He’s been reassigned to the fashion police.

I wish I could justify getting one. It’s not really the price that’s a problem for me, but the fact that I’ve barely even used the Index I bought around three years ago.

The keyboard I bought for my first PC build. It’s the Alchemy Elixir.

Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.

I kept accidentally summoning the AI assistant on my mom’s tablet so I told it to fuck off. It was like “words can hurt!” So I told it to fuck off again.

Yeah except I can’t get back to sleep until like 5:30.

Got back into Caves of Qud recently. I gave up on it a while back, but I have a renewed interest in it and it’s going well.

I got burned out developing business software and lost my job after 13 years. I’m lucky if my previous game makes $100 in a year at this point. So now I’m wondering at what point I’ll need to give up on my dream of being a full time indie game dev and start looking for a new job.

I’ve dabbled in wood carving. Stuff like whittling, relief carving, and my favorite kind was chip carving.

I also enjoyed doing some wildlife photography.

Maybe the weirdest hobby I ever tried was when I made a home-made furnace for melting aluminum.

But the thing I spend most of my spare time on by far is video game development (everything from the coding to the 3D modelling and animation and a little bit of sound design).

I’ve got a SpaceMouse Pro that, although useable with Blender, I haven’t been able to get it working as well as it did on windows, but I think that’s the only device I had any trouble with so far.

Started playing Monomyth recently. I’m not far in yet but seems pretty good so far.

people are surprisingly opinionated about it.

Getting repeatedly burned by soulless multibillion dollar comanies tends to do that to a person.

Not something I have trouble with spelling, but a common typo I noticed I make is spelling “check” with a ‘h’ instead of the ‘k’ for some reason.

Oh I forgot about that one. Yeah that’s worth playing too. It’s been so long since I played that. I think I should play it again soon.

They’re alright.

• Your Spider - I gotta mention this one again because it deserves far more attention than it got.
• 10 Dead Doves - One of the few games that made me want to play through a second time. Interesting story, some funny moments, emotional moments, good voice acting. I highly recommend this one.
• The Eternal Castle (remastered) - It’s a remake of a game from 1987, but the animation is great and the visual style is really cool.
• The Upturned - A cartoony horror-comedy game with a great sense of humor.
• Withering Rooms - The story is interesting and the atmosphere is great.
• Exanima - Read about the features. This one is more impressive than the screenshots make it look (at least for me).
• Praey for the Gods - This one is for anyone who’s looking for more games like Shadow of the Collossus.

For what it’s worth, yeah. At first I might’ve thought it was kinda annoying. But I’ve seen you around here enough in various communities that I no longer see you as a random internet user, but instead as an active member of our little online community, and I would absolutely notice if you left.

I was pretty responsive like that when I still had a job. I was basically at my desk all day every day. I didn’t even feel like going out for lunch.

I only have the numbers for games from Steam, so my actual longest played game is probably the old version of Dwarf Fortress. I also typically don’t have the attention span to keep playing a single game for hundreds of hours so the longest I see in my Steam library is just under 200 hours. Aether Way would actually be higher in the list because I played an earlier version of it before it came to Steam.

Ah that could explain it.