Somewhere in the back of my mind I’m constantly rotating Tragedy of Summerhall theories now, and my current favorite is “Egg did not mean to kill his family, but DID intend to burn down Summerhall, the site of his childhood abuse”
I'm so glad bsky has drafts now; I used to just type things up and backspace them if I changed my mind but now I can keep them all locked up in drafts for future use
There's a passage in this where an early car is described as "cumbrous with unwholesome excrescences" and I keep repeating that phrase to myself. Great mouthfeel on that one
having two back-to-back video game fixations (Two Point Museum, Pokopia), which is really rare for me, has absolutely destroyed my movie and reading time so far this year lmao. this is why I can't get in any deeper. "medium as hobby" is fine but you can't do more than a couple with any real depth.
I can't wait to finally understand what my nieces are talking about when they tell me about minecraft
(I am being lazy about matching blocks because I don't feel like crafting them when I have a backpack full of perfectly good volcanic ash to use)
I'm not being lazy about matching blocks when repairing roads and houses in Pokopia; I'm making a beautiful patchwork. A statement on things never being the same again after a terrible calamity. We can work together to fix it without losing sight of what happened! I will make this an Art Game™️
The real Neopets RPG was the friends we made along the way (by which I mean the Neopets inspired game jam on itchio) itch.io/jam/go-weave...
This is her house, that I built for her, with a big warm bed inside and toys and berries. And she is choosing to sleep on the stone front steps. Cat behavior tbh
Sincerely I love that it takes all the kids a long time to catch on that I am not, in fact, just a big kid, because I do not ever have to exercise authority with them and I’m so good at playing 😌 I have successfully maintained my childlike whimsy
Tonight my friends’ 5 year old politely asked me if I am really old enough to drive (she saw me holding my car keys), and then steadfastly refused to believe me when I let her in on the secret that I’m actually a grown-up. “That’s joking,” she said. A treasure to my heart
I’ve talked about this before but seeing my friends’ kids every week or so is so funny; one of them will say or do something and it’s like 🤨 you hit a developmental milestone in the last week, didn’t you?
I think someone on my street got a new dog (or maybe it was a while ago and it was just inside more during winter?), some kind of very small yippy thing, and it's SO shrill. I'm not sure I've ever heard a dog this shrill before.
I'm still really irritated about this by the way! The fucked up section starts right after Faramir meets Frodo and Sam and is questioning Frodo about the mission, and goes back to normal right after they part ways! WHERE IS THE QUALITY CONTROL. AND ALSO WHERE IS FARAMIR.
hot GMing tip: name your NPCs after the abbreviated names of spreadsheet functions that you don't ever use. these are the townsfolk you meet in the tavern, IMCOSH, BYCOL, MIRR, and of course, KURT.
I'll make everything checkboxes, what are they gonna do, send the checkbox police after me (this is actually bad because some of these are spectrums you'll move up and down, only ever having ONE box checked at once, but others are progress trackers and you'll check more and more boxes as you go)
I am experiencing data-validation-induced hubris
Creating a google sheet to track people's opinions of each other but it's fine because it's for a game
False spring got my naive ass again
I keep thinking about replacing my desk and then... not doing that because it's going to be a big nuisance, but my current desk is 10 years old, survived a major move, and was the cheapest flat pack furniture one could get then, so I think it's served me pretty well in that time
Correct prediction: thumbs falling off bsky.app/profile/jenk...
Not looking at the clock for a while and then building a hut in pokopia and going “oh fuck” when it tells you when it’ll be done because you didn’t know it was that late already… not that I’VE done that
This is the best start of a sequel ever written.
Chapter 1: I’m Still Him
Chapter 2-3: Let’s Talk About My Glowing Reviews
Chapter 4: Fixing Continuity Errors
Chapter 5: Sancho Panza’s Wife Calls Him a Class Traitor
1615 by the way
I'm making games. I'm playing games with my friends. I'm reading books. I'm talking about books with my friends. I'm laying in bed eating candy and playing pokemon. Don't look at the piles of laundry and dishes behind me. Don't look. Ignore them. We don't need to worry about those.
we made it 13 laps before a Ferrari disasterclass strategy call, god I missed this so much
not to jinx this race when it's barely started but: we're so back
Porch dove is my new best friend, RIP to all the rest of you
It’s still important to be specific
It always feels wrong to me that Earls outrank Barons. Barons just sound more impressive. A Barony feels bigger, in my mind, than an Earldom. There's no logic at all to me thinking that, though.
