r/highonlifegame

Mar 10, 2026

Hi again!

500-WORD UPDATE ON MY LIFE

I spent the last two years of my life making a video game about talking guns. When I interviewed for the job and learned the premise, my initial reaction was “FML, I will never escape these pee-pee poo-poo boy humor projects.” Basically the whole time I’ve been in the work force, penis pranks and queef jokes have paid my rent; every entertainment job on my resume could be described as “diarrhea forward.” I was afraid High On Life 2 would be more of the same, and while there is a fart joke within the first few minutes, the talking gun thing ended up being more attuned to my gay guy sensibilities than I anticipated. For one thing, the guns are cute.

For another, this one is voiced by Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe.

High on Life 2 guns: Full list of weapons and how to unlock them all | Radio Times

Ultimately, the talking guns are my girls. I love them and I love the game, which you can now play on most platforms. Maybe there’s a lot of boy humor in it, but gay guys are boys, too, so I’m a fan.

In High On Life 2, you and a rag-tag arsenal of gun-shaped aliens have to stop an evil pharmaceutical company from turning humans into a pill called Humanzapro. If assassinating a healthcare CEO sounds familiar, just know that this idea was in development long before Luigi Mangione did his thing. I actually can’t believe nobody’s made that comparison yet, at least not that I’ve seen on the High On Life subreddit. Yes, I’ve been making the amateur mistake of reading Reddit reviews of the game. I’m basically asking to get my feelings hurt, but for every ten negative comments, there’s a post I actually want to see, like this video I found of someone killing one of the NPCs I voiced.

The one Reddit comment that really got under my skin — more so than explicit insults or diatribes about how the first game was better — was this: “The game developers and their families will love to play this.” What an elegant dig! No venom, no long list of critiques, just the simple suggestion that the only people who’ll enjoy the game are people with a personal connection to it. I guess the good news for anyone reading this is that you fall into that camp, so this is the game for you!

Here’s a side content bit I wrote:

I’m happy with most of my work that made it into the game, but there’s one thing I’m ashamed of: my performance as Angry Mob Peasant 1. My British accent is bloody rubbish.

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I also have a major regret from our voiceover sessions. Why didn’t I think to screen record the half hour of Zoom technical difficulties we had during our record with John Waters? People would pay good money to watch that.

Let me know if you play the game. :) But only if you like it. If you really want to say something nasty about it to me, just drop it on the subreddit — I’ll probably still be indignantly poking around there.

TWO PHOTOS AND ONE SCREENSHOT

VANITY PLATE ROUND-UP

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Spotted by Sam:

A REALLY GOOD IDEA

There should be an iMessage setting where you can turn off notifications for text reacts!

DID I EARN THAT BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE?

Backpacking: No. We were much more of a car camping troop, so I can only recall one specific backpacking trip: Appalachian Trail, 2006ish, my dad made a rare chaperone appearance and lost a toenail.

Model Design and Building: No. Nothing more irritating in Cub Scouts than when the Pinewood Derby rolled around each year and the winning cars happened to belong to kids whose dads were carpenters or engineers or whatever. My dad was just missing a toenail.

Citizenship in the World: Yes. Did you know they call neckerchief slides “woggles” in the UK? Kinda fun, innit? (This merit badge did not help me prepare for my role is Angry Mob Peasant 1.)

A RECENT NOTE ON MY PHONE WITHOUT CONTEXT