Grumpy Gamer

Given everything going on the America right now, I don’t feel like a celebratory post about a game.

The Thimbleweed Park Forums seem to be down (or at least inconsistently down).

I offer you $100 each.

Oh crap!

Why do I own historyofpants.com?

I know you’ll hate me for saying this, but Python is a mess.

Back by court order, it’s the Last Thimbleweed Park Post + 1.

Succumbing to overwhelming requests, we’ve decide to record a special Delores podcast.

Much like when TWP launched, people have been asking for right-click to skip dialog in Delores.

I’m looking for a good Linux laptop.

By Ron Gilbert As I write this on the 9th day of May in the year of 2020 the Pandemic is far from over.

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Crafting Interpreters I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.

For sixteen years now, Grumpy Gamer has been 100% April Fools’ joke free.

After 15 years of defeating one apocalypse after another, Sam and Dean are finally taken down by a real one.

Speaking with a friend the other day and I was talking about how being confided to my house doesn’t really change my life or my work too much.

Speaking with a friend the other day and I was talking about how being confided to my house doesn’t really feel like much of a life or work change.

Camera code is really hard.

I’m petty sure I’m going to CppCon 2020 in sept.

I first met Clayton Kauzlaric when he was hired at Cavedog to be the lead artist on Total Annihilation.

“A glowing purple meteorite makes life, uh, difficult and gross for an isolated farm family after it crashes in their yard.”

A fascinating series of posts on Disassembling Link’s Awakening I never programmed the Gameboy (or any Nintendo system) but so much of this brings back strong C64 memories.

Seems like there is always a story about how the Apple Watch saved someone’s life by alerting them to some irregular heart problem.

My Wow classic guild fell apart.

I was chatting with a friend the other day and the conversation turned to modern point-and-click adventure games and there was much lamenting on how the UI (the way you interact with the game) hasn’t changed that much.

I think the Seattle Central College needs a better tagline writer.

Only 350 days until the appearance of idiotic “Best Games of 2020” lists.

Meh

Been playing a lot of Forager lately.

A complete list of people I wish weren’t dead: John Candy My Dad A complete list of people I wish were dead: [REDACTED]

Someone took the name Guybrush on my preferred Wow classic server.

It’s just a fad… dead in 5 years.

Dropbox used to be a perfect service.

What are some good dungeon crawl roguelikes or roguelites released in the last year?

:-)

Me on the Great Wall of China right after Maniac Mansion shipped.

“The rich are too busy screwing the world over to screw each other with any imagination.”

I’m playing a Alliance priest named Wilma on the PvP classic beta server.

“But new evidence shows that the platform may be inflicting harm at an even more basic level.

I got an invite to the World of Warcraft Classic Beta.

I just wanted to make an announcement here, but my new game will be postponed indefinitely on August 27th.