After seeing the stuff going on around Bluesky, I decided to spin up my own Mastodon server again. I'd never had any major issues migrating before, but I got a little overzealous and stranded half my followers on my old account, so I'll have to wait and try again when I'm able to. If you're seeing this, see you in a month!

Disappointed but not surprised by Manuel Moreale's post about online behaviour. He's not wrong about social media in general but it's clear that he, like Manton, never bothered to look into the root issue before posting his thoughts. Heaven forbid we hold people accountable in public for the ill-informed opinions they choose to share.

I started Silent Hill f and it’s good, but now I also need a daytime game to play when my kid is around so I also restarted Oblivion Remastered.

After almost finishing Elden Ring several times over the past couple years, I finally rolled credits on it. I think the original Dark Souls is still my favourite but I really enjoyed it. I also gave Shadow of Erdtree a fair shake but ended up abandoning it for having some of the worst boss fights of any FromSoft game.

Middle-aged, hetero, white dudes really need to learn that they’re not required to have a take on every little thing they read online, especially when they don’t care to understand the context.

One of the best things that could come from the EA buyout is that the new owners sell off BioWare and give that studio the chance to make good games again.

In my ~20 years using Apple hardware, iOS and macOS 26 might be the buggiest versions of Apple's OSes I've ever used. It's crazy that these were deemed acceptable to ship.

The EA buyout doesn't seem like it has an upside for anyone other than the investors and C-suite assholes.

If you’re in games media, ask yourself if Hideo Kojima needs more of your help promoting his projects or if you couldn’t use that time and energy helping smaller games get even a fraction of the attention his work gets.

I often feel I default to a pessimistic view of things, especially when it comes to technology, but so many of the things we use every day have become so shoddily built and need to be viewed through a critical lens if we ever want them to get better.

I think my favourite new iOS 26 bug is when you switch back to an app you were using previously and it's on a page or view you never navigated to.

I’m torn on pulling for Orphie and Magus in ZZZ. I love the characters’ design but struggled with them in combat. I feel like I should wait until Yidhari, whose design I like but find less interesting, who might be more my speed in combat.

I had to stop watching Zuckerberg's painful AI demos. Genuinely the worst second-hand embarrassment I've felt in a long time, especially considering they've spent billions of dollars so far and this is the best they can do.

The early iPhone reviews often feel tailored to Apple enthusiasts, but those same people are the ones who already have the phones pre-ordered. Who benefits from these reviews aside from the people making them?

This weekend, I took the time to move my site from 11ty to Astro. After some digging, I found that Astro was a better fit for my use case. At the same time, I also moved away from Supabase and now host all items locally, which simplifies the entire process.

With this year's lineup, Apple has made the already complicated process of buying an iPhone even more frustrating to navigate. Between different names, colours, sizes, specs, cases, and more, it's harder than ever for the average person to just buy a phone.

After adjusting my TV settings again and tweaking the in-game options, I have Expedition 33 looking okay. I still think there are a ton of issues with the colours and lighting, for example it's sometimes impossible to read the subtitles because of the white text on a bright background, but we're back in it.

The bloom and lighting effects in Expedition 33 make the game almost unplayable for me, even with the settings dialled down. Everything is either too bright or too dark, and there’s just too much visual noise. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to get much further.

Slack’s half-baked AI summaries have lead to some of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever read.

I’m confused why a bigger deal wasn't made out of PlayStation putting Helldivers 2 on Xbox. We never hear the end of Microsoft releasing stuff on Sony hardware.

I will almost certainly not be able to finish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's nothing against the game, I just don't know that I have the attention span for another 15 hours of methodical sword fights between sessions of riding around the countryside on horseback.

I will buy an iPhone 17 for the fabric case alone.

A couple of weeks on Android reminded me how dependent on iMessage and FaceTime my family and I are. I was legitimately upset that I couldn't send my kid a message or jump on a video call when he's visiting my parents without him having to download multiple new apps.

Meta hasn't built anything new in over 20 years. They've bought and copied their way to continued relevance. Complete chaos, disorganization, and failure is exactly what people should expect whenever Zuck announces the company's new focus.

The vast majority of the new games that got announced yesterday look so boring and similar. They're all bloody, gross, Souls-like action games or shooters. Seeing them without titles, you'd have a tough time telling them apart.

I'm especially annoyed when it isn't crystal clear before they launch how apps plan on asking you for money. Case in point, I was excited to use Macrowave but only just found out that there's a subscription required to use broadcaster features.

I ended up replacing our TRMNL with a Raspberry Pi running MagicMirror connected to an official Pi display. For $30 less than the TRMNL X, I got a bigger colour display, complete control (and privacy) over what shows on the screen, and the satisfaction of knowing I'm not giving money to a homophobe.

One interesting side effect in switching to Android is that, because there are no numerical counts on red badges for app notifications, my overall anxiety is lower when I'm using my device. When I inevitably switch back to iPhone, it'll be one of the first things I turn off.

I set a modest reading goal of 100 books this year and I’ve blown past that. I know there's plenty more to read out there but I'm at the point where I'm struggling to find new manga series that stick with me for more than a volume or two.

Kids these days will never know the pain of having to rewatch the same 40-50 episodes of Dragon Ball Z over and over while waiting for them to translate more.

I dug out my Pebble Time only to find that the battery is cooked. So bummed.

It's still wild to me that Google shut down their dedicated podcasts app and told people to use YouTube Music instead. The app is beyond terrible.

We're all drinking out of shitty paper straws trying to save the environment while these rich assholes fly around in private jets.

This past volume of Rent-A-Girlfriend was the breaking point for me. It's hard to come to any other conclusion than one where Miyajima is just milking the series for whatever it's worth.

I hate the word “enshittification”. It’s so overused and silly that it’s lost all meaning at this point. I’m well aware a lot of services and software have gotten inherently worse because executives need the line to go up. At the same time, I think by giving it a cute, funny name, in some ways, we’ve numbed ourselves to it all.