If you can’t handle the videos, don’t watch them!

I don’t plan to.

The election results roll in and that’s it.

It was so long ago I literally cannot remember.

Ah, shit, I knew I was forgetting something! Glad to hear it went well, though.

Tell me about it, I just got off an 8-hour brunch shift, running my ass off the whole time, and I am flying.

I downvote anyone complaining about downvote out of principle.

big feel

no, I’m subbed to many communities on .ml

Did you not see Elwes as the sneering antagonist / rival in Hot Shots?

butterfly.png “Is this… brigading?”

Awesome, I love Patchwork Farms! I’ll try to be there.

big roof

big oof

naptime ⟩ missed alarm ⟩ late to work ⟩ fired ⟩ understimulated

Yes, but it’s eternal, so here we still are.

Also great for whisking if you don’t have or can’t find a real whisk.

Cut of the top of the pomegranate to see where the white “walls” between the five sections are, then cut through the skin vertically along those walls. The fruit can now be pulled apart easily into five sections that are much easier to handle so you can strip the arils from the pith gently without breaking them.

Eating green salads with chopsticks is a game-changer.

The best way to eat grapefruit is not with a spoon: rather, cut it into wedges across the segments then stick the whole wedge in your mouth and pull the flesh out from between the tough interstitial fibers with your teeth.

The best one I’ve found (though I’ll check out HPF, thanks!) is Bullet Journal. Not any of the fancy add-ons, just the original, Carrol-method rapid logging. The idea of migration, mindfully and manually taking all undone tasks and deciding if they really need done or can be discarded, is one of the best features, and one that’s so often missing from digital tools.

I also appreciate that it’s more-or-less time-agnostic, and that note-taking is just as much a part of rapid logging as tasks organization is. The only frill I use is the Final Version Perfect system of priority discovery, which seamlessly fits into the basic bujo methodology.

I don’t feel attacked, I feel seen.

Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.

Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.

But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.

But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.

I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.