I've been checking out OpenSimulator since I thought it was cool to have something that's largely Second Life compatible, but that you can host yourself and modify as you please. Renting an official Second Life region server is very expensive and owning a small portion of land is comparable to t...

Check it out! https://code.novasquirrel.com/explore/repos. It's just a bunch of GitHub mirrors right now but I guess that's all it currently needs to be right now. I've been seeing a lot of people move to Codeberg recently, largely to get away from Microsoft, and I noticed that the terms of servic...

(Copied from a forum post, but I figured it belongs here too?)

The SNES is my favorite console and I feel like (along with the Genesis) this is where 2D gaming really got refined. Games were getting bigger and more elaborate and moved past arcade game design, and cartridge sizes were getting to be...

I looked at some "Game Developer" magazines (available at gamehistory.org ) from the 90s, and it was interesting to see articles reacting to things like DirectX or the Super Game Boy like it's new. It does seem to be very Windows and MS-DOS focused, which is understandable considering console manu...

Big Fort Fest happened recently and I checked it out. We normally have a festival in Fort Wayne named "Three Rivers Festival" that went bankrupt this year, and this festival stepped up to try and replace it (and some other groups tried to replace stuff that was previously part of the festival too,...

I went to the zoo yesterday and it's kind of fascinating to see it still open but with most of the zoo closed down; the African section was completely closed (understandable) and the Australian section was limited to two indoor sections with fish. The rainforest section was completely open, but curr...

I watch PBS Kids, partially for the novelty of watching shows through over-the-air broadcasts, and partially because Cyberchase is still going (yes, really!), but I've been finding that some of the other shows are fun too. There's a very new one named Carl the Collector that might be interesting...

And now the big Splatoon 3 "Grand Festival" is over. I spent most of my weekend playing Splatoon because I really wanted to make the most of this big final event, though I still made time to go places and hang out with people.

I had a really great time!! It really felt like I took part in a huge c...

There are still a ton of active forums in 2024, and some of them are active despite also having a Discord server available for the same community, so people are deliberately choosing it, rather than just using it because it's all that's available. That communication style isn't dead, and people stil...

Petal Crash Online 1.1.1 is finally out, and it includes a bunch of fixes, and we finally delivered on releasing the server software (which was waiting on getting 1.1.1 tested). Some of the remaining issues included weird softlocks, and one of the major features introduced in the previous version wa...