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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Oh, wow, Big Walk was not released on XBox to comply with BDS. Big respect. Original statement: bigwalk.game/xbox

(screenshot of House House statement)

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The other day I got in a discord spat with an USian saying shit about Venezuela. He defended himself with: "I don't need to read up on geopolitics just to post on chat". Well, I do wish my US friends did catch up on the Geopolitics their country is doing on […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Screenshot of a news article, titled: "Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superial Electoral Court (TSE) about the critical level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections. The article is illustrated by a large public demonstration in Brazil, where demonstrators are carrying a large image of the US president holding the Brazilian president (dressed as an inmate) by his head. Several US and Israeli flags are seen among the crowd.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

#pixel_dailies , August 2026 More like "pixel weeklies" amirite? Don't mind the ones where it looks like I just scribbled randomly out of frustration -- I can assure you nothing like that took place.

A set of 31 16x16 pixel drawings, arranged in a grid. Each of them follows a prompt from the "pixel dailies" hashtag, for the month of August.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

At #picojam now. @illuminesce gave me this card as a present for their birthday 💜 .hack is a very nostalgic game~~~ (For some reason I took the picture upside down. It kinda looks cooler this way)

A hand-drawn TCG card with a blue haired person wielding two knifes linked by a chain that also links to an iron collar. The rules in the card refer to the pokemon TCG.

For some reason (my derp), I took the photo upside down... Kinda looks cooler this way.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Narusawa Hyoketsu, a lava flow cave at the foot of Mt. Fuji, known for its ice formations just a few meters from the summer surface. The cave is relatively short: A VERY narrow initial tunnel, followed by the wider ice area. Apparently it was used for storing […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A photo of the Narusawa Hyoketsu cave. To the left, a large block of ice illuminated by a blue light. To the right, a small shrine with a plaque in front of it.

A photo of the entrance of the Narusawa Hyoketsu cave.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

#pixel_dailies , July 2026 Can you spot the times I hastily drew 4-5 in one stretch because I skipped several days last month? 😪

A grid of 16 x 16 drawings, one for each day of July. Under each drawing, a word describing the theme for that day is written. These were the daily prompts for "pixel dailies" for the past month.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

So, this is actually rather exciting. Someone made an #IRC client for #Picotron! I haven't used IRC in literally decades (uuuh, since college?) I'm accepting suggestions of cool channels to hang around.

Screenshot of the Picotron desktop, showing an IRC client program -- PIRCO

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I've been playing a bit of #dwarffortress this week (because of the new update, and inspired by reading @mtrc's book). My current fort is around 50 Urists, and I'm starting to get temple requests. I usually try to go the extra mile with those. The first […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A screenshot of Dwarf fortress, featuring a room shaped like an anvil. This is the temple of Avuz, which I built in my last play session. It is still full of boulders, hopefully the dwarves will clear those in time.

Screenshot of Dwarf Fortress, featuring a tiny temple, cramped with dwarves, dogs, and a goose. Nearby there is a small dining room, and a meeting room. This is my "starter area", where I provide the basic needs for the dwarves while taking the time to build proper accommodations.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

On the commute today, got jumpscared by the abominable snow uterus. (this seems to be some sort of add for a gyn medicine, although it does not specify which one)

A picture of a train add, featuring a pink plush uterus with weird eyes and lips, making the peace sign.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

#timberborn thread -- 0 Recently I've been spending a lot of time playing timberborn: A chill city builder game with beavers building dams. The beavers have to restore a desolated land, destroyed by human foolishness. From a little oasis, can we make this area green again?

A screenshot of the "Timberborn" game. It shows a large, gray, desolated landscape with a little oasis of green in the middle.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Running out of time here. Did the title screen, and all the mechanics. Now to make a few more monsters, and SFX, before the time limit. #7drl #pico8

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Day 1 work -- Reviewed the engine code, and added the basic player mechanics: Walking around, look, and inventory. Got started on NPC AI. The code under the hood is really, really horrible. #7drl #pico8

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Travelling, I'll just leave this here... 💰

A poster for a restaurant, featuring a beef truffle bagel sandwich set for 8.360 JPY

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Today I went to a "Capcom history and gamedev" exhibit at a museum in Tokyo. It was quite fun. Of course they had the bizarre US Megaman box art, but also a lot of interesting exhibits about gamedev techniques. The ticket was a bit too pricey, though. More on […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A picture of a museum exhibit, featuring the box art of Rockman / Megaman in Japan and the US.

The Japanese box art is in a colorful animation style, featuring Rockman and the enemy bosses in an action pose.

