Luke Beeman

Took me longer than I'd like but I finally finished my GOTY 2025 writeup, please check it out! medium.com/@LukeBeeman/...

petalgrams.com — Oct. 5 Score: 618 • Top Score 👑 🌸🌸🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️ Exciting day in @petalgrams.bsky.social for my brother and I today (no, not the top score—at this point I’m more surprised if we aren’t #1 lol): we found our 3rd ever 20+ letter word

pained me to rate Sudoku Mansion so low because I did actually enjoy the puzzles, but the writing pinged very hard as AI-generated to me (no AI disclosure so I can’t say for certain), which really soured me on the experience

My contribution to the recent 9 games trend, featuring my most formative or impactful games:

a list of all the longest words (that I remembered to write down) that my brother and I have used in @petalgrams.bsky.social (also “fiddledeedee” because I thought it was funny) was interesting looking back through these and realizing they literally all use the letter i

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

Okay, it's out! store.steampowered.com/app/4428890/...

happy bandcamp friday

shower thought just now: “permanent tournament” is a pretty good tongue-twister phrase, it’s very easy to get tripped up by the shifting “m” and “n” sounds and accidentally say “pernament” or “tourmanent”

Sudokuvania 2 complete! (minus one optional boss that I will tackle tomorrow)

Love that Dropout is picking up more offbeat independent comedy stuff, first Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and now Don Hertzfeldt’s filmography. In particular, It’s Such a Beautiful Day is my favorite movie so I’m ecstatic about more people getting exposed to it.

Just finished watching Journal with Witch. Terrible title, but an excellent anime, full of well-realized characters and brimming with empathy. Gets the “Made Me Cry” ringing endorsement. I kinda love that I could tell that Kensuke Ushio was responsible for the score basically instantly.

it’s like shes in some king of no eulogies #unbeatable

Not pictured: both Super Sudokoid games (Final Transmission and Dark Inversion), which aren’t on backloggd. Those, 868-BACK, and La-Mulana 2 were/are being played together with my brother, taking turns at the controls.

Show me a comic page you love; no explanation needed.

My brother and I finally finished our first 868-BACK run after chipping away at it over the past month. 11th on the all-time leaderboard is crazy for a first attempt, very proud of us.

Scissor Seven rocks, can’t wait for this

Read Tatsuki Fujimoto’s “Goodbye, Eri” in one go last night. Fantastic comic, really loved how it plays with artifice—the question of how much we see is genuine or performance, the way the edit transforms even true events into a skewed narrative, the use of film to overwrite or replace memory

just completed my first 868-BACK server with the Advanced Graphics modifier, and jesus christ was that stressful

To stick with the spirit here of boosting lesser-known games, I made my picks here by reverse-sorting my played games by popularity and then picking the first 9 that jumped out at me (that were actually on Steam). These could all absolutely use some more love.

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

Surprise! The Rhythm Doctor OST is OUT NOW! 🎵 64 tracks of music found in levels, menus, and cutscenes 🎵 English + Chinese versions of several vocal songs 🎵 A few instrumentals and sheet music included! Promo code seventhbeat for 30% off until June 30th! 7thbeat.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm...

“sometimes spiders just do that” #FallenLondon

Been loving all the Telwynium installments over the years, looking forward to the full thing!

been playing lots of EMUUROM lately with my brother, very cool puzzly exploration platformer. am currently secret-hunting in the post-game, and came home from work today to find out that my brother had made a custom font so we can now type out the game’s runes, it’s really sick

this rules

The Kickstarter for The Crane Rider's Tale is now live! Fly passengers around a fantasy town inspired by Chinese folktales and unravel a mindbending mystery with multiple endings. Zero Escape meets Disco Elysium 🗡️🎲 LINK: www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

I always enjoy filling these out even if deciding what makes the cut is a struggle

First Ascension 10 win in Slay the Spire 2, let's go! Cascade+ with Chemical X is real silly, especially when you've got 2 of them. Final fight got a little dicey because they both decided to hide at the bottom of my deck, but I pulled through even if I got down to single-digit health.