As someone who is obsessed with super punishing Metroidvanias, I have an embarrassing confession to make.

Finally just got invited to the new Digg.com “Groundbreakers” group!

I was so stoked when Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht did the reunion show for Diggnation last year. That was wild enough for me; I never thought I’d see the day. They joked about buying back Digg.com and making it an actual social network again but I never thought anything would come of it.

I haven’t had a whole lot of luck finding browsers I like on iPhone. It feels like every single third party browser is just a custom built version of Safari with a new skin and a few new features duct taped on.

The thing that kills me about middle and lower middle class MAGA people is that it’s literally no different than thinking they’re the one guy who the stripper really fell head over heels for while they were throwing handfuls of $5’s at her.

I really need to start paying attention to the devs behind the games I play.

I started Sea of Stars, from Sabotage Studio, a while back and it’s one of the best classic style RPGs I’ve ever played.

Then I got kinda sidetracked and found a new obsession with Metroidvanias like Blasphemous and Aggelos for a while.

I kept thinking man, Sea of Stars has such great artwork and mechanics, I wish these guys would make a Metroidvania. I bet it would be fucking gnarly.

Well, turns out they did! Way before Sea of Stars, back in 2018 they made a game called The Messenger and holy shit is it good!

When I beat Aggelos, it kinda left a void in my soul...

I started smoking cigarettes when I was about 16 years old. My dad started when he was eight. His dad probably came out of the womb with an unfiltered Pall Mall hanging out of his mouth.

Picked up a R36S emulator console at a local video game place while my Switch was getting serviced last week.

I’ve been disconnecting and playing a lot of retro indie games lately.

Faves so far have been:

• Sea of Stars
• Aggelos
• Dusk
• Warhammer 40k: Boltgun

Annnd looking at Deltarune: Chapters 1 & 2 after I finish Sea of Stars. I think there’s a new chapter coming out sometime this year?

Definitely lots of good 90s style games coming out in the last few years!

Sea of Stars is like a mix between Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG but it’s definitely not a ripoff of anything. Super cool story line and beautiful pixel art.

Aggelos is a Metroidvania that reminds me of Zelda 2: Link’s Adventure and shares sidescroller RPG elements from two underrated classics - Dragon View and Actraiser. My absolute favorite thing about it is that your character actually changes appearance when you unlock each new sword and armor. The super technical maneuvers and combos you need to use are fucking infuriating at times but it’s becoming one of my all time favorites.

Dusk is reminiscent of all the classic shooters like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem/Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, etc. Definitely brings a lot of its own mechanics and style to the table but it feels super nostalgic if you used to play old school shooters.

I’m always looking for modern retro stuff that looks good on the OLED Switch! Let me know if you have any suggestions 😋

I haven’t posted a whole heck of a lot about my pinktoe tarantula since I got it.

I’ve been working six days a week for what feels like an eternity, but I finally got a couple days off and I was able to hang out with the little guy for a bit.

I mist the enclosure with a spray bottle every couple of days and he cant resist drinking water off of the screen. He comes running every time he hears me.

edit: video quality is kinda janky, here’s a better upload on bsky

I regret that I haven’t traveled much so far. I’ve never been outside the United States. Hell, I’ve never even been to a blue state before. That didn’t even dawn on me until I started thinking about it just now.

There is so much awesome culture around the world but for most Americans, we act like this is the only place you ever need to be. Rootin' tootin', cowboy hat wearin', gun shootin', in god we trust ‘Merica. It’s the only place in the world that blue eyed, blonde haired, white baby Jesus really cares about.

I want to go to Europe, and China, and South America. Even just Canada would be a nice little trip. It’s like the USA if the USA didn’t have a parasitic brain worm.

I hope I can get my shit together enough to see more of the world before I get too old.