Ugh. Got another year on my prepaid plan. When I've tried making changes in the past they only ever offered credit for the unused time instead of a refund.

BNW and Loki S2 are all Im missing from that list so shouldn't be too bad. Glad Shang Chi is getting back into it. Really enjoyed his movie.

• Half-Life: Alyx (less story, more just an a outstanding VR experience)
• God of War 4
• Disco Elysium (inarguably my all time fave)
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Bioshock

Glad to see a lot of Chrono Trigger! Playing through that now and it is impressive for such an old title.

When I was on paternity leave with my first, I used the boring nap times to make a children's book. I have a first draft done with a second now underway which is effectively a full redo... But I got the first draft printed and it's cute. It makes me happy when my kid now grabs it off the shelf and I remind him I made it for him.

My partner asked why I didn't just sleep when he slept...I'm just really bad at taking naps. Tried getting the first draft published and there weren't any bites so I let it sit for over a year before revisiting for the new draft. Maybe someday. Maybe never. The act of making it is fun, regardless.

I became a fan around when Wings came out. Had Irish Celebration on my warmup playlist. Talked to him on a small Livestream he and Ryan did shortly before Heist released. Snuck into nearly the front row of a concert he did at a local uni. In like '13. Followed him pretty actively until he and Ryan parted ways. Never stopped liking him, but just fell to the wayside in my listening habits. Was Glorious the one where the video was him taking his grandma or someone out on the town for their birthday? That video was adorable.

I do think corny is an appropriate word to describe him, but he has always seemed genuine and sweet as hell.

Forced to use Claude for work as the lead on some AI R&D. But also given effectively zero time to actually dig into it. They just want to be able to tell customers they're doing it. Claude has been... fine. Are there other models I should try? Local only isn't really viable cus we can't afford big hardware and everyone (who may eventually use it) uses laptops. Kimi seems interesting. I would love to self host one myself but the kind of projects I've been cooking on the side coding-wise probably require more than my hardware can handle.

Genuinely the one issue I have with it at the moment. Had been using Matrix since early this year. Got Fluxer up recently when they got the beta apps. Shut my matrix server down about a week later. It's just nicer. Missing some things like E2E (for now) but my friends hated the additional step of having to put in that decrypt phrase anyway. Fluxer is easy and incredibly familiar out the box. Gonna keep my eye on Matrix clients though, but neither Element, Cinny, nor FluffyChat impressed.

Haha I get the downvotes from folks. But I'm not sharing it with others - it's just for me. Maintaining something for others when I haven't actually put eyes to the underlying code myself sounds like a nightmare.

Lol. I vibe coded a little offline personal health tracker, using the daily grind metaphor as the basis lol. Used Google Fit's health points but the points pushed a boulder up a hill every day. It's not very good, but it does what I want. Anyway, just a silly little parallel.

Reading Absolution right now so this is nice.

Dell Wyse 5070 off ebay. 2TB nvme in an external case I had laying around (just so happened to have been shuffling hardware around on other computers). Gave it to a relative who has their own setup with a battery backup and stuff. Tailscale and Duplicacy. 1.5 years and only issue I bumped into was the first external case I bought was cheap and bad. Went with something slightly more reputable and it's been rock solid since.