Spud

@elite-spud.bsky.social

Streaming is a Celebration • Part-time achievement hunter & Full-time dork • GDQ Speedrunner • Card-carrying Enby • Parent of 2 • They / She • I beat Luigi’s Mansion blindfolded twitch.tv/elite_spud en.pronouns.page/u/Elite_Spud

"After review, we have determined that your background does not align with the minimum requirements for this role" I hit literally every requirement on their list and clear the industry experience threshold by 2x the minimum listed They could at least act like they read my resume

On September 5th, Luigi’s gonna hit the jackpot This’ll be the first Max% showcase from the LM community in over 2 years, and only the second ever that I’m aware of. Supremely rare run to see in a marathon

Screenshot of the Luigi’s Mansion final score screen, showing 142,390,000G on a new file. This is the maximum amount of money obtainable without glitches.
Lady Arcaders@ladyarcaders.com · 6d ago

We're finally ready to show our hand, The Lady Arcaders Super Showcase 2026 schedule is NOW LIVE! ldy.gg/s/lass26 🎲 Place your bets and join us from September 3-6th to watch some high rollers and support our charity partner, CARE! #lass2026

At long last, I got the Completionist++ achievement in Balatro! The final joker I gold stickered? Lucky Cat 😺 Definitely one of my favorite games ever with room for further refinement. Highly recommended to anyone. Bring on the update!

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So Mario Kart Wii has the notable feature of archiving the active Mii profile, name and all, every time you save new ghost data Guess who just spent the last 3 hours methodically scrubbing their deadname from the records by setting new records on every course WITH TILT CONTROLS

I had my first technical interview after 6 months of unemployment and the first words out of the guy’s mouth are “how closely do you follow Andrej Karpathy” FUCK

I want a refund on 2026. Profoundly terrible year. It is unfathomable how frequently new bad shit has managed to ambush us for the past few months. It feels like plugging holes in a failing dam.

Every time I open Instagram they try to get me to pay money to boost my posts, but instead of mixing it up, it’s always this one and it feels like I’m getting targeted ads about my own cat

Screenshot of Instagram trying to get me to pay money to show my cat to people

This year has just been a series of unavoidable setbacks of escalating severity I’m so tired of receiving bad news and I just want to breathe again without worrying about crying on every exhale

Called my dad for Father’s Day to ask him what he’s been up to recently & nothing could’ve prepared me for the “I went saltwater fishing with three lesbians last week” story

Called my dad for Father’s Day to ask him what he’s been up to recently & nothing could’ve prepared me for the “I went saltwater fishing with three lesbians last week” story

So I got laid off today. At the start of Pride Month too! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Anyone hiring a software engineering manager, a cloud/platform engineering manager, a software/cloud architect, or just a SRE with an extremely diverse set of skills? Please reach out or recommend me to someone whose hiring!

been taking my usual approach to Feeling Bad (not posting about it) but after 4.5 months I think I’m entitled to say at least once that unemployment sucks! I haven’t been invited to a single interview! We can’t afford health insurance! My sense of self-worth is at an all time low!