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Someone on Bluesky was daring people to "name 50 good indie games you bought that came out this year" - well, I can't afford new games, so instead, here's 50 good (and slightly less good) games I played this year regardless of when they came out.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/blaugh/posts/2025-12-20-50-Good-Games-I-Played-in-2025.html

PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“

Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.

These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.

Please spread this knowledge.

Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.

@arielmt i can't wait for mozilla to single-handedly lose the third browser war against nothing

Microsoft won the First Browser War, and the Web was worse for it.

Google won the Second Browser War, and the Web is worse for it.

There will be a third, because monopolies only stagnate, regress, and fester. But #Mozilla's chance to lead the way to a better World Wide Web has today gone from small to none.

I want to show off image scaling and non-scaling in my website template file, and I want to keep the bigots away from my project. Proudly queer wholesome pictures for my example images?

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

This is an amazing document.

SECOND ANNUAL VIDEO TERMINAL COMPARISON CHART

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/computerDecisions/Computer_Decisions_2nd_Annual_Video_Terminal_Comparision_May81.pdf

That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.

These games are the starting point, but the bulk of the game is new puzzles combining mechanics from different games together. I haven’t played the game but I have faith it will be interesting, and the world can always do with more great puzzle games.

The original games at the core of Order of the Sinking Star are:
* The Heroes of Sokoban series: by Jonah Ostroff
* The Promesst series: by Sean Barrett
* Mirror Isles: by me
* Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes: by me

i find fixing the daily annoying Linux things more difficult than "developing software". if your app has a bug, you can set a breakpoint or whatever. i wish i could do that on my entire linux install. where is it getting the y value for the icon label height? oh it loads that from this config file. etc. but i don't even know what program is drawing the icons onto the screen! if i did, maybe i could check its open file handles or something. anyway, having to think like this at all? is not Normal