Sony allow me to introduce ParmaSean, the living parmesan rind. He is great at adding some extra volume to soups and stews. There are no images of him. There are no images of him. He is afraid of the color blue. There are no images of him.

Insider Gaming@insider-gaming.com · 3d ago

Sony Wants to Create a New Mascot to Rival Hello Kitty insider-gaming.com/sony-wants-t...

when the King of All Cosmos breaks Ursa Major and decides this time it should be made of as many bears as possible

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 3d ago

I can't drink coffee this late unless there's a little left in my mug from earlier in the day in which case its coffee im owed and I can drink it any time.

Horrible news: an asteroid is NOT immenently striking the earth and reducing us all to atoms

I'm pretty sure this is the cheesesteak that Ashitaka kills at the beginning of Princess Mononoke

Murray Garwood@garwoodmurray.bsky.social · 2w ago

No lie

20th anniversary of Dwarf Fortress so it's time to finally finish migrating my colony down to the mushroom cave. Also still funny to me that there is a direct influence chain from Dwarf Fortress -> Minecraft -> Fortnite (and look, Fortnite inherited grandma's "Fort" - must be a recessive trait).

Local deer has taken a liking to our fenced-in yard. She's hopped over a lot recently. I assume she likes the lack of dogs and the fact that I don't treat for weeds.

I'm always surprised by the strong negative reaction this game elicits, esp. using similar criticisms to the ones in this article. I don't see much discussion around how the game paces its content and systems, or how engaging with its outer loop allows for significant determinism in-game, or [1/9]

Mathew Kumar@mathewkumar.com · 3w ago

Unlocked! Belatedly, I look at Vampire Survivors, and lament that everything is gambling now, even when the only thing you're wasting is your time:

they’re doing nothing to me tomorrow #controlgroup

me checking the back of my pc

Project Silverfish is changing my life. I cannot believe how good this game is. Every time I play I find my perspective of it totally changed. To use an inelegant example it's kind of like that feeling when the Elden Ring map kept expanding, except full of terror and mystery in an incredible way.

I started Rhythm Heaven Groove and was very happy but couldn't help but wonder if they still had the magic after all this time. Just beat Remix 9 and I think that's the most excited a game has made me all year.

so the bartender says, "Why the (null dereference error) face?"

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · last mo.

I mean... it's not wrong but... it's not RIGHT either

gonna start talking like this to my boss

Also it's unfortunate(?) that Sneakers O'Toole became a meme months before this chapter came out bc I just heard it every time

Charles P@charlespainter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deltarune Ch. 5 (Switch 2) I consider Deltarune to be the 21st century's Twin Peaks. And like Twin Peaks in its prime, Deltarune continues to weave light, darkness, mystery, drama, mundanity, and the fantastical into something truly compelling. The thematic/symbolic elements really shone this time.

oh yeah, as a writer I’m definitely threatened by the class of people who at baseline can barely write an email

Kate Hagen 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is it really though

Titanic's captain writing in, "Do not hit an iceberg. Steer the ship to avoid hitting any visible icebergs. If you see that the ship is on course to hit an iceberg, change course to avoid a collision. Avoiding the iceberg is more important than crew and passenger comfort," and nodding in relief.

Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

About to be done with my first playthrough of Catherine and it's wild that my overall takeaway is glowing praise despite the majority of the game feeling like having a root canal. I think the puzzles are pretty interesting and elegant and I am also so SO bad at them.

In less than a week it'll have been out for three and a half years, but this is the day Purgatory Dungeoneer reached Very Positive, and the first of my games to have gotten enough reviews to make it to that threshold. Couldn't have done it without peoples support, from the fans to Strange Scaffold.

Good, and very important lil thread. I had people telling me "don't try to get into game narrative" when I was a jr and times in the industry were GOOD. Trust me, I understand feeling angry with the industry but telling people this kind of thing is both deeply unhelpful and makes you seem sus.

rj@rj.dcellgames.com · 4mo ago

complicated feelings on this because the industry (tbh all industry) is in the Worst Place and finding work and/or money can feel impossible but even inside that: if someone is telling you to get out of games because there's "no future" here as anything beyond a dark joke, i'd raise an eyebrow

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

I hope to never reach the point of talking about games this way - I think I have a good shot too. There's just too much I can enjoy. That said, this writer's passionate hatred for Reddit speaks to my soul and encapsulates my shared hatred in a way I've never been able to.

gains@gains-skeets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...

Takanaka closed with the finale from Rainbow Goblins in Hollywood tonight and a total stranger and I embraced

You'll die full of ideas. If I threw myself 100% into just executing the stuff in my notebooks NOW, I'd never get through them in the 20-odd years I have left. Ideas are just boxes to hold the emotions you're trying to magically convey from your brain into strangers' brains.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5mo ago

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

one week later and yeah I got no idea what im doing but I am enjoying my mornings for the first time in years

people say they want narrative games to have a lot of choice but the bigger the choice the less it matters. if you can choose to kill a character then every other world state has to scope for a scenario where that char doesn't exist. even alive they can never meaningfully impact the story again

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

My repost probably won't do much but I'm partly just saving this for posterity bc there are very very very few people in this world with the ball knowledge Chris has - cannot oversell it

Chris Koeppel@badgermancer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hi @marathonthegame.bungie.net, I love your game. I could make your battle passes much, much better. Hire me and I can do that for you. I made the two two companies I was at a few hundred million. Just a thought because i Iove this game and want it to succeed.