Christmas Claws 🎄💅

I’ve entered my nautical nonsense era

Merry Christmas

Here are my most played games of 2025. I was going to write a review/recommendation of each, but I actually have so much to say about all of them it feels better to just drop the list. This year was unbelievably stacked. 5. Ball x Pit 4. Expedition 33 3. Blue Prince 2. Hades II 1. The Bazaar

I’m making a Christmas list based entirely on songs. So far what I want for Christmas is: - You - My two front teeth - A hippopotamus - Santa (sexually)

We had the chance to interview Magic Senior Game Designer Chris Mooney about their time working on the #AvatarTheLastAirbender Magic collab! #MagicTheGathering #Magic #MTG #ATLA #MTGTLA #interview #EDHREC @chriskmooney.bsky.social @edhrec.com edhrec.com/articles/an-...

More thoughts on Wake Up Dead Man All 3 films are great at using mystery as a vehicle for communicating their message. The first two I think are more about the vehicle itself (twists on the mystery format), while the third is more about the message (explorations of faith and religion).

Ive had a lingering cough for a week and it’s really taken its toll on my throat. My voice is so faint it sounds like Rose at the end of titanic in the water. It sounds like an ancient radio picking up a weak signal. It sounds like a cartoon character who’s gag is they’re so shy you can’t hear them.

Wake Up Dead Man was good, I enjoyed it, but definitely didn’t hit the same as the first two. Good writing and cool mystery as always, but didn’t have the same signature “big pivot” which I found more underwhelming than fresh.

Alright here’s my boomer comic retweet of the month

At some point recently YouTube broke something on my browser and now in order to change the playback speed of a video I have to refresh the page. Every time. It makes me think about what other things in my life broke and are now an everyday "extra click" for me that I've forgotten.

I love how if you pick Aphrodite over Hephaestus he's like "Bro I totally get it"

Clair Obscur deserves the sweep, but Blue Prince getting snubbed will be sad nonetheless.

While I was sick I finished up Umbrella Academy. I found the character writing and performances top notch throughout, but wow does the plot kinda go off where ever it wants.

Tonight Maggie told me "Cheese with jam is broken" (good) which is the first instance of her showing symptoms of gamer brain rot.

Being sick sucks and being sick while you live alone sucks especially.

Call your grandma

My body is a machine that turns “you saying a sentence with the slightest passing resemblance of a song lyric” into “me interrupting the conversation to sing that line of the song”

This is U N B E L I E V A B L E. #Kilauea

I like Magic: The Gathering and being nonbinary

Call your grandma

Stranger Things really should have just written a bigger time jump rather than forcing this poor girl to act like she's in elementary school.

The airbending Doc Aurlock combo deck should be called Air Lock

It’s Christmas season, which means more importantly it’s Starkid’s VHS Christmas Carol season.

I can't believe I didn't realize who Dora was. It's like, duh

I have killed Chronos several times with every weapon. I have killed Prometheus zero times with any weapon.

Zootopia 2 was great I rate it a 1/1 for “number of new Shakira songs each zootopia movie can afford”

On my flight tonight I listened to someone’s fan rendition of Wicked as played by the Muppets. Not only did they make many inspired casting decisions, but they have a dead ringer impression of every single muppet… EXCEPT Kermit. Which is somehow so much worse than if they were bad at all of them.

Listening to music at 2x speed would be a cursed thing to do. Instead you have to find other methods of compression that preserve some artistry. As a Neil Cicierega fan, I can listen to a minimum of two songs at a time, usually more. In this essay I will

My second article about the design of #MTGxATLA went up today! magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

I liked Wicked 2 less than Wicked 1, but only about as much as I like Wicked act 2 less than Wicked act 1, so par for the course I guess.

“Your conception of gender is like the Bohr model atom where genders exist and move between fixed energy level shells, whereas Chris’s conception of gender is like the quantum model atom where genders probabilistically cluster into orbital clouds” @turn3coco.bsky.social, 2025

Ok yall should I get a Switch 2 or a Steam deck? Here’s where I’d put a poll… IF I HAD ONE

If you’re at PAXU, you can find me in the Magic events area tonight and also the next two days at 10:30am for mini masters!

Finally made it! #PAXunplugged

Tonight I learned (thankfully) that my flight tomorrow is at 9pm, not 9am as I originally thought. Can we all please switch to a 24 hour clock? The fact that my phone is set to military time is the only reason I even realized my mistake.

Today my first article about the design of #MTGxATLA dropped. Hope you all enjoy! #wotcstaff magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

My third of four November trips will be at pax unplugged. Gonna be trying to play some Avatar. Who will be there?

Yesterday I played bass drum in my college’s halftime show. Today I’m headed to an LGS to play prerelease. Some things never change.

FTFO ✌️🔴✌️🟡✌️

Naturally my one planned weekend of standing outside in LA coincides with a rare rain storm. In LA.

Avatar: the Last Airbender

TIL they changed the cult to reroll all your items lol. At least the cult set me up with a pretty easy win after that.

They really need to fix the bug where I own a dozen hair clips but can locate zero of them when needed.

Been having a lot of fun (and medium success) with the new Bazaar character Jules. I think the randomized placement of your stoves/coolers does a lot to make runs interesting, especially since the typal component of her pool is so flat compared to other characters. Feast is great.

Did you miss Fridays Avatar: The Last Airbender PPR? No worries, the VOD is now available for your viewing pleasure. Big thanks again to @chriskmooney.bsky.social for coming up and sharing the set with us. youtu.be/8jw1BYuyDGY

Going live!

Absolutely nothing

A war divides their people