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I'm a writer, editor, and narrative designer working at Blendo Games. I am also a pathological cyclist and transit enthusiast who frequently goes on strange...

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2026 306

  1. Yet another level design update
  2. Cannibalizing our own business
  3. You can now see The Hot Rock in your home
  4. Makin' movies
  5. My favorite bike youtube channel has returned
  6. I have returned from Da Big Windy Apple of Brotherly Love
  7. Further remarks on the online dogs
  8. Visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  9. I traveled today
  10. Brush mapping update
  11. Attention Neopets kids
  12. After you see You Can See Everything...
  13. I'm learning an ancient skill
  14. You gotta see You Can See Everything
  15. Check out Aura's IGF post
  16. Watched Exhuma
  17. Played Grail
  18. I went on a sign photography spree
  19. You should just download your favorite YouTube content and put it on a hard drive in your home
  20. Saw Colony by Yeon Sang-ho
  21. I have now seen all the Now You See Me movies
  22. Maybe the nicest pictures I have taken in 2026
  23. Read Bruno's post about live service game burnout
  24. Still playing Commonwealth
  25. Did another crosstown metrobike ride
  26. I entered Mystery Cave
  27. Two animals I saw in a Nature Center
  28. We visited Lanesboro, Minnesota
  29. Saw Waiting for Godot at the Guthrie
  30. I fell down a rabbithole of videos about snake attacks
  31. New Leon Phal album
  32. I am in Minneapolis
  33. Other bad photos I took at the beach
  34. I took pictures of the trash removal barge down at the beach
  35. I recommend checking out the latest PMG video
  36. I took a bunch of pictures of Baldwin Hill at night
  37. Check out this interview with Paul W.S. Anderson
  38. Give my friends from Heart Machine a job
  39. Reminder about which Pokemon is currently worth One Money
  40. Attended Bob Baker day a second time...
  41. I saw a ukelele performance
  42. I saw Cregger's Resident Evil
  43. I visited the new Geffen gallery at LACMA
  44. I visited the James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College
  45. Finally, a survival/construction game forced me to go journeymode
  46. Check out this fictional forum thread
  47. 25 minutes of Big Walking
  48. Played Blood Dungeon
  49. I have been posting daily for two years
  50. Hey You, Pikachu
  51. We finished Big Walk
  52. I toured the Yakult factory in Fountain Valley
  53. I was introduced to Plantasia
  54. Self-censorship practices as anti-shibboleth
  55. The only websites I allowed to survive my hosting purge...
  56. Followup: I guess I'm still immune to poison ivy
  57. Vholume good
  58. Moved my website to Digital Ocean
  59. I'm still amazed by the "Free Fourth Grade Pass"
  60. I finished the first seven Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! movies
  61. Young Suns hit 1.0 on XBox!
  62. Re-entered a tunnel for better pictures and less chaotic urbex safety
  63. I made pickles with a crap ton of chili oil
  64. Thoughts about keeping a watched-movies list
  65. I started watching Shiraishi's "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi" movies
  66. I found salt in Vintage Story
  67. I saw a Motocompacto in the wild
  68. Checked out Unhinged
  69. The bike wasn't as fucked as I Thought it would be
  70. Check out Nithya Raman interviewed by Nick Andert
  71. Weird, Madness, Chaos
  72. I now play Big Walk every Thursday
  73. Going back for more Vintage Story
  74. Draknek's New Voices puzzle game grant is accepting applications again
  75. Read Brendon's post about brush based mapping
  76. I finally watched The Sweatbox
  77. I started rebuilding another bike
  78. Feeling poleaxed by an indie games interview video
  79. It's crazy that bitsy has been around for ten years
  80. Thoughts about Knytt Classic and game difficulty
  81. You can get Knytt on Steam now
  82. Rewatched The Story of Yangawa's Canals
  83. Big Walk is really good
  84. Check out the 500 Finger Fillet demo
  85. Some random photos
  86. I finally went to the Getty Villa
  87. Abandoned map project
  88. Youtube keeps recommending me videos of backyard fish farms
  89. Quadrilateral Cowboy is in the Steam Cyberpunk Sale!
  90. I have now been in a second tunnel
  91. Second Odyssey post
  92. Uh oh... I am trying to build CS2 cities without cars...
  93. Look at this gigantic bug
  94. I've fallen down a Cities Skylines 2 hole
  95. Great post about Galley House development
  96. Check out this no-longer-in-development Cyan game
  97. I saw The Odyssey
  98. Check out davemakes's Pico-8 tutorial
  99. Why I don't post about everything I play
  100. I recommend this article about game cloning
  101. I love Poinpy
  102. Check out Radiator Forever
  103. Check out Bruno's Game Narrative Reader
  104. Back on the Pokemon Z-A grind
  105. Photos of things I didn't buy at the thrift store
  106. Played a bunch of Landlord's Super
  107. Please check out The Incident at Galley House
  108. Finally watched the Stallone Judge Dredd
  109. I'm allowed a moment of navelgazing nostalgia
  110. Interesting/bad bug to see indoors
  111. The tab I've had opened longest in my browser
  112. Why you should ride the train
  113. Watch this video about the LAX people mover
  114. Been playing the "safe" version of Soma
  115. Played a bunch of 868-BACK
  116. You can just go into Disney Hall
  117. World historic amounts of gamedev talent thrown out to rot
  118. My favorite boardgame
  119. My life history re: heating and cooling
  120. The most interesting garment I saw at a Dodgers game
  121. Rollercoaster recommendations for wimps
  122. Visited Mount Wilson
  123. Check out Warp Point
  124. Played a bunch of Ace of Seafood
  125. Enjoyed Penko Park
  126. More Blendo news: QuadCow has been updated
  127. Skin Deep and other Blendo games are discounted for the Summer Sale
  128. Other random pictures
  129. I made spicy ketchup again
  130. Read Brendon's post about level design "readability"
  131. Read Bruno's post about "meaningful choices"
  132. Mysterious photographs from the bowels of the earth
  133. Joe's State of Unreal 2026
  134. We are watching the old Nirvana the Band the Show series
  135. Pictures I took commuting this week
  136. Check out my favorite local plant
  137. I installed a giant antenna on my mesh radio
  138. Still using the XTEink X4
  139. I forced myself to RTO and I'm exhausted
  140. World Cup energy in LA is pretty sweet
  141. Waterfall at Bandelier National Monument
  142. Three Blendo games are now being published by Klei
  143. Reminder about the Blendo Steam Sales Data Viewer
  144. Nurturing games
  145. Employment update
  146. Initial Pokopia thoughts
  147. I felt like I had to get a Switch 2
  148. I made a bee bath
  149. Starting your game with text on-screen
  150. Am I allowed to be angry about having diabetes?
