Scott Stein 🥑

Working on story drafts while lamb roasts

What was your favorite game of the year? Right answers only

Who’s hanging out in the desert with music

1. You’re not in the desert that long and I liked how quiet it was, I didn’t think about music
2. That’s all, Metroid Prime 4

Groceries

It’s soup weather *****

Streamberry will be able to generate so many quantum instances after this

Quest Pro was fall 2022…and it wasn’t their first, just the first after the name change

Warner Bros is like this cursed relic that everyone keeps trying to acquire

The Design of Everyday Things wonders why if we’re bad at precision why do machines require precision so much. But also isn’t that because we desire and fantasize about precision

What is happppppening

I can totally see that!

Pantone names its Color of the Year for 2026 | CNN Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color to do precisely that. And it has settled on a shade of ...

Pantone making the color of the year white is epic trolling. Also, disgusting www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/s...

Dye shift notwithstanding, we’re about to enter the biggest new phase of interface design in a long time

Morning

Sektori swapping between Steam Deck and PlayStation Portal

The difference in time-space flow between Metroid Prime 4 and Sektori couldn’t be greater. Just reflecting on two games I’ve been playing this week

The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.

One of those best game lists I always like to browse…I like a big sprawling roundup with deep cuts www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

I beat the first level finally. Once. Getting to the point where I can sense things beyond my cone of vision. Good use of motion style for peripheral awareness of power ups

Sektori. Ok I get it. This is my tantric rave shooter of choice now

Maybe he should just focus on making movies

Reading The Design of Everyday Things and realizing that social media’s design makes us internalize the emotions of its failings

People only listen to music from the time periods where they originated

I listen to soundtracks.
I am a movie.

So if you listen to songs from a time period you’re from that time period? Magic time travel.

It’s people following algorithmically goosed virality and trying to strip mine it, the content itself doesn’t even matter

Whoa

The weirdness, the hype, the bubbles, the acceleration. There could be crashes coming, but the weirdness is going to keep multiplying

Not a good emotional journey, being cut off temporarily from stuff you think is yours

It’s back now. As I gave up and started reading a physical book about design and behavioral expectations