M. Tarah Henry @Lobst@scalie.club

#introductions

Hi, everyone; I'm tarah, otherwise known as lobst. I've drawn a few comics that people have seemed to enjoy, and programmed a game demo that won 10th-place in a 140+ entry game jam despite having no sound. My ability to finish any individual project has been stymied by mental health problems for over a year, but I've been seeking treatment and making progress. I've also been streaming videogames on weekends. Watch this space!

https://lobstworks.com/
https://lobst.itch.io/

*sees an elaborate 3D game cutscene with realistically rendered humans and handcrafted effects, every aspect pushing the upper boundaries of fidelity and animation complexity* Oh. Oh honey. Oh sweetie, please, you don't need to do this. Are you OK? I hope you're OK

ME: Yes, Google, I'd like maps for Dragon Quest 2 please
GOOGLE: Did you mean Dragon Quest Builders 2? What about Dragon Quest Heroes 2? Perhaps you meant Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, or Slime Morimori Dragon Quest 2, or fan theories about a possible Dragon Quest Swords 2

Just finished the Switch port of Dragon Quest 2! It was a lovely little playthrough, and now I'm one step closer to possibly starting an installment in this series that might be able to display classic-style 2D RPG sprite graphics at more than 22.5 frames per second

Watching an archive of TieTuesday playing Virtual Bart; while it's commonly recognized as a bad game I think its second-most insulting aspect is how it features such a small amount of text I think it assumes its playerbase is completely illiterate

I hope every state gets these at some point, because the simple ability to see how candidates present themselves in text or who supports/opposes a given proposal (and why, according to them) can be illuminating in and of itself

Just finished voting; I appreciated that one measure which, in the voters' pamphlet, had several multi-paragraph arguments in opposition all submitted by the same person

I've been gradually continuing my path through the Dragon Quest series, and it seems like the second installment is a mechanically satisfying RPG (with antiquated bits); the battles reward you for making turn-by-turn decisions that aren't just selecting Fight over and over

I don't think I'll be getting this repaired, I'd sooner just wait for the hardware revision and sell the tablet and charger as a combo afterward (assuming they still work whenever the new one comes out)

My Switch dock appears to have lost the ability to send a video signal over HDMI; this means everything but the core unit itself has failed in some way or another over three years of ordinary use

There was a moment when the main characters fell into a pit in the woods at night and I realized "oh, OK, now I get to see what happens when this film tries to be scary"

Last nights background noise was the animated Raggedy Ann musical; I realize it's in vogue to exaggerate things like this (and YMMV of course), but I started it with the genuine expectation that there wouldn't be any Akira nightmare creatures in it at all