@mrgan.com
Creative Lead at Panic, working on Playdate, dev software, and helping publish games • Maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand • One of the good ones • Portland, OR • he/him
Screenshot of chat: Amy: we did it fam Kaleigh: *clears throat * (lfg emoji) Neven: (meme) THE WORLD WHEN WE SUCCESSFULLY SPECIFY RAISED AND RECESSED AREAS OF THE DIE STRUCK PIN
it takes a village to order a pin made
If FDR was today, he'd be holding Pumpside Chats (streaming next to his heat pump)
Shot from the movie Hollow Man
The word “somewhat” is weird, right? How are you gonna end an adverb with “what.” It should be somesome.
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My pharmacy has been bugging me to fill out a survey, and they left me a voicemail that basically just brags??
Chat from January 13th, 2015 shauninman: I want to do a Zelda-like where every power-up uses the crank. neven: oh nice shauninman: Crank powered lantern neven: neat shauninman: time manipulation. lighting/gate control. opening safes. drilling through walls. neven: rad. rotisserie chicken.
Here's how the idea for Ratcheteer came to Shaun, during early Playdate discussions…
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
A few weeks ago I was biking to work in the 38º cold wearing a balaclava, and a lady at a stop light started yelling at me, take your mask off, fuck ICE! I'm 100% with you, but like,
🔧 Ratcheteer DX is HERE !!! It's dangerous to go alone, take a wrench 🔧
🎮 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac App Store
✨ Plus, a limited time 10% off launch discount!
➡️ Ratcheteer.game
Who's ready to release a video game? @panic.com gave me the chance to colorize my little @play.date adventure game Ratcheteer and bring it to a wider audience on Steam and, most exciting to me (and the kids), the Nintendo Switch! It's out today: ratcheteer.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3e...
Wait, but it’s more like a Waymo killing a pedestrian. The culpability is with Waymo, which is a big company, further diluting the blame into Chrysler or whatever car manufacturer. Almost certainly no one is crying on the stand or going to jail.
Post an iconic horror movie image
No, it is literally a small baked good. All across the Balkans, it refers to a square, cut cake. Don't be so literal you mistake the metaphor for what it stands for.
Typical middle-eastern pita
Turkish pide
Turkish Ramadan pide
Bosnian pita
Wait until people hear what all gets called "pita" around the Levant region. Turns out a word for something as basic as "bread" or "cake" will carry a lot!
I just typed “tomorrow at 2:30” and my phone added 𝚘'𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔 like it’s Henry fucking Higgins
Me, beaming, holding my arm around James Randi
Looking for something else, I found this photo of myself and James Randi at some conference… When I lived in Florida, some of us later drove down to his home and he was exceedingly welcoming and charming, spending an afternoon showing off his place and his trickery to a bunch of kids.
A skill that turns out to be useful across multiple situations, and one that makes you charming!
excuse me?
Tim Harford has for a while suggested the same simple rule for how to handle modern information: if a piece of news or data makes your exact strongly—positively or negatively!—stop and chew on it for a second before accepting or sharing.
It feels sooooo neggy and smartass. Motherfucker I know what I searched for, shut up and gimme a blue link!
Search: cabel blog sandwich soup Result, in plain text, with no links: Based on your request, it seems you are looking for information from Cabel Sasser's blog ( {Link: cabel. name http://www. cabel.name/2006/05/e3-2006-wrap-up. html}) or a related recipe search. A popular, comforting pairing is a creamy bacon and navy bean soup-using bacon, beans, and veggies - served alongside a hearty turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich. cabel.com +3 Creamy Bacon and Navy Bean Soup Recipe • Florida Dairy Farmers • Ingredients: 6 slices thick-cut bacon, 1 stalk
Congratulations, Google is now a web search engine that doesn't know how to link to the result web page
Arthropod scrolling the HBO app, seeing Six Feet Under:
“Right. Duh?”
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge. Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"
ANNOUNCING:
PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention
A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect
May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR
pigcon.pigsquad.com
See you this spring 😉🌟
The Onion article edited to say “Linux: well well well, not so easy to find an OS that doesn’t suck shit, huh?” Picture is De Blasio with the face of Tux the penguin
tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...
a very long menu of burgers, wraps, salads, etc. I won't spoil which dish they don't have. You can guess.
Seattle's Museum of Flight has a restaurant called Wings, with a menu of American concessions standards… Please note which dish they don't sell
We went from sending each other dick pics, to sitting alone with our Anthropics…
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Yeah there’s no shortcut to learning the feel of the dough and the bake, I’m afraid! But hopefully it helps to know how things should act at each step of the process.