Newbiespud

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

In case you needed another reason to avoid FB... 😮

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

PSA for Discord's new age verification!

If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it.

Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+

It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

Stuck at home trying not to implode with anxiety under hostile circumstances, as always

YouTube video by TheAwesomeHyperon Killer7 - It’s Friday Night

It's Friday night. youtu.be/D6BOy31Lzrs?...

Still having an "amazing" time trying to get back on food stamps and get on disability while still getting work done, so any additional financial assistance to get through the rest of the month would be immensely appreciated. paypal.me/newbiespud

Studios are chasing Fortnite, but without the awareness that Fortnite launched to weak performance with a game mode that wasn't very popular and only became "Fortnite" by copying PUBG and doing a ton of post-launch investment.

a hasty edit of the "only trust your fists, cops will never help you" that instead reads "only trust your emlators, publishers will never help you"

good day to post this reminder

Does it ever strike you how much of the worst ideas in the world just become inaccessible if you like other people? If you like yourself and believe other people are real and have their own thoughts and stuff?

I'm ride-or-die in the war against Adtech. I don't care how inconvenient they try to make ad-free browsing, no matter how many hiccups they create. I'm never turning it off, and I know that any conflict will have an army of open-source programmers plugging away at a fix within a few days.

Once Three For All is finished and Slay the Spire 2 has mod support, maybe I have some fun porting Arint over? 👀

[opens up mental cabinet labeled "Games That Changed My Fucking Brain Chemistry", pulls out the first folder at the front labeled "Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast"]

I hereby invite my kids to chime in.

Willing to bet they remember *several* moments of "screen time."

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️

New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder.

Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

doodlemancy @doodlemancy on cohost (rip): "the script at this point is just company: we're going to do something really extremely bad for our customers and possibly even people who aren't our customers. we think this is good an enormous, furious internet mob: we hate this company: we'd like to clarify our intentions. just to be clear: we're doing the same thing but we'd like you to hate it a little less now"

The saga of "why do I keep doing art stuff I'm a writer and only barely a programmer dammit" really came to a head while making the Griftlands / Slay the Spire crossover mod. So many new UI elements and screens, let alone rebuilding the card style, let alone ANIMATING the characters!

WIP screenshot of modded Griftlands. The top-left overlay shows the current day, money, resolve, health, and now a counter labeled "Strange Devices." "You don't know what these are yet, but every faction in Havaria seems to want them, so they must be extremely valuable and dangerous."

This week was another adventure in "Spud keeps wanting new UI stuff oh geez why do we keep doing this to ourselves".

Not just putting images in-line with dialogue, but having a brand-new overlay counter to track important campaign progress!

(Icon is not final.)
#Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding

Not everyone, in fact shockingly less than you'd think, has access to friendly, non-hostile communities and public resources that make Going Outside and Touching Grass viable. For those people in such circumstances, you can at least offer a temporary balm in the form you choose.

the Internet used to be when you and 3 friends sat near computer watched this and popped off for the next 2 weeks it was cool

found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I don't know anybody on "the left" broadly defined who isn't excited about technology – you know, actual technology: incredibly cheap photovoltaics, grid-level storage, ebikes, 3D printing...

what leftists generally have no excitement for are financial scams draped in software

WIP screenshot of modded Griftlands. Arint (left, player) talks to Winnie (right, NPC). Arint: Hold on, officers. I just got here. I had nothing to do with this. Winnie: Then relinquish your weapons and step away from the tech! [ Giant out-of-place image of Newbiespud's avatar in the middle of the dialogue ] Narration: You look down at the three identical high-tech devices on the table next to you, somehow pristine in the midst of the debris of broken bottles and teeth.

Sometimes this #modding malarkey means figuring out how to teach the existing engine to perform the dance moves I want.

Like, say, displaying an image in the middle of a dialogue.

This was both shockingly tricky and bafflingly simple.
#Griftlands #ThreeForAll

Well, yesterday was a suck-storm of stress, time to do something nice and simple to keep my mind busy, like... learning string parsing in Lua?? Ugh, why do I keep doing this to myself?!

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

No stream tonight because I might've actually experienced a medically threatening amount of stress today and I need rest more than I need to stream

Today's a "I made a nurse balk at my blood pressure" kind of day