Someone needs to make a "Interview with the Vampire" style movie about a Frankenstein's monster surviving from the 19th century into the modern age and it ending with the monster trying to finally destroy itself by being totally vaporized in an atomic blast.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

I didn't leave Twitter because I wanted a liberal monoculture. I left because Twitter was actively being made into a worse experience AND it was full of Nazis. I guess "no Nazis" = liberal monoculture these days.

Even the original NES Mario effectively had a tutorial. It was more immersive than direct, but those opening seconds of 1-1 teach you everything you need to know about how the game basics work.

Melinda Gates remains the only one of these people with anything close to a moral bone in her body.

I'm reminded that basically every major game release was accompanied by an official strategy guide. I wish I still had my one for Morrowind. Square basically killed the industry though with their FFIX guide requiring an online account. That's about when everyone switched to GameFaqs.

Why is it that whenever I drive in a dream I invariably bounce off everything and can't go in a straight line?

Upon further reflection, my biggest complaint with Del Toro's Frankenstein is that the movie is actually a comedy but is convinced it's a romance.

The critical reviews of the 1910 adaptation of Frankenstein (first filmed) are amazing. The pearl clutching is so incredibly intense: "Death scenes and executions are interesting historical reading, when well described, but a portrayal of these things on a living screen may well be dispensed with."

Now I really want to see a gnostic Frankenstein that really explores the concepts of matter, spirit and knowledge and the separation from heaven that man experiences under the provenance of the demiurge, with Frankenstein of course in that role.

Watching Frankenstein. I have to admit this version is visually interesting but overall I think it kind of stupid.

My hottest take on the fantasy genre is that the vast majority of fantasy doesn't include magic: it's just alternative physics.

When did Snowboard Kids become an Olympic sport and why am I just finding out about this?

Well if I'm going to be the only guy in the karaoke bar I'm sure as hell not NOT going to sing Knightrider of Doom. #Bangkok

Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy

"But a YouTuber I like said Starfleet Academy was bad..." Then unfollow that YouTuber.

walked into the room just as an olympics announcer on the tv shouted “germany’s done it again!” and i was unprepared for how chilling that phrase is out of context

My first job this morning is to scold all of the students for doing a sieg heil during a school photoshoot. Sigh.

Was that episode of SFA better than all of Season 3 of SNW? Yes. Yes it was. #StarTrek #S1E6

I cannot think of a worse thing to do to a child now that child socializing is finally getting back to normal after COVID lockdowns.

Was that episode of SFA better than all of Season 3 of SNW? Yes. Yes it was. #StarTrek #S1E6

It's a small resistance, but I've scrubbed references to me being from the United States from the school website and have replaced them with Minneapolis.

How many of these fuckers fist pump to O Fortuna, listen to Rammstein, or have a deep heavy metal collection with cookie monster vocals?

A new type of refugee but it's just expat kids with American parents who have a legal agreement to transfer custody rights to Canadian friends if both American parents die.

Fuck New England

There's a certain irony to the fact that my kid growing up in Bangkok is more likely to understand the mall in 1988 San Dimas without additional context than a kid his age growing up in America. "What's a mall?" #BillAndTed #ExcellentAdventure

It's official: Will Stancil is the Sonic games development cycle from 1995 to 2010.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I have had the following conversation with people in Thailand more times than I can count. HIV is a "solved" problem in that we: 1) Can prevent vertical transmission 2) Can prevent horizontal transmission 3) Can put infected individuals into what is effectively a non-transmissible remission

A lot of anime cosplay and wigs on the BTS today. Must be some kind of convention downtown? #bkk

The worst part about the streaming world is that I am certain at some point I owned Fallout (1) on GOG or Steam or something, but clearly I was using an older email address or account name and it's no longer associated with my Steam or GOG accounts, so that means I will not be replaying Fallout.

The Malevolent Seven. #wargaming #skeletons #DeadMansHand

9yo: But is Sabrina Carpenter a real person? #muppets

Me: Did you like it? 9yo: It didn't make any sense. Me: But did you like it? 9yo: YEAH! #Muppets

9yo: I've seen this lizard before I think. Me: That's Kermit the Frog. #muppets

Thought this for sure would have happened in the Final Destination franchise first.

2026 is great because I can write "the meat shoes were real this whole time, they just weren't sold by Hulk Hogan" and it is a factual statement and I'm not actually have a stroke.

9yo has requested another comedy "like The Three Amigos" for family movie night this weekend, so I am open to suggestions. He's already seen "the one with the whales" so that's out.

The contrast between how Picard season 3 handles DS9 and Starfleet Academy handles DS9 shows which set of writers actually watched Star Trek and understood it and it wasn't the Picard writers.

Did not expect everyone in the room to catch a House That Jack Built reference. Very odd as I never expected that to be a "mainstream" film. Or maybe I just hangout with weirdos.

Me: You read so many books but you never remember how punctuation works. 9yo: I'm just watching the movie. *pause* *wink* That's a metaphor.

This skeleton dresses in style. #Wargaming

The Elves failed to kill the Necromancer and so the Undead were able to claim a victory. #Wargaming #DragonRampant

Another skeleton for the gang. #wargaming

Dragon Rampant today. Couldn't help but set up this photo before the game. The Undead have lured out the wrath of the elves. #Wargaming #DragonRampant

Tonight we're watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Played the first mission of Scouring Sands with the 9yo. We scanned the enemy, but they were able to withdraw. #Battletech #wargaming

Took the 9yo to get a haircut and the barber asked if he wanted a haircut like mine. Kid went wide-eyed and emphatically said no.

Episode 4 was much, much better than Episode 3. I couldn't figure out why it needed to be more than 40 minutes at first, but the last act was well worth the runtime. I would have edited out some of the reused flashback footage though. I just saw it literally minutes ago. #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

Someone needs to convince Atlus to make a Starfleet Academy game.