My op-ed piece would be that the idea of a "perfect time" is misleading, especially for coming out. There's never a perfect time. That's not a real thing. You might fuck your life up a little or a lot. Waiting for a perfect time is wasted hours of incredibly meaningful, potentially ruinous beauty

So like, paper is way less forgiving when you draw subtractively. Going back in with white on sketch paper is uhhh…messy. I kinda got lost on this one, really just trying shit out with the pens.

My favorite part of The Backrooms (2026) is the kid sitting directly behind me who said “what the FUCK? What is going on?” At the end of basically every scene in the Backrooms.

Game of The Week 21 for 2026 is: Everything is Crab A solid top-down roguelike about evolving into the ultimate species (likely crab.) Eat stuff, evolve new abilities and parts, try to outpace the other evolving species. It's silly, cute, and really fun seeing your little guy change.

Inside of me are two wolves. One wants to keep playing Crimson Desert until I’ve found every outfit and sword and stupid side story, and the other wants to play silly indie games about becoming a crab, or whatever.

“I tried making animation the old fashion way, and to my complete surprise, once I abandoned my standards and just waved AI at the investors they greenlit everything no questions asked.” What a cool time to be alive! Studios don’t care about quality, they care about keepin that bubble from popping.

Game of The Week 20 for 2026 is: Motorslice This is like, a game I have tried devving in my free time. It's PS2core, Prince of Persia meets Shadow Of The Colossus. It plays like a 2003 game - in good and bad ways. Warning: it's weirdly horny for some reason. Maybe skip the slack-offs. still fun.

Squirrels keep trying to get seeds from our bird feeder and often sit their whole ass in the birdbath while munching away, and every time I look outside and see them all I can think is “that KID is BACK on the ESCALATOR!” 90s brain rot.

We got rich old white men saying paying $28 for lunch is stupid when you make $70k and rich old white lawmakers saying they can’t possibly survive on $175k a year without insider trading and honestly they’re too far gone the wealth has rotted their brains and the only option left is to eat the rich

Game of the Week 19 for 2026 is: Escape Simulator 2 My partner and I have been playing this in the evenings and it’s been fun. Great theming, solid puzzle design, good escape room loops. If you like collaborative puzzle solving, this is a good game for a night in.

I got a white pen so I can add detail back in

More sketches as I figure out how I wanna draw this time around

Game of the Week 18 for 2026 is: Flock Around It’s a silly bird watching co-op game where you and some pals can get excited about birds. That’s it! The dev made all the bird sounds himself! You just look at em and take photos and yell at your friends to come quick, there’s a horned grebe!

Drawing while waiting for unreal is way more fun in my downtime

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it would destroy MAGA parents' mind to learn that most of the artists who work on the animated movies they demand not have "woke" content are probably woke themselves, heck a lot of career animation folks are queer none of them understand what art is and who makes it, only content and entertainment

Anyway, I think ultimately CSM is about making art. Part 1 was about leaving a job that is killing you to pursue something you’ve given your whole heart to, and the conflicts between what you want and what the person who controls access to your work wants.

Honestly I love that the ending to chainsaw man was so logical in the face of how illogical the whole story felt. Like, unfocused and terrible for the last 60 chapters, but, spoilers…

Games I’ve played this week but not enough to consider them GoTW material, but you should check out: Vampire Crawlers - what if survivors was a deck builder? Berry Bury Berry - idle horror about filling a hole with fruit REPLACED - cyberpunk narrative side scroller in nuclear powered 80s America.

Game of the Week 17 for 2026 is: Revolution Idle It’s been a slow week for gaming due to life circumstances, and this is the game I run in the background at work and poke at when I’m waiting for UE5 to load or process. It’s gotten more robust as I get deeper into progression? Deceptively deep game.

Game of The Week 16 for 2026 is: Windrose I’ve been playing survival crafting games since 2020, chasing the rush of Valheim and never really reaching that high, but… Windrose might reach it. It hasn’t yet, but there’s a lot of promise, and fun theming. Pirate base builder with robust ship systems.

I’m starting to suspect that actually House of Leaves might just be a bad book with cool formatting.

This the real, actual, first result that comes up when I filter doordash for “healthy” This country is a fucking joke

Finally reading House of Leaves and like, it’s fine, but I’m wondering if this is a “the Beatles are overrated” situation where like, so much has been built on the back of this piece that’s it’s now a load bearing element of the zeitgeist, unrecognizable from everything that has benefited from it

Yesterday I got lunch with a friend who’s been out of games since 2022, just staying at home with his daughter, hanging out with his retiring generation of game folks and holy shit. He looks so relaxed. Nothing tired or worn about his face. Just truly, deeply, thriving.

