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2023-01-23

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hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 12:06

Nearly done with career mode in Power Wash Simulator!

Hm.

I can’t really call myself an “intermittent gamer” lately. Also? The dotted lowercase legal name isn’t really me. Also also? The 15 year old posterized photo of me is starting to feel wrong.

Time to update the old Steam profile.

(you can add me! I might chat, though I’m usually invisible, and rarely multiplayer. Like — twice? ever?)

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995837306/

New handle is “Random Geek”’; new description is “Middle aged geek near Seattle. Dad Gamer”; avatar is a cartoonish drawing of a cute demon wearing a “cone of shame” common to injured pets

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 12:17

It is the 51st anniversary of my arrival in meatspace.

#NowPlaying

They Might Be Giants — “Older”

https://youtu.be/TdIRrmNN_CQ

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 12:22

Mom contributing a welcome addition to the “Hello Mortality” playlist via FB

#NowPlaying

Pink Floyd — “Time”

https://youtu.be/-EzURpTF5c8

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 12:59

@bitprophet tank ewe!

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 13:52

@recourse Thank you thank you!

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 15:54

@avolkov Thank you!

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 19:31

Thanks to a logo design with more enthusiasm than clarity, for a split second I thought I was looking at Dadlands, “a PVE-focused multiplayer open world sandbox set in a destroyed world.”

But I guess I could play it however I want.

Steam page for “Badlands” game, with description matching quote in text. The logo has a bullet splitting it, making the letter B look like a D. A game screenshot shows a shirtless person about to engage with a person who has a shirt

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 19:39

Instead I got Poly Skies, which is also apparently not the game I thought it was from the title. It’s a casual village builder.

Okay so maybe.

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 19:44

@fitzgepn don’t forget “get computer working so you can play Dadlands”

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 19:45

@fitzgepn I’m imagining a very meta game.

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 20:43

@perigrin @fitzgepn Yes! And we need Thundergroan.

You know, Thunderdome for Dad Jokes.

Also, the sound when all the characters have to get up and go raid even though their back is killing them and there’s a game on.

hackers.town: 2023-01-23 Mon 20:49

@pjf If I can’t write poetry with it, is it even a programming language?

Well I suppose that says more about my poetic cowardice than it does about the programming language.