Train cancellations mean I'm stuck waiting to be picked up, so I'm doing some writing and editing on my Ace Attorney fangame. I have to cut down *so* many things that are like, Character: *something disproportionately angry* Phoenix: (Wow, this guy seems angry.)

There's lots of reasons to not edit while still writing—reasons I will continue to ignore despite everything—but one I keep running into is: I'll refine a scene to be cleaner, letting me then have more going on inside it, but the word count will actually be lower, making it feel like no progress.

Okay, but if people just simply understood my pipe dreams, they would want them too! I just need to make them understand...

There are very good reasons we're moving away from this approach, but I'm still quite proud we managed to pull off these morphs mostly seamlessly. This was a test I built for when we redid the layout and morphing logic for AGDQ 2023, and this isn't even showing the method we ended up going with!

Folks, it's a bit late, but it's now time for the #AGDQ2026 BROADCAST GRAPHICS MEGATHREAD. Let's talk shop!

The Curse of Monkey Island is so imprinted on my brain from childhood, that despite different locations in the same space will use variations on the same theme for their music, I can precisely remember and start humming the specific variation for almost every screen from memory. Chat, is this good?

be your own biggest fan even when you don't think you deserve it

The year here ends the same as it began: with fireworks being set off that should be illegal.

So there's an element to these kinds of dishonest posts and pages/accounts which really pisses me off beyond the, it's dishonest, it's bullshit, it's stealing your time and energy It's also exploiting good human emotions to *encourage apathy and inaction*

"(excitedly) Thank you street shitters!" - @cloudcuckoocountry.bsky.social out of context during Jackbox

Happy "Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas" day to all those who celebrate

Farkin hell a) McHerron J is in the handful of most able judicial review judges across all benches in NZ. b) The orders here are, in judicial terms, worded extremely strongly. Clear implication that corrections cannot be trusted to follow the court's interpretation of the law w/o mandatory orders.

I enjoy a good judicial ruling where the judge is clearly unwilling to tolerate any more fucking nonsense.

Seeing basically no news about the Bondi shooting on BlueSky without going into trending feeds, and even logging into X for the first time in a while, it's tumbleweeds. Elon's systematic destruction of Twitter has truly dismantled and eliminated a key way to actually keep up with live news.

A thing about defeatist politics I sometimes think about is, while the much more obvious effect is making people believe achievable things are impossible, a more subtle poison it provides is making actually impossible things seem like they're still up for debate, which just wastes everyone's time.

You didn't lose because you promised too much, you lost because you spent the first term setting up working groups who you fucking ignored and then despite a historic majority you entered a flow state of DOING NOTHING WILL KEEP VOTERS HAPPY that ran from Ardern to Hipkins and lost the 2023 election.

Chris Hipkins strategies are looking at Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris and going "yes, what I need to do is be like them and not scare people because the right wing will attack us if we promise anything good so we must promise managed decline and continuity" which is so fucking stupid I could cry.

Wow. Just absolutely pitch perfect cold porridge no salt or sugar politics. 2026 is going to be National going "let us finish the reforms we started..." and Labour going "no let us finish the reforms they started". Dog shit politics, absolutely terrible.

With the news that Calibri is woke, and Times New Roman is MAGA, it's time we determine once and for all the political leanings of all typefaces.

This puts a lot better a lot of the frustrations I've been having with how Labour and its party staff approach politics and progressivism. Like, it's not *just* that their position is weaker than I'd like. So much of it is just being straight up bad at politics.

Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵 Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research. Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found. #nzpol

FFS.

Four week battery life? I prefer my things stand four strong battery life.

On the train to work today, school kids were quoting Charlie the Unicorn, and using the r slur, what year is it

Incredibly minor software design complaint: if a button in your desktop application doesn't look like a link, or it doesn't specify it will open a browser with text or a modal, then it shouldn't fucking open a browser.

Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree

What is the charge? Eating a pie? A succulent handheld meat pie? This is Democracy manifest!

In the US they only have fruit pies, served by the slice. It's likely one of the reasons they are failing as a state.

In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead

I am begging the people posting about nzpol on my timeline, to please understand how MMP works.

Okay I just need to get these things out of my system: "Labour are splitting the vote by running against Green candidates!!!" no they aren't, you KNOW how MMP works, and this is a shit argument when it's the other way around, so it's also a shit argument now

Oh, so I should stop using em dashes because of AI since LLMs are DESIGNED to emulate well-structured professional writing LIKE MINE? I gave up my addiction to inappropriate use of semi-colons & ellipses. Em dashes are my approved therapeutic alternative. They'll pry them from my cold, dead fingers

Duncan Garner may just be some bus stop drunk with a podcast these days, but it's good to see he hasn't lost his journalism skills, particularly the act of just shitting a few numbers and coloured rectangles over a stock image of the beehive.

It can be hard to feel like progress is being made when writing for a visual novel instead of prose, because almost all the words are dialogue, so the word counts grow so, so much slower.

I love writing a joke into a story just to lighten things or be silly, only to later realize I can actually pay that joke off in the story. Makes me feel like I'm much better at planning than I actually am.

TV election broadcasts have existed for almost 70 years, and still the people working these broadcasts can't frame graphics or camera shots to avoid important things being covered by lower thirds

I will never understand how so many Americans and Brits on this site can stumble upon NZPol posts, reply or quote post assuming it's about their politics and adding complete non sequiturs, and then not immediately delete the posts out of embarrassment the moment this is pointed out to them.

Why does Firefox run a crash helper in the background? It should be stopping crashes, not helping them!

Future @supportclass.net clients are going to have a hard time topping this thank-you gift we got from @fish866.bsky.social in the form of a branded competitive nerf blaster

Just finished playing Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and I feel like I understand now why all the people I've encountered who've played it generally speak highly of it.

How dear the media council ask us to evaluate our sources in order to expose fundamental bias.

Media council said RNZ should have recognised the story was pushed by a group with an anti-trans agenda and been more careful about balance as a result. Rnz have basically just said “no, we refute that entirely” in a way that shows an absolute misunderstanding of the context we currently operate in

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, RNZ.

My preferred coffee spot has memorized my order, which means it's been a good run, but I must now hide myself away for a few months to escape object permanence.

Dumb idea: make a TTRPG in a historical or real-world setting one of your friends is a nerd about, but only reveal this after they're committed to a character who knows absolutely nothing about them. Increasingly get details wrong as time goes on.

I've been sitting for a couple years on my favorite thing I've done musically, but I keep not wanting to publicly share it because it's ostensibly for a game project, but at the same time, that game concept is too big for me to realistically make.

I'm curious about something: If I tell you that something taking 2 hours is a "conservative estimate", do you interpret that as: A. The thing probably could take less than 2 hours. B. The thing probably could take more than 2 hours. Is there contexts where your answer might flip?

Writing discrete when you actually mean discreet is one of those entirely understandable errors that's not worth pointing out most of the time, but it's also *really* funny sometimes when it completely changes the intended meaning.

One big weakness with my writing is, I often get stuck in snark loops. Someone will say something, another character will have a snarky response, character defends themselves, but says something the other character can continue snarking about. Good at easing tension. Not great at moving forward.