@TheDarkHorse I was gonna just send a 🌈 but then I saw the butt :rainbow_butt:​ and I was like that's the one chief

Heard about this game Stacklands on the Core gaming podcast yesterday. Gave it a try and suddenly it was 2am.

It's kind of like a village manager crossed with a Figjam Kanban board. Was dubious about it for the first 5 minutes and then suddenly my brain was like "this is a unix system, I know this" and the hyperfixation set in

https://sokpop.itch.io/stacklands

Update: I pass by this back door every time I walk into the kitchen, and this Halloween witch spooks me 7 times out of 10. A+++, want to keep it up year round

We're entertaining visiting family in town for a week since last Weds until this Weds. First time seeing them since the pandemic. They haven't been staying with us, but we've seen them every night for dinner and for extended hangouts over the weekend.

It's been... a lot. Not to angst / trauma dump overmuch, but family is fraught. Also deferred birthday & Halloween plans for the visit, which is sub-optimal.

Without details - or maybe even with - this probably comes off as low-stakes whinging. Generally, I feel like a weird human sometimes because I'm missing some circuits that should otherwise make me a happy family participant.

Like, what is this thing where people appear to yearn for contact with kin? How does it function?

Apropos of those last toots, I think it should be a culturally accepted practice that everybody gets a "baby" starter set of everything:

Baby teeth, baby name, baby gender, baby family. You should get to change all of it, as many times as you want, as you grow up and figure yourself out.

Imagining a superhero whose weakness is their birth family.

Not because they're particularly fond of family, but because the baddies can interview that family to dig up all the fraught trigger phrases and references to traumatizing episodes that only family would know.

Hero: "I can use my mind to vaporize your secret volcano base before you can activate the mind control satellites!"

Baddie: "Clark Jerome Kent! Do you remember when you shat your underroos at the Christmas party in 1989 in front of your grandma?"

Hero: :pika:​

(I'm sure this has been done before, but it just popped into my head)

@quazarsamcoupe Oh dang, yet another reason for me to finish getting my RC2014 kit up and running!

@dimillian neato!

@dimillian This is a Raspberry Pi 3 with a small display panel and some arcade controls. It runs RetroPie, which can pretty conveniently launch PICO-8 like other emulators on the thing 😁

Today's discourse over on Threads appears to be: "It's fun to stroll snarkily into a wood chipper driven by world events"

@calcifer Dang, that song just jumped straight into my head

@recursive ooof! :oof:

Tired: Zoom fatigue
Wired: Fatigue

@selzero "by your nide"?