Andrew Brown

I still consider many of you to be dear friends and if you would like to keep in touch with me, you are welcome in my Play Critically discord server. It's small, but active, where we mostly talk about videogames we're playing, TV shows and movies, and trying to find a job.

Thrilled to see so many more of you have abandoned the Other Place to make Bluesky your new social media home. I am avoiding all social media right now because making Donald Trump and Elon Musk's every move a major part of my life will make me so miserable I will never get anything done.

The Plucky Squire Review The Plucky Squire has an incredible premise that feels underutilized by its small final product.

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.
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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

I really let myself believe that Trump would shit himself to death when Florida was called for Harris early on night 1.

Florida let me down but that's my fault for taking all those "Florida is in play because of abortion, honest guys!" people seriously.

voting booth photo where someone behind a curtain visibly has their pants around their ankles

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

Shouting this at the 24 hour news channels. There is no use in making announcements literally the minute polls close! No use at all!

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

The electoral map was terrifying but the popular vote difference was only a few points.

Putting on whited out glasses and blasting my skull with green noise.

Last I checked it showed Trump has a 67% chance of victory, a number which will change as more data comes in, which is... not how probability works. You don't bet on a 2/3 chance in roulette then stand there smiling while the house adds 70 new numbers to the wheel.

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!

IF IT CONSTANTLY CHANGES IN REAL TIME THEN TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE 66% CHANCE OF WINNING THAT IS NOT HOW PROBABILITY WORKS THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS

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

Friend, there aren't going to be any senate confirmations in a second Trump administration.

Things felt really dark in 2020 on tuesday night too, now it's commonly accepted that Biden won that election handily.

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

Europa Review Europa’s whimsical movement and watercolor art style contrasts poorly with its dreary and misanthropic backstory.

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.

Dungeons of Hinterberg Review Looking backwards at Dungeons of Hinterberg, I will forget its weaknesses. When I am playing, they are impossible to ignore.

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.

We cant extinguish this noxious party once and for all until the depths of their vileness are common knowledge.

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