David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Oh and don’t forget, groove is in the heart and Deee-lite have been known to smoke, on stage that is.” - Bootsy Collins 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The rabid, seething frustration in the room at not being able to get “slut gnomes” in from any angle could have powered Belgium for a year, I guarantee. 030
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I could offer a lot of thoughts on why MonHun wilds was disappointing vs World. But the most basic issue is that I didn’t get my house where I could put all my little pets and decorations. I’m probably getting Ascension on spec for a house because I am actually dumb (also the S&S augment system) 001
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I didn’t catch the odyssey in theaters (I know, bad movie fan) but god it was fun watching chuds try to argue that Lupita didn’t rate at the level of a Helen. She is like, astonishingly beautiful. I would probably try to raise an army if she needed me to fight for her. QED. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Yeah, new ghost in the shell was, unfortunately, made for me: the 40 year old white dude that wants to larp being a government-sanctioned operator and is also a hot lady. 020
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I’ve really been taken with The Bazaar lately but I do actually think the aesthetic adjacency to Hearthstone is prolly a net negative. I love the art and systems of the game but that means it might be fully unc-coded. 000
Reposted by David of the ValleyDOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026SUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO 1985 NES 425453
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Egg salad is great for when you want to eat over 100% of an egg per egg. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Trying to get caught up on severance and dang: does anyone that worked on this show care that it looks like absolute dogshit on streaming? Is a 4k version available anywhere? 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I wish there were a hundred games in the Strange Horticulture/ Strange Antiquities mold. Obv, what makes those games is the bespoke details and storytelling but damn I wish someone would just give Bad Viking like 8 years of runway. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If you’re not watching the AP feed of the festivities, you’re missing out. The dinky little arch model is across from an unmoving Ferris wheel and it’s mostly trash and nothing in the foreground. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026God hates Donald Trump and literally wants to rain on his parade lmao. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I think as a 40-something I’ll just go ahead and say that Lil Wayne is my favorite (I didn’t say best) rapper and I’ll check back in in a decade or two, 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Marathon is a game that is good and fun. Marathon is also a game that is dumb and bad and sucks. It’s good that it’s all those things. I like all (most) of the things that it is. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026No shade but it’s fascinating the volume of updates for Destiny 2 previewed in the last 3 articles. Stands to reason a lot of this was fully cooked for at least a while and held back in order to find a way to package it into a paid update.1/3 100
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Look I’m not gonna pretend I’m not comfortably middle class when I know that a ton of ppl in my age group are trying to do more with less, but I realized today that I’ve been unconsciously buying smaller packs of toilet paper and other essentials in hopes of sales lately. 110
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/05/2026You gotta hand it to Villeneuve for Enemy>Sicario>Arrival>Blade Runner 2049. All time greatest limited color gamuts. Grand total of like 4 color temperatures (gray, gray-blue, pale yellow, “hard yellow (scary)”). 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 12/05/2026There was some kid discourse recently and I think as a childless millennial with mostly childless friends, it’s easy to forget that kids are also people that like to make other people happy or land a great joke. They also have bad manners and are rude because they literally don’t know not to do that 000
Reposted by David of the ValleyStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something 56806424
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Sports betting is interesting to me b/c I thought I loved gambling but it turns out I actually love playing games with gambling mechanics. And weirdly, even though I’m kind of a stats guy, this has inoculated me against sports betting because lines and over/unders have never made sense to me. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Entering the emulation Sargasso where there’s one (1) specific game you’d like to emulate that was released on one (1) mainstream but commercially unsuccessful platform. Support is still remarkably good but resources are thin on the ground, esp as digital distribution becomes the norm. 020
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I got my AYN Thor this week and it is really wild to come up for air from the iOS and Windows ecosystems and see by contrast how bad they hate when you plug stuff in. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Just kidding, I’m a fucking genius (took 17 seconds and poking at menus to solve an easy problem) 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Got my AYN Thor today after arbitrarily thinking it would just never arrive but I am an absolute moron at android. Managed to get Wind Waker running only for the console buttons to be completely unrecognized. Ah well, I’m in it for the fiddling, at least in part. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’m not writing fic or anything but the way I know I’m slightly too deep into Pitt fandom is that I looked up the “official” ship name of Mel/Langdon (Kingdon? fine I guess) specifically because I hate it so much I want to explode, which I guess is ALSO a MINORITY opinion you psychopaths! 1/3 100
