A Lovely Harmless Monster

Archive

Select articles from the bear vault.

Apr 13, 2025: Linux Mint

Apr 12, 2025: I Hate The Person Linux Turns Me Into

Apr 09, 2025: Flow (2024) Review and Analysis

Mar 20, 2025: The Price of Eggs, the Value of Taste

Mar 18, 2025: Every Day Carry

Feb 28, 2025: How To Distim Your Doshes

Feb 27, 2025: How To Clean Your Glasses

Jun 11, 2022: The Last Time I Called Someone "sir"

May 01, 2022: Mobile Data Banditry

Audiovisual

I've been creating game commentary videos in the form of "Let's Play"s on youtube since 2007 and live streams since 2011. My channel name is Duke of the Bump. If this is a genre of entertainment that interests you, here are some highlights:

Matt & Mike Rank: Atari 2600 Games: Attempting to rank every game on the most historic game console. On hold.

Archipelago Live!: Streams of Archipelago multi-world randomizers, also with Mike. Taking a brief pause.

Dark Souls NG+: Solo streams of my New Game Plus experience, plus playing the DLC for the first time.

See my playlists for more.

Cats

Stories and photos about my cat, Sunny, as well as other cats I get to hang out with.

Mar 24, 2025: Sunny Finds the World Shelf

Mar 12, 2025: Sunny and the Kittens Update!

Mar 03, 2025: Sunny

Nov 27, 2021: Laundry Cat

Collections


Game Badges: A special online museum displaying gold badges for video games I've completed. Click a badge to learn more about the game!
Ranking of Seltzers: My collection of... uh... beverage opinions.
Bandcamp: A portion of my music collection.
Letterboxd: Find out what three movies I watch in each year.

Gallery

For cat photos, see Cats.

For the Game Badge gallery, see Game Badges.

What goes here? Well, surely something must, I'll figure it out.

Games


Quest For The Radiant Cake! Starring Slime and Goo: Two jellies. Dozens of puzzles. One elusive cake. 🧭
Office Quest: The fate of an important document is in your hands. Can you earn a big bonus? 🧭📱
The Quest for One: Become the greatest common divisor, reap the greatest dividends. 🧭
Golf Defense Force: A tense single-screen arcade golf-'em up. 🪟
Test Your Atari Acumen: How's your Atari savvy? Match wits with the experts 🧭📱
Cookie Clicker Express: Simple game about baking cookies 🙂 🧭📱
Moon Miner 2085: Will you be a moon tycoon... or a moon buffoon? 🧭📱
Slime Resgoo Towlr: Contribution to a barely-extant micro-genre. Radiant Cake prototype. 🧭
Conclusive Chess: The ultimate chess AI. Unbeatable. 🧭📱
Toll-Free Detective: A game you can play with a telephone from 1953. ☎️

Misc.

Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.

🌵 Small, my pet Cactus (powered by gifypet)

🌴 take-a-break.html: Web recreation of a classic Strong Bad screensaver, with various options.

📚️ Everything: See a list of every page on the site, for some reason.

Mods


Hoofin' It: Intense action mod for Doom (1993) in which every enemy is a cyberdemon, and you've got an antimatter rifle that can kill them in one shot. Requires GZdoom.
Skull Timbrels: Soundtrack replacement mod for Doom featuring the music of experimental drone noise rock band Bull of Heaven.
Sledgehog: Soundtrack replacement mod for Doom featuring selected tracks from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Henry The Tippler: Chess mod introducing two exciting new pieces to spice up your game, the Tippler and the Jester. The rules came to me in a dream. CW: alcohol
Fact-Free Ducks: I modded a book to make it readable.

Programs


whirltube: Simple bash text user interface for yt-dlp. 🐧
Royal Game of Ur Dice Roller: If you don't have 4d2 handy, you can place your phone on thetable between you and your opponent and use this application. 📱
Generators: Generate a random game title, a random demon name or a random named color. 🧭
Mr. Teal: Tiny program for reading comics on the computer. Features a fast keyboard-based TUI for reading and writing annotations. 🪟
ohnotarizer: Unofficial fan comic creation toybox for "Webcomic Name". 🪟
DolltrackerWB: Program for tracking the number of dolls you've collected in "Wonder Boy" for the Sega Master System. 🪟

Stories


Tessa Tomble and the Sunken Dowry: Tessa Tomble, sophomore witch and anti-school activist, hatches a scheme.
The Horse Armor Retraction: A story about how come everything's so terrible?
Always Bet on Dwayne: Somewhat heartwarming extended shitpost.