  151. You can use your credit card to get onto the LA Metro now
  152. I visited the Earthship Welcome Center in Taos, New Mexico
  153. Check out The Archives of Trevosa
  154. #games
  155. The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a mostly-puppets movie
  156. Here is a picture of me grabbing some Western Poison Ivy
  157. Played a bunch of Paralives
  158. What it's like to have the machine that keeps you alive die while you're on vacation
  159. The Guardian covered the LA delivery robot boom...
  160. Finally saw Echo Ampitheater
  161. I've recorded something like 80 new species on iNat since going on vacation
  162. I went to a bug and reptile museum in a nearly abandoned outlet mall
  163. I saw Meow Wolf in Santa Fe
  164. You should check out Forbidden Solitaire
  165. Went to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
  166. Some more road trip pictures
  167. Visited Meteor Crater
  168. A trash can I found on the side of the highway
  169. I recommend trying to write a spec for your favorite dialogue system
  170. Picture of me and cat
  171. Nothing can stop me from blogging about Subnautica 2 two days in a row
  172. Subnautica 2........
  173. I'm gonna visit Santa Fe
  174. It's crazy that there are no well-known first-person SAR games
  175. I've decided to watch more Saw movies...
  176. Look at my Pickle Coffer
  177. I went to the US Sumo Open... again!!
  178. I rode the first train out of Union Station that went to the new D Line stations!
  179. Check out Amberspire!
  180. Played Quacks!
  181. Finished The Pitt season 2
  182. Didn't like Mickey 17 much!
  183. Week round-up: May 3
  184. Prepare to ride the D
  185. Here is my last flickgame
  186. I made some flickgames
  187. Heather Flowers announced 500 Finger Fillet
  188. Left a mesh radio running unmaintained for one week
  189. Someone collected a bunch of historical techno-optimist news coverage in one place
  190. I finally finished the first season of The Pitt
  191. I saw the Film School II gallery show!
  192. I am finally playing Titanium Court
  193. Some things I have discovered about Tomodachi Life since my last post
  194. I have been playing the crap out of Slay the Spire 2
  195. I did not blow up my third mesh radio
  196. Assorted Tomodachi Life screenshots
  197. I finally completed Proverbs
  198. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is very good
  199. Final verdict on whether you should move out of your house for seven months so that you can get your kitchen and bathroom replaced
  200. Your opportunity to see sumo wrestling in Long Beach approaches
  201. Gen Z water
  202. Moped documentary
  203. Enjoyed this pogo documentary
  204. Good Job Hungary
  205. I recently learned about the Hop Rod
  206. I am biking again
  207. Strongly recommend returning to Timberborn
  208. The most dehumanizing train station I regularly visit
  209. Extremely mad again
  210. Finally saw 12 Monkeys
  211. I immediately broke one of my mesh radios!!
  212. I built two mesh radios
  213. Recommended Bluesky Account
  214. Listening to TAKAAT - Is Noise, Vol. 3
  215. Check out this post about Misty's narrative scripting tool
  216. I am playing Marathon!
  217. Read Bruno's post about DLSS 5
  218. Two squirrels
  219. Finished The Long Walks
  220. One bowl
  221. IKEA children's playmats
  222. The LA Metro K Line northern extension is turning into a bit of a corruption shitshow
  223. I got an XTEink X4
  224. Finished Fantômas
  225. Hiked to First Water on Mount Wilson
  226. I hit 381 nodes in five days on my mesh radio
  227. Hiked Moon Canyon and Heidelberg Park
  228. Uh oh, I'm getting into mesh radios....
  229. I finished Pokemon Legends Z-A
  230. We are trying to move back home!
  231. I was interviewed by Brandon Sheffield at GDC
  232. Finally read Piranesi
  233. The LA Metro's World Cup countdown clock
  234. Three bullet points
  235. I attended the IGFs!
  236. Outersloth released its contract terms publicly
  237. Chilicothe in Heidelberg Park
  238. I saw the Gorillaz exhibit in LA
  239. The beach in cloudy mode
  240. Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
  241. Going to be at GDC
  242. A gamer died here...
  243. The VGHF freed Cookie's Bustle
  244. 45 groups of 45
  245. Turn signals complaint
  246. Week round-up: March 1
  247. The Waters of March
  248. How Skin Deep feels like Blendo
  249. Sitting in cafes next to absolute pieces of shit
  250. Standard E-Books
  251. All my recent photos of coyotes
  252. Unknowingly ate "viral" peach ice cream
  253. I visited the "center" of LA
  254. Another post that's just photos
  255. Saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
  256. Visited Sugar Loaf Hill/Santa Fe Hill
  257. Dog Clothes
  258. Another invasive plant: tuckeroo
  259. Happy lunar new year!
  260. I feel that I've completely lost my Dwarf Fortress juice
  261. Went to the Broad museum today
  262. Crossed West Coyote Hills in Fullerton
  263. I saw "Pirates Dinner Adventure" in Buena Park, California
  264. Traffic violence kills more people than homicide in LA
  265. Check out this zine about plants in Skyrim
  266. I hit 100 new species on iNaturalist in 2026 so far
  267. congrats to Samurai Gunn 2!
  268. I took macro photography of ants on my birthday
  269. Interesting link: website where you can buy reproductions of practically any skull
  270. A thought about monstrous rich men online
  271. Highly amusing web quiz about naming animals
  272. Here's an invasive plant: castor bean
  273. IFComp 2026 will have new rules around generative AI
  274. Weekly round-up: Feb 1
  275. Check out this one-meter photography project
  276. Visited Kite Hill
  277. Visited Mount Washington parks - Elyria Canyon
  278. Saw The Bone Temple
  279. You can now buy an official Gravity Bone t-shirt
  280. Visited Paradise Hill
  281. Donate to Minnesotan anti-ICE efforts
  282. Jesus Christ!!!
  283. Finished TR-49
  284. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out!
  285. Reminder to start planning your grunion viewings
  286. Someone made a cheevos tool for iNaturalist
  287. Normal NELA parks: Ascot Hills and Ernest E. Debs
  288. All the IP games I saw at Dave and Busters in July 2025
  289. Visited Flat Top Park
  290. Silksong update
  291. Went to Elephant Hill Open Space
  292. Read this Steam news post before it vanishes (?)
  293. Two small hikes in one day
  294. LA Metro is going to consider an Actual Good Option for a major future rail line
  295. Interesting video about fake parks in Los Angeles
  296. Skin Deep was nominated for the IGF design award
  297. Pathologic 3 is out!!
  298. Dudes rock, exhibit 459208
  299. Check out this nice coverage of Pathologic 3
  300. Started playing Silksong
  301. 2025 was my shippingest year of my life
  302. Played Farthest Frontier
  303. I'm very angry today!
  304. Some pictures I took in Phoenix
  305. Congrats to Mayor Mamdani
  306. Happy new year!

