Nick Gotch (@[email protected])

dad. coder. thinker. STEM lover. board/video games, physics, dinosaurs, robots, AI, bodyart, pantheism. my gender = not your business, but most say he/him

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Requested a backup of my data but not sure I’ll ever get it. Fortunately I exported it before the buyout & everything since is duplicated elsewhere. So after like 15+ years of tweeting EVERY SINGLE DAY I’m leaving the service. I won’t support it anymore. Goodbye Twitter! 👋

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Tomorrow is back to the daily grind but it’s been a good vacation, was great seeing family, & loved that the 3 cousins got bonding time and had plenty of fun memories

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Recalibration day. Did pretty much nothing except play a little Dredge & watch Octonauts with kiddo

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Last day with bro from California in town so we fit in a final play of MIND MGMT. They won but only at the very last moment. Glad I took off today. Rest of the weekend is to readjust back to routine

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Back in Massachusetts but not before a stop at Funspot, a gigantic arcade in New Hampshire, where we played a lot of games including a 4-player Mario Kart Arcade GP where I came in first place 🥇 😃

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Final day of our New Hampshire vacation we spent at Clark’s Bears, seeing the bear show, acrobats, magician act, train ride, bumper boats, Segway rides, & kiddo’s fave: the water slide. All 3 cousins had a blast! 😃

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Today’s vacation entailed homemade tacos, mini golf, finished our game of Underwater Cities, and beat the first challenge in Escape Room the Game

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Not sure it’s my thing but I definitely know folks who might enjoy a role-play musical video game like Stray Gods https://t.co/Di7kd0K0zy

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Full day with taking the kids to Story Land (lots of fun, daughter loved roller coaster, water rides) and late night with 8-player Captain Sonar & 3-person Underwater Cities

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Day of homemade pizzas and some gaming with the bros. Finished mission #2 of Deep Rock Galactic the board game with a victory. It does well recreating the video game, though a bit fiddly. Also got in a game of The Lost Expedition

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Whole fam went to downtown North Conway today, then Echo Lake for swimming, then games. The lake was really nice & pretty warm. I swam with my bros & kiddo had both her cousins. Was a good time 😊

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

A day of travel calamities for my bro coming in from California but finally things are on track & we’re excited to see him & my nephew late tonight. Mostly a rainy day here but we did get in a couple game plays

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Made it to New Hampshire and met up with some of the fam so far. Late night but got in one 2-player game of Deep Rock Galactic the board game already

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

So I don’t plan to use Threads but I am glad for it to support ActivityPub. That allows it to connect to/from Mastodon which will bridge the gap to the masses & brands. Hard to see a path for other services to compete now without ActivityPub https://t.co/ksfWX7hGff

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

I am officially on vacation. Purging thoughts of work from my head as we speak

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Had an extremely full day with work & getting things done before vacation but just one more day of work to go. Was very nice to relax with Stardew Valley afterward with the kiddo

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Trouble with vacations is you end up squeezing in all the work you would’ve done during the vacation before & after it so basically it’s not so much a pause in work as much as it is a fast-forward, pause, fast-forward. Ultimately it’s the same amount of work organized differently

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

I have a major work bug to get fixed, numerous home tasks, and plenty of gaming prep to get done before going on our family trip in a few days. Pressure’s on

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Yet more rain coming tomorrow. This is proving to be one really wet summer here. Meanwhile other parts of the world are burning up. While it’s hard to tie any single weather event to climate change, the net sum of them all is vividly clear. Coming decades are looking pretty rough

[Nick Gotch (@[email protected]) @pszNicx]

Great performance of Beauty & the Beast by daughter. So great seeing her on stage. I never saw the film & still don’t really know the plot line but I was incredibly impressed by the summer camp’s theater group putting this whole performance together in a week with such young kids