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Pacific Northwest winters in a nutshell

When you order “mild” spice level from a Szechuan restaurant and still struggle, no need for a DNS test to know you’re mostly Nordic ancestry.

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“I guess they can still count on credible journalism, once they get past the paywall for Palantir Presents: The Washington Post, so they read the Pulitzer-Bezos Prize–winning work of coeditors-in-chief Bari Weiss and Grok.”

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At the Zoo, drinking overpriced beer and watching concerts. As you do on Seattle summer evenings.

It’s 30C/86F outside at 7pm, ice cream for dinner is the only logical choice.

I’m slowly getting assimilated to becoming an American… I’m putting ice in more and more of my drinks.

Etoile is such a return to form for the Palladino’s. Razor sharp dialog, delivered at high speed, with excellent wit. Deep interesting characters, with great chemistry sells the whole thing.

Parry, the bane of my existence in any video game.

Luckily Clair Obscur’s story mode makes even me have a decent success rate.

How many Nuka Cola caps do reckon a Switch 2 will be?

Politics make a lot more sense once you realize a lot of people don’t vote to make life better for everyone, but to explicitly make certain other people’s life worse.

Me: “Maybe this Nintendo direct will have some mention of Hollow Knight Silksong”
Nintendo newsletter:

My sympathies go out to the people with the major Slack outage.

May your shell scripts always exist with a return code of 0. #hugops

Volunteer park breakfast sandwich and interlaken park + arboretum walk makes for a good weekend morning.

Even though everyone drives like maniacs on all the surface streets between them.

I don’t know what it means, but I found it funny how the vibes differ between the two washing machines I’ve owned.

- LG/Asian - plays a happy little melody
- GE/US - beeps and shows END on the LCD

Man in green frog costume riding a motorcycle on street, with a bus trailing him

Like a frog needs a bicycle

QQ and LFG are two acronyms that my old brain is really having problems remapping depending on contexts.

LFG
Looking For Group
Let’s Fucking Go

QQ
Crying emoji
Quick Question

Launched Threads for the first time in a while, and it now has the same problem I have with Instagram. Video being used instead of the medium it was made for (text / images).

If I want video, I’ll go to YouTube thankyouverymuch. Meta, stop your enshittification.

If you are reading this, post a gif from a game you love

Loved of every corner of this open world was cohesive world building, while still giving me silly little quests to complete.

Side note. “Ordförråd” is the common man word for it, while there’s also the fancy “vokabulär”. Which I assume is from French, as most fancy Swedish words.

One of my favourite expressive words in Swedish is “ordförråd”, which means vocabulary, but literally mean “word storage”.

You want to make all that clever talk with big fancy words? Make sure you have a lot of room in that head for word storage 😅

Can’t say I expected Wind and Truth to be a 1500 page dissertation in mental health and conquering your demons, but I liked it.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Call me elitist, but if you’re best of Radiohead playlist has Creep on it, I’ll be suspect of your music taste.

Thinking about second breakfast, like a damn hobbit.

Thank you, jet lag.

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The biggest waste of money I’ve seen in video game development, across many years and studios (not my current one - one of the reasons I wanted to work there), wasn’t on graphics. It was abruptly being told to throw out months or years of work bc one executive decided they didn’t like something.

An accessibility feature I’d like to see in games is the option to completely disable the parry system. I don’t want the tutorial
to even tell me parrying is possible in the game

Thanks!

Winter wonderland, part 2