Legit some of my favorite artwork and T-shirt

So far today I got a paper cut on my tongue from licking an envelope and one under my fingernail from opening another

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Signed up for Qobuz recently and thought I got French spam with this email newsletter from them: "Qobuzissime Retrospective—Miso Extra, Mei Semones, Marlon Williams, Marshall Allen, Mélanie Laurent, and more"

I started my GOTY post much more introspective but rewrote it to acknowledge both BDS and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund purchasing EA. This is so important now.

Announcing our top 10 games of 2025! I'm very proud of the pixel art I made, I found Aerith and part of Maelle online, but created Simon from Blue Prince, Melinoe, and Pauline on my own, it was fun! The background is from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social's Old Skies firsthour.net/goty/2025-ga...

Nothing illustrates the sad downhill slope Community took after season 3 when in season 6 the opening intro has just art and no names.

Maybe the relaunch of my site isn't actually going that well...

Switched over to @waterfox.net after the latest @firefox.com AI news, so far so good!

Part of the onboarding process to Postman now includes an AI chat bot with no way to skip it, you literally have to interact with it to proceed. That sucks.

Expedition 33 still doesn't run well on the Steam Deck, worth a shot though

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

So it seems like @eclipse.org shut down their forums so now there's just a million dead links in search results. Great. Couldn't have just made it read only??

Order of the Sinking Star looks like a blast

Game awards flute guy for GOTY

Would straight up prefer appreciating amateur or bad art than literally anything AI generated. I hate that I have scrutinize so much now

Currently not using Spotify, hoping to switch the family to like Qobuz soon (why does that sound like one of those fake video streaming services?). Instead I'm just listening to the mp3s I downloaded between 1998 and 2009, they still work!

All this AI at their fingertips and they still double space between sentences.

@tasharobinson.bsky.social So happy to see you finally covering AFTER LIFE on @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social, I watched it in early 2020 after hearing your recommendation and it kicked off my love for Kore-eda who is now my favorite director, thank you and can't wait to listen to the episode

As long as they don't take Consolas from us

Really love my top 10 games of 2025 list I'm putting together, an impressive year of releases

My review of Angeline Era is out and so is the game! Check out this fantastic 3D action game from the creators of Anodyne firsthour.net/full-review/...

My Angeline Era review is ready for tomorrow, can't wait to share my thoughts!

With Micron shutting down their consumer RAM business in Crucial, how long until Nvidia stops selling consumer GPUs?

My number one song was hooked on a feeling the ooga chucka ooga ooga song

Look Back from the 🐐 Hirokazu Kore-eda

I know it's just a band-aid, but I appreciate how Firefox has an unload tab feature now

8 days to angeline era!! Today... meet some of our little low-poly creatures!! We utilize a mixture of vertex colors and texturing to give them a kind of retro-modern flair. store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social! “Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God. Learn more (and wishlist!) over here: store.steampowered.com/app/3979770

My replay of the Blackwell series from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social is complete, and I'm happy to confirm that Blackwell Epiphany is the best game of 2014! firsthour.net/goty/2014-ga...

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

On the last episode @nextlander.com brought up whether you call it "Clair Obscur" or "Expedition 33". Funny enough before I played it I called it the former when talking to my son about it and then switched to the latter after playing it

I now have six "perfect" games on Steam and five of them are the entire Blackwell series from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social, more to come on this very soon...

A friend of my parents supplied us with our family's first PC and many more after that. I've been a software developer for 20 years now. That man went home from the hospital today on comfort care likely to die in the next few weeks. I'm going to him tomorrow to tell him what he meant to me.

As soon as I buy Metaphor: ReFantazio Atlus will announce the FES/Golden/Royal edition I just know it

I'm now re-reading The Goblin Emperor for the sixth year in a row! Earlier this year I went to a reading from @pennyvixen.bsky.social and had my hardcover copy signed! Cozy reading to finish the year!

Scattered and Lost from @lena.fyi rips so hard, I'm in my office whistling and finger drumming at a mad pace

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth OST is still not on Spotify

A little over 10 years ago, The Dissolve shuttered and we started a niche movie podcast that only we had the power to shut down. This week, we celebrate the 500th episode of The Next Picture Show with a special episode on the film that inspired the title: megaphone.link/FILM9131237121

Just finished Seance of Blake Manor, holy crap what a great game. This year has been insane for video games and here's another banger

I just realized you can discuss individual people with suspects in The Seance of Blake Manor, do I ever need to do that??

I wrote about my friend Paul Abbamondi, who was a friend and frequent contributor to First Hour. He passed away back in 2019 but I still think about him often, especially around writing about games. And Suikoden II. I miss you. firsthour.net/blog/remembe...

Steam Machine very intriguing for me as a dad who built two PCs for his kids and is forever stuck playing Steam games on my docked Steam Deck on my TV with a controller

Christoph Waltz just casually in both Frankenstein and Dracula this year

Really looking forward to the weekend you guys

When is Bluesky going to allow me to disable self-reposts, just muted an account I really like because I'm sick of seeing their same posts 5 times a day

Watching a lot of washing machine videos because we're thinking about buying a new one and so many sound like weirdo libertarian "this here is the government mandated Eco button where it only uses one inch of water"

I picked up The Seance of Blake Manor yesterday and it's such a sicko investigation deduction game wow

Here's my rudest skeet, reply if you see it damnit