Game of The Week 15 for 2026 is: Timber Rush I’m traveling this week, and this one is great on a Steam deck in 5-15 minute bursts. Played it on the plane, play it when I get to the hotel, nice lil unwind game about chopping a big tree down and filling out a tech tree. Like a digital can of beer.

Stopped at one of my old favorite parks in north Seattle today and found these guys had taken over one of the piers at a local yacht yard. Didn’t get a video of it, but minutes later, thunder broke over the ocean and all of them flipped out, barking and diving into the water.

“This is the worms’ hour.” - my Lyft driver, on how early it was as we got in the car this morning.

I worked at Netflix in 2022 - it wasn’t great. Amazing pay, but… One perk was whitelisting my account. I could set the region of each profile on my Netflix, so I had US, UK, Japan, etc, content. When I left, my account was still whitelisted. Today, they all went back to default. Bye, Netflix!

None of my friends live close enough to visit my apartment so I want you all to know there’s an antique brass crab ashtray offering you a comb in the bathroom.

Democrats don’t want progress or improvement, they want to maintain the status quo. Progress comes from angry, violent, far left people and a public that pushes the narrative that progressive ideals are normal. Democrats won’t make change, they’ll just make peace.

Game of The Week 14 for 2026 is: Raccoin This game has a power, where i say "i will play a small Raccoin game" then suddenly its been hours. The Balatro inspiration shows, but its a little more... Vampire Survivors? You push, you lean into a strat, you score, you wonder if your time was well spent.

I live in a community with a guide dog training institute near the center of town, and it must be finals week because this morning I walked past someone wearing a full sleeping-mask blindfold just taking a dog for a stroll.

Game of The Week 13 for 2026 is: Artisan of Glimith A really fun and satisfyingly frustrating puzzle game about making stained glass windows. The puzzles feel very inspired by The Witness, so it’s almost like getting a sequel to a great puzzle game without having to put up with Jon Blow. Fantastic!

What are they up to?

It’s the “develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information” for me. This is the shittiest apocalypse, now sped up by technology that makes people unable to think for themselves OR challenge what is truth. And billionaires control what it can say. Cool.

Whoever decided to just play weird indie rap from the late 90s last night at Frogtown is my Angelino Of The Week. Thanks for reminding me about Dr Octagon and Deltron 3030 and Handsome Boy Modeling School and People Under The Stairs… 1997 was such a good year for music.

Game of The Week 12 for 2026 is: Crimson Desert I'd like to highlight the wacky indie games I play with this platform as often as I can, but this is literally the only game I've played all week. It might be the only one for 4 weeks. It has its grip on me and I must explore the ends of this earth.

why learn cursive to build character when you can learn to hand-letter comics or posters? why limit yourself to outdated and boring systems of improving your handwriting? why stop there? why not learn how to mimic the graffiti styles of 20 different cities so you can make graffiti assets for games?

So I purchased a book on “the physical problems of marriage” at an estate sale as a bit. It was written in 1926, and it calls itself an un-erotic guide to sexual stimulation. Folks… it’s gold. Cover to cover instructions on every sex act you can think of in the most scientific, least sexy terms.

So I’m enjoying Crimson Desert. I have some gripes about it, but it’s genuinely fun to run around, dig for secret areas, throw bandits off cliffs, and find funny hats. However, I know they used AI in development and it’s giving me mixed feelings, which I’m going to elaborate on…

ADHD confirmed! Video unrelated, I just happened to have this come in the mail today.

So neurotypicals are bouncing off crimson desert because you have to hold one button to make eye contact then another to start the conversation but also not accidentally press the button that ties hers a different social act? Hm. Sounds like a skill issue.

every time its unseasonably hot we should draw & quarter an oil exec

Feral choice from Crimson Desert to have all cutscenes include a fast forward instead of skip

Game Of The Week 11 of 2026 is: Toxic Commando Another that grew on me over time. I recommend just exploring the map and chasing after POIs instead of adhering strictly to objectives. Its a fresh enough take on the genre to be enjoyable, and the vehicles add some fun. Well made, not revolutionary.

Coming off this medication has been really easy for the last 3 days, and then this morning my brain was like “woooooah shit did you know we’re out of these chemicals? I don’t know if you should be allowed to stand up and perceive time correctly about it” Back under the covers for me.

You learn to “handle” a sword, huh? You have your “squire” help you “don your armor”, really? A vow of “chastity” so you can’t lay with a woman? Your “order” is just you and your other buff, “chaste,” friends?? You’re not fooling anybody, honey.

Also why is Bluesky so horny for subtweeting about world events? Just provide some context.