2025 364

  1. Plants and animals I've seen in Arizona
  2. My best posts of 2025
  3. Incredible LA Street Names website
  4. What if buses were good
  5. Some movies I watched recently
  6. The Home Alone "movie coaster"
  7. Good luck LA...
  8. Skin Deep is on sale
  9. Played Dragonsweeper
  10. Full list of Skin Deep "best of 2025" lists
  11. Cute little Pokemon-esque Roottrees-alike
  12. The gamers hate generative AI
  13. Read 3rd Voice
  14. Paid and unpaid writing tests
  15. Skin Deep... the best immersive sim of 2025??
  16. Read A Garden of Spheres
  17. I went to Comic Arts LA
  18. I wrote prose for Snowdrop Festival
  19. Check out Antibody One
  20. A big grasshopper
  21. Delibird misunderstanding
  22. I finally got stung by a nettle
  23. Saw iNaturalist data in the wild
  24. Visited América Tropical
  25. Took pictures of animals at Whittier Narrows
  26. "Watching games"
  27. Read about Aura's IGF picks
  28. IDing "unknowns" on iNaturalist
  29. Forced to get new phone due to diabetes
  30. Brendon posted about game releasing
  31. Played Is This Seat Taken?
  32. What I've been up to for the last two months
  33. What we did for Thanksgiving
  34. 9 Kings added quests
  35. iNaturalist released their "year in review"
  36. I wrote for Young Suns!
  37. I did the Stranger Things Ciclavia
  38. Check out Myriame's post about the Possessors team
  39. A second Bruno genre classification has landed
  40. It is fun to see people "get" Possessors
  41. Second pass with the 2024 Tamagotchi Connection
  42. People filming themselves in nature
  43. Thoughts about interfaces acting like people
  44. Living in the "robot" zone
  45. The thing that libs don't realize about means testing
  46. Another video of Canadian youths biking unwisely
  47. Great post about Q-UP from James Lantz
  48. Finally started playing Z-A
  49. Possessors has released!
  50. Welcome to your Throne
  51. Read 3D Workers Island
  52. Watched The Birthday
  53. LA Metro has installed bearproof trash cans in at least one station
  54. Highly impressed by Q-Up
  55. Played Clover Pit
  56. Good news still happens!!!
  57. Peeked into Surfridge
  58. Watched Danger: Diabolik
  59. I'm still trying to bike all over LA
  60. Back on the Tamagotchi grind
  61. Play Kinophobia!
  62. There's been a second round of Heart Machine layoffs
  63. All right I finished the main Hunger Games movies
  64. Saw Adolescence
  65. My first encounters with Hunger Games
  66. Here are some barnacles
  67. There's not much time left in the Shortbox Comics Fair
  68. Biked around the VA
  69. Man I dunno is this anything part 2
  70. The November Ciclavia is... a Netflix promo event
  71. Watched Rituals
  72. If you participated in IFComp in any way, take this survey
  73. Man I dunno is this anything
  74. Did the normie protest day
  75. Ball x Pit is very good
  76. Check out the Pathologic 3 demo!
  77. One Battle After Another was really good!
  78. How to speedrun Unfair Flips
  79. I now live in west LA again
  80. This production of Much Ado About Nothing is incredibly good
  81. Here's some pictures of bugs I took this week
  82. Beyblade still baffles me
  83. Discord's age ID data leaked a bunch of private info
  84. How to write in iambic pentameter on a deadline, for money
  85. I've been laid off from Heart Machine!
  86. Watch this guy cook rice on the beach
  87. Someone appears to be making a Post 10 simulator game
  88. Here is a picture of my bathroom
  89. The Witch Girls
  90. Northernlion on "Unfair Flips"
  91. Enjoyed Saltwrack!
  92. Types of squirrels I learned about recently
  93. I am temporarily going to live in the San Gabriel valley
  94. Played Nodebuster
  95. 20th century television
  96. Play Unfair Flips!!
  97. Piss tank data
  98. A lot of long reads
  99. "Losing your job to AI" stories
  100. Watch this birding documentary
  101. Week round-up: September 21
  102. Chrome vs data hoarding
  103. What is IFComp doing???
  104. Bruno is available for 1-on-1 tutoring and writing assistance
  105. One year of daily blogging
  106. Sometimes it's good to just have a link to throw at people
  107. My favorite peanuts
  108. I'm officiating a wedding
  109. Visited various religious institutions
  110. I saw the foxes :)
  111. Cohost-style CSS infoboxes
  112. I am going to Catalina again
  113. Architecture Plus Girl
  114. Big round of applause to soluble chicory
  115. Proverbs at 65%
  116. Sorry, this post is just going to make you sad
  117. Competitive model plane skydiving
  118. Go get the COVID booster ASAP
  119. Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle
  120. Praise for MakeMKV
  121. Recalling this good post about names
  122. I rebuilt my core base in Satisfactory
  123. My favorite movies I saw in 2024 that are not from the US
  124. Thoughts on jamming
