Okay. So:

blatant self-promotion, short reviews of games, and things I find interesting. I used to draw comics, but now I sometimes write blog posts instead. he/him

[npfehr]

I gotta rant a little:

In our church we take weekly turns as 'worship leader', the person who picks the songs we sing and organizes how the services will flow. The theme of the morning was 'creativity & art' and our worship leader got on the mic to say he asked an AI to help pick songs that fit the topic.

My brother in Christ,

that was not very creative of you

[salty-inc]

Gonna tell y’all what I can hear now that I got my hearing aids

[salty-inc]

Birds! They chirp and it’s so beautiful.

[salty-inc]

Far away cow moos

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My friend has this is his back yard and to say I cried is an understatement.

[salty-inc]

My best friends singing voice

[salty-inc]

Chickens: *chicken noise*

Me, sobbing:

[salty-inc]

The filter for my fish tank! Bubble bubble bubble

[salty-inc]

I sit in the bass section in band. Today I could clearly hear the flutes up at the front! They’re not great, but I can finally hear them!

[salty-inc]

The sound of walking in sand.

Soft but kinda crunchy? Very nice sound 10/10

[salty-inc]

Me playing guitar for the first time. Took the hearing aids out. Not a very good sound… yet

[salty-inc]

Tree leaves in the wind. I got a little spooked at first because it’s 1 am and I’m alone in the park but it’s a real good sound.

[salty-inc]

Bees

Let me say, it was really fucking terrifying walking past the flowering tree in my backyard and hearing zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz coming from it.

[salty-inc]

“sunlight” by Hozier

I sat in my car alone while listening to it. I knew it would be special but wow, that was a religious experience.

[salty-inc]

Their hooves make sounds in the grass but they are completely silent. Beautiful creatures. Beautiful sound

[salty-inc]

Pine needles and pine cones make crunchy sounds!!! Oh my! Very nice

[salty-inc]

Colored pencils make a real nice scratch noise when I’m drawing. I didn’t know they did that

[salty-inc]

I forgot to add this is the beginning! But that little sniffing noise that dogs make when they’re smelling the air or the ground? Wonderful!

[salty-inc]

OCEAN!!!!!!

[salty-inc]

So there was just an entire booth full of wind chimes for sale at mountain fair. It started to get a little windy and they all went off at once. It was so pretty.

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[murolo-moved]

the secret boots are the best item in any castlevania game like come on

if you can’t kill your dad in 6 inch heels what’s the point

[murolo-moved]

dracula: well met, my son. it has been a long time

alucard: not long enough. i can’t allow you to leave here

dracula: do you still side with humani—

alucard:

dracula: are you wearing the...

alucard: the secret boots? yeah. i am.

[aliiiiiiice]

[cutthroatchorus]

There is exactly one spot in the castle (well two, because reverse castle) where if you stand there and equip the secret boots, Alucard will say "WHAT???" and get stuck because he's now too tall to move through it.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[qwantzfeed]

stop saying “electronic”, always say “electric” instead.  there are no downsides, you have nothing to lose but your chains

[purr-in-ink]

A small moment of gentleness in the middle of everything. 🐈‍⬛🤍

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I've made this exact post like 3 different times atp but. It's endlessly funny when people (especially tech company people) treat Asimov's three laws as a legit proposed framework for Artificial Intelligence safety when like. Nearly every single Asimov story they're featured in involves something going wrong as a result of a robot trying to follow three three laws in a situation that makes execution of the laws ambiguous or contradictory. They're not a guideline for legit AI programming they're a plot device designed to cause problems due to interacting in weird ways with complicated hypothetical situations!

[rathayibacter]

we've implemented the safety standards from the award-winning These Are Insufficient Safety Standards series of novels!

[crackinwise]

Shoutout to Nazgul, the 2yo Czechoslovakian wolfdog who ran onto the cross-country skiing course and across the finish line to the crowd's cheers.