The American box art is famously terrible, featuring something that aimed at a realistic style, but ended up looking like a man awkwardly dressed in a yellow spandex, with all his limbs looking like they were attached the wrong way in his body. Really, I have no words to explain how hideous this is.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

#genuary day 3: Fibonacci numbers. I was working on something about two Indian poets shouting short and long syllables at each other, illustrating how the Fibonacci sequence could be derived by the composition of Sanskrit poetry or something. But then I got […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Thanks for @mtrc reminding me, I got started with Genuary. Day 1 was a nice and easy warmup (and made me use rrect for the first time). Day 2 was a bit harder, and I decided to cut a lot of corners. As an extra bit of challenge, I'm making a single pico8 cart […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

The advent of #pico8 ends today today! The games in the package are really good, with some amazing art and music, and finishing with a super juicy pachinko by @zep ! You can play all games for freee at the bbs following this link […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

[pt-br meme] I don't know why, buy I find this funnier than it has any right to be.

A very crudely drawn three panel comic, with text in (badly misspelt) portuguese.

1st panel: a smiley face on the left, with a yellow blotch in the middle that looks vaguely like the bat signal.

2nd panel: a smiley kinda looking like Batman's mask appears on the right, asking "What?"

3rd panel: The left smiley says: "Mrry xmas". The right smiley says: "batsure"

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

More #pico8 advent games! The music in the schmup was pretty good! The "black jack balatro" was also interesting. You can play them all here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153178

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

Three more little games this Sunday on #pico8 's advent calendar. A cute snake game, a hell platformer, and a nice set of sokoban levels! You can play the pico8 advent calendar on the link below: lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153178 Each of the games will take […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

How about a good dose of tiny #pico8 games for your weekend? Every year, the folks at the pico-8 bbs put together an "Advent Calendar", revealing one fun, tiny cart every day. You can play it here: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153178 Help a cat climb […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I mean, of course you can also just download the cart below. (I forgot that carts in pico8 / #picotron can be distributed as images, one of the most charming parts of the ecosystem)

A Picotron cart - this is an image showing a small desktop, with the word "picotron" in the top left, and "256k" in the top right. This image is actually an entire program. It can be loaded in the picotron system to run the program.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Got myself in the #picotron bandwagon. I'm still not quite sure what's going on, but I made an animated wallpaper. You can download it, or see more, in the link below: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/edit.php?pid…

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

A few days after finishing Caves of Qud with a very busted mutant, I decided to try again, this time with a True Kin. Will try to play just a little bit each night, and narrate the progress here. Goals for this run is to fill my gills with cybernetics, fully […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A screenshot of caves of Qud, showing the character creation screen before the start of the game.

The character is a True kin Praetorian, with attributes: STR 20, AGI 19, TOUGH 19, INT 18, WILL 19, and EGO 18. They have an "optical technoscanner" as their cybernetic implant.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Got the #Valheim bug again. Set up a server for my friends a few weeks ago. They already beat mother, while I'm still leisurely making my way through the Iron Tier. Gotta build an observation tower to round out this fort, and then try to catch up to them in terms of equipment.

A screenshot of the survival game Valheim. It shows a large wooden house in the background, with farming plots in front of it, and a partially constructed wooden palisade surrounding the construction.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

The train line I cpmmute on has added decorations to its handlebars celebrating its 20 years of operations. I had just moved to Kashiwa for my Master degree when it started operating...

A close-up photo of a wooden decoration. It has a simple writing: "20th anniversaire, 2025".

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

When going to an event in Kyoto, it is actually often cheaper to stay at the neighboring cities, and commute to Kyoto by train. I booked a hotel in Kusatsu, right in front of the station, for a third of the price of hotels in Kyoto. (If I had booked directly […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A picture of a toilet seat facing a huge glass window.

A picture of a spacious hotel room, with a double bed, a sofa, and a desk.

A picture my words will never make justice to.

A "photo spot", featuring a sofa with a mannekin sitting on it. The sofa is covered with a quilt of american flags. The mannekin is wearing a suit and three hats, written "halloween" in them. Three large plastic carved pumpkins seat next to the sofa. Several black and white pictures line the wall behind this arrangement.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Having a rough day at work, but this made me laugh. #silksong #deltarune (alt-text explains joke)

A screenshot of the game Deltarune, showing the Bunker Door. The character Sherma, from Undertale, is pasted in front of the door.

The bunker door is a key location of Deltarune. One of the biggest secrets of the game is how to open this door.

Sherma is a pilgrim who sings and prays in front of locked doors, hoping that this will make the door open. (it doesn't, though)

The image suggests that the deltarune players are like Sherma, praying for the bunker door to open.

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

My game submission for the PICOJAM, "Anxiety Festival", is completed. Play in one of the links below: pico-8 BBS: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=150863 itch.io: caranha.itch.io/anxietyfestival #pico8

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

PICOJAM progress -- a festival for ghosts? #pico8

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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

At PicoPico Cafe with @illuminesce for a Game Jam this weekend.

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