Funniest thing about a 300 day streak of Spanish on Duolingo - I was just served a shady car dealership ad in Spanish and was able to understand them saying you didn't need ID or a passport to lease a car from them.

Man. I really hate this country right now.

Besides a small couple of sessions, I haven't played dance games for the past 3 months (right after MotL). Look forward to getting back into it next week 🙂 (Also getting old sucks, you gain weight so much quicker if you cut down your normal exercise)

First in person Cowboys game in a very long time. Thanks to @tiza.bsky.social and his family for the invite!

It's very weird making a tweet that gets 30-50 likes in the first 6-8 hours, go to bed, and then find out it exploded 500x overnight to the point there's now a community note on it. It also sadly affirms what a cesspool that place is now judging by the average comment I see in my notifications.

Remember that story about a week ago of the GameStop at Grapevine Mills Mall that set a record because they paid $30,000 for a Pokemon card trade in? Guess what? They're now closing permanently.

Left dpad input stopped working on my Switch 2 Pro Controller. I do not recommend dealing with Nintendo's customer service. They try everything possible except just letting you sending in the controller for repair even if it's still under the 1 year warranty.

Taken from our local Discord, Mai Mai has returned to Dallas D&B! Not sure if this means D&Bs nationwide are getting them, but it is a welcome surprise.

Getting stuck in traffic because of a geese crossing. Just Kansas things.

This is Vampire Survivors mixed into Slay the Spire deckbuilding. No. no. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

PSA: Nike Free 5.0s are currently $57 (plus tax) if you use "ACCESS" promo code on Nike's site. I think this is the lowest I've seen a pair go for (my Twitter post history says $60 was the previous low). I don't see an option for women's sizes sadly, they only have the 2018s in stock.

You know you're getting old when your Steam account can legally drink.

It's the middle of November and I'm still going out in shorts and flip flops because it's still in the mid 80s here. I feel like our November has been hotter than our October, because Texas makes so much sense.

Yay civic duty.

Taken from our local Dallas DDR Discord. I....really want to know what happened here lol

This was still one of the better costumes I've done (given that I got 2nd place in my company's Halloween contest among 100+ entrants the year I did this.)

Akira fucking Yamaoka is doing a small US tour and is coming here? Yeah that's an instabuy. Got hooked up with the presale code too.

Random shower thoughts - Guitar Hero 3 might have the best licensed soundtrack of all time. There are way too many bangers on its song list.

Tried Ball x Pit since it's free on Gamepass (I'm canceling after this month because price hike). It's basically if Vampire Survivors merged with Breakout and you had 15 minute rounds instead of 30. Yeah this is getting all the dopamine hits for me.

Never forget what was taken away from us.

Landed home safely. Had a great weekend at MOTL! Bombed out of my (absolutely stupidly stacked) pool in DDR, but had a great weekend. Shoutouts to all the OhioDDR folks for continuing to put on phenomenal events. Going to take the next few days to recover from 5am beer pong.

Thanks Ohio?

There is an old school DDR tournament at Mistake on the Lake this Thursday. I'm in it. Do I wear my Rocky Mount X staff T-shirt, or my Konami US 2009 Vegas championship shirt?

Folks going to MOTL - anyone have spare space at a room at Best Western? For various reasons I wasn't able to confirm travel until recently, and all hotel rooms there had sold out.

I've never paid attention to most of Round1's food prices (and they do have some pretty good food and drink deals), but $31 for a bowling alley tier pizza is absolutely criminal.

I can finally go outside now. Despite a few very frustrating parts I hope they eventually patch, IMO this is up there with one of the best Metroidvanias ever made. Again, how the hell was this $20?

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

Rolled credits on Silksong today. There is still A LOT of content I've yet to go through. Game is absolutely massive. Overall game is great and criminally underpriced at $20, but it definitely needs a patch or two to balance out some of the more frustrating parts.

I beat the hardest Silksong boss - getting through 30 minutes of store crashes before actually getting to buy the game.

As someone who's played Hearthstone since December 2014 (Goblins vs Gnomes release) and how consistently GOOD the game was for almost 10 years, it's so sad seeing how fast the game deteriorated in a little over a year. Enshitification fully ran its course over the game and it's beyond saving now.

While getting my car serviced this morning, I successfully helped a woman who didn't speak fluent English by explaining in my gringo Spanish how to operate their coffee maker (one of those big touchscreen ones with everything in English). I think that's a win?

Wait, Pendulum dropped their first new album in 15 years today?!

Rogue Prince of Persia is made by the Dead Cells dev team and is literally Dead Cells x Prince of Persia. The game also has cross progression across every platform. And it's currently free on Gamepass and PS+. I...might forsee myself spending some time with this one.

Finally got around to playing Animal Well and got the credits to roll today. I think the hype is justified - game flat out plays well and the amount of secret discovering (especially after you "beat" the game) is vast. I'm still blown away they made the entire game fit around 40MB.

Earlier while playing DDR, someone on an adjacent cab came up to ask me how to change the difficulty on DDR World. I told them they're not crazy and showed them how to do it. I've had this interaction no less than 20 times in the past year. DDR World's UI might be the single worst thing ever made

De-rusting on DDR after not playing for a month+ is the biggest whirlwind experience ever. Set 1 - Struggling to read the arrows, my legs are wobbly, my timing is all over the place, I'm running out of breath playing 14s. Set 5 - I have 5p 75% of the way through on Aria ESP.

The Texan in me is screaming

Look, this country is a clusterfuck, especially in recent times. Once in a while, we do something that makes you proud to be an American. Televised T-Rex races on ESPN is one of those times.

I hate how long interview stuff takes, but thankfully have my next round of interviews scheduled for this week (and up to 2 more after....ugh). In the meantime, taking advantage of Funemployment and finished 100% DK Bananza last night. Phenomenal game, up there with Clair Obscur for GOTY.

Recruiter screening interview secured this week for a senior level position. Wish me luck!

Thankfully over the past two days, carpet padding has been replaced from flooding, outlet has been replaced, & have submitted job applications via a recruiter from my old work director (he left before I got laid off), which should at least get me an interview. Slowly trying to get back to normal.

If you're wondering how my life is going, the answer is "I had an electric socket apparently catch on fire due to the industrial grade fans plugged into the same circuit used for my apartment flooding a few days ago, which happened a week after being laid off." So, not the best ~10 days of my life

No explanation needed.

Not the news I wanted to deal with today, but sadly I'm joining Funemployment™ today due to layoffs. I've been networking out all day, but if I happen to have any friends that know of job openings in digital marketing (specifically Google/Youtube Ads centric), let me know!

Heads up for folks that used them - both the DDR Players and DDR+ITG Players groups on Facebook got suspended/nuked at the same time. Not sure if this is Facebook's auto AI doing this, or someone maliciously reporting the groups. We're waiting on appeal, but thanks a bunch Zucc.

Strong Switch Con™ the week after CEO. Just because I didn't have enough pool action last weekend.

Bruh.

These things somehow keep getting uglier.

Hooray 6:30am Walmart delivery with free Coke and Pringles. You know who would never do this? Best Buy.

Had our official postmortem TBD5 meetup with R1 GVM management today (yes 2 months after the event, getting everyone's schedules aligned is hard). For the most part, nothing but positive things in terms of management feedback!