Joel

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

This is from the original Age of Wonders

A screenshot of the original Age of Wonders UI with a big honkin' dragon just chilling behind the menu.

You: wants sleek, modern UIs

Me: Wants a big honkin' dragon sitting on the menu for no particular reason.

Weeding my pollinator garden was a bit harrowing on account of all the bees. I think that means I did it right

Verifiable and glorious.

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer on Steam Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is a turn-based strategy game set in a camp straight out of an 80's horror movie. Save the helpless and dull-witted campers from an onslaught of monsters with a team of ...

It's August 1st, and summer is entering its final stretch. But what if you could make the best parts of summer last forever?

GOOD NEWS!

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer does exactly that (It's right in the name)

Get your camp strategy mayhem fix today!

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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

A Wendy's tray liner with a comic strip on which Dave Thomas explains to a man in a sweater vest what exactly a pita is

One of my favorite aspects of this product was the campaign in which Dave Thomas explained what a pita is, and how to eat it

7/31 - OpenTTD

Is it cheating to list this when I just did Transport Tycoon?

No!

I list this separately because it's a truly amazing project of people who love a game so much they've built it into something better so even more people can enjoy it. That's pretty darn inspiring. #365games

[any random space bullshit happens]

Hari Seldon: aha, my plan

Mario Paint - Drawing Board 1 is the best music for puttering around the house and doing chores. This is science.

7/29 - Transport Tycoon

Taking the Railroad Tycoon idea to the next level, TT let me build out an entire model world, replete with busses, ships, and even planes. I never knew I had a deep, inner passion for building bus lines until I met this game. Go play OpenTTD! #365games

*quietly shelves his new project "The Red-Haired Lass vs The Dinobots"*

This dome is heated, you say?

I was sharing screen while typing something in a meeting

Zoomer colleague: what kind of predictive text are you using?
Me: I’m not.
Z: wait — you just type that fast? How?!
Me: When I was in middle school, we raced boats by typing fast, and I really wanted my boat to win.

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer on Steam Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is a turn-based strategy game set in a camp straight out of an 80's horror movie. Save the helpless and dull-witted campers from an onslaught of monsters with a team of ...

We've just released a small update for Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer to fix a few issues. So why not take the opportunity to dive on in and give it a try now that it's even better than before! #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased #strategy

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A computerized plotter, drawing the arc of a projectile in an artillery-style game.

It is remarkable that this footage exists. Just incredible. The first artillery game being plotted on paper

Every time I have an idea for a cool Lego build, I realize I need approximate 2000 more pieces in different colors than I have

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok” Well I asked the great Alzara from the hit roguelike puzzle adventure The Blue Prince and he said he won’t tell me anything new until the sun rises on the next day.

My dog is really upset I won't let him sit outside and suffer heatstroke.

7/25 - Railroad Tycoon

As a kid whose dad was a huge model railroad guy, suddenly having the chance to play with the trains myself as part of a game was amazing. Beyond that, the game hooked me with the actual simulation of moving things to and fro (a love the remains to this day) #365games

If you truly care about free speech, you might want to be deeply worried that the companies that literally control where you can spend money feel they have the right to tell you what you can and can't spend that money on.

YouTube video by Anakunus The best 8-bit music top 100; #17: Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge / GB -- Praying Hands

Today's random old game music while I work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdFr...

I mean, check out that crunchy-ass bass. So good.

If I had a dollar for every stupid thing I’ve done, I’d be highly incentivized to do stupid things

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

How far out are we from a major company getting hacked by someone asking its AI juuust the right question?

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Save 15% on Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer on Steam Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is a turn-based strategy game set in a camp straight out of an 80's horror movie. Save the helpless and dull-witted campers from an onslaught of monsters with a team of ...

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