  125. The pure focus and clarity of being a hater
  126. Congrats to Shel on 1000 iNat observations
  127. Learning to see quality
  128. Other downloaders and file management tools
  129. Week round-up: Aug 24
  130. Did I achieve my 2024 moviewatching goal?
  131. Blippo+ press event
  132. Ciclavia 8/17 + minivelo meetup
  133. Interesting Link: iNaturalist map data sorted by "Locals" and "Tourists"
  134. Baldwin Hills Steps
  135. Hooray for Qud!!!
  136. Wishlist Unfair Flips
  137. Played The Royal Writ
  138. I recommend this bird-themed electronic album
  139. I liked this zine about mold
  140. I recommend looking at all the iNaturalist observations sorted by favorites
  141. Check out the Draknek New Voices Grant
  142. Please look at this ancient music video for Oxygene Part 4
  143. Weekly round-up: August 10
  144. Tried to use Blender Video Sequencer
  145. Daily web games I am currently playing
  146. The year the music actually came out
  147. Blaugust...?
  148. You gotta play Serpentes
  149. The King is Watching
  150. Week round-up: Aug 3
  151. We just realized a Blendo game was part of the Steam refunds lawsuit
  152. Avoiding text entirely
  153. Why are games scary?
  154. I'm still playing Wheel World
  155. Dead game???
  156. Week round-up: July 28
  157. Thoughts about trying to use in-ear headphones higher than gas station quality
  158. Very busy today with traditions and rituals
  159. You gotta check out Wheel World
  160. Played Without A Dawn
  161. Highly recommend Project Grizzly
  162. I belong in a museum
  163. Arctic Eggs at SGDQ
  164. Spent the weekend making a Quake 3 engine game
  165. Monster Train 2
  166. Setting up Plex again
  167. Kaizen: A Factory Story is really, really good-looking
  168. Metro biking across LA
  169. Saw Donnie Yen's The Prosecutor
  170. Some pictures of San Diego
  171. Enjoy this video about electronic saxophones
  172. Enjoy these Blendo dev posts
  173. My ears are messed up
  174. Eggshell stickers
  175. I finally went to the big donut donut shop (Randy's Donuts)
  176. Some of the things I wrote recently that I'm most proud of
  177. Photos from Griffith Park
  178. Week round-up: July 6
  179. Some of my 4th of July pics
  180. "Similar Shots"
  181. Played a bunch of Nubby's Number Factory
  182. Check out these Skin Deep storyboards
  183. The Beach
  184. Biking again, this time in water
  185. Been using Beets
  186. We need a movement to ban horse cops
  187. Skin Deep is on sale!
  188. Screened "Cube" last weekend
  189. Things can be good actually
  190. I am enjoying 9 Kings
  191. Touching the back wall of the Apple store
  192. Week round-up: June 22
  193. Visited the new LAX Metro station!
  194. Kyocera Cavern Crawl
  195. Final New Orleans picture dump
  196. Da Big Clock
  197. Is it too geopolitically insane to promote our videogame?
  198. New Orleans bicycle photos
  199. Week Round-Up: June 15
  200. Had a very crazy day
  201. Kiosks
  202. More pictures of New Orleans
  203. Walking around New Orleans
  204. Some pictures of New Orleans
  205. LA is great!
  206. Possessors has a demo out!
  207. I talked about Pill Baby for the Unearthed Treasure Room showcase
  208. Interesting Link: the Boston Bike Stress Map
  209. Where do all the thermal printer kids' cameras come from?
  210. The Center for Wooden Boats
  211. We survived the train!!
  212. We were on Script Lock!
  213. I went on a walk down at the Marina
  214. I'm going to New Orleans... on da train
  215. Been playing Ostriv
  216. Praise for Lossless Cut
  217. He did it (the river thing)
  218. Check out DrMelon's Skin Deep mod!
  219. Week round-up: May 25
  220. I finally played Mooncrash
  221. Screenshots of the Mod Museum
  222. Now is a time to call your reps
  223. Skin Deep's mod that teaches you how to make mods is out!
  224. I really liked this shambolic bikepacking video
  225. Interesting Link: Definitive Stormtrooper Costume How-To
  226. Week round-up: May 18
  227. Went to the US Sumo Open
  228. Proverbs at 25%
  229. Check out another developer stream of Skin Deep
  230. Despelote good
  231. Played The Horror at Highrook
  232. Went to the Robot Combat League National Championship
  233. Week round-up: May 11
  234. Damn, I'm tired!!
  235. Why not explore Skin Deep modding?
  236. Check out this Skin Deep designer stream
  237. Skin Deep Trivia
  238. Thank Goodness You're Here!
  239. I saw Sinners
  240. Working with VO as an indie
  241. Some thoughts about comedy in Skin Deep
  242. Please check out Suzy's great Skin Deep mod
  243. Northernlion played Skin Deep
  244. Skin Deep is out today!!!
  245. The reviews are in: Skin Deep is funny, has toilets
  246. Now is an important time to remember the AC2 Rodrigo Borgia boss fight
  247. Week round-up: April 27
  248. Very good jumpscare needle drop
  249. Two Point Museum
  250. Epigraph
  251. Skin Deep is coming out in seven days
  252. Blue Prince :)
  253. I really liked this woodworking video
  254. Week round-up: April 20
  255. U-lock holsters
  256. Interesting link: Atomic Zombie/CHOPZONE
  257. Even more bike photographs (beautiful, good)
  258. Attended Bob Baker Day
  259. Skin Deep is coming out in 15 days
  260. Fresh new bike photographs
  261. The big ass rally
  262. Cannot work without my head in a vise
  263. Here is my minivelo
  264. Interesting Link: COVID-19 Signage Archive
  265. #covid-19
  266. I love gaming community drama that I do not understand
  267. Tried Kenshi
  268. The real fake islands where people fake bike
  269. Week round-up: April 6
  270. Absolutely loved Type Help
  271. What is endgame Pokemon actually like?
  272. Here is my canned cheese
  273. Very good bike saddle factory tour video
  274. Back on the road miles grind
  275. Extremely impressed by Ultros
  276. Week round-up: Mar 30
  277. Cars aren't always the fastest way to cross the west side
  278. Played some more research mysteries
  279. I ordered a wheel of cheese in a can
  280. Really enjoyed The Roottrees Are Dead
  281. I was a headcrab on Insert Credit
  282. Back from GDC
  283. If you act fast enough you can (maybe?) see this musical
  284. I have been blogging daily for six months
  285. Internet stalking Wildflower Studios
  286. Cool (uncool) consequences of diabetic hypoglycemia
  287. Enjoy my favorite bike youtuber
  288. People are already speedrunning Skin Deep
  289. I did the Marathon Crash Ride for the third year in a row
  290. Week round-up: Mar 16
  291. This guy took up his entire kitchen with a 737 cockpit
  292. How to stop all the online Pokemon players from ruining their own fun
  293. Blendo Build Machine
  294. New Mdou Moctar
  295. How to buy a Pokemon online
  296. I biked fifty miles on Saturday!
  297. Week round-up: Mar 9
  298. Currency Pokemon on Pokemon Home
  299. I will be at GDC 2025
  300. A wild Pokemon video that I liked
  301. Some thoughts on the writing process for Skin Deep
  302. Blendo WAV Tool
  303. Stuff I wishlisted during Next Fest
  304. Thank you to everyone who checked out the Skin Deep demo
  305. I've had to look at bluesky a lot recently
  306. I just logged into my Brickshelf account and found it EMPTY
  307. Some recommendations for weird survival construction games to play
  308. Some thoughts about the Skin Deep demo
  309. Skin Deep's release date trailer came out yesterday
  310. Did my first long bike ride in a while over the weekend
  311. Week round-up: Feb 23
  312. Wolf Meat
  313. Every conversation in the second zone in Avowed
  314. Baseless speculation about freeware games and free games
  315. I am enjoying Avowed a lot!
  316. Places I've considered going in socal but haven't because they are too much of a pain to get to
  317. Getting my various wires caught on things
  318. Week round-up: 2/16
  319. I love my Ass Saver
  320. I like Citizen Sleeper 2 because it is more of a jerk to me!
  321. How do you actually make your money?!?
  322. Some Vintage Story mods
  323. Some posts from the Vermiculture subreddit
  324. Okay here's some Skin Deep posting about beans
  325. Week wrap-up: 2/9
  326. Civ 7 so far
  327. Interesting Link: The LAUSD's air quality sensor network
  328. It's my birthday!
  329. Dispelling a terrible thing that Grammarly wants you to believe
  330. I was just thinking about Killer Tofu
  331. Il gruppo dei ninja
  332. Week round-up: Feb 2
  333. This guy made his sander Too Complicated
  334. I did one of those "legos for adults"
  335. Vintage Story 1.2 is pretty good!
  336. Cold weather in LA
  337. How I feel about Bear after using it for several months
  338. I can recommend this service for deleting all your tweets
  339. Week wrap-up: Jan 26th
  340. More bike pictures from reddit
  341. I am done with semi-slick tires for now
  342. Here is a video of a destructive skilift test
  343. I should finally post about post 10
  344. I've been string locking since September
  345. I finally saw Drive My Car
  346. Week wrap-up: Jan 19
  347. Read Bruno's article about games industry standardization
  348. I liked this video about a bunch of broken vacuum tubes
  349. Hagfish Sliming Video
  350. Everyone's installed Watch Duty
  351. Breaker is out
  352. Pictures of Mandeville Canyon from Spring 2024
  353. Week round-up: Jan 12
  354. Our version of reality dating TV
  355. My Steam 2024 wrapup
  356. This fire shit is completely fucked
  357. Check out this Qud wiki page
  358. It's okay to be a certain type of hooligan
  359. You should watch Mismatched Couples
  360. The healthcare provider
  361. Back from New York
  362. Someone made a full map of their Qud world
  363. My 2024 Letterboxd highs and lows
  364. I have seen the Nosferatu movie

