gem @spurll@ramshackle.town

8. Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Probably the best 2D Mario game since Yoshi's Island.

9. Tails of Iron
A side-scrolling soulsvania obviously inspired by Redwall. I had fun 100%ing this one.

10. Ynglet
It's a platformer without platforms, plus it's got a cool art style! What's not to love?

Didn't have time for many games this year, what with that whole medical clerkship thing, but here are the best games I played in 2023!

Homemade doughnuts!

Behmor makes a good roaster. Though saying it's user unfriendly is a bit of an understatement. I'd probably go so far as to call it user-antagonistic.

In the rare moments that I stop the think about it, the number of things in my life that I've gone sicko mode for is really quite disturbing.

A Polish train manufacturer introduced DRM that would brick its trains if it detected their GPS coordinates in the vicinity of competitors' repair shops, and is now threatening to sue hackers who unlocked the trains. Incredible. https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/

Sorry YouTube, I'm not going to be disabling that ad-blocker any time soon. https://www.404media.co/navy-bought-global-data-ncontext-sierra-nevada-snc/

Homemade karahi paneer, dal makhani, and baingan bharta, with masala chai. 😋

LRT: Currently using Vivaldi and loving it.

I ditched Chrome a long time ago, moving to Firefox briefly and then Opera. The last straws with Opera were their embrace of both crypto and LLMs.

The only differences are that I look significantly older than Peter Falk, and, unlike Columbo, I have no idea what's going on.

Me, a medical student, returning to a patient's room for the seventh time to clarify something:

I spent five precious minutes that I should have spent studying for my surgery exam tomorrow registering a domain instead.

Anyway, don't waste your time visiting http://ElonsPersonalHell.com.

So not bad!

"So Gem, how's your anesthesia rotation going?"

Well, today I watched another anesthesiologist put my preceptor into a headlock. The two started wrestling, and then appeared to progress to a tickle fight.

Doc I'm working with just shouted out "Argh! I hate progressives!" My head whipped around.

Turns out he was talking about his glasses.

Lowkey one of the funniest final lines I've seen in a news article in quite a while. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline