Craig Maloney ☕ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

Bandcamp album of the day:

Die So Fluid: The World is Too Big for One Lifetime

https://diesofluid.net/album/the-world-is-too-big-for-one-lifetime

#music #bandcamp

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-winter-storms-2021/2021/02/22/970241763/monday-update-8-7-million-people-under-boil-water-notices-in-texas

Dear USA,

You fucked up. You fucked up so much that Stevie Wonder is going to move to Ghana.

“I am,” he said. “I don’t want to see my children’s, children’s children have to say ‘Oh please like me, please respect me, please know that I am important, please value me.’ What kind of shit is that?”

https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/2021/02/22/in-not-so-new-news-motown-legend-stevie-wonder-is-moving-to-ghana-because-racism-in-america-sucks-which-it-does

How to make a History Channel documentary.

Hear an inexplicable noise

decide to pull up a radio spectrum analyzer to look at the wrong band

find background noise.

exclaim "wormhole".

Novelty http://decafbad.net/2021/02/21/novelty/ #Adayinthelife #Decluttering #Games #misc

Who wore it better?

https://mozilla.design/firefox/logos-usage/

I'd like to thank the vinyl LP resurgence for ensuring that I can still say "broken record" for the next 20 years.

Perhaps when folks are saying words and phrases like "record" and "once in a generation" and "unprecedented" that we might want to start reconsidering what we're doing.

Watching scientists incorrect each other along with security folks that are spooking themselves out.

This show is just bad science wrapped with bad forensics and bad investigation.

It's garbage conspiracy.

tired. can tell that I'm tired because I'm getting that "put it all up on eBay and join the Circus" feeling. unfortunately even joining the circus is not an option in 2021.

Curious what Google is finding dangerous in the Pandas documentation site.

(Note: folks who recommend me another browser agree to one year of doing my housework to my exacting standards. No, I'm not joking).

Sometimes you're Mr. Peabody and sometimes your his boy Sherman.

Definitely one of those "am I qualified enough to talk about this" areas, but fuck it - I can talk a lot about what hasn't worked for me and what has, even without an extensive portfolio of game designs and name recognition like the luminaries in the field.

"Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

https://despair.com/products/mistakes?variant=2457302467

Thinking of presenting about how not to do game design at #penguicon2021 as a list of anti-patterns that I have found over the years in my own not-publishing games. Near the top of that list would be all of the not-terribly-helpful advice I've gotten through books and the like, and how to connect with your goals of game design rather than trying to suss out the market and work in the gaming industry.

Will see if I can flesh out the idea more to create an abstract.

#gamedesign #penguicon