Mattias Thorelli
@thethorelli.bsky.social
3d environment artist, comic artist, fairly complex natural process
I survived my first dungeon crawl quest in Daggerfall, yay!
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I survived my first dungeon crawl quest in Daggerfall, yay!
In Daggerfall, before hoping to do anything to advance the plot, you need to take a job, socialize with people, get your exercise in every day, try to sleep well every night… You keep failing at every turn, piss people off by your incompetence, you get chased and beaten by bandits and werewolves…
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
In Daggerfall, before hoping to do anything to advance the plot, you need to take a job, socialize with people, get your exercise in every day, try to sleep well every night… You keep failing at every turn, piss people off by your incompetence, you get chased and beaten by bandits and werewolves…
Daggerfall (Unity) is pretty cool! But also a bit overwhelming with its massive scale and janky, unforgiving 90s game design. Had I played it back in the day, I never would have gotten to the good parts before giving up in frustration.
January 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Daggerfall (Unity) is pretty cool! But also a bit overwhelming with its massive scale and janky, unforgiving 90s game design. Had I played it back in the day, I never would have gotten to the good parts before giving up in frustration.
Took a long walk today. It is very cold all of a sudden. Did yoga too.
January 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Took a long walk today. It is very cold all of a sudden. Did yoga too.
Got started on Daggerfall Unity in the last evening of the year. I tried it on DOS, but the Unity version is much nicer. Playing in 4:3 and low resolution with a few mod enhancements, it looks and feels like a modern retro inspired indie game more than an actual old game.
December 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Got started on Daggerfall Unity in the last evening of the year. I tried it on DOS, but the Unity version is much nicer. Playing in 4:3 and low resolution with a few mod enhancements, it looks and feels like a modern retro inspired indie game more than an actual old game.
In 2025, I:
- sold my comics at SIS
- kept my job when like 90% of my colleagues didn't
- started working from home
- shipped a game: Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
- lost my faith in humanity (or was that last year?)
- sung in a choir
- went to group therapy
- bought and read a crapton of manga
- sold my comics at SIS
- kept my job when like 90% of my colleagues didn't
- started working from home
- shipped a game: Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
- lost my faith in humanity (or was that last year?)
- sung in a choir
- went to group therapy
- bought and read a crapton of manga
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In 2025, I:
- sold my comics at SIS
- kept my job when like 90% of my colleagues didn't
- started working from home
- shipped a game: Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
- lost my faith in humanity (or was that last year?)
- sung in a choir
- went to group therapy
- bought and read a crapton of manga
- sold my comics at SIS
- kept my job when like 90% of my colleagues didn't
- started working from home
- shipped a game: Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
- lost my faith in humanity (or was that last year?)
- sung in a choir
- went to group therapy
- bought and read a crapton of manga
Oj, öh… Jag är mellan jobb just nu, för jag fick precis sparken från mitt monsterdödar-soldatjobb efter en tragisk nakenbads-olycka. Jag har alltid sådan otur!
Trehunda miljoner poäng om ni vet vem jag är.
Trehunda miljoner poäng om ni vet vem jag är.
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Oj, öh… Jag är mellan jobb just nu, för jag fick precis sparken från mitt monsterdödar-soldatjobb efter en tragisk nakenbads-olycka. Jag har alltid sådan otur!
Trehunda miljoner poäng om ni vet vem jag är.
Trehunda miljoner poäng om ni vet vem jag är.
Jag drömde att Filip och Fredrik hade förgripit sig på djur! WTF min hjärna.
December 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Jag drömde att Filip och Fredrik hade förgripit sig på djur! WTF min hjärna.
Mac will not let me log in, instructions on how to fix it via terminal is outdated because Apple changed things, reinstall of os will take 20 hours because of slow servers(?), even Apple support forums won't let me create a user, from Safari. Sigh.
December 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Mac will not let me log in, instructions on how to fix it via terminal is outdated because Apple changed things, reinstall of os will take 20 hours because of slow servers(?), even Apple support forums won't let me create a user, from Safari. Sigh.
And my Mac suddenly stopped working. Just great. :(
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
And my Mac suddenly stopped working. Just great. :(
Defeated the big bad dragon in Skyrim. Is that it? Just a matter of hitting it repeatedly with a dagger, apparently. Kind of an anticlimax, but what did I expect? Great game. Wonder if I should call it done now…
December 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Defeated the big bad dragon in Skyrim. Is that it? Just a matter of hitting it repeatedly with a dagger, apparently. Kind of an anticlimax, but what did I expect? Great game. Wonder if I should call it done now…
Gronsk pyk!
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Gronsk pyk!
Hovering over a "play"-button on Steam just now, the mouseover said "maybe later". SPOOKY
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hovering over a "play"-button on Steam just now, the mouseover said "maybe later". SPOOKY
Today I opened a can of Sac Sac Grape that expired four years ago, and drank it. Tasted great, actually!
December 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Today I opened a can of Sac Sac Grape that expired four years ago, and drank it. Tasted great, actually!
Spent most of the day trying to get Daggerfall to run on my MiSTer. Only mostly successfully. I'm not even sad about it.
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Spent most of the day trying to get Daggerfall to run on my MiSTer. Only mostly successfully. I'm not even sad about it.
A perfect Skyrim moment.
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A perfect Skyrim moment.
Wait, are they seriously remaking Tomb Raider 1 again? To me, Tomb Raider Anniversary was the peak of the series. Not sure about a new Unchartified version, tbh
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wait, are they seriously remaking Tomb Raider 1 again? To me, Tomb Raider Anniversary was the peak of the series. Not sure about a new Unchartified version, tbh
Playing Elder Scrolls is literally all I want to do until spring comes. :/
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Playing Elder Scrolls is literally all I want to do until spring comes. :/
King of what now
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
King of what now
Skyrim feels so much better to play when you're not walking through molasses all the time!! (I had issues with my controller)
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Skyrim feels so much better to play when you're not walking through molasses all the time!! (I had issues with my controller)
Despite everything, I love working in the games industry. Building worlds - it's so fun! I might get laid off like so many others, tomorrow or in a year, who knows. But I'm going to enjoy myself until then. I'm feeling grateful today.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Despite everything, I love working in the games industry. Building worlds - it's so fun! I might get laid off like so many others, tomorrow or in a year, who knows. But I'm going to enjoy myself until then. I'm feeling grateful today.
Here's the finished MiSTer FPGA computer case, in all its retro gray glory. Complete with a working power button, hdmi and vga out, audio out, two usb ports, and wifi. The keyboard is an Xtrfy K4 with rgb if I feel like it. Assembled without screws or glue, except for fastening the keyboard.
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here's the finished MiSTer FPGA computer case, in all its retro gray glory. Complete with a working power button, hdmi and vga out, audio out, two usb ports, and wifi. The keyboard is an Xtrfy K4 with rgb if I feel like it. Assembled without screws or glue, except for fastening the keyboard.
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
So the manga ”Coffee Moon” ended the interesting time loop story early in volume 3 and then it quickly devolved into samey-looking magical girls fighting each other and monsters for very unclear reasons. Alas, that's not what I wanted.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So the manga ”Coffee Moon” ended the interesting time loop story early in volume 3 and then it quickly devolved into samey-looking magical girls fighting each other and monsters for very unclear reasons. Alas, that's not what I wanted.
Not gonna reveal the finished computer case until I get the last piece done (power button, needed a new cable), but I installed Daggerfall on it. It indeed took a while, about half an hour.
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Not gonna reveal the finished computer case until I get the last piece done (power button, needed a new cable), but I installed Daggerfall on it. It indeed took a while, about half an hour.