Today's indie game: Drop Duchy (store.steampowered.com/app/2525310/...). I know what you're thinking: you wish there were a Slay-the-Spire-like where the core mechanic is Tetris crosseed with Carcassonne. Okay, no you weren't, but that's what this is and it works better than it has any reason to.

Memory is a weird thing. I could not tell you when any of my grandparents were born but I can tell you how much Galactus can bench press and that my college roommate's go-to pizza order was three slices of pepperoni, sausage, and shrimp.

"Let’s be clear: anyone flying right now is rolling the dice with a -5 penalty to all rolls."

All joking aside, the Bond writers are not having trouble figuring out how to bring him back from the dead. That's easy. What they are having trouble with is figuring out how to up the stakes once you have actually detonated a nuclear bomb.

Repost with an iconic fictional band

Have these writers not seen season 2, episode 1 of SLEDGE HAMMER youtu.be/729C3zsKbOc?...

You know, I do not miss a lot of the extreme comic book heroes of the 1990s but I do miss the Jared Stevens version of Fate. I feel like there's room to bring him back as a distinct character. And throw in Scare Tactics too. Just make Arnie Q-pilled so it's more current.

This morning there was a big breakdown that interruped train service going into town, so I thought I would pop over to the Pittsburgh Transit Authority website (rideprt.org) to see if it had been cleared. Try to go there now and see if you can find info about service disruptions.

Katamari Damacy has such a simple and addictive gameplay loop and it really says something about Namco that they keep finding new and innovative ways to interrupt that loop and make that game less fun.

By now everyone on the Internet knows that most adaptations of Dracula leave out the cowboy, but did you that most adaptations of Frankenstein leave out Knuckles O'Toole, the regrettable Irish stereotype who serves as the monster's sidekick and provides what passes for comic relief?

What is his end goal here? If he takes Tesla private his net worth would plummet and there'd be no stock left for him to borrow against. Even if he took all the profits it would be a huge pay cut. He's just upset that people dare to question him and is having a hissy fit, because he is a big baby.

I hope he's OK. But when our politicians are fainting, randomly stopping to stare off into space, and babbling incoherently maybe it's time to start looking for younger leaders. People with ideas and energy and drive. not just the guy who's been in the back quietly waiting his turn.

People really do not understand how much money billionaires have.

Yes on retention!

Can we get a 6-part prestige drama about Curtis Sliwa's career as a professional eater. Dude came in 3rd in Nathan's Famous Hotdog Eating, holds a record for most pickles, was DQed from a matzah ball eating contest for illegal ball handling, and the mob kicked him from a meatball contest.

I don't know why every phone app has suddenly decided it needs a contextual drawer that slides up from the bottom of the screen which is impossible to dismiss, but I hate it.

Look, it's simple, the "War on Drugs" is a rhetorical turn of phrase intended to prome the political pump. not a real war. Drug smuggling is not a crime punishable by death, and even if it were, not without a trial. Even if drug smugglers were enemy combatants they could not be executed at a whim.

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Veggie! reggiejackson.com/product/case...

Really confused by these Mike Embrescia ads that proudly mention his endorsements without actually saying who has endorsed him, or even mentioning what party he represents.

You know, we don't see where the Thrillionaires wind up after they go cycling through that portal. I am worried that it's not a portal and just a fancy looking disintegrator. (Probably a mercy, now that FanDuel has their bank account info.)

What's strange to me is that no one in the media is pointing out that the shutdown is the inevitable result of the Republican refusal to negotiate in good faith. Every time the Dems have struck a deal the Repubs have found a way to weasel out of it -- recissions, reversals, delayed votes, etc.

Re-reading some old MAN-WOLF comics and it is astounding how much they depend on John Jameson -- famous astronaut and last man to walk on the moon -- to forget basic facts like "the moon comes out every night" so he transforms unexpectedly.

I feel like this latest episode of @taskmaster.tv should have come with a trigger warning...

As I never tire of pointing out, the late great Myron Cope pointed out all of these issues in the last piece he ever wrote, *18 years ago*. An article that had to be published in an alternative weekly because no other media outlet in Pittsburgh had the cojones. www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/calli...

Why are there still Pirates fans? defector.com/why-are-ther...

The Leverage cast seeing the Louvre heist and collectively posting, "Not it," is the whimsy we deserve.

Look, I'm willing to watch your damn ads because they fund the stuff I like, just stop trying to make me interact with them. I legitimarely do not care which of these three C-List celebrities is going to try and fail to sell me boner pills.

One thing I appreciate about Borderlands 4 is that the focus on legacy characters has been dialed back -- they're still there, of course, but you no longer feel like glorified extras in their story.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Love to see a Little Free Library whose contents consist of 1) hardbound volumes of a series about puberty for Christian teens; 2) extremely well-thumbed copies of mid-list beach reads from the 1980s; and 3) two random volumes of the US Code Annotated.

Nice selection of costumes here at No Kings in Mt. Lebo -- no frogs but a few sharks, a unicorn, a Statue of Liberty, and Donkey from Shrek. Not sure what message the little girl dressed as Carmen Sandiego is trying to send but it's possible she just came from a local trunk-or-treat.

Someone who stopped me on the street: "What protest are these little flags for?" Um, lady, those mark buried utilities, they're not political, they're only bright pink for easy visibility.

Look, I know stirring protest music is hard to find, but most everyone in "Do You Hear The People Sing" winds up dying in the gutter with their political goals unmet. Just sayin'.

Republicans in Congress have capitulated to trump. The Supreme Court republicans have capitulated to trump. We the People have NOT capitulated. We the People will stand up tomorrow to declare “No Kings”. We the People stood up in 1776 and we will again.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

One thing that drives me nuts is when the media continues to use government job titles as courtesy titles. If you no longer have the job, you are no longer President, Secretary, Senator, Speaker, Director, General or Justice unless the reference is a historical one. It all reeks of aristocracy.

I keep mixing up Stefan Fatsis and Stephan Pastis and I can't be the only one.

Word of the Day: "ipsedixitism" or "the assertion that something is fact just because a single person says so." (From @susiedent.com 's GUILTY BY DEFINITION, a mystery set ar T an ersatz OED.)

Rewatching THE BLACK HOLE (1979) and while I know Maximilian Schell is just being Maximilian Schell, boy oh boy does he feel like Jemaine Clement doing a bad accent.

Sounds like it's international podcast day, so go listen to my podcast or whatever. order-of-the-jackalope.com

Dear news organizations: a peace plan proposed by an outside party that has only been negotiating with one side of the conflict is actually an "ultimatum."

Where's the Dave Matthews Band tour bus when you need it?

They were not kidding when they said these were small.

At this point Green Lantern comics are impossible to follow if you have not spent twenty years reading Green Lantern comics. I just tried a recent trade from the library and literally none of the characters were identified nor were the stakes explained. It just assumed you already knew.

I love seeing David Giuntoli on my TV screen again, but the smug super-smart master criminal who loves to play mind games is a trope that needs to go away for a long time. Unless we're talking about the Riddler, he can stay.

I think this rapidly gentrifying neighborhood has a Vault in it somewhere but nothing is showing up on my minimap.

Some of these Borderlands 4 bosses get weird.

When you're right, you're right.

Thanks to @jennthorson.bsky.social for providing the voice of Marian Windish in this episode!

Was not expecting to see Jack Wilson play short for a few innings so that was a pleasant surprise.