Leon ._.
@leonarnott.bsky.social
(he/him/his… for now…) Maker of webgames "You are SpamZapper 3.1" and "Phone in Mouth"; Pochi and Nyaa fan; Same as @webbedspace on Twitter.
https://fairysvoice.net/
https://fairysvoice.net/
Out of curiousity I searched "Metroidbrainia" on Bluesky and the most recent result was less than a day ago. So I guess that one's sticking around for at least a decade.
January 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Out of curiousity I searched "Metroidbrainia" on Bluesky and the most recent result was less than a day ago. So I guess that one's sticking around for at least a decade.
Post a game that no one else remembers
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Post a game that no one else remembers
*sees package at the supermarket produce aisle labeled "MICROWAVE IN BAG"*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
*sees package at the supermarket produce aisle labeled "MICROWAVE IN BAG"*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
*looks inside*
*only contains food*
I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yi...)
January 14, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I used to think it was a bit strange for the caves in Donkey Kong Country to be palette-swapped into such divergent colours as brown, puce, purple and green, but now I'm realising that it's representative of tourist attraction lighting (source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yi...)
Walking up behind Michaelangelo in the midst of working on David and explaining that he could save a lot of effort by only sculpting the front side and placing it against a wall, in modern English
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Walking up behind Michaelangelo in the midst of working on David and explaining that he could save a lot of effort by only sculpting the front side and placing it against a wall, in modern English
Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations.
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
January 11, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Titanium Court is definitely getting gassed-up to the stars and back, but the mass coyness toward describing its terrain-placement puzzle mechanics is giving me some pretty high expectations.
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
It's gonna be funny if I play it and it turns out to somehow just be Otostaz (2002).
This was one of my standout picks from last year's Shortbox
bsky.app/profile/gobl...
bsky.app/profile/gobl...
DEAD HORSES - a feline lesboviolence fantasy western about getting what you deserve
🐛Available now on physical + digital 🐛
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
freya-jn.itch.io/dead-horses
🐛Available now on physical + digital 🐛
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
freya-jn.itch.io/dead-horses
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This was one of my standout picks from last year's Shortbox
bsky.app/profile/gobl...
bsky.app/profile/gobl...
Donkey Kong Bananza should have had exactly one banana that was taped to a wall.
January 4, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Donkey Kong Bananza should have had exactly one banana that was taped to a wall.
I think the one big "verbal tic" I've picked up from Deltarune 3+4 isn't even any line of dialogue, but just doing big meaty finger-snaps like the one Tenna does to transition into his boss fight screen.
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 AM
I think the one big "verbal tic" I've picked up from Deltarune 3+4 isn't even any line of dialogue, but just doing big meaty finger-snaps like the one Tenna does to transition into his boss fight screen.
People often use "Swiss army knife" to mean "utility that does every major and minor task in this problem area in the best way possible" but to me that feels quite off from the real-world object, which is meant to use very little space to do a lot of things very suboptimally.
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
People often use "Swiss army knife" to mean "utility that does every major and minor task in this problem area in the best way possible" but to me that feels quite off from the real-world object, which is meant to use very little space to do a lot of things very suboptimally.
Open source utilities and formats having goofy names like JSON or WASM or Brotli or FLAC or CHD or Zstd may get old sometimes, but by gum it sure beats video encoders and color space format names all being handfuls of numbers like BT709 or H265.
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Open source utilities and formats having goofy names like JSON or WASM or Brotli or FLAC or CHD or Zstd may get old sometimes, but by gum it sure beats video encoders and color space format names all being handfuls of numbers like BT709 or H265.
Just read an article lamenting that plenty of laypeople now believe video resolution, as presented by YouTube and Twitch players, is a measure of video compression loss instead of video dimensions… which is a fact so dreadful that it had simply not occurred to me >_>
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Just read an article lamenting that plenty of laypeople now believe video resolution, as presented by YouTube and Twitch players, is a measure of video compression loss instead of video dimensions… which is a fact so dreadful that it had simply not occurred to me >_>
Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. web.archive.org/web/20180305...
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Tried to look up who came up with - specifically - the idea for giving the Playboy bunny costume sleeve-cuffs attached to nothing. Wikipedia says it was added in 1962 by Renee Blot, but the only other source I could find for this is a 2017 blogspot reply. web.archive.org/web/20180305...
I think UTF-8 is the only time when software engineering actually successfully solved a huge problem definitively forever - and yet, even then, I still know of a few situations where you really do need UTF-32 instead of it (for constant-time arbitrary indexing).
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I think UTF-8 is the only time when software engineering actually successfully solved a huge problem definitively forever - and yet, even then, I still know of a few situations where you really do need UTF-32 instead of it (for constant-time arbitrary indexing).
It's been the Year of the Horse for a full day and no one's posted "Everything happens so much" yet…
January 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
It's been the Year of the Horse for a full day and no one's posted "Everything happens so much" yet…
Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"
January 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Why is this one of the Archive Dot Org frontpage's "top collections"
Now that Betty Boop is public domain, I'm awaiting the Mr. Boop TV adaptation with pre-twiddled thumbs.
January 1, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Now that Betty Boop is public domain, I'm awaiting the Mr. Boop TV adaptation with pre-twiddled thumbs.
I'll admit I'm curious about the acclaim for Urban Myth Dissolution Center, but I've started to get word that the official English TL is bad…
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I'll admit I'm curious about the acclaim for Urban Myth Dissolution Center, but I've started to get word that the official English TL is bad…
Saw a thread asking people what their favourite game was when they were alive in 2005. Straining the ol' rememberbellum makes me realise, even though I was playing Thousand Year Door, Smash Bros. Melee, and a LOT of NetHack, the truest answer… is probably Sexy Parodius in MAME…
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Saw a thread asking people what their favourite game was when they were alive in 2005. Straining the ol' rememberbellum makes me realise, even though I was playing Thousand Year Door, Smash Bros. Melee, and a LOT of NetHack, the truest answer… is probably Sexy Parodius in MAME…
I haven't really thought about Umineko or spun it around in my head in about a year and a half, but I will give Uni Akiyama credit: one listen of Black Liliana from the OST is enough to drop me right back in there.
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I haven't really thought about Umineko or spun it around in my head in about a year and a half, but I will give Uni Akiyama credit: one listen of Black Liliana from the OST is enough to drop me right back in there.
They just did an RPG Maker default assets classical music game from Freem on RTA in Japan - you love to see it.
December 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
They just did an RPG Maker default assets classical music game from Freem on RTA in Japan - you love to see it.
I am somewhat dismayed to report that on X fka Twitter, the "For you" tab has gone into overdrive. *doesn't clarify what this means*
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I am somewhat dismayed to report that on X fka Twitter, the "For you" tab has gone into overdrive. *doesn't clarify what this means*