Reappearing here briefly to announce that I just posted my 200th review at playcritically.com for a little game from last year called The Plucky Squire. www.playcritically.com/2025/03/22/t...

I'm uninstalling Bluesky from my phone for my own emotional health. If I never return, I wish old friends and new all the best in whatever comes next.

The Red Mirage sucks. Wisconsin is not giving me good feelings. I know I should stop but I can't look away. I envy the drooling morons who are only vaguely aware there's an election tonight.

If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called

this image makes me more patriotic than any song or flag or parade ever could

I'm glad the Switch 2 has confirmed backwards compatibility so I can ignore my backlog on a whole new console.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Andy Kim wins election to U.S. Senate from New Jersey.

I am so surprised at how people are freaking out about a result announcement pattern that is exactly the same as it usually is. Big cities take longer. The west coast is still voting. Turn off cable news.

REMINDER: You shouldn't avoid the NYT election needle because it's behind a picket line (it isn't). You should avoid the NYT election needle because it conveys zero useful information while inflating your anxiety!

reminder that in 2020 we didn’t know the results until Saturday. get ready to keep the good vibes coming all week because this is probably going to be a similar situation

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

Happy #indie review day, this week's review is for Europa. Prompted by his deceased father's journal, Zee travels across the terraformed surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. A device that lets him rocket into the sky and glide back to the ground adds whimsy which is defied by a misanthropic backstory.

Happy bonus #indie review day, I finished this Dungeons of Hinterberg review a few weeks ago but couldn't find time to post it. Luisa goes to Hinterberg for a vacation filled with magic, monsters, and dungeon crawling. The setting and puzzles are wonderful. The movement and combat is mediocre.

Nintendo choosing the perfect time to confirm Switch 2 backwards compatibility

Okay, I popped into a results livestream to see if this was gonna be an election where we have the results before the west coast sits down for dinner. It's not gonna be one of those elections. So I'll try to concentrate on something else this evening.

Fucking Florida, man.

5pm on the west coast, let's see if I can get any writing done tonight (narrator: he got no writing done that night).

It's gonna bug me for years that Echoes of Wisdom has main quests called "A Rift in the Faron Wetlands," "The Rift on Eldin Volcano," and "Rift on Holy Mount Lanayru." That's the kind of thing I would have refused to let go back in my copyediting days.

I know Hell's Kitchen has really turned itself around since the days of Raj and Elise but it still feels weird to start a new season and see that all of the contestants are competent.

You otter vote today

I had this problem in Oregon when I voted for Kerry, twenty years ago. This is a known problem. The lack of a solution is because it's being exploited to suppress votes.

Oh wait this strike means we won't have the fucking election needle? Bless these folks, they should go on strike in November every four years.

They're all subconsciously aware that they can only rally the support of mediocrities, but they can never articulate and internalize that feeling, hence the constant railing against "elites" despite most of them coming from the wealthy and privileged classes.

Me in my living room on election night

Jesus christ, he could spend his life playing Diablo 2 or Diablo 3 and instead he chooses to spend it playing Diablo 4 and destabilizing democracies. What a buffoon.

Today’s the day. VOTE!

this cures what ails me every time

I think the last SNL sketch I saw was Beavis & Butthead and whoever this new guy they got to do Trump is way better than Alec Baldwin.

Guys, not to be a softie, but a ton of people thought this election was over in June. Tens of thousands of us have worked our asses off (for real, not just via poasting) to bring us to tonight, where we are favored on election eve. Now let’s make tomorrow the worst fucking day of Donald Trump’s life

One reason I've been cautiously optimistic this time around is, despite the similar numbers, a key difference is nobody was taking the win for granted this year.

This list of likely Trump voters so fundamentally misunderstands the characters I assume it was made just to make people like me mad. Well, mission accomplished. Ron Swanson would never.

Minor point but "half the country" remains a very wrong way to describe close elections. Registered voters are ≈48% of the population. Among registered voters, ≈70% vote. In 2020, a mere 22.4% of the country voted for Trump. Not "half."

You know what's more annoying than people who don't apply alt text? People who act really self righteousn about alt text and treat themselves like a martyr for stepping into the replies to do it themselves. Behaving like a smug, obnoxious little shit convinces nobody. I thought we learned this.

And he’s right

(manifesting)

I also firmly believe that we need to crush these people’s spirits into blood and earth, not be *nice* to the amoral supporters of an aspirational gore-soaked dictator

Babes in Toyland, in which Keanu sings about the wonder that is Cincinnati.

My office in downtown Portland has told us to work from home Tuesday and Wednesday "out of an abundance of caution," so I guess the threat of mob violence is just a normal part of US elections now.

I suspected some of the SNL people didn't tell anyone at the network about Harris' appearance until it was too late to do anything about it. Everything that's happened since has convinced me that is the case.

Aw yeah, commercials with talking snowwomen, it is that time of year.

Stardew Valley update 1.6.9 is live Full changelog: www.stardewvalley.net/stardew-vall...

Grammar tip. Use a hyphen when you have an adv-adj-noun structure like “twice-impeached goon” if the adv modifies the adj. However, -ly adverbs like “obviously corrupt narcissist” require no hyphen. Have a great week!

The New York Times Tech Guild is on strike. This is a media story but also a video game industry one: The folks who develop Wordle and Connections are part of this — and as such, the Guild is asking people not to cross the digital picket line by not playing NYT's games.

Happy #indie review day, this week's review is for Europa. Prompted by his deceased father's journal, Zee travels across the terraformed surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. A device that lets him rocket into the sky and glide back to the ground adds whimsy which is defied by a misanthropic backstory.

i once got a stern talking to for telling a reader to “eat my ass”

Nintendo Network is dead. Fishguy6564 was the last remaining Mario Kart 7 player on Nintendo Network and their 2DS finally crashed o7

Here's a first draft.

Happy #indie review day, this week's review is for The Fear Business. Investigative reporter Sarah McPherson catches a murderous cult on film, but finds her exit sealed. She must solve puzzles to escape the Solomon Manor while she is hunted by a goat-headed mutant in this survival horror throwback.