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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hardly ever say anything here, so believe me when I tell you that since Sorry We're Closed is on sale over at gog (www.gog.com/en/game/sorr...) you should go and get it. It's like if Silent Hill and a visual novel had a baby and that baby was also The Lord. Seriously, it's good.

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  Sorry We're Closed is a fusion of nostalgic survival horror with a new perspective

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It is absolutely darling watching people plead and negotiate with LLMs and think there's a modicum of certainty to be had in that interaction. You know what you are, you rubes? You're INTERCAL programmers. For that to make sense, you need to be aware of one of INTERCAL's best(?) features. (1/4)

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Did you know I live in a dumpster that is currently on fire? Some of us are doing our darndest to put it out, but I guess we'll see how that unfolds.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

As the world becomes more terrible and oppressive, it has increasingly become my standing that one of the key factors is that good people aren't being mean. Be merciless. Relish at your foes' misfortune. Ridicule them to an early grave then ignite their pyre with a sick burn.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Hot dang! Did I mention Absolum is an incredible game? The guardian ordeal was a real thorn in my side so using thorn daggers to overcome it was quite poetic.

Absolum vanquished by Cider, with the guardian ordeal in effect.

Run statistics of this momentous occasion.

A peek at my inventory for the run. I went very heavy on thorns.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I don't say much these days but I will say this - if you like beat-em-ups and you haven't picked up @dotemu.bsky.social's Absolum you are doing yourself a disservice. It's the epitome of the genre. It's a god damned masterpiece.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Was this the best time to turn down job offers on Linkedin? Probably not. Did I allow myself to have a bit more fun than usual? Absolutely.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Just got a call from a representative of my most reviled insurance company. There's a ranking. Had a chance to compare them to Hitler, the Devil and a criminal syndicate so I feel it was a productive call.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

While I think I feel fine, I had all sorts of indications yesterday that I might be coming down with something. Ill omens, quite literally. I wish the human body outputted better metrics. I'd be down with a "check engine" light popping up on my forehead.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Nativshark is absolutely the bomb and I cannot recommend it enough. I have never known so much Japanese in my life. It's so much better than Duolingo it's not even funny. The main reason being that Duolingo is terrible for languages that are very alien to the ones you already know.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Kids have been on a Spiderman craze lately so of course we just watched Across the Spider-Verse. Man that movie slaps. Bonus - I now get to try and figure out which part of my setup couldn't quite handle the more visually intense scenes.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I mean, why would I want to just stand up and go to the kitchen when instead I can say "I want to stand up and go to the kitchen" and hope that happens and I don't end up drowning myself in the toilet instead?

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I love how if you make enough changes in your codebase it will look like git is fed up with your shit. Me: I created a whole bunch of files and moved some older ones around. Git: $✘»!?

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

One of those games that absolutely deserves it. If Astrobot is a joy you can experience, I implore you to do so.

A picture of my accumulated Astrobot trophies. It's all of them, you guys. This game is so so *so* good.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It is physically impossible for me to hear "drag & drop" and not think "ah yes, dragon drop".

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

What an exhausting time to be alive.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I friggin' love technology. Who needs eight hours of sleep when instead you can be up losing your marbles over why your AV receiver no longer automatically switches to the appropriate audio decoder.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ditched these chumps during one of their previous waves of asshattery and couldn't be happier. They really do seem hellbent on going from bad to worse. For Japanese - I highly recommend Nativshark. Now I just need to find my kid something good for French. Suggestions are wildly welcome.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Two games down through @fellowtraveller.games's "Hits You Missed Megabundle" and both were absolute bangers. Shogun Showdown by @roboatino.bsky.social is a delightful rogue-like deck-building thing. The decks are very lean and each card (or rather, tile) really pulls its weight.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The secret to laser tag is twofold: - Shoot everyone - Be everywhere

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I don't post much, which is why I hope you take me seriously when I come here during the witching hour to tell you that @mandragoragame.com's game really took me by surprise. I mean I knew it looked good but when I spun up the demo I was woefully unprepared for how much I'd enjoy it.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

*A chunk of solid ice containing my nose falls down on the floor and clinks loudly* Oh right, I'm not wearing my neck-warmer.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Today of all days it is very important to observe the fact that It Takes Two by @hazelightgames.bsky.social is a phenomenal game. My kids devoured it rapidly, and so should you, assuming you have a cohort. Also, their next undoubtedly awesome game is just around the corner. What a time to be alive.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It's important to remember that adversity is always an opportunity. An opportunity to be miserable.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Oh really, Mr. McTechRecruiter? You were really impressed with the work I did at my current company that has nothing to do with the job you're offering me? Well isn't that something.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is a Terry Scott Taylor appreciation post. The man is a god dang musical genius. I base this solely on the Neverhood's soundtrack, which serves as ample and irrefutable evidence.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Take ergonomics seriously. Your joints aren't hot-swappable. Heck, they're not even cold-swappable.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Driving is abhorrent and I detest it. I can't believe people do it for a living and get paid less than a boatload of money.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sometimes it takes a child to get to the really tough questions. Questions like "why do all old people know Kung-Fu?".

