"The Ween Dad"

#rstats data scientist. Likes: writing code, video games, synthesizers. Dislikes: Publication bias, trim-and-fill. Used to be a psych prof.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Eighteen months ago, I tried reporting him to his institution. A year ago, I tried asking editors for retractions. Today, he’s publishing faster than ever. https://t.co/1lrX840csE

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

To think that my children will only ever know fortune cookies as ad space 🫩

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

.@OpenFortune Stop! What you're doing is wrong! Why do you do this thing?

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

It says a lot about society that everybody wants to watch, "Star Wars", but nobody wants to watch "Star Peace"

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, they have the miniature "fairy castle" built by actress Colleen Moore. The song in that room was oddly familiar, but then I clocked it -- "Velocity of Love" by the Diva of the Diode, Suzanne Ciani. This is my deep pull of the month.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Every complaint people have with Silksong (currency, double damage, runbacks, puckish sense of level design) is completely wrong-headed and marks the critic as a total herb, btw

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Finished Silksong. A masterpiece, 10/10. Such fluid movement, so fun to explore, just demanding enough to keep it interesting but not so difficult that this middle-aged dad ever got discouraged.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@wolicyponk Its so nice that they made an action game that wasnt even 20% about parries or i-frame dodge-rolls

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Discovered DMX Krew and Public Circuit this year. New John Maus album + saw him in concert -- incredible experience. Born at Midnite has great singles & my kids like them, too. And Gloomfather always.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Another solid year of house music, italodisco, PS2-style drum&bass, John Maus, and Ween

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Remembering the extremely funny bit in La-Mulana 2 where, upon finally getting an item that makes you immune to lava, the devs immediately introduce you to "poison lava".

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

It finally happened: Noodling around in Ableton was less intimidating than playing Factorio, so I recorded as a way to procrastinate on playing video games.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@caylenb Lace 2 was a really good fight, yeah. Neat progression from "this thing is reading my mind" to "I predict your every move and give you a little slap after every single move"

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Thinking about this essay again in light of Silksong being an excellent action game & having AFAIK no serious parry or iframe roll mechanics for the player. You can make a great game without parries!

[Rex Zakel @RexZakel]

Parries have been overtaking much of what I like about 3D Action Games, and I hope this essay can communicate exactly how and why they might not be a good direction for genre or at least start a discussion around these mechanics. Enjoy!
https://t.co/EAlMuX4g3V

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@caylenb Is the first one the "clashing normals" i sometimes experience? Thats so inconsistent and gives so little advantage that I consider it just flavor / a happy accident

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard A beautiful, indolent dream of an aimless, timeless summer vacation with your lovable shithead friends. Its great

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard Neat to see the thematic and stylistic through-line of Oshii's movies. Despite Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Beautiful Dreamer all coming from different IPs by different authors, they all feel consonant with each other.

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@timeskull @aardvarkwizard Having never watched any Rumiko Takahashi stuff before, 90s/00s internet/webcomic culture makes a lot more sense now. It all came from here: skirt-chaser guys, reserved dignified guys, dignified girls with slapstick strength, gender confusion, etc

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

Straw hat gang rise up

["The Ween Dad" @ween_dad]

@valleycandle @JOHNMAUS We're all doing it