Dead as Disco looks incredible. I’m so excited for its release

imagine if Arkham-style melee combat was a rhythm game with actual music

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3404260/Dead_as_Disco/

this is a ridiculously good animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqB9-GWbCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBjJXtaIzs

this is a pretty interesting (and short) history of proto-TTRPGs (historical wargames)

yess I successfully installed Arch and booted into it with GRUB! it’s currently a completely useless terminal with nothing installed, so my next step is going to be setting up all the software that I want, including a DE

I just watched the Superman 2025 trailer and I loved the interview with Louis Lane but the rest of the trailer totally lost me

this is possibly a hot take but I feel like Superman is at its best when it’s about “what is the right thing to do in this situation?” instead of “oh no! how will Superman possibly get out of this situation??” or the usual “can Superman punch this bad guy through enough skyscrapers to knock him out, or will the bad guy punch Superman through enough skyscrapers to knock him out?” and then of course there’s the typical “a bad guy manipulated Superman and now he’s evil??” which seems to be the only direction that writers know how to take his character lol

basically I love when Superman is the superhero version of Star Trek

omg I never liked Terraria but this animation is so so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpBm1nZ1YY

someone on DeviantArt photoshopped an ISD to have Clone Wars era Republic Red livery and it’s so surreal to look at

source

Spouse just asked me add toothpicks to the shopping list and that reminded me of a quick tip that could help you out of a jam one day

If you've got a wood screw that's stripped out its hole and won't tighten up anymore, you can put some wood glue on a toothpick, jam that in and trim off the end and you'll have a reinvigorated hole that the screw can bite into again

This is an old pinball repair trick that carries over into non-pinball life. One time I had a couple mates over and we were gonna watch a spooky movie, we put the kiddo to bed and as I was closing her bedroom door it just, fell off the top hinge in my hands haha

Stood there holding the door on one hinge all 🦝 honey can you go grab me a couple things lol

Didn't let it hold up our plans, just pulled the door, stuffed the holes full of toothpicks and wood glue, screwed it all back up and went on with the evening, took maybe five minutes and years later it's still holding just fine

woah… I drastically underestimated how big a lambda-class shuttle is

wow - even the minibosses in Elden Ring are like three steps up in difficulty from the most difficult boss in Dark Souls 1. I don’t know how anyone can play this game unless they’ve trained on every single FromSoft game before this point

also they nerfed the shit out of parrying and blocking T_T

first impressions of Oblivion Remastered are… pretty meh?

first of all it is visually gorgeous. in terms of graphical fidelity it’s definitely the best-looking game my computer has ever run, and it also has a pretty good aesthetic too

unfortunately it has some performance issues and graphical glitches that are moderately annoying. also the UI is kinda clunky to use, but so was the original Oblivion’s so that’s fair I guess

but the main thing is… the magical feeling I get from playing Skyrim just feels missing from this game somehow. idk; I can’t put my finger on what, exactly, I want this game to have. I do feel like the fantasy stuff is pretty insipid - which is a criticism I’ve always had about Oblivion. but I think there might be something else missing too. something important. I just don’t know what it is yet

maybe I just miss being able to mod the game and have new mods to get excited about? maybe I miss having a DLC entirely focused on vampires lol. maybe it’s just the unfamiliarity, and I’m going to warm up to it over time. but for now all I know is that Oblivion Remastered isn’t pulling me in the way that Skyrim always does

inventor of the skateboard showing it off for the first time:

“check out this new movement tech I found”

yeah, sounds like something a fedizen would say

lol today I’ve been trying to play modern AAA games on my new hardware but by the time they’re done compiling shaders I’m already halfway through a youtube video on my phone and don’t want to stop so I just alt-f4 and tell myself I’ll play it later

now that I have a modern CPU, I bet I can run virtual machines smoothly again! for a while virtual machines got slower and shittier for me and I think it’s because they were optimized for modern CPUs that have hardware-level virtualization acceleration

so I’m thinking about eventually setting up some kind of Linux install that can run inside of Windows - that way I can tinker with it but if everything is borked then I can just turn it off and not face any consequences

I’m definitely not going to work on this now though lol. my patience for technical problems, after setting up my new hardware, is exactly zero