2024 108

  1. How to become extremely unkillable in Qud
  2. Watch this guy demonstrate his man-sized automated litter box
  3. Why not resolve to drive less in 2025?
  4. Been playing a shit ton of Qud
  5. More silly map things: steep streets
  6. Unsuccessful Google search
  7. My favorite way to edit a game around 30k words
  8. I really like it when people do silly map stuff
  9. A video of a guy putting a tiny model train into a coffee table
  10. Luck Be A Landlord is about learning a stranger's mental map of the universe
  11. A map of where my favorite campsite burned down
  12. Gone for the holidays
  13. Played some Ballionaire
  14. I finally got a link to the scariest ad on YouTube
  15. Late week wrap-up: Dec 17
  16. Dearrowed Language
  17. Interesting link: check out Drew Struzan's portfolio website
  18. Some thoughts about ego, flexibility, and imitation in writing for money
  19. A game someone should make
  20. Still playing Witchfire
  21. The wikipedia page that lists which US grocery chains are grouped under the same operators
  22. People are really into the color of the switches on their mechanical keyboard now, which is stupid, to me
  23. This video of hinged bikes is very goodbad
  24. Interesting link: you can download a giraffe genome
  25. What vendor is making these "immersive mixed reality" weather channel presentations about disaster conditions?
  26. My favorite YouTube video of all time
  27. Audio design school is gonna make you podrace
  28. Interesting link: all known individuals who died playing soccer from 2014 to 2018
  29. The story of Skin Deep told with emojis
  30. Longplay of one of my favorite edutainment games: The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System
  31. Interesting Link - Some of my favorite writing about interactive fiction
  32. My Beakman/Bill Nye story
  33. Interesting link: if you're thinking of building your own airplane from scratch, here's a bunch of free airplane plans
  34. Some early thoughts on what I'm learning from playing a bunch of GameBoy games
  35. Been extremely busy lately
  36. My favorite Weird Web October sites - set 1
  37. Watched The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  38. Week wrap-up: Nov 24
  39. Do you know about Govdeals??
  40. I really, really enjoyed Rise of the Golden Idol
  41. The "genre" of too-strange-to-be-true drama stories on Reddit
  42. A biking and housing freak (laudatory) won a city council seat in my town
  43. Played some Sokobond Express
  44. Checked out Elin
  45. Week wrap-up: Nov. 17
  46. Interesting link: the Passage Ride site
  47. Working with union VO is extremely worth it
  48. Even more bike photos in a bike photo roundup
  49. Finished Dragon Quest/Warrior 1 (GBC)
  50. This is the best bikepacking tutorial video
  51. Interesting Link(s): all the trees in several cities
  52. Week wrap-up: Nov. 10
  53. Interesting link: table of smells by chemical compound
  54. Ang Lee Hulk Smash
  55. Every bike in the MSI's bike exhibit from 2013
  56. Finished Link's Awakening (GBC)
  57. The Museum of Science and Industry's Mold-A-Rama machines
  58. Bike guys argue about the color green
  59. Stuff I enjoyed in Chicago!
  60. Learn mechanical seal theory with this mime
  61. Yet another bike photo roundup post
  62. Turning our old Trek Earl back into a fixed-gear bike
  63. How to Find an Anvil
  64. Interesting link: the history of A.N.T.
  65. First impressions of Witchfire
  66. Week wrap-up: Oct 27
  67. I'm going to be in Chicago!
  68. Someone on reddit is posting weird fanfiction about their company's custom keycaps
  69. Reminiscing about living near Caltrain
  70. Interesting link - on iNaturalist, two banana slugs have escaped the west coast
  71. You should watch these fan-edited movie documentaries
  72. A new bike roundup post
  73. Week wrap-up: Oct 20
  74. Check out Matthew's Music Friday RSS feed
  75. There is a person who uses Planet Coaster to make rollercoasters that tell the entire plot of a classic movie
  76. Why you should not make your games writers sprint
  77. Played Against the Storm: Keepers of the Stone DLC
  78. Interesting link - comprehensive map of sinkholes
  79. Interesting Link: a website which catalogs agricultural robots by task and crop
  80. Week wrap-up: Oct 13
  81. Played Mouthwashing
  82. The big bike photo roundup post
  83. LA Material Culture: VEKS EVICT '24
  84. Interesting link - The LARGEST LIST of pizza types and varieties IN THE WORLD!!
  85. The City and the Street
  86. The tunnels!
  87. Week wrap-up - Oct 6
  88. Amtrak's manga "See something, say something" poster
  89. Interesting link: a guy selling memberships to "then and now" LA film history photos
  90. Played Arctic Eggs
  91. I went on a walking tour of waste management facilities in Vernon/DTLA
  92. Weird Web October - Casualty Report
  93. Saying goodbye to Cohost
  94. Week wrap-up: Sept 29
  95. Weird vehicles of Avalon, California
  96. Biking in the city is fun, actually
  97. Just started playing Lorn's Lure
  98. Interesting link - tamenagerie.com
  99. Biking Catalina Island
  100. Check out "Weird Web October"
  101. Week wrap-up - Sept 22
  102. Interesting link - Origami Simulator
  103. The return of the Running Machine
  104. Fashion Trendsetter Laura
  105. Biking every road in west Los Angeles
  106. Interesting link - Maris Freighter Cruises
  107. I've migrated my blog to Bear
  108. Interesting Links – and an interactive family tree of extremely wrong elephants

