Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Person on my flight wearing a shirt that prominently says “PAWS”, and it takes me a moment to realize this is a JAWS parody shirt instead of a furry reference.

Relatedly, NORAD’s Santa tracker this year is still happening, which makes me happy.

He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Santa Claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

https://twitter.com/mutablejoe/status/998241891459194887

Pretty sure they’re using this as a marketing hook based on the book description, but said hook (if they followed through with it) is definitely to my interests.

https://twitter.com/torbooks/status/1076137946133217280

“Sentient mechanical dragons”

Go on...

The space-is-boring-so-let’s-economy subgenre has always been strange to me, because there are so many interesting things to find out there even without embellishing it with science fiction. There’s even an entire nebula tour thingy for Elite, where William Shatner (!!) will narrate you on a tour of the known galaxy.

Where’s the space tourism genre of game? I waaaaant it.

Apparently, space capitalism in _X4: Foundations_ boils down to creating the most efficient exponentiating gray goo possible and then setting it upon a hapless universe. The fact this is indistinguishable from the evil ambitions of this game’s totally-not-the-Borg faction is not lost on me.

Nor is the fact that, at the highest levels of play, this game is indistinguishable from Cookie Clicker.

Still, it’s good as a digital ant farm for adults.

Also, I totally main Isabelle. She is an amazing character in general, and just as amazing in Smash.

The Isabelle figurine from Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival works with Smash, and pricing for the box set hasn’t caught up with this fact yet: https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Crossing-amiibo-Festival-Bundle-Wii/dp/B00ZSHRPN0

If you’d like to get someone an amiibo that works with Smash for the holidays for $10-15, this is a good way to do it.

Why do space games always go for the same authoritarian brown and utilitarian gray tones to their stations, including inside their hab units? I want my station to be hot pink and gouache tones just for fun, and this game won’t let me.

... okay, thinking about actually trying to live in that kind of environment, maybe that’s why they settled on brown and gray.

This ceramic chef’s knife I received for holiday is the most satisfying non-sexual thing I have ever used.

One of those unusual hoard commissions by iguanamouth, except the hoard is 0s and 1s.

A conversation at work inadvertently had me call online divination software (8ball, online Tarot spreads, etc) “divination by /dev/urandom”, and now I want to take divination using a Mersenne Twister to its logical extremes.

... I think this is why my roommate calls me a glass walker.

I grew up in South Florida, where this sighting is common, and someone on Twitter helpfully posted a good example: https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius/status/1073514582721867776

PPS: also, apologies for typos mid-thread. Writing this over lunch, and my metaphorical editor was more interested in food at the time.

PS: I said I'd get to the ranking thing trying to please two distinct communities of players by assuming "better" players want solo-1v1-no-items. Without getting into specifics, splitting the categories was a better way to go (and I suspect the competitive category had a _lot_ less traffic).

An example that I think really succeeds at doing this is Splatoon and its sequel. And I wonder if some of its lessons will transfer over.