Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I disagree with some of the comments here about the NES-era games not being goofy. They’re definitely tongue-in-cheek at least - look at the credits of NES Castlevania for example. 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Like others have said… why keep the blog if he’s just going to cite internal research about how the vocal audience is wrong, how he doesn’t really consider their feedback, and how it “doesn’t make business sense”? Just do whatever DOES make business sense then and stop trying to put a face on it. 020 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I get frustrated reading Mark’s answers to these sorts of questions on his blog because he rarely engages with the questions in good faith, loves to assert that things Wizards could change are just “the way things are”, and just has a dismissive tone. He balks at perfectly reasonable questions. 120 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If I were a cynical man (and I am - this is my actual opinion 😁) I’d say companies exploit this on purpose to manufacture these cycles. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think people are just addicted to a cycle of “I hate this, chat it’s so over” feeding into the hype of “oh man it’s so much better now, chat we’re so back”. Over and over again. You see this in a bunch of long-running games, media, and so on. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Like, a lot of its fundamental design principles and philosophies were super toxic for a long time. And its developers’ toxicity has been WELL documented, both internally and externally (“you think you do, but you don’t actually”). 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Largely, I think WoW players hate Blizzard, hate WoW, and hate MMOs. And because Blizzard tries to make games to appeal to every mouthbreather on the planet (whether they’ll all get along or not), it leads to a massive amount of animosity and resentment. But really, WoW is toxic at its core. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Today in “statements that should NOT have to be made in 2026 but here we are I guess”… 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don’t give them any ideas 😅. This sounds exactly like something these ghouls would pitch for why AI is so great. 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The one thing that would make Commander better for everyone is if we all stopped arguing about it and just played the damn game 😅 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For women, it’s only really normalized in a “provider” sense, which disempowers them. Women who don’t fit into that role are shunned/called prudes; meanwhile, men retain all the real power in both situations. “SlutCon” says it all… take pride it in or not, either way you’re labeled a slut. 040 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m sure there are 100s of great people at WotC. Problem is, they’re not the business folks making this call. For them it’s entirely a cost/benefit analysis. “Yeah we anger a few thousand existing players but we draw in a million new players.” We’ll see how highly they value the damage to the brand… 060 0
Reposted by Justin O’ConnerJason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 133199730 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can’t help it - I read “Vorthoses” as Vort Hoses, so consider this a vote for Vorthosi instead 😅 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t know where you get your stuff delivered from but I’d be suspicious they’re using delivery customers to offload bad product. I don’t even do delivery, I do pickup, and still they pawn off all their nearly-expired, opened, or damaged product on me half the time. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I thought there was an addon for retail WoW that more or less emulated the way FF14 did controller support. I think it was called ConsolePort. Did that get banned or something? 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I feel like I’m somehow becoming an evangelist of PICO-8 on your posts 😅 but it comes with a built-in discovery tool called Splore. It has a few different views including a rotating set of curated games. I do think the majority of the audience is other P8 devs tho. You have to own P8 to use Splore. 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026To your point, I think there are distinguishing factors to help everyone pick the right one. For me, I grabbed the RG Cube XX because it plays PICO-8 games well and I wanted a real device to test my games on. The fact that it runs a bunch of other stuff was just a bonus for me. 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don’t think you’re wrong though 😅 Every week it’s like “do you buy FRUIT PUNCH? Well good job being a RACIST and a BIGOT because it refers to how (insert unimaginable horror here) back in 1897!” Meanwhile I’m looking at my drink like… I just want to drink the fruity red beverage, man. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I always assumed these weren’t actually shots of a real place. I figured they were, at best, sets on the real Apple campus, and at worst just digital sets. 030 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s a lot of fun. I personally love working within its limitations since I often feel overwhelmed by “obligation” to keep adding stuff to my games otherwise. 010 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If I were just a smidge more cynical I’d call it a psyop, honestly. 