2020 2

  1. Tall Bagel
  2. Industries of Titan is in Early Access!

2019 2

  1. I had a story in Realms of Runeterra
  2. I did localization writing for Pathologic 2

2018 9

  1. Strangling my dinner with my own two hands
  2. I was on Script Lock
  3. Why I like making bots
  4. This is a book about French peasants doing religious crimes
  5. I wrote a scenario for the Ellipses tabletop system!
  6. Buy things on itch.io
  7. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine postmortem
  8. Matajuegos translated a post of mine!
  9. Recent shocking developments in the world of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

2017 11

  1. The Grub
  2. Epistle 3 Jam
  3. I’m editing Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
  4. How Nero tried to kill his mom, Agrippina, with a collapsible party boat
  5. Frog Fractions 2/Glittermitten Grove will be at the Indiecade E3 Showcase
  6. OBAWCATRVOS will be at Now Play This
  7. You Got This, Brutadon is now available on your Alexa-enabled device
  8. Check out Bitsy
  9. I am now my own webmaster and my power is immense and mindboggling
  10. You got this, Brutadon! — Global Game Jam 2017
  11. Check out Utopia Jam

2016 11

  1. Frog Fractions 2 is out!!!
  2. One thing canceled, one thing on hiatus, new (commercial) games in progress
  3. Ambient Mixtape 16 thoughts
  4. The Brigand’s Story
  5. Words Must Die – Pippin Barr Game Idea Jam
  6. Let’s Talk About Choices: Traditional CYOA
  7. How two ancient Romans completely fucked each other up
  8. OBAWCATRVOS
  9. Six Months Demo
  10. Recent Twitter Projects
  11. A bilious 2015 retrospective

2015 15

  1. Creating an inherently pathetic protagonist: Six Months and its “reactive” choice system
  2. Surprise: I’m doing games journalism again
  3. My favorite LD33 games, so far
  4. Monstr and Ludum Dare 33 – Notes
  5. Current projects' statuses
  6. Slaughtertrain
  7. Corgi Jam submission: CORGI SUMMER SCHOOL: SUPREME COURT EDITION
  8. SLAUGHTERTRAIN: Game Jolt Adventurejam
  9. The Mystery of Skull Island for Teacart 1K
  10. My ENTIRE opinion about California
  11. Six Months Inspirations
  12. About The Hive Abroad
  13. The Hive Abroad
  14. Detective City
  15. Some cool shit with randomized text

2014 6

  1. Progress on Six Months
  2. Some stuff I'm currently working on
  3. Meeting strangers in the street
  4. Basketballs in Traffic Cones
  5. Five years later: what I think about early access
  6. Spaceship Carptain — Naked Twine Jam

2013 12

  1. More word stuff I've enjoyed recently
  2. Things I’ve recently learned about hypertext
  3. Desert Hike EX
  4. Sister Power Activate
  5. Swan Hill
  6. Some word things I have recently enjoyed
  7. My Favorite Molyjam 2013 Games
  8. Games that are more than they seem
  9. The games I’ve played for the most hours, cumulative, in my entire life, arranged in descending order
  10. Bizarre 3D animation reels from the distant past
  11. Verified Facts coverage
  12. Verified Facts

