Notices by 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)

According to fedi shitposters and confirmed as something actually being reported by professional media shitposters, Among Us is an "assassin game" played by the guy arrested for murdering that healthcare-industrial complex CEO earlier in the week.

Similarly, the fact that I own Judas Priest albums and a copy of the computer game Doom has definitely influenced the likelihood of my doing a murder.

wait, why is everyone talking about moral panics about Among Us suddenly?

(I'm going to hate whatever the answer is, aren't I?)

@dosnostalgic Oh, fucksticks. How much notice have you got?

GOG: 🔞 EXCLUSIVE OFFER for adults only

Me: I'm listening

GOG: Plumbers. Don't. Wear. Ties. 🍆 💦

Me: Absolutely fucking not.

It's efficient, but Chocolate Doom is really not my fave when it comes to loading WADs.

(MyHouse.wad section is coming along well.)

Literally no one writes worse instructions than Doom modders/ porters.

Okay, partial attainment. This'll do for today.

@dosnostalgic your tee bears an absolute truth and I'll hear no different

I have finally dragged on clothes, so welcome to #ShirtCheckSunday !

I share my tee, you show me your tee/shirt/outfit, everyone looks awesome and cute, it's great.

Today's shirt is Ashenspire's Three Months to the Gutter tee, art by Hagiophobic.

They're an avant-garde red/anarchist black metal (RABM) band, and Hostile Architecture is one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Equal parts beautiful and brutal, and upholding the rule that all metal bands with saxophones are good.

If you're near London in the UK, they're playing at Desertfest at the Electric Ballroom this afternoon at 14:30.

Listen to them: https://ashenspire.bandcamp.com/music

#ShirtCheck #metal

Because routine is important, I'm declaring the inaugural #ShirtCheckSunday.

Here's the deal: every Sunday, I'm going to put on a nice tee/shirt and share it with that hashtag, and I'd love to see yours.

Band shirts are traditional, but I'm more than happy to see geek tees, or - get this - actual fashion sense.

You can just post a pic, or share a bit more about it. Faces not required, use the hashtag if you like, reply as you like, admire one another's outfits. 🖤

I'm wearing an Ancst short-sleeve today.

https://angstnoise.bandcamp.com/music

They make anti-fascist black metal, dark ambient, crust and blackened metalcore.

The shirt is further evidence that, if you're an RABM band that prints black-white-gold tees, I will buy them.

Trying to avoid eye contact with today's pic, which looks inadvertently dramatic.

#ShirtCheck #metal

I see they eventually took that bootleg release of Drowned God off Steam, then.

https://steamdb.info/app/2522980/

Don't worry, it's readily available to download elsewhere, if you want that flavour of deeply fucking strange both in-game and outside it.

@dosnostalgic @lunarloony @Tijn

Yeah, I suspect you're right, too, which is another item on my list of "things that concern me about Steam-as-DRM".

To wave vaguely in the direction of classical history, it's only ever a matter of time until a Bad Emperor comes along.

@lunarloony @Tijn

Right? For instance, I appreciate Valve putting money and person-hours into my pet special interests (specific areas of open source software, for example) where most corporate behemoths would not, but the only reason the likes of Valve, Nintendo and Sega (each in really specific areas and not in general) seem likes "good" or "responsible" companies compared to the industry's conspicuously bad actors isn't because the "good" companies aren't bad actors themselves, but because they occasionally meet a minimum bar of corporate responsibility (and don't mind benefiting from the PR gloss it gives them).

Fundamentally, the role of "large enterprise" as an institution and "billionaire" as an individual are both locked into social and economic roles that are inherently predatory and destructive.

Did you release a game for a retro platform in 2023?

DOS? GBA? Mega Drive? C64? NES? PS1? Wii? Speccy?

Or do you know of one that you really like as a player?

Can you tell me about it within the next 14 hours?

I'm writing a very fast turn-around article for a retro book that I'm handing over first thing tomorrow morning and I want to finish it up by name checking some modern retro games, including those that aren't necessarily on my radar.

I obviously know about notable stuff like The Aching, Briley Witch 2, GoodBoy Galaxy, and Barren Planet, but there's just so much cool software coming out on "dead" platforms and I'd like to know about anything amazing that I might have missed.

It's currently about 15:30 UTC on the 10th of January 2024. That means your cut-off is around 5:30 UTC on the 11th of January. The sooner the better, though.

#GameDev #RetroGaming

@dosnostalgic
I hope I didn't accidentally make you feel that I was demanding alt text!

I was trying to get across that I know you can't do it, and that's okay, while thanking @Eliot_L for their supplied text.

@dosnostalgic, thanks for the post and @Eliot_L, thanks for the descriptions!

I appreciate the image descriptions†, and also that some people can't do them, so boosting both posts works okay for me.

†because my uncorrected vision is terrible, many of my mutuals are blind, and I read fedi on a text mode device

ACAB includes Sonny Bonds.

@dosnostalgic ah, congrats on the not booze!

Have you considered taking up Linux?

Amazon: if you're accessing Prime Video outside your region, you may not be able to view our full catalogue

Also Amazon: actually lets you access the full catalogue anyway, based purely on your IP address

As it transpires, Amazon's billing address-based geographic license locking is fictional.

I was today years old when I discovered that you can press shift to "move carefully", then turn away from a hole, then press down arrow drop safely between levels in the original Prince of Persia.