its 20 and cloudy today but that has not seemed to dampen the spirits of the man who has driven his mini ice cream truck around my block for the last two hours!
Raina 🇨🇦
@rainaelm.bsky.social
Data scientist, dog mom, Edmontonian. I write about games sometimes! 🇨🇦
If I’m at a farmers market, art walk, craft fair,etc and someone is selling a book they wrote I always grab a copy. Getting your work out there is hard and if you’re selling in non-literary spaces I assume you’re really hustling. Also means I read things I wouldn’t have found otherwise!
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
half of the tree in my backyard fell into my neighbours yard during a storm 🫣 thankfully nothing was damaged, just have a shit ton of wood to clean up. Mostly I’m mad because the storm was like 20 minutes long. Weak-ass tree couldn’t hold out just a bit longer??
we need good, educated haters now more than ever
Welcome to Hater Week, a week of stories examining what it means to be a hater (and a lover), where we'll vent about some of our biggest pet peeves in games and life, and give others space to do the same. aftermath.site/aftermath-site...
The Province asked Albertans to complain about bike lanes. We’re asking a better question: How does freedom of mobility improve your life? Tell us what safe, affordable ways to walk, roll, bike and take transit make possible for you. Share your story: tally.so/r/Y5vvN0 #yegbike
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For every minute you spend arguing with trolls or fretting about what the trolls think, please spend *an hour* shouting about the things you enjoy
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...
one time I got way too high and called an uber to take me home seconds after getting an ice cream. I’m fairly sure I was making this exact face when he pulled up because the driver let me in with my huge ice cream and put on an acoustic John Meyer album for me. Shouts out to my hero ♥️
This photo help
Angine de Poitrine is easily and hands down the best band I’ve seen live, they were SO FUN
"ugh another old stuff horror movie from Robert Eggers ugh" you wish you loved anything so deeply and productively
guys I cannot express the sheer volume of mosquitos in Alberta right now. We’ve had ~2x the average amount of rain so its hatched millions. Genuinely apocalypic proportions, immediate swarms when you step out. Someone needs to start shipping us bats and dragonflies ASAP, my dog won’t go out to pee 😞
AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance
The Namco Museum Museum [TRAILER]
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I also need hundreds of billions in revenue for my “diamond tiaras for large dogs” company to stay afloat but I’m not quite sure either of us understand how economics work
Steam Machine price in CAD is brutal but also about what I guessed based on how badly AI companies are jacking up hardware prices. I’m caught right in between where I have an aging PC that needs some amount of money to keep running, or I sell the parts and get an upgrade through the steam machine 🤔
in the middle of a heavy week of rain, went out to check the garage and instead found our gutter was blocked and pouring directly into a window well, which had completely filled with water 🫠 20 or so buckets of bailed water later and a run up the ladder to clear debris and we’re okay, but stressful!
if anyone needs a very experienced video editor, I've been making documentaries for over a decade and I could really use some more work to help make ends meet! my DMs are open, hit me up if you wanna make cool stuff together
Man I love sewing so much. There’s a little craft tote I saw online that’s sooo cute but they want $100 for it which is wild for a canvas bag. But the shape is really simple so its easy to reverse-engineer a pattern 😎 plus I can make it the exact size I need!! 10/10 hobby, cant recommend it enough
either I got put into a weird a/b test or they flipped a switch, but google search is tangibly and meaningfully so much worse today. Like searching for a specific product and its all medium-related facebook posts?
it's basically the number one rule to any medium ; you can't just tunnel-vision and pigeon hold yourself into a corner. that niche may feel comfortable but it's stifling and prevents you from seeing "the bigger picture" in any sort of artistic/cultural context
evergreen article: samzabell.medium.com/the-truth-is...
“The truth is paywalled but the lies are free.”
I can’t stop thinking about this piece from Current Affairs, published in August, but highly relevant every day since.
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You gotta pay to read reuters now? If anymore news goes pay to read, I'm just gonna be ignorant I guess. I don't have enough money to pay for all of that.
i am FREAKING OUT
Hey bestie, Barbie is calling! 💖 Barbie invites you into her cozy, creative world in Barbie™️ Rewind! Customize her DreamHouse and rediscover iconic adventures from her game collection. Launching November 12, 2026. https://atari.com/products/barbie-rewind-game-doll
Indiepocalypse #77, the latest in the long running and deicated indie game curatorial effort is now out! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @cutegamesclub.itch.io -Cover by Minha Lee (whatisaminha.tumblr.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-77
Enough "making games inspired by our childhood" and more of whatever the hell into the unwell is!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2024600/...
Into The Unwell on Steam
Whack-and-slash your inner demons in this third-person roguelite, set in a rubber hose fuelled fever dream! Play 1-3 players as one of several flawed and heavily medicated misfits.
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this is like, my ideal game. I love being nosy and trying to figure out weird family beef !!!
Wishlist here! store.steampowered.com/app/4110770/... A 60-90 minute long mystery thriller with a fully voiced cast of suspects: Your beloved grandma Your stressed-out mum Your midlife crisis uncle The weird man in your bedroom You
if SGF got you bummed out Day of the Devs will remind you of the real flexibility and charm of the medium