Mike Hommel

There can never be enough said about what an awful thing GenAI is.

Any suggestions for technology to assist in producing board game documents? I'm thinking of something to assist in repeating the same block layouts over and over with varying content, or a table of commonly used icons I can plop in as if they were text characters. Somewhere between Word and Canva.

You know what the world needs? A souls-like (mixed with about 30% Devil May Cry) where you're Wonder Woman. Lots of shield parrying, a limited-use lasso to lock guys down, bullet reflecting bracelets, hurling environmental objects and your opponents. Why is it always Batman when she's right there?

Tteokbokki in a pan with broccoli mixed in

I've invented tteokbroccoli!

"If you accidentally used the AI website builder and wish to start over without AI, Wix does not offer a direct "turn off" option for the AI design feature once initiated." - the plot of Terminator

The easiest real food thing that we do all the time is: cut up broccoli, toss it in olive oil, salt, and pepper, and air fry at 400 for 7min! That's our side dish like 3x a week.

I get unreasonably happy each time I defeat AI in a program I use. And it feels like a battle to win. There's always an upfront option like "Disable Generative AI", but it turns out there's 7 other steps, most hidden. Well, for Adobe Acrobat, just go Menu > Disable New Acrobat Reader. Enjoy!

Chrome perma-blocked uBlock Origins ad blocker, which would make youtube unusable (AKA 'functioning as intended'). So I gave Brave a try and now I feel dumb for waiting so long. Wow, every ad everywhere is gone! Seems like something the Megacorps won't continue to allow, but I'll enjoy it for now.

I got this email (of course), and was absolutely gobsmacked to see the social security administration sending out literal propaganda. This is yet another massive red line crossed and it's all downhill from here.

A package that is apparently Selena Gomez flavored oreos

They've been plenty weird before, but the flavor department at Oreo has seriously crossed a line this time.

I think this is suspiciously true, and I try to think of counter-examples, but I cannot. They can't resist tweening your rotation instead of just popping left to right.
(referring only to side scrollers, that is. Many top-down 2.5Ds are very very lovely, but I think most people just call that 3D)

I am currently enjoying a post-protest pizza here in Brainerd. Our protest definitely happened, and was easily 5x the size of any other rally I've seen in this little town. I didn't even know about this call to skip it until after it was over.

I am disappointed Nioh 3 wasn't called Nioh 3-O

That's a Dropout show from several years ago, it's called Troopers!

Browse Fonts - Google Fonts Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

Just because I didn't know it existed (I'm probably the dumb one here, but surely there are others): I just learned fonts.google.com exists. Thousands of fonts, licensed for all uses for free, in a very searchable database. Like wow, I guess google did something good?

Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Steam on Steam Smash monsters, collect brains, and so much more as you attempt to stop Dr. Lunatic's evil scheme. 1,200 levels and hundreds of hidden bonuses in Bouapha's greatest adventure! Now enhanced for Steam!

Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Steam is a re-re-release of a game that's been kicking around since 2000-ish. It's a phenomenal game, thousands of user-made levels, goofy and full of Early Developer Energy.
( @hamumugames.bsky.social is still making cool stuff!)

store.steampowered.com/app/2547330/...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Japanese Black Thunder cookies that Costco has right now are magnifique. Get thee to Costco before I eat them all! They're like an enchanted Twix.

It's been awhile for a stream, hasn't it? No Doom today, but a game from my childhood originally released in 1999 by @hamumugames.bsky.social just went up on steam, and I've been really excited to play it. Come vibe and watch me be nostalgic!

www.twitch.tv/kevansevans

#vtuber #gardevoir

Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition on Steam Kid Mystic never paid attention in magic school except when they were discussing fireballs, so now he's the only one who can save Tulipton in this action-packed RPG which was hailed as The Best Fantas...

Happy Cinco De Mystic to all who celebrate! Buy Kid Mystic now!

store.steampowered.com/app/3531250/...

I spent a while on google after the movie hoping to find other people mocking this film and maybe having some answers that made sense, but no, none of that. Please people, I need Drop-related comedy in the world. It is legitimately INSANE. It's like Old, only super different.

There are absolutely not enough people talking about the movie "Drop". We went to see it entirely because we had to know why the woman falls out of the restaurant in the trailer. The answer we got was as insane and nonsensical as the rest of the movie. We laughed so hard, so many times.

YouTube video by Hamumu Games Kid Mystic: Enchanted Edition Trailer

My latest re-rerelease is up on Steam! Coming out soon, wishlist it today so I feel good about myself!
store.steampowered.com/app/3531250/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2l...

There are hands in that fireball!

Mind blown. I only just now learned that the fireballs in Street Fighter have the thrower's hands inside them! Or used to before they got fancier and modern.

Suggestion for phone makers: show the local time of the person you're talking to (based on the contact address, not like tracking their phone!) somewhere in the text/call system, so you know if this is an appropriate time to contact them!

I'm trying to renew my passport (as we all should at this point!), and it turns out that the bags under my eyes are so bad that their automated system won't accept my photo because it thinks I'm wearing glasses.

that we do, and Chinese movies/art aren't significantly worse than American ones, so they figured out how to make it work with more lax laws. Maybe we need to just chill out and let people make Alien vs. Hulk if they want to? More art and more freedom seems like a good thing. Just thinkin'!

I was just hearing about the Chinese AI that is going to run the world, and someone mentioned that it's trained on copyrighted stuff, and we can't sue because it's China. I thought, "true, China doesn't care about copyright"... then I thought, why do we? China clearly has all the same art industries

It's interesting that as someone who has no desire to have AI in my life, I ALSO know that I will never have to wonder when I "went all in on bitcoin". Unless maybe as a marker for when my dementia kicked in.

Why are CEOs!?