"super mario 64 scientists"

oh come o-

"panenkoek2012"

say no more.

Oh thank god I'm not alone.

L'shana tova. If you follow me for nerdy game design things and not dank leftwing takes, I have been writing again and posting to ye olde Hill Cantons blog. Links follow.

Exactly so!

Equipped with my official Bremerton Community Theatre Sippy Cup, I am now entitled to drink wine in the performance hall. It's called the privileges of rank, peasants.

thank you to @sal.gay for editing and @roqueromero.bsky.social for the awesome cover. Thank you also to everyone who did reading and gave feedback including @ratkingrpg.bsky.social @naeolin.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @cairnrpg.com @linkskywalker.bsky.social and to my wonderful playtesters!

mario is a divisive figure in the bobomb community

Buy me dinner first, Ram.

I'm trying to buy a rubber ring right now, and the closest match I can find online only lists inner diameter. Not outer, not thickness. I dont even know if rubber hardness is a factor or not, but its never listed.

I miss Radio Shack from 30 years ago.

I've read a fair amount of more modern fantasy fiction, but holy hell "the magic system is great" is like 10 red flags at once.

(Blacktongue Thief is worthwhile though.)

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

It's strange having grown up in the region where pickleball originated. I never knew it was a local thing until everyone started talking about it as a new phenomenon.

Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump

Oh geeze I dunno, but I like the notion!! That sort of simple, suggested interconnectivity is fun

Very possible! Commando being an earlier game for the same developers makes it a natural story for them to tell, but localization changed so much in such poorly documented ways in that era

Autocorrect wins this one. "Backstreet" is a cooler word than "backstory"

In 2005 I was shocked to realize there were old metal gear games, where the backstreet of MGS played out.

In 2025 I am shocked to realize Super Joe from Bionic Commando's backstreet is actually the protagonist of an older game called Commando

Crazy setting. Wild imaginations on these fellas.

Someone find me a comparative analysis of the narratives of Metal Gear and Bionic Commando.

Lots of people ask me: "Leaf, your online presence seems so funny and talented. How are you so good at internet?"

Easy.

"but pressing the apocalypse button would kill even more people than just trannies!!"

damn. sounds like they shouldnt put the trannies in a situation where we have nothing to lose. that would be a dumb idea. lmao.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights

JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you

Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast