Gonna babble for a bit and hope this is coherent:

I was weirdly saddened today reading Strive's patch notes. A removal of the character weight system. A younger version of me would be SO RELIEVED by this. "Oh god I don't have to memorize a million different combos"! Yet now, an older me, is oddly sad?

Now, I'm not gonna hate on or argu...

@valorzard asked:

https://youtu.be/VkjTeRHV5vo?si=aFDkWimspLswywYD think you might be interested in this video. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!

Yeah this is pretty good. I wanna build on a few things.

I think the general idea of "Hard is Easy and Easy is Hard" is like, totally a worthwhile, easy shorthand for a really real concept but I think I think a more important way to say it to fellow designers is fun is hard, and hard things trick people into...

Getting Feedback is Hard and it's not because your Friends Hate You

I was talking to a friend the other night about sharing creative works. Art, coding, writing, or whatever and how often stuff just gets nothing back in return outside of maybe a few emojis and a "Good Work", and how demotivating that can feel. I mentioned that, at this point, it doesn't bother me to much and after telling her why it doesn't bother me I was like... hey idk maybe I should write this down. I know a lot of peopl...

I loved Shenzhen IO, but I loved it's solitaire even more. I remember "Win 10 games" feeling impossible and the game's fictional creator being basically like "idk maybe it's too hard but have you tried getting good?" but s...

This will be a work in progress I’m sure and something that’ll change over time.

A big problem, with complicated gender stuff, at least for me, is my desire to not overly burden people. Someone sees he/she/they and they can feel like it’s mine field… and for a lot of people it might be, while being equally frustrating to the person trying to express themselves. I, by comparison, feel lucky.

For years I sucked down my gender feelings, going “Well if I’m mostly a guy, all this girl stuff i...