Erlend Grefsrud
@erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social
Games for computers. More or less recovered after finishing ☄️Go Mecha Ball☄️: https://t.co/DzRqWvFIVR
Current thing: Stomp City
Current thing: Stomp City
Escape the tribal mindset and accept that synthesis is the only valuable outcome of political processes as such because it propels the expansion of the understanding of what is possible and how to populate that space with the broadest possible range of what is human challenge
Difficulty: Exegesical
Difficulty: Exegesical
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Escape the tribal mindset and accept that synthesis is the only valuable outcome of political processes as such because it propels the expansion of the understanding of what is possible and how to populate that space with the broadest possible range of what is human challenge
Difficulty: Exegesical
Difficulty: Exegesical
Ah, but so is the Democratic Party, which explains everything
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ah, but so is the Democratic Party, which explains everything
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Just in case you wanna get into phonk but don't know where to start open.spotify.com/playlist/6C2...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Just in case you wanna get into phonk but don't know where to start open.spotify.com/playlist/6C2...
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
Have a great Friday by getting yourself a copy of the compiled edition of Code is Just — Many people called it the best ever thread on that other place. Price not an obstacle. Please share to get the word out not just to those who awaited this compilation, but to those who haven’t read the original.
Code is Just, all three seasons, as heavily requested, is finally out in a compiled PDF and ePub for easy reading. Price is whatever is reasonable for you, including zero. 1720541891659.gumroad.com/l/qkali
Code is Just — The Compiled Edition
A record of the British home computer revolution — and my place in it. First told live on Twitter in 2021, now compiled, complete, and yours to keep.Code is Just began as a live Twitter thread in 2021...
1720541891659.gumroad.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Have a great Friday by getting yourself a copy of the compiled edition of Code is Just — Many people called it the best ever thread on that other place. Price not an obstacle. Please share to get the word out not just to those who awaited this compilation, but to those who haven’t read the original.
Every so often I am reminded of something I wrote like nearly a decade ago that suddenly, finally, awfully makes sense now and turns out to have been a particularly indelicate kind of prescient and not necessarily something everyone thought of at the time doublenegation.tumblr.com/post/7994056...
Blast From The Past I
Written in 2018, not published because who gives a single fuck anyway?
---
We can no longer imagine the future, except as some relief, some relinquishing of responsibility, some escape hatch from the....
doublenegation.tumblr.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Every so often I am reminded of something I wrote like nearly a decade ago that suddenly, finally, awfully makes sense now and turns out to have been a particularly indelicate kind of prescient and not necessarily something everyone thought of at the time doublenegation.tumblr.com/post/7994056...
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
What if people don't get more conservative as they grow older because they become less tolerant to risk and change?
What if they grow more conservative because they've seen so much change turn out for the worse and so many arguments in favour of change being specious and self-serving lies?
What if they grow more conservative because they've seen so much change turn out for the worse and so many arguments in favour of change being specious and self-serving lies?
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What if people don't get more conservative as they grow older because they become less tolerant to risk and change?
What if they grow more conservative because they've seen so much change turn out for the worse and so many arguments in favour of change being specious and self-serving lies?
What if they grow more conservative because they've seen so much change turn out for the worse and so many arguments in favour of change being specious and self-serving lies?
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
I've been having a great time with @ivysly.com's Evil Egg, a classic arena twin-stick shooter. Tons of enemies, excellent power-up system, and a super-chunky pixel style that gets wonderfully messy as enemies get splattered across the rooms.
hardcoregamer.com/freebie-twin...
hardcoregamer.com/freebie-twin...
Freebie Twin-Stick Arena Shooter Evil Egg Tears Into Release
The latest game serving as a love letter to the arena twin-stick shooter is a chunky-pixel freebie that just released on Steam and Itch.io, Evil Egg.
hardcoregamer.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I've been having a great time with @ivysly.com's Evil Egg, a classic arena twin-stick shooter. Tons of enemies, excellent power-up system, and a super-chunky pixel style that gets wonderfully messy as enemies get splattered across the rooms.
hardcoregamer.com/freebie-twin...
hardcoregamer.com/freebie-twin...
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
PAPERHEAD Episode 0 Original Soundtrack out NOW for FREE!! :)
You can find the OST in Bandcamp/YouTube/Steam.
Bandcamp:
kissakolme.bandcamp.com/album/paperh...
#gamesoundtrack #ost #gameost #soundtrack #industrial #horror #music #spook
You can find the OST in Bandcamp/YouTube/Steam.
Bandcamp:
kissakolme.bandcamp.com/album/paperh...
#gamesoundtrack #ost #gameost #soundtrack #industrial #horror #music #spook
PAPERHEAD EPISODE 0 Original Soundtrack, by Joonas Turner
23 track album
kissakolme.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
PAPERHEAD Episode 0 Original Soundtrack out NOW for FREE!! :)
You can find the OST in Bandcamp/YouTube/Steam.
Bandcamp:
kissakolme.bandcamp.com/album/paperh...
#gamesoundtrack #ost #gameost #soundtrack #industrial #horror #music #spook
You can find the OST in Bandcamp/YouTube/Steam.
Bandcamp:
kissakolme.bandcamp.com/album/paperh...
