Liam Thomas

today my day was ruined by webcrawlers. yet another thing i have in common with australians or supervillains

a couple of puzzle games recently have done "guest puzzles" where a handful of levels are designed by other (potentially famous) puzzle designers and honestly that's a pretty good idea

maybe i should find out if anyone cool and high profile does turn-based strategy levels...

proving that there is a future to look forward to and be real weird about

i will mock new yorkers for thinking that they are the only city to have convenience stores but their love for the city they live in is genuinely inspiring

I know we're all ready to celebrate Cuomo moving to Florida, but we all need to be better people and stop celebrating when disasters pass through red states.

on cohost we called this "poster's delight"

new yorkers are silly for thinking convenience stores only exist in new york, or that breakfast sandwiches only exist in new york, or public transit only exists in new york. but also if everyone in the US loved their city the way new yorkers do a solid 50% of social problems would disappear

i will make fun of new yorkers any chance I get but it is genuinely inspiring how much they love their own city

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

many are calling it the Great Bluesky Lib Out of '25

i’m libbing out

team fortress 3

Also a bit of a game omnivore, but I really liked Celeste despite bouncing off of most precision platformers.

As for games I dislike in genres I like... I could probably be here for hours but man it's hard for me not to forget how big of a disappointment Wargroove was

You have better things to be doing than getting mad at a negative review of a game.

Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.

20 years of discourse around turn based battles and random encounters being "bad and pointless"

it's pretty anecdotal given that sales numbers haven't been released but my LGS has more or less given up on trying to move spider-man

final fantasy and lotr both sold gangbusters but spider man did really bad. unfortunately final fantasy and lotr did so gangbusters that this is going to be their strategy from here on out

incredibly wacky news: Tactical Nexus is implementing a paid currency you can use to buy cosmetic badges you can display in-game. (the game is singleplayer). You can also earn the paid currency by clicking a button repeatedly for 5 seconds and not paying any real money at all.

GOD this is an incredible bit. mad i didn't think of it first

Screenshot from SRIV, four spheres in different skin shades

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

wait a minute this sounds a lot like 2007

trying to walk under a ceiling which is just barely too short to fit you results in hitting your head for critical damage

[2015]

DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead

ME: Hey that rules

DUDES: It's called effective altruism

[2025]

ME: Holy fuck. What the fuck are you guys doing. Why are you doing that. What the fuck is any of this. Fuck

Real saving grace that these nincompoops' first move was to purge the intelligence services of everyone who was in any way good at their job

a roguelike is a game where you open a chest which gives you a relic which gives you a 20% chance of using chain lightning whenever you pick up a coin

why does valve maintain a stranglehold on the market despite treating devs like shit and failing to really improve their service? because their competition is this