Melissa Avery-Weir 🎮 @melissa@irrsinn.life

I've been playing some truly awesome small indie games in the last few months. I archive my streams over at https://irrsinn.video/video-channels/melissa_channel/videos, and I work to get closed captioning on them within a week of uploading.

If you're looking for some game recs, I'd suggest checking them out. Just about all of them take between 10 min and 3 hours, so these are quite small games by conventional standards. You can subscribe to a Peertube channel w/ a Mastodon account, too.

#indiegame

An #introduction: I'm Melissa (they/them)! Some of my projects are in my bio, but in general I am and do:

#gamedev & #podcasting

#gardening #succulents #cacti

#asexual / #grayace / #queer

#polyamory #relationshipanarchy

I write. I #webdev. I play way too much Fallen London. I collect tattoos. I will not call posts "toots".

I like learning to be more imaginative in devising solutions to difficult problems. 🎊

Promising Friday nights and then spending my afternoon wrestling with myself to either keep the stream, reschedule it, or cancel it for that night does it does not bring me joy. I'll find another way, something more fluid.

I'm starting physical therapy next week, and while I'm not at all certain I'll be able to avoid additional surgery/surgeries, I'm eager to see if this round will bring fresh ideas and strategies that can help.

In light of my increasing shoulder issues and building chronic pain, I'm going to stop trying to hold fixed-schedule bi-weekly Twitch streams. On the few evenings that are options for something to be regularly scheduled, I'm wiped out and don't really want to be "on" for a stream.

I'll keep my monthly Future Proof Plays streams for sure, and will stream outside of those (Celeste must continue!), but not on a rigid schedule.

A wonderful Sunday afternoon making sourdough pancakes and watching @gregoryaveryweir stream Grapple Force Rena. 😍 I'm not very skilled at making pancakes, but these are coming out okay.

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Celeste: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

😩 Courtesy of some tedious errands that Must Be Done, this afternoon's steam is delayed by 30 min to 15:30 Eastern. I'll be starting with Celeste, but my mood many quickly take me to Paradise Killer, one of my favorite games ever. 😍

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Adios: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Celeste: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

Now that I've resumed my Wed evening yoga classes (yayayay), my bi-weekly streams need a new schedule.

From now on, I'll be streaming on those alternating Friday nights. As always, the schedule on the About tab of https://www.twitch.tv/averymd is up to date.

I've got a doozy of a git repo architecture question to get resolved before my current setup is inflicted on my teammates: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/429397/30771

It struck me just a bit after posting that that maybe the best solution is a single large repo where I can move items around freely and version the whole set instead of each function app. 🤔

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Celeste: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

My therapist suggested reducing my caffeine intake in an experiment in anxiety management. I'm on my second day of half-caf, and I am SO SLEEPY. I'm almost definitely going to push tonight's stream to another night. Nodding off during Celeste won't go nearly as well as it did during Her Story a few weeks ago. 😅

In other news, I finished Unavowed and it was so good I immediately wrote a review on Steam. https://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/unavowed/ https://steamcommunity.com/id/averymd/recommended/336140/

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Anodyne: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic