Kris Asick

I am no longer active here on Twitter as I feel recent policy changes are incredibly bad for everyone. I will be keeping the account alive mostly as a redirect since so many of my videos still link here. Instead, you can now find me over on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/pixelm…

New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/noWBnmfS5Go

@TheMightyAtomNL The only way I can ensure I have a social presence on the internet which doesn't take over my life is to restrict how many places I am in. Most of my friends have left Twitter and the new policy changes may run afoul of consumer protection laws in Canada. I HAVE to leave. :/

@Pixelmusement I'm not at all happy you're doing this

Heads up: I am officially going to cease posting on and checking Twitter right after the next Ancient DOS Games video goes live in a few hours. I am not deactivating my account, as I still have tons of videos pointing here, I'm simply not going to be active here anymore. :P

@TeamYouTube (Side Note: YouTube currently warns people following bsky.app links that the site might be harmful and encourages everyone NOT to go there... as if Twitter is somehow SAFER than Bluesky??? o_O)

Website is prepped for the Bluesky switchover on Saturday, ADG assets are updated for the next video, last thing to do is switch all of the social links on YouTube and Patreon which I'll do tomorrow. Also, replace "liberty" with "a social media platform" in this GIF. :P

Thanks to Ted Litchfield for reaching out and writing this @pcgamer article. I truly mean it about wanting to get a lot of the collection out of my hands and handed off to others, this whole ordeal has been eye opening in so many ways

@PlayQuestMaster "Life Unpreserver"

If someone puts a mine in a life preserver... What do you call it?

@EricVBailey Yes. The only advice I have to getting to that point though is to make sure you have friends and family around when you can and plenty of distractions to take your mind off of things when you need a break from reality.

If I may sincerepost a minute – Can things ever get better? I tend to enter Despair Mode easily when stuff sucks. It’s… very hard for me to see the light at the end of a tunnel. If you've ever made it to the other side of something, I'd like to hear it. Even just a 'yes.'

@zarawesome Good point. That could also be a factor into what's gone wrong with my account and may also delay getting a response to my support request. We'll see. :B

...and... I already ran into kind of a serious glitch with my new Bluesky account. Sent off a message to their support staff; will hopefully get it resolved nice and quick though it could also be specific to my domain registrar so I may have to resolve it through them instead. :|

Problems like this are why I try to give myself as much time as possible to make big changes, since things can and often DO go wrong. Worst case scenario, I just delay my switchover to Bluesky until the Saturday following but we'll see. :P

@PinoBatch @BushytailSkwirl Probably thinking too hard about it there. Bluesky and the AT Protocol itself are still very new and the current solution for images is likely the fastest they could implement which wouldn't allow bloated multi-MB images to break anything in the system's earlier state. :P

@BushytailSkwirl @Pixelmusement If I had to guess: There are probably more users of the platform who share photographs without knowing the difference between PNG and JPEG than users who are pixel artists.

@BushytailSkwirl Heck, even Twitter had a similar problem for ages and only got proper lossless image support in recent years. But yeah, I hate that I'm having to switch over now, but the weakening of access by blocked accounts and AI scraping has me too concerned to stay. :/

@BushytailSkwirl Given that PNGs can get far larger than JPEGs in terms of file sizes, my guess is either the protocol or Bluesky platform was designed to just compress everything down for now without checking anything; Fastest way to get it going until a better solution can be put in place. :P

@Kalyoshika Change is hard and the alternatives don't have all the same features yet. The changes just announced here though have crossed the line, so... ready or not, the ledge of the ship is ready for jumping off of... >_<

So this website steals your art to blend up into AI, the owner hurls tens of millions of dollars at Trump, the dumbest people on earth pay real money to show you their dumbest opinions and you're still posting here on the reg? What is wrong with you?

Also, part of the reason I was able to wait so long is because I have my own domain name I could use as my username over there! ;) I'm not officially switching over until Saturday but feel free to follow me over there ahead of time! :B bsky.app/profile/pixelm…

Starting the transition from here to Bluesky. I was able to find 49 of the 83 accounts I follow here, which isn't bad, though I noticed half of them weren't really being used... YET. The more Twitter devolves and disintegrates the more of those will come alive again. :P

Sometime this weekend I will be beginning my migration over to Bluesky. Once that's done I will cease all posting and checking of my account here. (Though because I have so many videos linking back here I at the very least have to keep the account alive, even if I don't use it.)

The situation here on Twitter is getting dire with new policy changes which are absolutely abysmal and more people than ever leaving. I've been waiting on one more feature to hit Bluesky but it's not there yet, but I'm starting to think I may not have a chance to wait for it. :|