Zoid Kirsch

Something a bit different than my usual video game content! Two years ago we were invited to help produce a quirky coming of age film about a family of bearded ladies. The Bearded Girl premieres at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 17th. Check out the teaser trailer.

Thanks Trump.

Enabled Proton stuff in Steam and Balatro runs well! So far perf is so much better that Windows on the same hardware.

You really understand how bloated Windows is when you get stuff running under Linux.

So far, got World of Warcraft running well under Lutris. Will see how it goes during our raid tonight!

I'm installing Ubuntu Linux to try out gaming on it again on my primary PC. During the install it showed a banner with "Great for gaming!" with a picture of Dota 2. I'm like, cool, I helped make that.

Watched Netflix's Adolescence again with a friend. Still a gut punch--the ending just tears me up emotionally.

It's so well written and produced and the acting is just stellar. Stephen Graham's performance as Jamie's dad is a particular standout. You can just feel his despair.

Highly recommended.

Every once in a while I remember @hbomberguy.bsky.social 's "most fuckable twink" line from his video on plagiarism as the funniest thing I've ever seen in a video and quietly chuckle to myself.

I need to stop doom scrolling. Fuck.

One of the weirdest (worst?) things of recent news is having to explain "Leopards ate my face" to friends and family. Sigh.

I didn't expect Calliope to be autobiographical!

My favorite movie of all time is Caroline. I'm so disappointed.

I did the network programming for the coop mode as well as general bug fixes. Some of my code helps you drop your buddy in the acid.

Bennett Bridge closed for 'several hours' due to police incident - Kelowna News The Bennett Bridge was closed in the early morning hours of Monday, Jan. 27 due to a police incident.

Well that's different. I live in Kelowna, the third largest city of British Columbia. The main bridge across the lake is closed this morning due to a bomb threat. Crazy. Never expected that in Canada.

www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Its been almost twelve years since Boards of Canada released their last album. I still have hope.

It's fascinating that to him it was important to put the character first.

I'm going to have to watch this documentary.

I was hopeful but this looks better than I was hoping.

Retro Staff Credits Removed From Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Forever Entertainment Confirmed As Devs Monkey business

The single line credit is even more reductive that the one in Metroid Prime remastered since it doesn't even mention the Retro Studios dev team.

More info here: www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/01...

They did it again! Nintendo is not including the original Retro Studios credits in Donkey Kong Country Returns HD.

Nintendo's policy of not including the original credits for remastered games is unacceptable. Their work is still there!

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Looks great! I made curry last night, medium hot! I have Zojirushi rice cooker that makes perfect rice every time.

Yum!

Does anyone else have issue with 5G on their phone where initial use of web or social app takes many seconds to load? This goes away if I switch to LTE (4g) connectivity. 5G has long establishment times? 5G+ is even worse.

Maybe specific to my carrier, Telus?

Quebec almost left Canada to go solo in the 90s!

I'm pretty sure all Canadians including myself will politely say "no thank you" to the idea of becoming part of the United States.

Path of Exile 2 is amazing, but then there's stuff like this. I get notified the map is complete, so I look away for a second. Four seconds later the ground explodes and kills me. My character makes frost patches so I had no idea the ground wasn't my own effect. There needs to be more clarity.

Space Shuttle first launch. I got up early to watch it with my Dad.

They are my husband's favorite months because he gets to go snowboarding. Hemispherical differences.

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game

(29 years between the two)

Open upside down cardboard box with ZAP in red letters above it. The box reads "Transmog-rifier" on the side.

There is a new patch for Horizon Zero Dawn for PC that adds "transmog". I love how this feature in multiple games was named after the "Transmogrifier" from Calvin and Hobbes comics and is now common vernacular in gaming.

Thanks Bill Watterson.

I've been enjoying Path of Exile 2 Early Access quite a bit. The improvement in the art and animation is so good it leaves the first game far behind. The skill animations in particular are wonderful to watch and feel great.

Now, if I would only stop dying so much....

Welcome! Did you get your honourary bunnyhug and toque?

One of my favorite things is the day Metroid Prime went gold (Oct 2002) I took this poster around to everyone on the team to sign. It's a record of our memories working together.

You may notice everyone signed around Samus, never on top of her. It was just how everyone respected the character.

Holy crap that's really cool. I'm sad I never got to see it in person!

What an amazing gift.