This Poirot novel is taking a real turn

“Special forces kidnap a foreign head of state” is literally the opening scene of Air Force One and I will believe until the day I die that wanting to do a cool thing from a movie was a significant factor in the decision-making process

Poirot thoughts so far 1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Quite good for a first novel! The plot is clever and Poirot is one of literature’s premier Weird Little Guys 2. The Murder on the Links: A little too reliant on sheer coincidence, but it does cement narrator Hastings as a hilarious dunce

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Been reading the Poirot novels while laid up with the flu and one thing I think the Kenneth Branagh movies fail to capture is what a prissy little bitch he is. This dude is talking shit 24/7

Reading old novels can be so rewarding

Can I say something without anyone getting mad at me

Yo, sic transit gloria mundi, bro

Y’all ever see a movie so good you’re forced to immediately go to sleep

This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?

I've spent the last three weeks wrestling with Wake Up Dead Man. Here are some of my thoughts—I have many more. I am wildly grateful to talk about art that deals seriously with the world we've created, and somehow still holds on to hope. reactormag.com/entirely-too...

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Down on my knees, hands outstretched to heaven, moved by the Holy Spirit as my friends tell me about incredibly stupid plot developments in bad webcomics

Shout out to O Come All Ye Faithful for being the only popular Christmas carol that explicitly rejects the Arian heresy

My mom: I would never have done Elf on the Shelf if it was a thing when you were younger Me: Because it’s too much work or because you oppose the surveillance state?

I couldn’t be less interested in any year-end review from a service I use. I don’t want my terrible little habits and freak behavior to be shown to me! Let me find my bliss in ignorance!!!

My players every new campaign: >looking for a new villain >ask your DM if this one is Sylvanas Windrunner again >he doesn’t understand >pull out illustrated diagram showing all his previous villains were Sylvanas >he laughs and says “it’s a good villain, guys” >start the campaign >it’s Sylvanas

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

If Dario Argento is made a Cardinal I will become Catholic again

They really stuck the landing on this one.

so many good pictures out there

Bluesky rn

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

NEW YORK CITY BABY, GREATEST CITY ON EARTH

piloswine for @cdiggins.bsky.social ! fun shaped guy

It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad.

escavalier for @cdiggins.bsky.social ! bridget can have a little a pen tool. as a treat

I don’t think any comic has ever been better than Swan Boy at small text in newspapers and other documents. Just consistently the best tiny paragraphs in the biz

I have voted, hopefully for the last time in my life, to make Cuomo eat a big bug

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Let the body keep the score Let the body keep the score Let the body keep the score Let the body keep the...SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE

I don’t like to brag very much, and I certainly don’t talk about my podcast ever, but I do think “Confederate Jiminy Cricket has strong opinions about Giuseppe Garibaldi” from our Pinocchio remake episode is the funniest idea I’ve ever had

The struggle is real

me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel? my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

I’ve never watched The Office and at this point I likely never will

Werner Herzog voice: “I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

My reward for beating Silksong fast is that I get to play Hades 2 now

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

People who say the compass is a mandatory charm in Hollow Knight/Silksong are weak and can’t read a map

Apparently this is false, the article that cites this information was translated from a Korean article that doesn’t mention ChatGPT at all. The song was also written 8 years ago. I think Sherwin Wu just lied to try and drum up excitement using a popular thing

Well, I beat Silksong after doing absolutely everything* in the game. I backed Hollow Knight on Kickstarter because I thought it looked so cool. It's genuinely one of my favorite games of all time. I might like Silksong even more