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Somehow, people following me as a form of advertisement is much more of a thing here than it was on Twitter. Does this tactic really entice anyone to buy into anything? I'll admit I mostly find it annoying because it's always very obviously a ploy.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Not sleeping enough is awesome because you forget how to words. I just referred to a seagull as "noisy sea bird that steals fries".

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

For years I asked myself how someone without access to a "tech person" can use any tech without going insane. They can't, really. @edzitron.com explains this with uncanny clarity, so do yourselves a favor and just give this a read: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I don't get how plants exist. The span of time between me managing to grow something neat in one of my planters and it being assailed by malicious parasites is so small you could use it to calibrate an atomic clock.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

When I originally introduced my kids to Adventure Time I deemed their minds too frail to cope with seasons 6 onward. Now that they are older they wrapped up the show and it reminded me that thing belongs in a museum. Whichever hall of culture we erect after society collapses, it should be in it.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I needed to create a Google form and now I have some questions for my 2019 self.

A Google form titled "Why are you an asshole". The form contains a multiple choice question "Choose the reason you are an asshole" with the options "Just because" and "Other". The form's header image is a chocolate cake with "HERE!" written in frosting on top of it.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My least favorite type of tea is the type that smells great and has zero taste. That's just poor manners, really.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Every day my ire at how people use AI, my AIre if you will, grows. Think your post is more visually appealing with that picture of a dog with 1.5 tails? It's like hosting someone and giving them a glass of water you scooped out of your toilet because it's rude not to offer them a drink.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

There are specific things I am into, that should you be in to as well will cause us to immediately share an unbreakable bond of camaraderie. I demonstrated this principal just today as I heartily high-fived the person who complimented me on my Old Gods of Asgard t-shirt.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Helldivers 2 is a game I gladly toss more money at because they deserve it for all their hard work. The only other game for which I harbor this sentiment is Deep Rock Galactic and I easily recommend both. DRG specifically is the shining example when it comes to respecting the player's time.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Saw Moana 2 with the kids yesterday and had a lovely time, really. The movie isn't without faults as it's ridiculously inaccessible if you didn't see the first one, has way too many new characters that don't get time to do anything meaningful and the plot is lazy. That said, I found it enjoyable.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

You're not a real software developer until you've subscribed to at least two professional newsletters you have zero intention of actually reading.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As I was ruing the delicious curry I had last night, I couldn't help but look on the bright side. At least I don't have pain receptors throughout the entirety of my digestive tract.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's been a year and change with the green tyrant, and I unavoidably know more Japanese. Do I think I'll actually _know_ Japanese at some point further down the line? Jury's extremely out on that one.

My Duolingo 2024 summary. I've been at it for 376 days and am ranked in the top 1%.

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I haven't really been posting anything here because, honestly, Twitter imploding kind of sucked the air out of me. Funny, seeing how I only opened an account to play Vim Golf originally, but it really grew on me. That all changed when I read this: catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...

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Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Remember how a lot of things are worse now because tactile buttons are touchscreens for some reason? Well I sure am glad we're similarly ruining computer interfaces with AI. I mean, why would I want a form where every field has a meaning when I can have a magic gremlin parse a story I write instead?

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RoBOOgoblin 👻 @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

GMs are basically the technicians from The Facility in Cabin in the woods.

The technicians from the cabin in the woods saying "he had the conch in his hands"

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

What do you think it would be like if Leonardo da Vinci was into tabletop games? Well think no more, just go grab some of @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social's awesome stuff cheap over at itch.io/s/133932/meg....

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A bundle by Tom Bloom, $6.66 for MAGNAGOTHICA: MALEGHAST, CAIN

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

You try to prepare your teenager for adult life by telling them all about the forbidden dark hummus prepared deep underground by the demon king and they're all like "Oh my god dad, shut up!".

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Guy Rozen @holyeggplant.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

I like an IDE that recognizes its own limitations.

An error message that reads:
Failed to Perform Operation - Cannot perform operation. Too complex, sorry.

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