Phil Salvador @shadsy@mastodon.social

Every slide of this presentation I'm doing on Saturday looks like a shitpost

I don't watch a lot of Youtube content, but I really don't get the appeal of documentary-length Youtube videos! I feel like that almost guarantees it's gonna be rambling and needs an editor. That works for like a 10-minute video, but if it's gonna be as long as a documentary, there's so much else you can do with that time

I sent my mom a song by Black Dresses, and she replied "They remind me of The Waitresses." I have been trying to process this for a full 24 hours

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This is progressing at about 1000 words a day, so if everything goes smoothly, I could have it done by the weekend!

Is there any more foreboding camera shot in Star Trek than someone walking up to the closed doors of the Holodeck

I really wish I could share more about my current research project, but there's still too many moving pieces... but OH MAN I haven't been this fired up about research in a long time

Finding happiness this week in this bizarre short musical film starring Brent Spiner as himself dealing with life after fame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmVwCcUQRjU

I have provided the voice of the Devour weapon in this Doom mod.

When the player's attack speed doubles, the eating becomes more frantic.

the enemies are sock puppets)

Taking a break from my usual activity for Thanksgiving to mess around with Doom mapping again! I'm making a little Pilotwings-style seaside down. Doom is great for rapidly prototyping stuff so I can mess around creatively for a few days and have a cool-looking map at the end of it

I'm looking through the listings from a domain parking company, and I am excited to share that VIDEOCRIME.COM is on sale for a measly $2000

Phil Collins said abacab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5x0WHFOCeQ

SimpCity
SimpAnt
SimpCopter

Please don't do the Paqui One Chip Challenge. I'm feeling better now, but that was a terrible 2-3 hours

Next to an Xbox controller for comparison. This thing is HUGE and completely ridiculous. It rotates!! Why?!

..but then...

...IT MOVES!!!

Okay I have been waiting for this to show up on eBay for AGES

It's a game called Ultrabots, and it came in a box that looks like this...

Happy Listening to Sledgehammer on Loop October

Can't wait for that Smash announcement tomorrow

They also had a short-lived web magazine with these absolute galaxy brain ideas about game design. They disavowed the word "game" and wanted to replace it with a new objective term they had come up with: "ludcept"