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I liked that last episode of the Pitt, but, for both better and worse, that’s how you end a season when you know you’ve got a hit on your hands. 021
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026“AI” is just the latest front in the argument that the problem of labor can be solved with enough bare metal compute. The fatal flaw with these systems as constituted is that the “generality” they seek is the polar opposite of what they’re designed to do, which is be both specific and accurate. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 14/04/2026First time using a butter bell resulted in some salted kerrygold butter developing a smell identical to blue cheese and attendant mold. Obviously didn’t use any tainted butter and sterilized the whole apparatus but is that something to look out for or just user error somewhere? 100
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I dunno, it just seems like if the criminal president gets to have a fun night at the UFC fight while his underlings commit more crimes, I should get, like, one free tax fraud, right? Like “oh my, oopsie, I diddun pay my Ipsy dipsy twaxes dis time. I pwomise iew be a goood goood bowey next yeah.” 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I wish I better understood the politics around the development of the US-Israel relationship in the last 70 or so years. At the very least, Israel became a regional superpower. How and why did that happen? Any books that address this? 010
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Insane night trying to sleep for a 5 AM wake up in a foreign country in a bad bed shot through with stress dreams of playing Marathon (2026), a game I do not own and have never played but I now think I need to get into to exorcise it from my system. 020
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Might sound dumb but I went to a bar in Bogota named “Charonte” (Charon) where the signature drinks were themed after famous dead folks and if you could guess them all they gave you a secret menu with more drinks themed after more dead folks and it fuckin ruled. Drinks were great too. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Met a bunch of monkeys today. They were nice but really wanted to steal everyone’s sunglasses. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026We are not god’s favorite creatures he has been making increasingly excellent birds for millions of years. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Made it through another week so time to fuck up HBO’s AWS fees. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I am TRY-ING not to Pitt-post on main but after tonight’s episode, literally everybody’s getting slapped (except for the nurses who are perfect angels and you’re getting a broken jaw behind it if you disagree). 010
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/03/2026You do gotta give the new Scrubs season some flowers for absolutely nailing the millennial sincerity of the OG series, complete with indie pop music stings at the end of the episode. 010
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Truly believe that the failures of many recent “AAA” games is down to a failure of imagination when it comes to the value added by QA. It’s easy to write off b/c it’s a double cost: salary of the tester plus dev time on bugs logged by tester. 100
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I played the Titanium Court demo for about 30 minutes and even with that little time, I can’t tell you why it’s so incredibly funny because it’s kind of a spoiler and I hate nothing more than spoiling a joke. That said, the demo is free and you should go get those good jokes yourself. It’s fun. 051
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Flavor Flav being one of the more vocal boosters of women’s sports was abso-fuckin-lutely not on 22-year-old me’s bingo card for 2026 but here we fuckin are. 010
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I have a distinct memory of hearing about a period in American history (I want to say Great Depression) where they clearly said “this crisis was 100% brought on by speculative investment,” in high school so that was a Bad Thing. And now it’s like, “LOL, not if you’ve got enough money to lose.” 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Getting back to MonHun Wilds and it’s such an interesting mixed bag. I realize that I really loved having my room in the base at Astera that I could expand and decorate, as well as the chef who got new animations as you progressed. Keeping you “on the road” for the first 30 hours really hurts. 100
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Okay so this one time some dudes in Bavaria accused the Jews in their town of fucking with their holy bread (which, if true, would be uncool, but it wasn’t) and so they rounded them all up and burned them to death and then CELEBRATED IT EVERY YEAR FOR OVER 600 YEARS. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Kinda obvious but it bugs me more lately as the reaper breathes down my neck: videos of artisans and craftspeople played at anywhere from 3 to 10x original speed. It’s got to be so corrosive to one’s sense of material reality for young ppl to see hard, extractive labor appear easy or comfortable. 000
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026If you’re going to eat any form of pork loin cut, give it a few hours in a lightly acidic marinade then do a sous vide. I’m honestly not sure of a different more efficient way to an actual juicy pork chop. 010
David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026“The data” was an early version of “ChatGPT says” except it was mediated through human brains. You could say it but everyone knew you were spinning in some sense. Now these idiots think it’s automatically true because computer said it and we kinda *teehee* don’t really fully understand computer. 001