thanks grovyle i really needed this

Yes, there's the Dunning Kruger Effect and the Imposter Syndrome, but there needs to be a term like 'nominal competence' where someone (me) can understand something but dare not go deeper for fear of discovering the fool within

After playing the genius 12 Word Searches (playcebo.itch.io/12-word-sear...) I am trying to brainstorm and workshop a a similar idea except for sudoku. Imagine sudoku but with meta puzzles

they should have made the ausalert sound even louder to make australians permanently and instinctively fear being near their phone

It feels like 80s and 90s nostalgia and its fetishism for VHS has never strongly tapped into the period of studio HD, Laserdisc, and aesthetic trends drawing from overuse of early software editing suites like NewTek Video Toaster youtu.be/6hhIudIuKzA?...

Lush - De-Luxe (US Video)

YouTube video by 4AD

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I redesigned my website again (at cybreco.net) because I really wanted it to look like Encarta 98 for no particular reason. Works on mobile but desktop is kind of better for this

Elmo's Preschool: Deluxe (1998) is the first game my parents ever bought for me. I legitimately have not thought about this game in over 25 years until today - what's the first software you ever remember using or playing?

was such a day for it today

I'm working on a website named Labrysia (labrysia.com) that catalogues games designed around virtual environments. It's inspired by Myst and 2000s skeuomorphic web design, with old book spines from Wikimedia Commons. Plan to use it as a platform for writing about the genre. #indiegames #gamedev

my instagram anayltics don't even bother with pretenses anymore, it just goes "here's an ad with a bear in it"

i dont need to know what dnd class i am because deep in my heart i know i am a cunty little monk

the collapse in trust on social media means nobody follows random people anymore. later generations will never know the joy of staking your entire social life on people you thirst followed in 2015

went to the oxley creek common which is a nice little wetland in southside bris and saw some birds. first hike since moving

i hope the kid at my primary school who told me you could catch mewtwo in pokemon gold by circling the lady at the team rocket item shop 100 times grew up to be an unhappy and unfulfilled person

trying to understand the lore of elden ring

thinking about 90s 3d prerendered jungles

favorite character archetype: twink who is normal except when someone gives him a gun

I constantly think back to that one joyce carol oates tweet pile driving on elon but more profoundly about how social media should reflect authentic joy and interest in the world. Post about things that give you meaning

you're telling me i can just go into the city and do nothing stare at the skyline for free? and its legal???

I never stopped messing around with this idea in three.js and decided to take a different tack. More of an espionage-themed card game called EXPATRIATE. You basically hop around the globe finding spies with your allies and avoiding them finding you. Coming together! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

ryan@cybreco.bsky.social · 5mo ago

having a manic episode and discovered threejs so tinkering around with an idea for a game where you take a charter flight across the world in the 30s idk

Playing Banquet for Fools. Kind of rules - has a nice Diablo-style isometric design with some wacky worldbuilding and hybrid real-time beat 'em up combat. Sing songs, drink mead, kill things. Enjoying it a lot so far

i failed to suppress my impulses

ryan@cybreco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

thinking of getting into footy shorts even though i'm the least footy shorts looking person you've ever seen

Playing and drafting the article for Impressions Games' Lords of the Realm II (1996). This was my dad's first strategy game when he got a computer in 1997. It's turn-based and real-time in a way that was slightly unusual. Fun sieges. Medieval soundtrack goes off

I'm infatuated with the design of isometric games. Here's some 1999 print ads for Diablo II and Age of Empires II

a fun and eclectic genre pairing for you: 80s uk marxist dance punk. guess there were "down with fascism" skinheads out there at the same time as skinheads who were down with fascism www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLMk...

Bring It Down! (This Insane Thing)

YouTube video by The Redskins - Topic

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I had a really good time going to Against the Grain last night. Stacked lineup led by my favorite band, Stereolab, and heaps of AA indie I roll with: Gut Health, Cola, Rolling Blackouts CF, Pond, and more

finished a massive rewrite of barbie fashion designer, a game that has had an enormous impact nobody recognises except anyone who was a girl in 1996. with god as my witness i will get this to featured article status. people will learn about printable polymers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_...

Barbie Fashion Designer - Wikipedia

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mike myers should be allowed to say "fuck me baby" instead of "shag". everyone is saying this. i will boycott this film if austin powers does not say "fuck me baby" in the first scene of the movie

IGN@ign.com · 2mo ago

Austin Powers will return for a fourth movie, creator Mike Myers has said. https://bit.ly/4xyErdX

i want to punch the duolingo owl. they make it so that it looks pissy if you don't practice french every 5 minutes. bouffe de la merde et crève you brat