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. 🎊

I finished "Return of the Obra Dinn" yesterday, and... wow. I played it over the course of a week, and took longer than howlongtobeat's average by far, but I really loved it.

If you like(d) doing those logic grid puzzles where you needed to suss out who someone was by various features about them vs other people in the grid, "Obra Dinn" is exactly that. If the colors in the trailer are offputting, there are several other options. I went straight b/w.

https://obradinn.com/

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

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

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

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

LB: I hadn't known Brave was funded by Peter Thiel, and just settled into using it a couple months ago. 😭 Well, bump that.

Switching off Chrome at least got me to build out my silly Shaarli-based bookmark system to break free of browser syncing. So maybe now I go for Firefox with the usual privacy plugins? I'm not sure I want to fuck around with tor for daily browsing. 😩

oh no. I'm falling down a hole of maybe un-Amazoning my substantial book/audiobook consumption? 😳

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/ is my starting place. I don't think I want to buy another physical ereader right now (my Kindle is rather new 😿), but I want a really, really good mobile reading app first, including one that can sync positions, bookmarks, and notes... somewhere (Dropbox, S3, whatever). Icing on the cake would be a Windows app it can sync with. 😇 Wish me luck in my hunt.

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