get the word out.

Currently at the "my NES emulator is actually kind of coming together" stage of being cooped up in my house.

If you missed it, over the weekend I put up a post documenting my progress learning how to write an NES emulator, using Godot: ratheronfire.com/thoughts/dev...

for this year's Steam Summer Sale, I have for you one (1) apology and also one (1) demand store.steampowered.com/developer/ti...

You can clearly tell who had Lego Island as a kid based on how they feel about free roam in the new Mario Kart.

while i wait to hear back from an employer (and to prep for the impact of rent), i've decided to open commissions to help bring romhack ideas into reality. i would prefer payments to be upfront. price and more info in the little video below and in replies. dm if interested! #romhacking #commissions

I'd been itching to get back into OSRS lately but after this cowardly display I don't really think I can justify it. Maybe it's foolish to expect full-hearted support for pride from a corporation like this, but the OSRS dev team always felt genuinely supportive and stifiling them like this is wrong.

Finally got around to setting up one of those Patreon things. I really don't need a lot of funds right now, just setting this up because of the upcoming payment changes. For now this is mostly just for fun I guess! patreon.com/ratheronfire

Hey, happy Pride Month! I don't really have anything deep or insightful to say, other than that I hope in our lifetimes we'll see a Pride Month that isn't so fraught with terror and hatred.

I'm choosing to take personal credit for saving Giant Bomb. You're welcome everyone, turns out all it took was a single post on an obscure Neocites blog that gets ~30 views a week.

Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join

Turns out I had more to say about Giant Bomb. ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...

In honor of Giant Bomb as it's being ripped apart for no good reason at the hands of executives with more money than sense, here's the first video I saw that led me to the site: www.youtube.com/watch?v=crw0...

Royal Carrier Pigeon Trustworthy all the time First Clip: @skullvolver.bsky.social #RoyalRoyale

I think about this review of DIe Hard 5 a lot.

Extremely early look at something I've been working on for the Stinkoman Godot remake. @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Sure, the world is actively falling apart, but what am I gonna do, *not* write a blog post ranking the Sonic games? ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...

10 years ago this week, I started work on Tunic. The game wouldn't have been the success it was without LGBTQ+ folks, both devs and players. So, I'm matching donations to Trans Lifeline. If you can spare $5 (or more!) reply with your donation and I'll X2 it. Thank you! 💕 give.translifeline.org

A Super Mario 64 globe

Remakes and remasters are all the rage, universally loved and respected, so @runbutton.bsky.social is playing through all the sonic games again youtu.be/itFHGt2P5wQ

Remastered 2022 Decemberweenvent Calendar with all new dumb crap added! Follow along! Follow astray! Watch all 24 days here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxC7...

as a longtime giant bomb fan this is 8000% the funniest cut to audience they could have done during the snoop performance. fuck it up jv

If that Lord of the Rings cozy hobbit village game doesn't end with Saruman turning up and murdering half of the town I'm not interested.

Been writing a bunch of assorted blog posts lately, and because I have the power to do whatever I want here, I'm gonna just plug them all now and there's nothing you can do to stop me!

ceo: you have FAILED to hit the sales quota!!!!! [shoots entire dev team with the ray gun that turns man into ape]

Over the past month or so I've been obsessed with Balloon SMP, a surprisingly deep group storytelling project done through Minecraft. I wrote some words about it here, if you're interested in reading. #balloonsmp ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...

URGENT!! Kind of an odd post from me, but one of my friend's cousins has gone missing, if anyone is in the CT area or could just spread this around, it would be helpful. Her name is Samantha Tobey and she's from Enfield, CT www.wwlp.com/news/connect...

Hey, what if I decided to do something dumb and try to rank all the Sonic games? ratheronfire.com/thoughts/uno...