#gamesoundtrack #ost #gameost #soundtrack #industrial #horror #music #spook
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
Game UI database is great, can we also have a Game Progress System Database? I'm designing (drumroll) progress systems for a building game now, and it would be great to browse some progress systems and flows so I can sample a bit more superficially rather than spend hours playing games for research
Game UI Database
The ultimate tool for Game UI and Interface designers. Explore over 1,300 games and 55,000 UI screenshots. Browse and filter by category, animation, colour, material, layout, game genre, and more.
www.gameuidatabase.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Game UI database is great, can we also have a Game Progress System Database? I'm designing (drumroll) progress systems for a building game now, and it would be great to browse some progress systems and flows so I can sample a bit more superficially rather than spend hours playing games for research
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
October 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
Roseate Spoonbill
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Roseate Spoonbill
Reposted by Erlend Grefsrud
Code is Just, all three seasons, as heavily requested, is finally out in a compiled PDF and ePub for easy reading. Price is whatever is reasonable for you, including zero. 1720541891659.gumroad.com/l/qkali
Code is Just — The Compiled Edition
A record of the British home computer revolution — and my place in it. First told live on Twitter in 2021, now compiled, complete, and yours to keep.Code is Just began as a live Twitter thread in 2021...
1720541891659.gumroad.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Code is Just, all three seasons, as heavily requested, is finally out in a compiled PDF and ePub for easy reading. Price is whatever is reasonable for you, including zero. 1720541891659.gumroad.com/l/qkali
I know it's kind an attempt to be respectful and cherish the history of the medium, but I find it so amusing when games critics compare new games to some fucked-up overambitious unfinished bug-ridden mess from 20 years ago and how the new game can't live up to some kind of imaginary legacy
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know it's kind an attempt to be respectful and cherish the history of the medium, but I find it so amusing when games critics compare new games to some fucked-up overambitious unfinished bug-ridden mess from 20 years ago and how the new game can't live up to some kind of imaginary legacy
I wonder which is the best means of manipulation: Cultural conditioning or raw exploitation of instincts/animal drives/human nature/evolutionary psychology
Tempting to look at social media since that's an ongoing global many-to-many manipulation competition, but the algorithm seems to be in the way
Tempting to look at social media since that's an ongoing global many-to-many manipulation competition, but the algorithm seems to be in the way
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I wonder which is the best means of manipulation: Cultural conditioning or raw exploitation of instincts/animal drives/human nature/evolutionary psychology
Tempting to look at social media since that's an ongoing global many-to-many manipulation competition, but the algorithm seems to be in the way
Tempting to look at social media since that's an ongoing global many-to-many manipulation competition, but the algorithm seems to be in the way
I think it's time for genxers and millennials to admit that they are the new boomers now and that there is no way out of the toxic cesspit of self-valorization and purity politics those cohorts got addicted to as a coping mechanism against their disempowerment and disenfranchisement.
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I think it's time for genxers and millennials to admit that they are the new boomers now and that there is no way out of the toxic cesspit of self-valorization and purity politics those cohorts got addicted to as a coping mechanism against their disempowerment and disenfranchisement.
Just got subjected to a 4 minute LoL ad on YouTube which I was able to skip after a minute and a half, and wow man just wow
Maybe I'm just doompilled af but whole 90s power ballad and United Colors of Benetton chuunibyou aesthetic feels really totalitarian to me in the same way the k-pop does
/old
Maybe I'm just doompilled af but whole 90s power ballad and United Colors of Benetton chuunibyou aesthetic feels really totalitarian to me in the same way the k-pop does
/old
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Just got subjected to a 4 minute LoL ad on YouTube which I was able to skip after a minute and a half, and wow man just wow
Maybe I'm just doompilled af but whole 90s power ballad and United Colors of Benetton chuunibyou aesthetic feels really totalitarian to me in the same way the k-pop does
/old
Maybe I'm just doompilled af but whole 90s power ballad and United Colors of Benetton chuunibyou aesthetic feels really totalitarian to me in the same way the k-pop does
/old
It used to be that knowledge in itself was a strong source of status. It allowed you to be witty, worldly and refined. Now knowledge has been completely devalued since you can approximate it for consumption purposes.
The new "knowledge" is "doing things", because so fucking few people do things.
The new "knowledge" is "doing things", because so fucking few people do things.
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It used to be that knowledge in itself was a strong source of status. It allowed you to be witty, worldly and refined. Now knowledge has been completely devalued since you can approximate it for consumption purposes.
The new "knowledge" is "doing things", because so fucking few people do things.
The new "knowledge" is "doing things", because so fucking few people do things.
Serious question: Is the west toast or are we just at the next level of civilizational progress and the cultures who look like they're doing fine have just not started toasting yet, and will reach the threshold soonishly?
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Serious question: Is the west toast or are we just at the next level of civilizational progress and the cultures who look like they're doing fine have just not started toasting yet, and will reach the threshold soonishly?
The most neoliberal thing in the world is that public discourse only ever considers two time horizons: next quarter and in 10,000 years
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The most neoliberal thing in the world is that public discourse only ever considers two time horizons: next quarter and in 10,000 years