Oh man, we’re going into movie theaters. 😳 deadline.com/2026/03/megh...

Definitely not a metaphor.

There needs to be a technical term for the threshold where it becomes more efficient to write and debug a throwaway script and where it's more efficient to just miserably do something manually.

Okay, enough of all this anti-war sentiment, let's talk about Hair.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Getting around to watching the State of the Union. Finally hit the part where it goes off the rails, as you knew it would. People are starting to yell at each other.

Disaster.

Cookie Queens is screening at SXSW! March 13th and 15th. If you're near Austin, come say hi! schedule.sxsw.com/films/2253649

A deck-builder game about suing a shithead billionaire? I didn't even try the demo before pledging the kickstarter. :)

Not only was Firewatch incredible, but the wild marketing done outside the game was honestly brilliant: you could mail order your in-game photos and they would send you printed copies, and one person actually wrote in to order a paperback from the game and _they produced and sent it to him_.

I wonder if there are any 80s kids watching the Olympic opening ceremonies play the Triumphal March from Aida, who just got their shit rocked because they always thought this was the opening theme to The Hobbit on the C-64. youtu.be/l3w4I-KElxQ?... youtu.be/4ZLD0tBuEbA?...

Looking aside all the other awfulness of modern-day Twitter, I'm realizing that all it _ever_ feeds me now is vague shit, so I have to click on the Grok button to explain literally every tweet it shows me. I think this, as much as everything else, drove me away from there.

Online Sundance continues: Big Girls Don’t Cry hits some deeply uncomfortable notes about growing up. I cringed so much during it. That’s not meant as a negative. Everybody to Kenmure Street was so good. Absolute resistance role models.

Wrapping up my first Sundance experience. Time and Water kicked my ass, and Queen of Chess was good but didn’t blow me away. Spent most of our time doing Cookie Queens stuff. Next year, Olive and I might go to Boulder and just stuff our eyeballs with films for a solid week.

Finally got to see a second film at Sundance, and totally made an ass of myself gushing to @lizgarbus.bsky.social about her latest work afterwards. 😬 “Give Me The Ball!” gave me a lot of hope, though. I was grateful the waitlist paid out for me here.

“We all saw the video” is going to be the phrase of the year. I fucking hate it.

More notifications like this, please.

See, this is a popular misunderstanding, William. The doctor is actually named Frankenstein, not the monster.

I gritted my teeth and sat through the last 60 minute of The Substance so I could correct my original review: web.archive.org/web/20250107... It took me days to get through it, avoiding looking at the screen. The last part was easier to watch because it gets so grotesque that it becomes cartoonish.

Eddington is a wildly overrated movie.

Oh wow, someone built a profiler for DragonRuby Game Toolkit: pvande.itch.io/firestarter Super cool! I love the "please don't buy a commercial license until you make money" note, too. But sorry, good sir: it's an instant buy over here even without a specific game in mind. :)

Okay, the memes aside, this was unironically pretty good.

Start the new year with a really big SDL3 release! 3.4.0 finally shipped, before the stroke of midnight! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

The last ten minutes of Hamnet absolutely ground me down to dust. The ushers had to sweep my remains up with the discarded popcorn.

Play a 1050 ELO opponent on Duolingo: "This guy is probably a moron." Play a 750 ELO opponent on chess dot com: "This guy is probably an unstoppable chess assassin."

Everyone is very focused on the idea that Meta is going to make AI-powered glasses, and not the fact that they ate shit on trying to make the "metaverse" happen. Them fumbling this so badly is GREAT NEWS. For you, not them.

I can talk about this publicly now: we're in a movie about Girl Scouts, that's premiering at Sundance! A film crew followed Olive around for cookie season. If you find yourself in Park City, come watch me dance in a cookie costume. :) festival.sundance.org/program/film...

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Jesus Christ, my health insurance is going up by over 700 dollars per month next year! What the fuck?! Who the hell can pay this? Are we all just planning to die if we get sick from now on?

We nuked the half-finished HLSL compiler from MojoShader. I'm a sentimental wuss, so I asked Ethan to pull the trigger for me. Pieces of it live on in the (still pending) SDL shader language work, though. github.com/icculus/mojo...

Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard, you absolute fucking legend.

...and now PhysicsFS and SDL_sound (and more to come) are bridged to the wiki! wiki.icculus.org

Rebecca Heineman passed today. She was a unique talent, to understate things. Anyone could see that in her long list of accomplishments. But we are not just our catalogs of retail products. She was a force of nature, a light in the darkness. This is an unimaginable sadness.

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

ICE is in Charlotte now. They were snatching people off the street today. Apparently they are calling it "Operation Charlotte's Web." This is appropriate, because whenever you look at one of these motherfuckers, you can think "that's definitely some pig."

Realest thing I've ever read on the internet, honestly.

This is turning out to be a rough month for Rebecca. She has a GoFundMe for the ongoing medical expenses, for those that can chip in: gofund.me/6850175a3

Feeling just an absolute ton of burnout trying to get this 3.4.0 release out the damned door. Every bug still in the milestone feels like an uphill battle.

Not a big RPG player here, but I'm sort of hoping this one has a boss fight mode where you can just do the dance battles.

Game Day is today! Come tune in and watch me play through several games today (and tomorrow) while raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. I start in about 90 minutes at 9am Pacific time, going until 9pm tonight. If you drop into the chat, say hi. :) twitch.tv/humaninteract

🫡 github.com/ioquake/ioq3...

Yes! Fuck yes!!

Venba was really good, btw.

every videogame should be one and a half hours long and should damage you irreparably

Just under the wire on this one, lol

NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

Okay, first off: hell yeah!

Saw a ton of movies while Olive was away at her school's fall camp: One Battle After Another (good!), The Smashing Machine (bad!), The Long Walk (okay), A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (loved more than I should have), and Good Boy (didn't love as much as I desperately wanted to).

Make Short Games That Are Really Good.

I keep seeing these videos, and it's people with masks on, trying to snatch someone, and when there's any pushback at all, they literally flee. Neither cops nor military operate like this. I guess I'm asking: is ICE actually this weak, or are these just dudes with masks trying to snatch people?