williamist

please ignore my unfunniness thank you

[williamist]

evil catboys be like:

NYAHAHAHAHA

[williamist]

been watching the new chalkeaters song, its really good but it made me realize that i live such a sad life. like i wouldn't call myself a part of any "community" really, and as a kid i only really played minecraft creative mode by myself or with my family

idk man just feeling kinda crap rn, wishing i was a part of something like 8 years ago but whatever its ok i guess

[williamist]

just watched the entirety of murder drones in one day and oh my god it is so peak i think i see why people like it now

[thunderbottle]

they should add a fishing minigame to tumblr

[williamist]

feeling the impostor syndrome again,, why oh why can my brain not accept the fact that i haven't even graduated high school yet, why am i comparing myself to professionals when i can't even work on a project for more than a week without getting distracted why do i feel the urge to join random projects that i think are cool when i know i wont do a goddamn thing to help out and then have to leave shamefully (true story, has happened, i am terrified of it happening again so these days i just sulk in my corner of laziness) i see all these cool video games that are popular and im like "oh i wanna do that" but i know i'll never be on that level im just a stupid idiot teenager who probably has at least 1 neurodivergent thingymabob going on inside his brain why oh why must i suffer in my inability to complete anything

anyway new game from the one-shot peeps looks cool, how's your day been?

[williamist]

i got a retainer today (no braces anymore, woohoo) and now i dont want to eat anything like all the time

like i know i should but i just cant be bothered to take the damn thing out in order to eat

might be a problem, we'll see i guess

[orteil42]

they gotta start making North remakes. you take old 2d games and flip the view around so everything is facing North instead. who knows what goes on behind all these

[williamist]

i think i might be the only person ever to use the youtube "pronouns" feature

ive never seen it used by anyone else. do people know this exists?

[orteil42]

video games always give you the most boring postprocess options. anti-aliasing and gamma correction and various performance settings, maybe a vignette if you're lucky. let players adjust the vibrancy… color-grade with custom LUTs… let them slap on some obscene sharpen if they want. bloom slider that goes to 500%

[orteil42]

hey if you play Cookie Clicker on browser and aren't photosensitive you can open the console with F12 and type Game.PARTY=true

[orteil42]

if they made a dungeon keeper-type online game where you build trap-filled levels for NPCs to venture through and then released a completely unrelated first-person RPG that advertises "endless handcrafted dungeon-delving" but secretly draws its level data from what players built in the first game how soon do you think people would notice

[orteil42]

i think even after people realize you should keep not acknowledging it and continue playing coy when confronted like noooo i don't know what you're talking about there's zero relation between us and that other studio registered under the same LLC

[orteil42]

I finally found you. Er, more specifically, I wasn't aware that you were so easy to find. Admittedly, I was never a big fan of cookie clicker. I never got enjoyment out of it and (as you are WELL aware) it started a Wave of games that maybe didn't add much to the industry, I don't think. (Maybe I'm wrong, though- again, I haven't really looked closely at it.) So y'know, I never looked closely at it, and I'm still not going to. Idle clickers just can't hold my attention and I don't want anything to do with them tbh.

However.

Our parents- well, they said they loved us, but my mother did nothing but scream at my little brother for misbehaving, and my father would yell at him if he laughed- treated him terribly. My mother cites his autism for the reason why he didn't talk for the first few years of his life but if I had to guess, it was probably more because he was punished for noise.

Genuinely? Genuinely. Thanks for keeping my little brother distracted from the traumatic, scarring things happening around him in his youth. You don't know how much comfort it brought me to stare off into the horror and just to turn and see how he was doing to find him making like. A shitton of cookies, without a thought in the world.

And no matter what anyone else says about any other part of your game, no matter how much shit anyone like me would want to give you for the admittedly hilarious trend it started.

Still- your game brought a little boy who had a very niche, very unfortunate passion quite a lot of joy. While the world fell apart around him, he had Cookie Clicker.

There is nothing in the world I would want more than my brother having something he can enjoy without being yelled at, or without it being taken from him. There is nothing more precious to me than my little baby brother.

And I mean that.

So thank you. You've saved my brother's life and in turn saved mine, and I cannot be more thankful.

well! damn

[williamist]

the rule of lollipops: once you start one, you have to finish it. no exceptions.

[williamist]

currently obsessed with jack black's cover of "baby one more time" like why is it so good???

[williamist]

today i updated my woke minecraft pronoun mod for woke liberals (i found a bug)

still waiting for modrinth to accept it though, i think they're kinda overloaded rn lol

[williamist]

me and the boys (gender neutral) commiting tomfoolery in the early hours of the evening

[williamist]

i reblogged things one time, it was pretty neat

[orteil42]

folks tagging my posts with "you made cookie clicker hheheuherheh" well you made a tumblr account. not that much better!