Brooke Yam
yamyamyam.bsky.social
Brooke Yam
@yamyamyam.bsky.social
Disabled pan trans special snowflake. Quasi-retired pharmacist & banjolist. Parent. In an involuntary long-term relationship with pain. Cats. Video games. Cross-stitch. Traffic cones. He/him.
I find it helpful to think of LLMs as interpreting prompts as if they were preceded by "Try to sound like..."

"Try to sound like you are concise and analytic" Great, that is desired behaviour.
But "Try to sound like you haven't invented data" makes it clear why that part does not offer protection.
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
- Stardew Valley, again, but with mods. The mod community is HUGENORMOUS, including several mega content expansions - Stardew Valley Expanded and Visit Mount Vapius are good places to start. This took me from "wow I sunk 500 hours into this farm game" to *checks Steam* ...7694 hours. Welp.
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
- Okami, which is 40-80 hours, gorgeous, and so fucking relaxing. Your day job is doing favours for trees and feeding birds and also fighting monsters with the power of calligraphy. I have 100%ed it like 8 times and I will do it 8 more times probably.
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
- Bugsnax, maybe? Either you bounce off the controls in the first hour or the fruit with googly eyes and the queer fuckup muppet characters suck you in. Surprisingly deep plot, lots of side quests / cheevos to chase and oh no it's 4AM and I'm chasing a raspberry and have forgotten human civilization
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
- A Highland Song, combination exploration / rhythm game roguelite which is so beautiful and sweet and is one of those games I have bought on three platforms
- I keep having to slap my hand away from recommending IWATE
- Loddlenaut, underwater powerwasher sim with axolotls, short but engrossing
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
- Fossil Corner, a logic/sorting game where you categorize infinity trilobites while the protagonist ignores emails from friends unsuccessfully trying to get him to leave the house instead of categorizing fossils, but like, in a light-hearted way. Plus fossil... breeding? Somehow?
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Well, cats don't have great colour vision, I'll cut my cat-parents some slack on the name.

BY THE POWER OF GREYSCRATCH! *She-Ra transformation sequence*
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Meow meow meow meow 37, 56, 88, 2, 12
October 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Smear of vaseline in a hard to reach spot just before they have a shower, so they can re-enact cleaning the brie out of the bread knife through interpretive dance.
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Ooh, yeah, silos off on the little island Grampa's shrine is on. And/or a bunch of hives with one (1) flower.
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
1. Naw. Horse whistle = ignore dat stable.
2. Silos in jail in the most miscellaneous corner possible
3. No sheds. In vanilla, deluxe barns hold almost twice as much plus animals. (But real answer I'm usually playing some ridic modded farm map with a custom giant cellar or greenhouse or something.)
August 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
HEEEEEE

I have a friend whose wife made him a DO NOT LICK THE LATHE sign for his machine shop.
July 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Of course not, you're comics nerds, obviously identity politics is on your pull list. Subscription, smh.
June 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
*sobbing in mac gamer* LET US HAVE THIS
June 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Rogue river blue, grom nom nom.
May 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Andrew Joseph White's YA goes HARD, dystopian horror where the queer, neurodivergent leads come out on top. Hell Followed With Us (biomedical gore warning) or The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
May 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I did not!

No one needs to bribe Seanan to get more screwfly facts, they are an abundant natural resource in her presence. A reading answers the question "What if I were strapped in on an educational boat-ride at EPCOT, and the E stood for entomological?"
May 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM