sucks that AI is the next automobile - a tool that will be made all but necessary by dismantling cheaper, safer alternatives that already exist

Since Spotify is in the news again, I feel obligated to let y'all know that the best thing to come from ditching Spotify (aside from the inherent benefit of not supporting Spotify) is that most regular music player apps have a Shuffle feature that actually fucking works and that is a glorious thing.

A farmer is only as good as the crops they grow! In Uprooted, there are dozens of different crops at your disposal, from fruits and vegetables to mushrooms, eggs, paddy crops, and bees! Each with their own stats and abilities. How will you farm? #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #godotEngine #indieDev

What is Uprooted all about, you ask? Well, it all starts with the CTO of a meal replacement beverage startup who won't take no for an answer, siccing his robots on your farm because you refused to sell out to him! Why does a drink company have a robot army? 🤷‍♂️ #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

What's your favorite part of county fairs? The fried food? The cell phone carriers handing out branded garbage? The stands selling shirts with cartoon characters dressed up as gangsters? Well you can experience all of that in Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game! #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

Happy 20th anniversary to #neilBangingOutTheTunes and happy 7th anniversary to this drawing I have hastily corrected the number on. Also: new hat!

oh wouldja look at that -- we got a whole bluesky account just for the game now! isn't that swell?

No Context #ScreenshotSaturday

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

Rick Astley has a new single out, if you care. youtube.com/watch?v=wl2H...

Someone was telling me that their uncle has been missing for years, and that I can look them up on Wikipedia. So I immediately did so. And that's how they found out that their uncle was, in fact, no longer missing, but dead.

When I set up my RSS reader app (shoutout to @inoreader.com) I picked a few random feeds from the default categories and such, and since some of them were food industry sites, I now get to see riveting headlines like “Innovation featuring cherry flavors is accelerating” and I'm like "cool, great."

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Everyone should have to work in the service industry at least once

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 31. If this worked I'd be unstoppable. The end! Back to less exciting posts next year.

devs who write crappier code than AI are now putting out crappy code 10x faster

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 30. Whenever you think Bluesky kind of sucks, just remember how much worse it could be.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 29. Social media is great because years ago the odds of running into some weirdo screaming about minorities was comparatively low but now you can experience that constantly in a nice easy-to-digest feed right in the palm of your hand.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 28. Humans can be Sonics, too.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 27. I like to imagine that the Earth is stuck in a time loop and every few billion years it resets, but every other planet just continues linearly, so aliens like to visit Earth every now and then to see if the Earthlings did anything new on the current loop.

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 26. I hope nobody got a new printer for Christmas.

A simple one for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 25, and the only one even tangentially related to Christmas (I originally drew all of these in October, so a snowman is the closest we'll get).

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24. If something is true, it must be true in ALL languages!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23. This is a callout for myself. #usGamers #epicGaming #horrorGames

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22. I love when things I drew several years ago are still relevant now, it's such a fun thing to see. It's just a great time all around.

Saw a very bleak children's book today. A book about how cocoa beans are turned into chocolate sounds pretty great and fun for kids... but by HERSHEY?! "First, little boys and girls just like you go to work in the cocoa farms in Côte d'Ivoire for up to 14 hours every day to earn like 25 cents..."

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21. Good thing this one I drew a few years ago isn't topical anymore! Ha ha ha!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20. A fun two-parter where I pitched a fun children's show where Mr. Thinks would reach kids about different actions and the tools that could help them in performing those actions. It would've been quality content for children ages 4-9, but unfortunately, Mr. Thinks died.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19. This is the last Curse of the Dragon Prophet cover I drew, back in 2022. Then in 2023 I decided not to do the whole Draw Something Every Day In October thing so I could focus on game development, and skipped it in 2024 and 2025, too. Maybe there'll be more some day...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18. This is the one where you roll your eyes and say "Oh, look who took a single Art History course in college" but then the joke would be on you, because the reality is that I just spend too much time on Wikipedia and that's how I learned about all these things.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. I like the title of this one. Much simpler than most of the others, but I think it's a solid goof.

Switching back to Netscape Navigator, I guess. But in seriousness, Firefox will always be a niche browser for people who don't want what Google is offering... so trying to turn Firefox into the same thing as Chrome seems like a truly impressive case of not understanding their user base.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16. If every image had this much stuff in it, I'd be a bit more hesitant to keep the "require alt text for all images" feature on. But it's the right thing to do! And also fun fact for you the person reading this: that's a feature you can enable! In Bluesky settings! Do it!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15. The Curse of the Dragon Prophet book series even got its own movie adaptation, complete with whitewashing the main character, getting basic elements of the series completely wrong, bad special effects, and Tobey Maguire!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14. Drew this in 2019, a whole year after that last one, so clearly I was still determined to show JK Rowling a thing or two here. I'm proud of the witch with crocs.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13. Drew this in 2018, and I was probably already behind the curve then calling out JK Rowling for trying her best to destroy her reputation as a Beloved Children's Book Author in the name of transphobia. Somehow 7 years later the memo still hasn't reached everyone yet.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12. Pretty bad writing by Needledick to pivot his fantasy series into sci-fi in just the third book.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11. Like 5 years after I had drawn the previous one, I was inspired to make a squeakquel for Inkt*ber. Probably my least favorite of them, but you gotta see the worst before you can see the best! I do still like the FOIA joke, though.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10. I've put it off for too long. It's time for the real shit. Every "Curse of the Dragon Prophet" book cover I've ever made, starting with the one that started it all. Maybe I'll draw a new one before the year ends.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9. Gotta catch em all! #pokemon #pokemonLeaks #real #epic

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 8. What, were you about to scroll past this without liking and reposting? Seriously? No, it's fine. I mean, if I were you, I'd feel pretty bad not reposting original artwork made for your viewing pleasure on social media (which costs you nothing, by the way), but you do you.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7. Every time some rich dipshit talks about how they gotta have more kids than all of the dumb poor people, this is the future they want.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6. A while back I wondered if competitive eSports people have coaches like real athletes do. This was my guess as to what that'd look like.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5. When I originally drew this, the NFT bubble popped not long after. May reposting it bring the AI bubble the same fate.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4: I've drawn more mock newspaper cartoons than I can count, but this one might be my favorite.

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 3, I present a comic from my Socially Anxious Days.