Mark LaCroix 💾

@tetronimike.bsky.social, @skrimbus.bsky.social, and I are building a working movie theater for our upcoming video game. Other things we're building for it: * A bookstore * A set of impossible shapes * A fountain * A carnival game * 100 keys * Etc. #gamedev #indiedev

My IKEA desk top at Noble Robot has held up great for a something literally made of cardboard that I've beat up every day for 5 years, but the edge veneer has finally starting to chip away so I spent a little extra to get a new solid-core desk top. In the words of Montgomery Scott: It's green!

"Arab citizens make up ~20 percent of Israel’s population, and most are descendants of Palestinians who remained during the 1948 Arab-Israel war. Today, they mostly live in separate towns from Jewish Israelis and face violence and discriminatory housing policies." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

Big news from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain: Employees at Rockstar Games in the UK will hold a union vote next month, just as they release Grand Theft Auto VI

finally, the Ouya's time is here

I'm for judicial term limits because it will normalize presidents' appointments, but I don't support forced retirement, for the same reason. We should elect 20-somethings to the House to shake loose the gerontocracy, but it's fine, almost preferable, that Supreme Court Justices are comically old.

Israel is running out of chances to govern its way out of the hole its dug itself into over the past two decades, and its people know it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

No it wont, says MinnMax

Blue building Lula, Mississippi

Karmic justice for Elder Millennial parents who ran up *their* parents' AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy bill when they were 14. The work of an evil genie, surely. Or has enough time passed that the execs in charge don't remember we all decided this business model doesn't work? gizmodo.com/microsoft-an...

I have a chronic disease that w/o daily treatment could kill me within days. In my lifetime, that treatment went from 6 injections per day to a device in my pocket that automatically adjusts micro-doses and needs refilling every 2-3 days. Still a nightmare existence, but boy how it's improved.

As the MN-based developer of Blippo+, I'm hoping this boosts the local economy. $2! Cheap!

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Post Office Cook, NE

The Blippo+ OST 2xLP ($33) is out now and shipping to you directly from our friends at indie label Hologram Opera! 71 exquisite tracks for channel surfers, weirdos, freaks, and normies alike! We invite you to GET BENT! hologramopera.com/products/gre...

"There's a point where [...] Valve is going to need to spend a tiny fraction of [their] billions and take a more active role in policing its own shopfront" Thank you, @lukeplunkett.com, for saying it plain.

Zenith Chromacolor Keota, IA

Honestly: fine. Games should be bought mostly sight unseen. Slop clones are a natural conclusion of a data/metrics/reviews-obsessed market. Gamers need to get comfortable risking $10 on something not knowing if they'll like or not, and not treat it like a consumer rights violation if they don't.

"three Trek appearances on three different series" is the character actor equivalent of winning a batting title

BBC 6music gave the Blippo+ soundtrack a plug on air a while ago! @cabel.panic.com @panic.com

By Taiyō Matsumoto

Reminder that applications to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are still open until October 23! If you're working on something interesting, submit it! We want to see games that surprise, delight, and inspire. fr, one of my rubrics for curation is: "Makes me go 'woooooah' when I look at it."

Local theater

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

Fuck what you heard, that was The Rehersal S3.

"Unlike Fielder’s past work, 'You Can See Everything' isn’t very funny at all." Critical reaction to this movie has been taken in by Fielder's now-complete mastery of deadpan. At my screening, people were laughing so often and so loud that important dialogue was missed. It *is* a comedy.

The most annoying thing about this was how completely obvious it was to anyone with a modicum of news literacy, and watching everyone on Bluesky fall for it anyway.

Building out the inventory screen for my game and suckered myself into doing a 3D physics. #gamedev

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Second Chances."

This is the content I live for.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

"The History of Concrete" was very good, but a bit thin and overlong. I also can't believe it has 4 credited producers. It makes the lengthy digressions into how hard it is for artists to get unusual work financed less sympathetic to me, an artist currently trying to get unusual work financed.

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#TransRights

🗓️ NOV 13 🌴 LOS ANGELES Join us to celebrate the vinyl release of 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗣! Feat. performances from Blippians Lord Wright, Chloe Coover, & Brent Weinbach—plus 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 from Rob & Jona of @teamyacht.com all night long! RSVP: hologramopera.com/pages/planet...

"Patterns" (1956)