I love sugar, but also, eating it makes me feel like crap. There must be a way to square this circle

Thinking about 2003. 19 years old and moving 1,000 miles away from home with a friend. The memory of driving across Arkansas at 2AM, blaring this at full volume, and hollering “I hope we both die” into the night will live with me forever.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

I love the period where DEVO had David Kendrick from Sparks on drums. I think he plays with Xiu Xiu now? Felt like they were trying to figure out what to do with early sampler-era synths. What’s DEVO in the 90s? An interesting de-evolution that they abandoned. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJG...

Devo - Disco Dancer

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The Columbo bit in the new Spider-Man movie is great

7yo: “I can kick a basketball over the fence at school, so I could probably do it to a baby too“ Me: “Huh?” 7yo: “I could probably get it onto the roof”

(pausing while reading a book to our 7yo) Wife: “Do you know what ‘torment’ means?” 7yo: “I think it’s something to do with a volcano.” Wife: “No, it means ’to cause pain‘.” 7yo: “Okay.“ 7yo: “…” 7yo: “I think it might have two meanings.”

(7 year old, asking the important questions) “If I was invincible, could I eat myself?”

After a solid run of about 13 years at Double Fine, It seems I have found myself with an abundance of free time. If you know anyone hiring for games VFX, please let me know!

@brandon.insertcredit.com pretty sure the movie I was thinking of was Meteo! I thought it was Polish, but it’s Hungarian. m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Mi...

Meteo - trailer

YouTube video by Gabor Szabo

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7yo: “I can kick a basketball over the fence at school, so I could probably do it to a baby too“ Me: “Huh?” 7yo: “I could probably get it onto the roof”

My partner once asked why I was so fascinated by Eva and all I could muster was “I know it’s fiction? But on some subliminal level I believe somehow, in some spiritual way I can’t articulate… this actually happened.” Can‘t explain it! It’s very singular in that way

Giant Robot FM@giantrobotfm.bsky.social · 6d ago

in honor of the eva criterion news let’s all remember when wes anderson watched eva

Having a personal crisis, had to break out the good stuff

Your work and team will be enriched by the presence of this top-notch SWE.

Elsbeth Larkin@funtimesmcgee.bsky.social · last wk.

Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.

DF is losing some really amazing people today. They are some of the smartest kindest people you can ever work with. Please be on the look out for them as they search for what's next!

Justin is always incredibly helpful, and an all around great guy. He set me up with my work computer on my first day at DF, got me oriented in the office, and DROVE ME HOME at the end of the day. Always going the extra mile. An IT champion.

Justin Beckegger@skarrg.bsky.social · last wk.

15 years at double fine comes to an end. It’s understandable since I’d been mostly dealing with MS and well… role closed. I hope they can survive.

Silvio is a top-notch engineer. For anyone in my network who is looking for a programmer who can do A LOT, here he is

Don Silvio@omichron.bsky.social · last wk.

I suppose this is as good a time as any to update my profile information, seeing as I was one of the 23 people laid off by Double Fine today. Twelve years ended today. I wish it could have been twelve years more.

Joining the chorus of people who are inevitably going to vouch for Ben

Ben Johnson 🏺👻@gamedesignerben.bsky.social · last wk.

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

Sam Altman: “The singularity! It’s upon us!! Behold!” Me, not even looking up from playing Desert Bus for even a second: “Damn that’s crazy”

There is no amount of money you could pay me to ride in a helicopter

I’ve never seen an episode of Richard and Morty

I finally finished this. I’m glad I stuck with it. About halfway through, the “Tomie ruins a random new person’s life” conceit started to wear, but the last few chapters tell a connected story that was the best part of the book. The art is fantastic, as expected.

Fiona Gallagher@psychic.surgery · last mo.

Reading this cool manga about a normal woman who is unjustly maligned by everyone she encounters

Wes Borland C++ is this anything

An IDE is a kind of text editor with a convenience button that invokes a build, and approximately 9000 other features that interrupt you and absolutely fuck your shit up constantly

Whenever someone’s arguing “it’s more faithful to the source material” about an book’s adaptation to the screen, like that makes it intrinsically better in some way, I cannot stress enough how much I do not care

(pausing while reading a book to our 7yo) Wife: “Do you know what ‘torment’ means?” 7yo: “I think it’s something to do with a volcano.” Wife: “No, it means ’to cause pain‘.” 7yo: “Okay.“ 7yo: “…” 7yo: “I think it might have two meanings.”

One hazard of being tall is changing your shirt and accidentally sticking your hand in an operational ceiling fan

(7 year old, asking the important questions) “If I was invincible, could I eat myself?”

You cannot open files of this type without the Boozle plugin. (downloads Boozle) This file type is not set as default to open in Fingaling. Would you like to change this? (clicks yes) Fingaling is part of the Nublibble family of applications. Would you like to download The Nublibble Launcher?

Reading about ISO standards, and found this cool protocol and connector standard that’s used to control agricultural equipment. There’s a lot of standards! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_11783

ISO 11783 - Wikipedia

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