At the nursery buying plants and one of the staff asked me if I was another staff member’s dad here to pick him up. I don’t think I’ll recover from this.
Boon Cotter
@booncotter.bsky.social
Aussie in the USA | Game Developer | Lead Lighting Artist | Batshit Crazy | These are my words and are not representative of my employer / doctor / therapist / mum.
Probably surprising no one: Turns out twins can unlock each others’ phones with Face ID. Yes ok they look alike but they’re not even identical twins. And yet, instant unlock. But MY phone freaks out if I’m lying down. I feel like there’s a low key insult in that.
Plant shopping adventure and potentially misjudging the size of our car.
Whoever had the idea to take the Predator franchise down the Buddy Comedy route frankly deserves a raise. That was much better than anyone could convince me it would be.
Instagram is like HEY DO YOU LIKE MUSCLES? LOOK MUSCLES! HEY YOU, THERE’S MUSCLES! HEY! HEY YOU WANT SOME MORE MUSCLES?! Ok, yes, I do actually. But I hate that they know that.
My absolute blood-boiling, forever-seething pet hate in games is multiple subversive endings that I’m forced to choose from.
If you’re not watching Pluribus, do yourself a favor and watch Pluribus. This is gonna be like Severence where everything is spoiled 5 minutes after it airs. Trust me, you want to ride along with it. 🔥
5 years ago I decided to teach myself C++ so I could attempt making my own game. After 5 long years of late nights and weekends, I’m proud to finally announce, I have a working pause screen.
“It’s more scared of you than you are of it.” Ok Julian but I haven’t seen a spider break out in a cold sweat and slap itself in the face and vomit because a person touched it.
Little Nightmares 3 co-op for Halloween month is pretty perfect tbh.
it's honestly very funny that dogs are just SO friendly and sociable they're just allowed to smell like that
Silksong has made me realise I’m now, sadly, too old for some games.
I’m surprised YouTube will play an uninterrupted 30 seconds of ads without putting ads in it.
If someone had warned me about frenchie farts I think I would have reconsidered.
Just noticed that at least every second post on Instagram is an ad now. Sometimes two in a row.
Shadow of the Beast (Amiga) Something about the music and that Psygnosis / Roger Dean aesthetic made my skin crawl.
Chris Plante@plante.bsky.social · 12mo agoWhat was the first video game that scared you? It doesn't have to be a horror game. Maybe you didn't even play it -- plenty of ads freaked me out as a kid.
Aliens: Wipe out 2/3rds of humanity and farm the remaining third as livestock. Me in the pens, whose only coping mechanism is inappropriate humour: “This is still better than the ‘Invasion’ AppleTV series.”
Moe has learned a new trick: Torpedoing from across the house, into the bedroom, onto the bed, and crashing full speed into my face while I’m asleep. For a little guy, he can move.
“50 is the new 30,” I say, as I gag down my heartburn medication and climb into bed at 8:45pm. “I feel as young as ever!” Realising I forgot to schedule my colonoscopy, I laugh. “Hahaha, so forgetful. Hey babe, what month is it?”
First time in Santa Cruz and I gotta say this is quintessential California. PNW meets the beach.
Was having a sad today. Nothing specific, just The General Malaise. Then I saw this and my brain squirted out a solid dose of dopamine and now I have nostalgia sad, which is the nice kind.
Jim Blimey@jimblimey.com · last yr.Debugging my Speccy ASCII roguelike on the 5" b&w CRT - definitely need the glasses on!
So I discovered WoW plays really damn well with controller and I feel like this is a discovery I could have done well without.
When we’re in the water wars it’s gonna be really weird telling kids we had giant bowls of water that magically filled themselves and we pooped in them.
I love how coordinate systems have absolutely no consistency. Which way is X? Which way is Y? Is the top the bottom? WHERE IS ZERO? NO RULES JUST ANARCHY.
My favorite thing about playing games with Julian is he’ll see something like a patrolling DEATH SHIP shining a giant DEATH LIGHT on the DEATH SANDS and be like “I wonder what happens if we-“ KLAXON. DEATH BEAM. JETPACK TROOPERS. WORM. DEAD. What did you think was gonna happen you big, pretty man?
Been noticing lately it’s harder to read small text and I’m squinting a lot. Got my eyes tested. Turns out they’re so bad I can’t legally drive lol wot. Frog in a boiling pot scenario I guess?