I have a friend who follows me but is months behind on her timeline, and insists on reading everything going back that far, so I'll occasionally get likes on posts from ages ago. anyway, hi Helen.

tfw you have a decent run going in a roguelite and accidentally select "quit to desktop" after pausing and there is no confirmation prompt 🙀

hey did you know the new Psycroptic album fucks? it’s true. that’s it, that’s the post.

thought: stop calling it “production value” because the value it actually provides both developers and players is abysmal.

it’s kinda staggering how little i care about AAA games these days. i can’t even think of the last one i bought day-one or felt like was a truly unmissable experience. like, are they good? sure. but it’s been a long time where i’ve really felt like i’m missing out on anything by skipping one.

on the upside today, the new Moonspell album is pretty good.

real talk: how often is it in your workplace that you ask relatively simple and straightforward questions of coworkers, and then it takes multiple hours/days and repeated prodding for them to respond? I dunno, it just feels like everyone is checked out and mentally cooked.

really disappointed the air quality has started to improve again. I had a perfectly good excuse for not going outside, now I need to come up with an entirely new one, ugh

so I take it we're all in agreement that Waterfox is the Vaporeon of Firefox forks, right?

"we can't hit our deadline for the things we have to do, what if we simply said we'll do them later and pretend we hit our deadline?" project management is so cool.

i didn’t realize the scale went to 11 🙀

woke up this morning and was very disappointed to learn that it’s just smoke. i was hoping the yellow glow meant i would be able to become a post-nuclear apocalyptic cultist like i’ve always wanted

looks like PayPal “forgot” my currency conversion prefs again and has been doing the conversion itself (with exorbitant fees added). absolute scumbag company. reminder for anyone reading to check your settings. you have to do it for every linked seller individually, because yay dark patterns.

not to mention the fact that some nonbinary people identify with the trans label, some don’t. these are umbrella terms and it’s okay if someone considers themselves trans because they’re nonbinary, and someone else only calls themselves nonbinary, regardless of how they present themselves.

also maybe celebrate by supporting some enby game devs store.steampowered.com/curator/4610...

happy Nonbinary People’s Day all! (non-people also apply) 🖤💜🤍💛

hey all, it’s Nonbinary Awareness Week, do you know where your bineys are? (the correct answer is “no”)

if folks are mad about this, wait until they hear about the conflict minerals in all their beloved game consoles that are obtained via child labour and slavery

happy SGDQ '26 all, it was an awesome time being able to help out, even if it was in just a small way 💕

huh. Tunic looks kinda different.

this is so good, instantly installed. not plural myself but I love seeing this kind of thing for those who are!

I read an article from 404 Media about AI generated business signs and flyers earlier this week and now I literally cannot unsee them. they are everywhere in my neighbourhood and I hate it. please send help.

I like how I can link a producer a spreadsheet of details for a bunch of assets that need tasks, and the response is "oh no that's a lot, better get the AI chatbot to do it!" apparently folks are now so brain-rotted they cannot spend 5-10 minutes copy-pasting info that is already provided for them.

i continue to find it surreal that “budget” Nintendo Switch 2 games cost $85 Canadian before taxes

the voice of Bubsy just spent several hours yelling TRANS RIGHTS every few minutes at SGDQ and I needed this today

look I may be a small-time internet cat but I believe with the right investors behind me I too could activate 100 billion users every single day

i recognize the irony in complaining about this, but am i so tired of people complaining about things content creators, streamers, etc. choose to do. like yes, you don’t like what this person did? cool, are you going to go be the change you want? no? oh okay then. 🤦‍♀️

fun fact: you can in fact just mute or block users who decide to roll up in your replies to debate you on pedantic bullshit.

so after about a day with the Switch 2, my initial feelings. - the performance and load times are so much nicer. - screen is better than I expected. not the best ever, but totally okay. - awful ergonomics while playing handheld. - the joycons are worse to use than the Switch 1's. - it's too heavy.

folks who talk about Mastodon “losing the social media war” or whatever are completely missing the point. it’s not about user count when we’re talking about community run and driven web sites. it’s about people finding ways to build spaces they control and appeal to their specific niches.

game devs: if you are going to make a game with substantial collectable-based content that has significant gameplay benefits or story implications, it's on you to not make it a tedious grind. maps that don't suck. progress tracking. show things collected vs. not. no respawning mobs everywhere.

hi Tim, I hope you’re doing well. anyway I’m gonna need you to shut the fuck up now, thanks.

so tired of seeing these terrible looking stickers from apparently a single lone TERF in my neighbourhood. I've made it my mission to deface them wherever I encounter them, I guess, which feels less righteous and more just "I cannot fucking believe this shit"

do they make graphs that are good anymore? i’d like to see some of those like “oh the number of headpats per kitten is going up at a phenomenal rate” or whatever, that’d be a good one

wait, you mean we get *second* Pride Month?! oh hell yeah

in fervent defiance of regulations, I hereby announce I will be continuing my gayness beyond the allotted month of June, so help me god

good news everyone! we’re no longer making physical games. also we’re taking away digital games too. in the future, you will simply gaze upon your console from afar, like a work of art, never to be touched, only admired

i’m just gonna say it. Canada Day is just Pride for straight people.

so in the wake of pride I've been seeing more discussions online about kink at pride, nudity about pride, what is and isn't appropriate, etc. and I'm tired of it all. clothing is not sex. and the more we gatekeep what people "should" wear, the more it's just respectability politics nonsense.

dear Microsoft: if I can install apps through the Store, why can't I uninstall them from the Store?

me: "I don't like my height, I wish I was shorter" <goes to pride, cannot see anything over the crowds> also me: "...okay so maybe I could be taller actually"

jus an orange cat who wishes it was a black cat instead

hey look, Bell is trying to win me back with prices and internet plans that are <checks notes> significantly worse than what i have now

sooooo anyone got a new VPN recommendation?

the year is 2026 and Humble has somehow messed up "buying digital games"

saw a blacked-out SUV with South Carolina plates and a thin blue line American flag sticker sir, this is a Canada

just posting this so I can be in Madison Square Garden's "Facial Recognition Activists.docx", I always wanted to be on a list

i love it when I ask Amazon to ship two items together in the same delivery and then they go ahead and ship separately anyway, big fan of wasting resources and extra emissions

now that i’m officially a member of the d-cup club, i can say i am breasting much less boobily than the stories led me to believe