The office drama version of enemies-to-lovers where they're co-workers who hate each other's guts but can't do anything about it because they depend on each other's work to not get fired is fun, but I feel like it would have an extra kick in a milieu where killing each other is still on the table.

The funniest thing in super comics is not, in fact, when an outgoing writer on a title decides to break their toys by killing off the lead, and the next writer has to figure out how to bring them back. (1/2)

The three essential blasphemies of contemporary gaming: 1. First-person shooters where you gun down angels 2. RPGs where you kill God at the end 3. Metroidvanias where you fight the Pope

The best things in life are good food, good company, and media that's honestly maybe a six out of ten in terms of execution, but, like, the IDEAS have potential.

You don't have to Respect Other People's Beliefs regardless of what they are, but in practice you do have to be okay with framing arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't share, because you're never going to live in a world where everyone everywhere has exactly the same moral precepts as you.

It's a shame "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is one of those parodies whose author clearly feels the source material is beneath them and thus doesn't put much thought into how they're sending it up because a Regency zombie apocalypse that properly Examines the Implications sounds like a fun time.

In thirteen years I have yet to successfully convince my cat not to pester me while I work, but I have managed to persuade her to let me use her as an armrest while I type, so at least she's productively in the way.

Some quick research suggests that only Scots English still uses "gat" as the simple past tense of "to get", with the form surviving in other English dialects only in the archaic "begat" (i.e., the simple past tense of the likewise archaic "to beget"), and I feel like we need to fix that.

It's always a little bit funny when folks expect me to be shocked by weird porn simply because I don't post any of it on main. You need to understand that I grew up on an Internet where Doug Winger was considered a respectable face of the fandom community.

Anime fans in the English-speaking world talk a lot of shit about improbably powerful student councils for folks whose own media conventions include "what if a specific minor sports league operated as the de facto local government" as a recurring trope.

It's fantastic how after all this commotion, the EU replaceable battery mandate ended up with an explicit exemption for devices which retain at least 80% capacity after 1000 charge cycles, so the only real effect for the average person is to extend the planned obsolescence cycle from 2 years to 3.

Elaborate SF/F worldbuilding as necessary context and structure for porn is great, but what's fantastic is when the worldbuilding is a PRODUCT of the porn. It clearly didn't need to be there, but at some point the author took a closer look at the porn and started asking "okay, what does this imply?"

My favourite thing is when some prick who's only familiar with a given trope via self-consciously wacky parodies of it is like "here's my idea for deconstructing [trope] by playing it 100% straight" and unwittingly reconstructs the exact conventional trope that was being parodied in the first place.

I enjoy when some joker who thinks performatively giving nerds a hard time will trick people into believing they are not also a huge nerd tries to hassle me about one of my posts being the longest unbroken sentence they've ever seen and it's not even the longest sentence I've written that day.

lying about what happens in Megamind does, in fact, happen in Megamind

One thing I've learned about Megamind from sixteen years of watching Megamind fans reply to every post which even tangentially concerns American superhero tropes with "this happens in Megamind" is that Megamind fans like to lie about what happens in Megamind.

Precision puzzle platformer where you switch back and forth between two characters to solve each screen, except the characters in question are those two guards from the Knights and Knaves puzzles, and you have to do the lying guard's portions of each screen with your controls reversed.

Daily affirmations: * What is this place? * What manner of creature are you? * What sorcery is this?

RE: the "Gamoverse" pilot, I can't get over how hilariously on-the-nose Malice and Mayhem are as villainous duo names. In legal jargon, "malice" is the intent to do harm, and "mayhem" is the act of doing harm. You don't need to ask which is the brains and which is the brawn because they're labelled.

I think a basic problem with online fandom spaces is that many of us seem sincerely to believe that people who enjoy things that we personally do not enjoy have something physically wrong with their brains.

You know, on some level I have to respect the Foglios' commitment to only resolving long-running plot threads if they can think of a way for solving the problem to actually make things worse.

I enjoy when video game mechanics fuck up in ways that offer insight into the particulars of their implementation. Like, my aerial controls just went screwy because somewhere below me there's a section of icy floor? Fascinating – let's see what other deranged implementation details I can puzzle out.

Malefic sorcerer who commands terrible powers of wrack and ruin and is also a pure support caster. All imperiously proclaiming their mastery over forces fearsome and foul as they give the fighter +2 to hit.

Randomly encountered family.

The thing about ignorance producing lack of discernment is it applies to everything, not just food. Sometimes a person's political awareness is so limited they genuinely CAN'T tell two positions apart; while this does not excuse them, you can spare your digestion by learning to recognise it. (1/2)

Over the last 5 years, there's been a big anti-trust lawsuit in Canada regarding price-fixing of packaged bread during the 20-year period spanning 2001–2021, eventually resulting in a settlement of $500 000 000. Today I received my share of that settlement: forty-nine dollars and eleven cents. Hm.

