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Station Master Mikan comes out to inspect the passengers.

I finally beat Suika Game 😂

The awkward moment at work where someone knows your name but you’re not sure if you’ve worked with them before…

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

I picked up self-teaching how to play the guitar and I’m starting to believe it’s improving my skill at Gitadora (Konami’s Guitar Hero) whenever I play it at Round One 😂

Are we at a point in video game history that the lack of a real time day-night cycle in games must be some sort of lore thing?

I don’t know if it’s an actual term but I like that what I call “only doing the dailies in gacha games” as playing the game in “maintenance mode” gained a little traction elsewhere

this is my kind of company motto right here

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint​.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

AKB48's "Teacher, Teacher" sold 2.5 million copies in 2018. Days later, bags of the CDs were found in the trash. Fans were buying in bulk to qualify for votes in the group's "general election," not to listen to the music.

this weekend i collaged a poem of sorts based on some of the conversations i overheard around fanfest. each line was said by a different person at a different time. so... let's meet again!

I can't believe they upgraded Katherine's cut scene sniping ability in #GenshinImpact. 😭

impossible to explain the appeal of The Primals if you don't play XIV a bunch of 50-something uncs get up on stage and play video game music and for that small period of time, it's the coolest thing in the world.

Seeing a lot of hate for Koji on the timeline right now. For anyone who didn't watch the panel: He was very open that he was forced into including AI by the SE president. Your hate should be directed at the suits, and not Koji himself.

Last night while I was leaving a concern, one of the stage lights was hitting the wall near the exit and it had that same effect as ray tracing "shimmering" or whatever it's called. More "proof" we're just in a simulation 🤪

Going to see how much overlap of fans there are between GFL and Arknights there is at FFXIV Fanfest 🤪

I remember Medal of Honor: Frontline had this bonus video where two of the devs are doing a gag radio talk show about programmer things. Being a developer, that skit is now 100x more hilarious.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

As a kid I always saw NASA's ground control station with those big, boxy consoles. So that's the image I think of about them. It's weird seeing them today with basically a modern office desk setup.

YouTuber pet peeve: When the person puts in literally anything but a description of the video in the Description section.

> Playing Resident Evil Requiem > Walk into a room, see the auto save indicator > "Hm... I'm sure nothing's going to happen here 🤪" > Something happens in the room

Okay something's really not right here...

Pet peeve of the day: Why do manufacturers recess the receptacle for things (USB, power, whatever) thereby making it hard to find a replacement cable because it don't fit. It's like they begrudgingly accepted the standard by making it as "proprietary" as possible.

I NEVER GET THIS LUCKY

Trains are nice

I want to sit down with a level artist/designer who worked on a pretty extensive 3D game just to pick at their brain on the technical parts. There's assumptions I can make about why things are the way they are, but it'd be nice to actually know.

Doing something at work using one of our web page tools and the first attempt didn't work. So I did it again to see if it'll throw an error. It did! "[object object]" SIIIIIIIGH

Sometimes I let some of the apps that come with a computer do their thing, just to give it a shot. Maybe it's not as bad as... Why is this one constantly asking me to approve elevated privileges Okay I changed my mind, they're being nuked into deep space.

Hey Firefox users.

The next time a CEO of a company that makes a prominent game engine says it's the developer's fault for not making performant games, maybe they should lead by example and make a AAA game that looks like something top tier from 5 years ago but can run on a potato at 60 FPS.

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

I may enjoy the company of cats a lot, but it’s #InternationalDogDay so shout outs to these beautiful doggos I got a picture of