0110 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hard for me not to be cynical on that when they’re also opening calling this a “disaster”, but I’m not “the community” so 🤷♂️ 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I had read that as well, but I guess they decided they needed to sell more packs once they reprint them? 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think it’s fair for players to ask these questions. Some would disagree but I don’t think WotC has jumped the shark yet with EDH. Keeping them “honest” by asking clarifying questions (like what this thread is about) is IMO healthy and helps guide them. This was once a community format after all. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I hadn’t seen this card yet but I’m not surprised it’s so expensive. It seems like another designed-for-every-deck forced Commander staple. One of those cards where you don’t choose TO play it, you have to choose NOT to play it. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I just wish the “good stuff” it can do wasn’t being used to launder its image in the public eye. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’m not gonna pretend like it was the most usable, but Winamp still tops my list of “coolest” UIs. 020 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I don’t think there’s a lot of value in mocking them either, tbh. But reminding them that there is a world out there where people have genuine experiences and joy and love and compassion, and that their worldview isolates them from those things… I’ve gotta believe that affects them on some level. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Those sorts of trivial insults don’t even work on people like them. If you must mock them, you hit ‘em where it really hurts. It’s not their appearance, it’s their pathetic worldview and weak will. Their small brains and loveless hearts. They will never know joy or true love. 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is me but anytime I’m seen anywhere in real life by anyone ever 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Any time I see one of these brain-rotted ghouls say something like “your existence and rights are just politics/ideology to me” I know instantly they can be safely ignored and left to fume and vent and scream internally forever. 030 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I was smiling like a goofy little dork until #5, then the horror set in… 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It’s pretty compelling stuff, especially for a 1988 Famicom game, lol. If you enjoy this aspect of 3, I bet you’d also enjoy 5 (if you haven’t played it yet). 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026And that’s not even getting into the more global environmental impact of it. 030 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’s miserable in the tech space right now. I feel like a fool screaming at everyone not to join the cult and drink the kool-aid and everyone around me just calls me a narc and guzzles a gallon of it. All these supposedly smart people letting their brains liquify into jelly… it’s so sad. 170 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I appreciated the more thorough/mature takes on these characters, but for me it was ruined by them taking the opposite approach to the game’s plot overall. It’s like the characters got the love and attention to detail I wanted from a remake and the plot was given to a hyperactive 12 year old 😅 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I tend to talk a lot about the time I spent as a teenager playing Quake 3 and TFC online. But honestly, in terms of hours played, PC GTA3 is probably #1. It was just perfect for me: load some custom music, cruise around the city getting into trouble. Probably kept me out of real trouble 😂 120 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This, 100%. My only fear is that they’ll make sure you can never afford hardware again except that which is locked down to their streaming services. So once the current (and probably next) crop of devices start dying, that’ll be the end of affordable, “unlocked” consumer hardware. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I legit thought Marvel wasn’t out yet, so when I heard we were already heading into prerelease for Hobbit I was really confused for a minute. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Better that than: Warehouse Scan Warehouse Scan Warehouse Scan (x4) Package was rejected by receiver, returning to sender. Ask me how I know 🙃 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think I’d love the idea but hate the actual gameplay. Shuffling a 109 card deck is - I assume - almost 10% more of a pain in the ass than a 100 card deck. 118? Oh boy. 127? Please no. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I know you’d probably argue that example lacks the compassion and honesty, but my point is that so many “leaders” say the right things and yet their actions always somehow show them weaseling out of the accountability, compassion, or honesty parts. 000 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026While I strongly resonate with this idea, it’s so easy for one to delude themselves into believing it for whatever is convenient or self-beneficial. “I laid off 5000 people because I’m taking risks.” “Whoops j/k I’m leaving with my golden parachute before I can actually be held accountable.” 100 0
Justin O’Conner @oconnerj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Hobbit Wheeler might have awoken something in me and I have no further comment. 000 0
