Jeffrey Doering

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy sleeping in a car seat.

Big first day at kindergarten means naptime on the drive home!

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I've been playing Once Upon a Galaxy nonstop since John recommended it, and I really want to give this game a shoutout! It's a great mobile title, but it's also on Steam, and on their store page they have a whole section demonstrating their art process and noting that no AI is used.

It's a fine evening for psychic damage!

A graphic depicting data for the survey question "Do you use generative AI tools as part of your job?" A thumbs up symbol is above a statistic reading 36% say yes. A thumbs down symbol is above a statistic reading 64% say no.

That's probably my most nitpicky complaint so far. But there's also stuff like this, which is just useless data without accompanying sentiment. You need four categories here, Yes and I want to, Yes but I don't want to, No but I want to, and No and I don't want to.

Man, the more I look at this survey the more annoying it is. Why would you segment the hours like this? It should be 35-40 and 41-44 hours! With these bands you're including overtime alongside normal 40 hour weeks! Your data is scuffed! This is survey amateur hour!

She too small for ball.

The extra tidbit here that really caught me off guard is the title of "New York Stock Exchange CEO". I guess I had always assumed it was some sort of government entity? I legitimately did not think I could have a worse opinion of the stock market as a concept, but here we are.

At what point did I say anything about chasing him?

Okay team, need some advice. A few minutes ago, I spotted an orange cat hiding in our backyard, who fled under the fence out of our yard when we made eye contact. It's dropping below freezing at night, is there anything I can do to help the little guy out?

how it started: how it's going:

Station work continues! Excited to invite some of you onto the ESS Starseeker for an internal playtest later this year 🚀⏰

I have been playing this game entirely too much.

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy sleeping in a lap with her eyes closed. The picture is taken from outside her pen, so it is seen through thin wire bars.

eepy

There are some great recommendations in here if you're looking to improve your mobile game library!

Nice, I love games like this. Kind of like a competitive Throne of Bone.

Oh, I love them, but it needs to be something I can easily pick up and put down every few seconds for my current time windows.

I unfortunately(?) played Slice & Dice to death a few years ago!

Starting a business to change my av to your old ones to act as a modern-day sin eater.

Crunchy deck building roguelite is my sleeper activation phrase.

Okay but same. I didn't realize this was on mobile, which is really a startling condemnation of store discoverability. I'm already installing it.

Everything even remotely interesting I've seen is in landscape orientation, and I'm using the phrase "interesting" very loosely! It's silly!

Looking for phone game recommendations for something to do while hanging out in a puppy pen! Needs to be playable in vertical orientation with one hand so I can keep the other free to deal with a puppy doing puppy things! Please help, she keeps falling asleep in my lap and I need something to do!

I guess the "destroyed marriages" and "missed childhoods" bit gave me a different impression. I'll assume there was some financial reason that adding three months to do it without crunch wasn't an option. But I don't think there's art worth creating at that cost, especially to those without a say.

Did the spouses and children think it was worth it?

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy sleeping upside-down in a person's lap.

Somebody had a big day of doing absolutely nothing.

Guess who's fast asleep in Office Prison after being filled with 5G and cheez whiz.

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy barking while inside a dog play pen in a carpeted home office. She is surrounded by several toys and has no reason to complain, really.

Melina is protesting her incarceration in Office Prison.

I need a game to play while I sit in a cage with a puppy for extended periods, so I'm very much looking forward to this!

A black and tan Cavalier King Charles Spaniel napping on a bed in a dog crate without a blanket covering her upper half.

Melina has started going to the crate by herself for naps and, I gotta say, it's pretty great when a puppy is functionally training herself!

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy chewing on a small, pink dog toy.

The same puppy fast asleep while snuggling in a lap.

Day 2 of Melina posting. She's an 11-week-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and she loves her little baby Kong!