Brooke Yam

I find it helpful to think of LLMs as interpreting prompts as if they were preceded by "Try to sound like..."

"Try to sound like you are concise and analytic" Great, that is desired behaviour.
But "Try to sound like you haven't invented data" makes it clear why that part does not offer protection.

- Stardew Valley, again, but with mods. The mod community is HUGENORMOUS, including several mega content expansions - Stardew Valley Expanded and Visit Mount Vapius are good places to start. This took me from "wow I sunk 500 hours into this farm game" to *checks Steam* ...7694 hours. Welp.

- Okami, which is 40-80 hours, gorgeous, and so fucking relaxing. Your day job is doing favours for trees and feeding birds and also fighting monsters with the power of calligraphy. I have 100%ed it like 8 times and I will do it 8 more times probably.

- Bugsnax, maybe? Either you bounce off the controls in the first hour or the fruit with googly eyes and the queer fuckup muppet characters suck you in. Surprisingly deep plot, lots of side quests / cheevos to chase and oh no it's 4AM and I'm chasing a raspberry and have forgotten human civilization

- A Highland Song, combination exploration / rhythm game roguelite which is so beautiful and sweet and is one of those games I have bought on three platforms
- I keep having to slap my hand away from recommending IWATE
- Loddlenaut, underwater powerwasher sim with axolotls, short but engrossing

- Fossil Corner, a logic/sorting game where you categorize infinity trilobites while the protagonist ignores emails from friends unsuccessfully trying to get him to leave the house instead of categorizing fossils, but like, in a light-hearted way. Plus fossil... breeding? Somehow?

Well, cats don't have great colour vision, I'll cut my cat-parents some slack on the name.

BY THE POWER OF GREYSCRATCH! *She-Ra transformation sequence*

I deeply appreciate that within 30 seconds of making a post that was 50% meows, a trans catgirl has favourited it. Is she a bot, is she a terminally online cat, is it a coincidence, I do not care; it was magical.

Meow meow meow meow 37, 56, 88, 2, 12

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

Smear of vaseline in a hard to reach spot just before they have a shower, so they can re-enact cleaning the brie out of the bread knife through interpretive dance.

Pharmacist goals tbh

Ooh, yeah, silos off on the little island Grampa's shrine is on. And/or a bunch of hives with one (1) flower.

1. Naw. Horse whistle = ignore dat stable.
2. Silos in jail in the most miscellaneous corner possible
3. No sheds. In vanilla, deluxe barns hold almost twice as much plus animals. (But real answer I'm usually playing some ridic modded farm map with a custom giant cellar or greenhouse or something.)

HEEEEEE

I have a friend whose wife made him a DO NOT LICK THE LATHE sign for his machine shop.

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

Of course not, you're comics nerds, obviously identity politics is on your pull list. Subscription, smh.

*sobbing in mac gamer* LET US HAVE THIS

Rogue river blue, grom nom nom.

Image shows a screen grab from TikTok with King Charles standing in front of the throne in Canada’s senate. Text reads “CTV News Former PMs attend king’s throne speech”

That awkward moment when the king comes to do your throne speech and you realize that you’ve forgotten to update the, you know, throne.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Andrew Joseph White's YA goes HARD, dystopian horror where the queer, neurodivergent leads come out on top. Hell Followed With Us (biomedical gore warning) or The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

I did not!

No one needs to bribe Seanan to get more screwfly facts, they are an abundant natural resource in her presence. A reading answers the question "What if I were strapped in on an educational boat-ride at EPCOT, and the E stood for entomological?"

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY doot doot

Release announcement for the comic Motherlover, reading THEY'RE OUT NOW, in stores May 6. Alex, a tall brunette, bends Imogen, a plump redhead, backwards in a romantic kiss while confetti flutters around them. The image is very vibrant and colourful.

🌸 Happy birthday, Alex and Imogen Motherlover! 🌸

I'm so excited - not for the end of seven years of work, but the beginning of a new chapter of it being out in the world in physical form. And I'm so grateful, both for the chance to make it and for the support of everyone along the way.

Finally a dedicated shoe for serious Hip Flip athletes

The Longdark of Moria!

I assume it came out of a box from an xkcd fan in the delivery van there.

Including a statement that I was relieved it wasn't worse! It wasn't a purity test, it was an incredibly mild statement that didn't happen to centre how (some) people in other countries feel about my country's election, in my own post, on election night, to my tiny crowd of followers.