Alright, need some help with this. Working on a game that is basically a clone of early Ultima - single player RPG, tile based movement, uses the entire damn keyboard - that sort of thing. What I want input on is sound. 🧵

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Normalize calling it the Epstein Shutdown

Friday night schadenfreude.

Better yet, how about we let you suffer the consequences of your actions, Sam?!

Oooooh, I still haven't seen Stalker either... Solaris is a fucking masterpiece, and The Mirror is gorgeous even if I don't remember much of it after sixteen years.

...I'm going to have to ask the Discord for help again, aren't I?

Not me checking my document access history to see if the editor read it yet. Nope. Not me, never, noooo.

Good news: I have successfully written in the commands for equipping weapons and armor. Bad news: The dialogue array I've been using is apparently Bad Now, and is crashing the game every time I try to equip weapons after moving the character around. Further research will be needed after sleep.

Another busy day comes to a close...and now it's time to write some goddamned code.

Now Playing: Yuzo Koshiro - Actraiser OST Three albums deep into my morning. I need more coffee.

Game publisher execs are about two more fads away from putting all their faith in literal magic beans. They went all-in on services, all-in on NFTs, all-in on AI. Every time they’re convinced they’ve invested in a divine cure-all. They believe in magic the way a child might. Except kids learn.

Twelve. Fucking. Discs. Of. Yes. Why, yes, I would enjoy listening to the messiest Yes album from the height of their creative output for twelve hours. Please. Stick that madness directly into my veins. usstore.yesworld.com/products/tal...

Now Playing: The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow Logged in for overtime at the day job and plugging more lines of code into my game in between. I also need to get back to work on the novella this morning, see if I can push the needle a little further on that.

Correct. Fuck FNAF.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

NESBOOK IS FUNDED! But there's still a week to go! Over half the signed tier gone! And stretch goals to aim towards! So I'm afraid I'm going to be spending at least another week pushing it! :D BUT IT'S FUNDED THOUGH! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...

Judging by my feed, I’m the only asshole on this platform that just hated the pop star demon killing movie. It’s like I’m reliving the time following the release of the Mario Bros movie.

If you see this, quote with a female anime character you love. Cheers to the Babbages dvd bin where I found the first volume of Haibane Renmei twenty years ago. Five bucks for anime in 2006 was a fucking steal.

I have three more pages to clean up on this article, but it's so nice to keep clicking back over here to see the party. Just gotta love some good fucking news.

It's been a half hour since the AP called it for Mamdani and already I see some people wringing their hands about how the cards are stacked against him, and to them I say, my friends, learn to enjoy a fucking moment, they didn't come around near enough, the man of the hour is partying, take the hint

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

*rubs eyes.* *twice* Good news in the election results? Surely I must be hallucinating, we don't get good news out of politics anymore!

Time to decide this race for good.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin... Just over £1000 left - that's only a few more backers and NESBOOK is ready to roll! Every NES game matters, good or bad, licensed or original, translated or untranslated, official or homebrew - and every aspect of that incredible library gets its due in NESBOOK.

I mean…okay…but today isn’t the day I’m going to party over. Either way. Rot in hell, Dick.

I think these are the final revisions I have to do on this article…

Cheers to @nickjcal.bsky.social, and God help him for even looking at the comments. Vitally important statement about Another Fucked Up Thing The Fascists Did, and one worth every second of the run time.

It was always about the "right" politics in video games, and the silence of video game companies is defeaning. An extra episode of Unpacked is available now from @nickjcal.bsky.social.

Good News: I have implemented tick mechanics, and they are working as well as I could expect. I even have enemies attacking the player now. Bad News: Literally everything happening with the player HP value. Seriously, what the fuck, clamp function, are you even awake?

And finished. Also, I have no idea how to set the more complicated poses. I tried.

Baaaack on my bullshit!

ICYMI - Our own @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social wrote an incredible think piece about one of my favorite directors and his uncanny ability to forsee the state of world! #JamesGunn #Vulture.com

Huh, seems bad.

At least one run per year. If not two.

Zero reason to not play one of the best damn games to come out of the retro shooter revolution. Unless you just don’t like retro shooters, and if that’s the case, please have a lovely evening not playing Dusk, which I think is a very good game.

Finally got to watch Spinal Tap II tonight, and I am so fucking happy that the Korg Hatsune Miku guitar pedal was part of a dramatic scene in a comedy. I loved it.

Sixteen years with this amazing person. I can’t tell you how lucky I am.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

Back this new book! Or just share the project, it all helps! We're super close now! 75%+ with 13 days to run! But don't wait - the more backers we get sooner, the more stretch goals we unlock. www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...

That costume looks really uncomfortable. Maybe some gloves to fake the robot hands instead of the claw hands would be a good fix.

I shouldn't be so excited about where I am in this project, but I am.

How long til Trump invites him here to give him a cabinet position?

This motherfucker doesn't pay taxes and somehow manages to lose more money than I could conceive spending on even my wildest of creative dreams. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/m...

Alright, time to publicly bitch about a minor annoyance - Microsoft Notepad. I have used Windows PCs for ever - as many of us have - and for my actual job that pays my bills, I use Notepad to do a lot of things. It helps when I take calls, it strips annoying formatting and fonts out of things.

Soderbergh makes that a damn fascinating possibility.

Nearly at 13.5k! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...