Professor Fischstörer @theoutrider@mastodon.social

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echoing what I said on Twitter: Serious Sam is a milestone in games as an art form for how deeply it embeds humor into its design, in a way very very few games ever do.

Serious Sam is true art, and I'll fight everyone who says otherwise

RULES OF NATURE

honestly I'm v pleased to see that finally enough people with enough influence are sick of RMS' bullshit he might actually face some consequences for his persistent shittiness

https://twitter.com/sineadactually/status/1173610505027690496 so Linehan's own family are now trying to stage an intervention about his radicalization by Prosecco Stormfront

what I'm saying is in order to help with mild headaches or mitigate the risk of stroke in old age, my people eat ASS

Thing you might not know: "aspirin" isn't actually a generic name, burmt the original Bayer brand name; however after WW1 the international trademark was revoked as part of reparations.

Bayer still hold the trademark in Germany, where generics instead go by the actual generic name "Acetylsalicylsäure", or ASS.

las, laser, lasest

the balancing on Celeste is really lovely. It's difficult, but not to a frustrating degree. Just a little bit of perseverance will get you there usually

it's nice when acrobatic platformers aren't just straight masocore bollocks. The Messenger and Dustforce do this really well too, and Celeste with its generally very chill vibe and this pinpoint difficulty balance reminds me a lot of both.

http://twitter.com/sweekbat/status/1172955352343732225 "My roommate got super stoned a couple weeks back and found out you can order a personalized big toblerone. He immediately forgot about it until it showed up last night"

https://www.vg247.com/2019/09/13/borderlands-3-find-rick-morty-shotgun/ imagine being the poor fucker who has to write this kind of thing for a living

a reminder of 30 Rock's magnificent line "Wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-bvHlb2Fe8

actually it's pronounced "jimp"

https://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/encyclopedia/equipment/7123-ho-ring a reminder that somehow someone got away with putting this in a children's MMO [CW: dick joke]

mainstream press: "AI is going to replace us all any day now"
"AI":

your honor, for the record I would like to state that working with Unicode in polyglot Python is The Fucking Worst

TomTom navigation branding but each "Tom" in the logo is somehow superscript to the other

I realise only now that the way some Patrick Alexander comics progress into increasing absurdity until they're just nonsense is presumably coming from a mental process not unlike the whole echolalia thing over here

fuck you

"To download and restore Mac OS X, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple."

let's see how that goes, then

aw yiss

fun fact: I actually reached Peak Dad in my mid-20s, insisting 100% in summer on wearing tan shorts and barefoot Birkenstocks

I still don't know what my brain was doing but I promise you I got better