Undated 265

  1. #potofhoney
  2. #3rd_voice
  3. #500_finger_fillet
  4. #9_kings
  5. #DLSS_5
  6. #GDC
  7. #GDQ
  8. #IFComp
  9. #Los_angeles
  10. #MSI
  11. #NAS
  12. #NELA_hilltops
  13. #New Mexico
  14. #OWSC
  15. #One_Battle_After_Another
  16. #Pathologic_3
  17. #RCL
  18. #RCLNC
  19. #Serpentes
  20. #activision
  21. #adventure_guide
  22. #american_writers_museum
  23. #amtrak
  24. #anime
  25. #anvils
  26. #apple
  27. #arcades
  28. #archival
  29. #archive.org
  30. #arctic_eggs
  31. #arizona
  32. #avowed
  33. #balatro
  34. #ballxpit
  35. #barnacles
  36. #bathroom
  37. #bay_area
  38. #bear
  39. #beyblade
  40. #bicycles
  41. #big_brain
  42. #big_walk
  43. #bik_walk
  44. #bike_roundup
  45. #bike_roundups
  46. #bikes
  47. #bionicle
  48. #bitsy
  49. #blender
  50. #blendo_games
  51. #blippo
  52. #blogging
  53. #board_games
  54. #books
  55. #boston
  56. #bowls
  57. #brickshelf
  58. #bugs
  59. #california
  60. #california's_gold
  61. #cameras
  62. #cars
  63. #casettes
  64. #catalina
  65. #catalina_island
  66. #cats
  67. #cavern_crawl
  68. #caves
  69. #caves_of_qud
  70. #cheese
  71. #chicago
  72. #ciclavia
  73. #citybuilders
  74. #clover_pit
  75. #clues_by_sam
  76. #coco
  77. #coffee
  78. #cohost
  79. #collapse_of_all_meaningful_social_contracts
  80. #comics
  81. #connecticut
  82. #cooking
  83. #coyotes
  84. #css
  85. #cube
  86. #d_line
  87. #dead_games
  88. #deadbody_games
  89. #dearrow
  90. #deduction_games
  91. #diabetes
  92. #discord
  93. #draknek
  94. #dwarf_fortress
  95. #ecs
  96. #electronics
  97. #emulation
  98. #fiction
  99. #fires
  100. #flickgames
  101. #food
  102. #forbidden_solitaire
  103. #game_development
  104. #game_development my_games
  105. #game_ideas
  106. #game_jams
  107. #gameboy
  108. #gamedev
  109. #games_narrative
  110. #garden_of_spheres
  111. #getty
  112. #global_air_conditioning_culture_war
  113. #grammarly
  114. #grunions
  115. #headphones
  116. #heart_machine
  117. #hop_rod
  118. #horror
  119. #hunger_games
  120. #iNaturalist
  121. #ifcomp
  122. #igf
  123. #immersive_sims
  124. #inat
  125. #inaturalist
  126. #infloresce_records
  127. #insert_credit
  128. #interactive_fiction
  129. #interesting_link
  130. #internet
  131. #invasive_plants
  132. #itch.io
  133. #jobs
  134. #kaizen:_a_factory_story
  135. #knytt
  136. #la_material
  137. #la_metro
  138. #labor
  139. #larian
  140. #lego
  141. #legos
  142. #letterboxd
  143. #link_roundup
  144. #local_politics
  145. #los_angeles
  146. #luigi
  147. #maps
  148. #mdou_moctar
  149. #mechanical_keyboards
  150. #mesh_radios
  151. #metro
  152. #mickey_17
  153. #minneapolis
  154. #minnesota
  155. #modding
  156. #monster_train_2
  157. #mopeds
  158. #mount_wilson
  159. #movies
  160. #music
  161. #my_games
  162. #my_websites
  163. #my_writing
  164. #names
  165. #nebraska
  166. #new_mexico
  167. #new_orleans
  168. #new_york
  169. #nirvana_the_band
  170. #northernlion
  171. #orange_county
  172. #palestine
  173. #pathologic_3
  174. #phobias
  175. #phoenix
  176. #photography
  177. #pickles
  178. #pico-8
  179. #pill_baby
  180. #pirates_dinner_adventure
  181. #piss
  182. #plays
  183. #plex
  184. #podcasts
  185. #pogo
  186. #poinpy
  187. #pokemon
  188. #politics
  189. #pope
  190. #possessors
  191. #programming
  192. #proverbs
  193. #quadrilateral_cowboy
  194. #quake_3
  195. #raddle
  196. #recommendation
  197. #recommendations
  198. #reddit
  199. #release_announcements
  200. #resident_evil
  201. #san_diego
  202. #santa_fe
  203. #satisfactory
  204. #saw
  205. #seattle
  206. #settlement_sims
  207. #shakespeare
  208. #shipping
  209. #silksong
  210. #skin_deep
  211. #skyrim
  212. #snowdrop_festival
  213. #so-called-ai
  214. #so-called_AI
  215. #so-called_ai
  216. #social_media
  217. #software
  218. #soma
  219. #space
  220. #speedrunning
  221. #squirrels
  222. #star_wars
  223. #stickers
  224. #strava
  225. #subnautica_2
  226. #sumo
  227. #survival construction
  228. #survival_construction
  229. #swan_hill
  230. #tabletop
  231. #tamagotchi
  232. #television
  233. #the_king_is_watching
  234. #the_mandalorian_and_grogu
  235. #the_pitt
  236. #the_roottrees_are_dead
  237. #the_witch_girls
  238. #theater
  239. #thrift_store
  240. #tomodachi_life
  241. #trackmania
  242. #trains
  243. #transit
  244. #travel
  245. #triune_god
  246. #tunnels
  247. #tv
  248. #unfair_flips
  249. #unreal
  250. #vintage_story
  251. #virtual_pets
  252. #wandrer
  253. #websites
  254. #weird_web_october
  255. #wheel_world
  256. #wikipedia
  257. #witchfire
  258. #writing
  259. #wtwtlw
  260. #xteink_x4
  261. #young_suns
  262. #youtube
  263. #zines
  264. #zwift
  265. Full list of my games