Dana Fried

Maybe it goes sideways in later seasons but honestly it's good TV, especially for its time

You guys it's the FUTURE you don't wanna be left five days behind in your timelines oh shit oh fuck fuck fuck

I have read this book. I do not recommend it.

Bored of the Rings (1969)

My wife is watching Scrubs for the first time with me; it was an incredibly formative piece of media for me at the time and honestly still holds up today.

It was very much ahead of its time.

Every time bsky starts doing psychic damage I just mute more words.

Pretty soon it'll just be videos of cats and art of girls kissing, and I'm okay with that.

oh no

Me: *looks at timeline*

Me: *adds "Anthropic" and "Claude" to my sanity filters*

Yeahr it's a wicked big mistake

Windows 12 Will Make Ghastly Fart Sounds When You Click Anything - “It’s an absolutely catastrophic fart, like someone trying to start a leaf blower underwater,” says developer

Though, to be fair... it is an excellent honeypot for exactly the kind of people who you want off your platform, so who's to say?

Counterpoint: the US men's hockey team are clowns and deserve whatever the Globe and Mail said about them

That is a I-don't-get-paid-enough-for-this-mid-level-software-engineer-ass solution and I am not at all surprised

One of the things I absolutely adore about #FFXIV is that you'll go to a seasonal event and random NPCs from side content are just... hanging out.

Sometimes you can chat with them; sometimes they're just having their own little conversation.

But the dev team have never discarded a character.

Finally, it's the year of Linux on the Desktop

(for real this time)

Every time I think I'm doing better my stomach reminds me that I'm one wrong gastronomical choice away from committing porcelain idolatry.

Whatever this is* it can't get through my system fast enough.

* I'm guessing (hoping?) mild norovirus.

If you wanna know how sick I am: today I called in at work, it's patch day, and I didn't even download the update until 1 or 2 in the afternoon.

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

ssh! don't give Hasbro any ideas!

We did the same thing when our old Volt got totaled.

That 70+ MPG* is looking even better right now.

* Average, we don't use gas at all driving around town.

I lived in Seattle for almost a decade and I cackled at this.

One of my besties from college married a dude from a town 45 minutes from anywhere that had 4000 people and one bar. They lost a close relative in a tractor accident.

I could not imagine living there.

(Which I suspect is the problem: neither can the people making these games.)

...just like how 75% of NaNoWriMo stories are set in a coffee shop.

There's a point to be made about the perception of race and culture in those different settings here but I'm not sophisticated enough to make it.

Anyway, I went into the playtest not knowing if the game was going to work, and came out believing that, with a bit of tweaking and polishing, it might be awesome.

Best possible outcome for a playtest.

Alternatively, I could find a way to make the numbers vary more so that some characters are just "attack each turn in the hope of rolling Big Number" and the fun (at least for that character) is maybe getting to roll a fistful of dice.

Things to improve:
- The resource economy
- Synergy between characters
- Avoiding repetitive play for certain character types

In some ways, this makes it even harder than JRPG fight design since in the video games it's okay to have a character who just attacks ever turn if number is big.

Things people really liked:
- The action economy
- The puzzle fights
- The overall flavor/genre emulation

That last bit was especially cool since about half the table had never played a JRPG or hadn't played one from the era the game is trying to evoke.

Alpha playtest of The World Is Ending and You've Got a Really Big Sword this past weekend went quite well.

There's a lot that didn't work exactly as I'd hoped, but the core innovation of the game was quite popular and the feedback was "lean even harder on that" which always feels good.