hey??? this is good??????????????? h

(jokingly) no you had the right of it,

🎂🐇🎉‼️‼️
hope the next year's kind!

trying to make a teasy callout remark like i'm not in the same boat

it's good!!!!! still a joy to see on the timeline...

*noticably pushing more and more bubbles out of the way* no idea what you mean. it's fine

*pointing* Hey That's M

at long last... home safe and sound

if i get one more [550 5.7.33] due to a bad decision from on high, i should be legally allowed to just go home with a full day's pay

think the new upper management thought it'd be a good idea to send an email blast to every one of our clients and more, via our own personal microsoft exchange setup and not an actual dedicaded marketing system. MSFT now thinks we're spam & we can no longer send outbound emails. my work is Paused

heyhey o/

TF2's matchmaking update eventually took the legs out from unofficial server hosting; modern day UGC services like Roblox/SL do not allow self-hosting in much the same way

you have to upload the Asset™️ directly to the service nowadays, & that's a risk for overzealous contentID or a ban. shit sucks

the BSP file being this self-contained thing that didn't require pulling any data from official valve CDNs that'd otherwise be subject to copyright laws

songs included only as a wish from the mapper to share their music tastes, final file able to be hosted/distributed by anyone, all under the radar

saw what i thought were a collection of the buff icons from kirby air ride city trial stickered onto someone's back windshield. immeasurable disappointment when I got close enough to realize they were the marshmallows from the lucky charms cereal(??)

redlyne's editing style is a bit hit or miss for me, but "abandoned games" is a regular topic for em

usually handled w/ care once all's said & done, a sense of "these people existed, and these were the things they built with friends and left behind, an unintended digital memorial" bittersweet feel

wild how i recognize this exact snippet immediately