Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

@frameacloud Maybe it’s really difficult to write a book when you weren’t planning on it but someone bothered you when you were busy being dead and forced you to improvise one on the spot, with none of your usual tools of fiction-writing ready!

@salameleon I caught on within a few blocks and walked to a stop on my regular route. It set me back one bus but it runs every fifteen minutes so it wasn’t a problem, in the end!

And then I got on the wrong bus when trying to go home. Time for an adventure, apparently

My emotions are complicated and sad and there is very little to say or do about them.

@kauko also make sure to listen to the title screen music because the Sudden Shittyflute makes it obvious that Nintendo knows exactly what kind of game they’re making.

@Soreth

@kauko I’m impressed so far (although the demo only offers 9 microgames to judge from). It’s pure WarioWare, remaking the best games of all previous titles (including using the system gyroscope for games from Twisted) and bringing in some new ones, as I understand it? It’s formulaic but there was never anything wrong with its formula.

I’m playing the WarioWare Gold Demo for 3DS. It is, dreadfully enough, fully voiced.

Wario sounds exactly like I expected Waluigi to sound.

MY LIFE IS A LIE

I’m never quite sure when I should talk about being okay or talk about not being okay.

@wobblewuffess yeah, over here the ops team would block the launch or refuse to provide services and require the SWE team to stew in their own mess if it came to that.

I’m currently writing an updater for desktop software, though, and whatever our own software deployment team does is going to be pretty local and special-case, so I have to look outside my own company for war stories related to my own product!

(n.b.: this is me having fun at my job, genuinely)

That point in being a professional software engineer where I have to start asking friends who are professional sysadmins how the fuck they make my own software work because I don’t understand how it doesn’t create an obnoxious disaster in every business environment ever and I need to learn how people mitigate the problems my widely-used software creates

To the degree that “bad nerd behavior” includes pendantic argument about minutiae, nerd culture is always going to include some amount of “bad nerd behavior”. The laws of physics and the behavior of our computers depends very much on minutae, and we as a society rely on having people driven to get those minutae right. I would be very surprised if it would ever not “leak” into other social contexts.

Meanwhile, at work, I get to try to troubleshoot code I didn’t write in the stead of the person who is on parental leave, for the benefit of a huge customer who is investigating using our products for the first time, in a scenario that should be easy but we support it inexplicably poorly and now I have to figure out myself how to make it work.

No pressure @..@

The soundtrack from Atomic Bomberman, a version of multiplayer Bomberman for Windows 95, has only gotten better over the last 20+ years as I have gotten progressively better speakers to enjoy it with. I wonder how much it’s shaped my music preferences in the interim. https://youtu.be/uB1VvshVIm0

@salameleon I’m really bad at it :x

but sure, if it’s online-able!