It's fun when media has one specific stereotype that's wildly out of sync with its milieu. It's like "yeah, we know a guy who's good with computers", then it cuts to a short, fat, asthmatic teenager with a calculator in his shirt pocket and the waistband of his khakis hiked halfway to his nipples.

At first blush, I'd put Bubsy 4D in the "good but not great" bin, but that rating needs to be understood in the broader context that, given what franchise it's part of, Bubsy 4D is in the bizarre position of simultaneously being a 7/10 nostalgia-bait redux and the best game in the series.

I love it when you can look an an artist's OCs and immediately know exactly which localised Japanese RPG about hitting dragons with sticks they used to design them.

The "Alabaster Dawn" beta has a QoL feature whereby NPCs who are leading you somewhere will try to stay ahead of you no matter how fast you're moving, except for plot reasons the player character can REALLY book it, so if you're impatient it looks like you're chasing them and they're running away.

Metroidvania where all upgrades are weapons, but all monsters are ghosts that are unaffected by weapons and can only be damaged to luring them into specific environmental hazards, so all those weapons are only useful for their secondary effects. You have to grind for ammunition for your air dash.

Pulling a reverse load-bearing boss and setting up a contingency spell triggered by my own death so that if the heroes kill me a cursèd citadel of iron and bone will spontaneously construct itself right in the middle of their stupid town.

It just occurred to me that Doug Jones and Andy Serkis have literally never appeared in the same film. I'm not sure why I expected they would have, but that actually kind of surprises me.

I have to admit sometimes I watch the fraudulent mobile game ads in their entirety just to see how incredibly fucking dumb the fake game mechanics they've made up this time are.

Okay, fiiiiine. We can do Brutalist Neo-Gothic for the next dungeon theme – on one condition: for every giant inscrutable concrete human face you add, I get to add a giant inscrutable concrete human ass.

In retrospect it's a good thing "The X-Files" debuted five years before the fraudulent Wakefield study dropped, because given how the show's early season are about addressing contemporary social issues, there 100% would have been an episode about how vaccines cause autism because of aliens.

Capybaras and anomalocarids are to 2026 Internet meme culture as llama and pandas are to 2006 Internet meme culture, which suggests that the names of popularly-memed-upon animals are getting longer. Imagine what the meme culture of 2046 will look like if the trend holds.

Historically, one of the most reliable sources of widespread banditry was rulers ramping up military recruitment for major wars, then cutting their soldiers loose afterwards without pay, leaving a bunch of heavily armed men with military experience floating around broke and homeless. (1/2)

If nothing else, you have to give the TADC crew credit because they're all very online and had to know a show about "what if a bunch of people who are all basically a bit exhausting to hang out with were forced to hang out at gunpoint" was a fandom discourse bomb waiting to happen and did it anyway.

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In fairness, cis male artists who constantly draw male characters getting magically gender-bent aren't ALWAYS in denial gender-wise. Sometimes they're in denial about being bisexual, and they're turning all the male characters they want to fuck into hot women to convince themselves it's not gay.

they're all trans I imagine

Y'all, what Google's doing with their forthcoming mandatory AI portal is not inexplicable. (1/3)

Between Alabaster Dawn, Shade Protocol, and other forthcoming titles, it feels like "pixel-art precision puzzle platformers starring red-haired women who can air dash" may be getting a friend in "pixel-art action puzzle platformers starring white-haired women who wield weapons larger than they are".

Today's aesthetic: lab-grown living weapon who's so fresh out of the tube she needs everyday concepts like television and bathtubs explained to her on a daily basis, yet inexplicably has better fashion sense than all of her human peers put together.

Folks out there acting like they're brave iconoclasts because their favourite version of Dungeons & Dragons is 3.5E.

One of the perils of giving penises to things that do not customarily have them in art and fiction is that folks keep taking particular instances out of context and trying to read special significance into them. Like, buddy, I'd give an abstract concept a cock if I could figure out how.

The sheer resistance in certain circles to the idea that most big-name D&D podcasts are at least partially scripted is perplexing to me because, like, look at the fucking production values.

I guess the sunk-cost argument for playing nothing but D&D rings false to me because, in my experience, most groups that hack D&D for non-sword-and-sorcery genres never reach a functional place. The GM is in permanent scrambling-to-make-just-in-time-fixes mode, and we just act like this is normal.

A peril of being widely read is every so often something in your brain will click like "holy shit, [artist A] and [seemingly unrelated artist B] are probably the same person", and you can never un-see it, but you can't SAY anything because they probably keep those identities separate for a reason.