No worries: He's a local pet, he's friendly, he didn't interfere with any athletes' results, and he was returned to his owners. Videos at the link. [X]

Nazgul, YOU are an Olympian!

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

[npfehr]

If you're not sure what to play in 2026 here's some themes I've cooked up, plus one I stole.

Jansassin's Creeduary

Final February

Super March-io

SurvApril Horror

Mega May

Junetroidvania

Julicensed July

The August of Zelda

FPS (First Person September)

Open Worldtober

Visual Nov-ember

Donkey Kong December (h/t Dunkey)

[solidsmax]

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Dec 4, 2025

[npfehr]

Recently Completed: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch 2)

This is a first-person shooter with a heavy emphasis on exploration and motorcycle. You play as Samus, intergalactic bounty hunter who gets zapped through time and space to a new planet where she is forced to socialize with coworkers and defeat one of the robots from Daft Punk.

I have awaited this game for many years! I bought my first Switch in 2017 so I could be ready to play it! Now it's here and...I liked it. I didn't love it, but it's good. That's the short review. Play it, I say. I do have some Stars & Wishes after the fold, as well as mild spoilers if you're curious:

⭐ The graphics are spectacular.

⭐ The boss fights were some of my favourites in the Prime series, (I enjoy the Prime games but find almost every boss extremely tedious. These were challenging and fun!)

⭐Motorcycle is neat

⭐I liked the Zelda-inspired optional shrines and their puzzles. I could have done more of those!

⭐Feels very good to play for a returning series veteran.

🌠 I wish your teammates were not so chatty. I didn't hate them the way some do, but I was frequently exasperated by their tendency to state the obvious, right up until the end of the game. McKenzie kept telling me to try things I was already doing. It must be tricky to onboard new players after all this time, so I don't blame them for trying; I've been with this series a long time and so this comes more naturally to me.

🌠This is indeed the most linear Metroid I've played in a while.

🌠Mild spoiler ahead: The Mines, about 4/5th through the game, have a mechanic where you're frequently swarmed by hordes of enemies that are not interesting to fight. I didn't like the story beats that happened there, I didn't like the constant fighting. Bad Mines.

🌠A bit bigger spoiler ahead: You have to shepherd your coworkers through the first portion of the final boss battle. If they're knocked down you can revive them, but if they're hit again they die and you start the entire fight over. This sucks and is frustrating, because they are stupid and will not get out of the way of some big attacks that happen quickly in succession. I had to repeat the first phrase three times because of them.

Some nitpicks:

🐛It felt like I regained movement control a lot faster when switching out of morph ball than in previous games. At first it really threw me off -- I'm used to unmorphing, stopping for a moment, then continuing. Once I got used to it, I liked how smoothly I could go from morph-to-unmorph without losing momentum through rooms I'd already visited.

[npfehr]

Take the day off of work, pull down the blinds, put the phone on DND; it's Metroid Prime 4 day baybeee

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[porterr-robinson]

v.2

[halovoid]

this is the BEST video on the entire internet. i’ve seen this hundreds of times over half a decade and it’s THE BEST.

[kurgy]

wheres seasons greasons

[kurgy]

[kurgy]

its that time of year again

[theangriestlittleunicorn]

It doesn’t have to be

[kurgy]

its not optional

[arcanetrivia]

#I have to queue this for every day in December again like a bad Advent calendar where you only get Season’s Greason’s #it’s tradition

@afniel When I tell you I nearly yelled NEVI IT’S ONLY NOVEMBER DON’T YOU DARE

[afniel]

YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[npfehr]

Make this so I can get it for my kid

[npfehr]

Recently Completed: Gravity Circuit (PC)

This is a side-scrolling action game that's like Shovel Knight meets Mega Man X.

Look, I could spend a bunch more words describing this game but I've already sold two friends on it with the sentence above. Pretty much everything about this game is high quality, particularly the killer soundtrack. It's fun and I loved it. Play it!!