13 more days, and we're now at 38 responses - I really hope I can hit the 50 before the month ends, so keep sharing this survey around! Every little reskeet helps!

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

Still working on other long-form reviews, so in the meantime, here's about a dozen ultra-quick reviews of SNES and SEGA Genesis games in the Nintendo Classics. Fighting games, shmups, puzzle games, run-n-guns, and more!

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Tomorrow, I'll be posting an "Exploring the Switch's Nintendo Classics" article. I had been collecting a lot of paragraphs on quick games over there as well, but I didn't have any specific console where I had enough for a single article. So I split it between two consoles: SNES and SEGA Genesis!

REMINDER: I am still taking survey responses for my December project! If you've got about 30-ish minutes of free time, fill in the form! There's a LOT of games here, so you could either remember stuff you had forgotten, or discover stuff you had never heard of! And, please, do share it around!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

One week ago, I posted my latest long-form review after two months of quick ones. Tomorrow, I'm posting another long-form one, though it'll cover several extremely quick games off of itchio. (And, yes, I sis feel the need to address the Collective Shout stuff, that felt inevitable to me.)

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Not sure whether to go for Pretty Rings or In Space No One Can Hear You Scream for that one. But I'm pretty sure Curiosity Killed The Mars Rover gets third place.

Found some time today for PL:A. Caught a shiny Psyduck earlier today, and a shiny Drifblim! It almost feels like a whole % of shiny hunting finished in one day! ...I'm nowhere near done with that Alpha+Shiny Dex, am I?

REMINDER: I am looking for the most obscure games I ever covered on Planned All Along. If you have some free time and haven't done it yet, you can fill in this form and answer whether you've played a game, own it, heard of it, or never heard of it! If you've done it, please spread the word!

Holy crap, I thought I had hit a peak in September beating the previous highest number of views on my blog in one month... October blew it out of the water! September ended at nearly 56k... October, at nearly 74k. @.@ And yes, several thousand sof those views are from the last few days.

I managed to get some progress done in Resident Evil 4 Wii tonight, will probably do more over the next two days. I would have thought my recent experience with ZOMBI would have prepared me, but nope, there are fresh new surprises here!

A horror-themed review on Halloween? I haven't done that in a while! In Ubisoft's ZOMBI, London is taken over by a zombie apocalypse, and you play as one (or many) survivor(s) trying their best to survive and, maybe, even find a cure. Or an escape. Or maybe both!

Tomorrow: My review of ZOMBI, the Ubisoft game. After that: ...I haven't decided yet! But I did start work on a review of RE4Wii, which... well, I don't have much progress done in that game yet, but I hope I can get a lot of progress done real soon. And then write about it all.

From, 470-something, after 34 responses to my Google Form, the number of games that nobody (among the responders) has heard about has been cut down to... 44. That's good, but it's still more than 12! Let's keep it up! I still hope we can hit the 50 responses! I'm keeping this open till December.

I hope I can catch up on Hazbin Hotel Season 2 soon enough. I loved Season 1, when I caught it on Prime after I made a purchase on Amazon before Christmas last year. But... ugh, I so badly don't want my money going to Amazon... I hate their business practices AND their political leanings.

When I left home to gom to work this morning, the Google Form had 16 responses. It's now at 33! Keep 'em going, keep sharing the link - Another 17 more and we'll be at 50! I love to see a project working well. By the way, I'll keep collecting responses throughout November.

@linkara.bsky.social May I get a signal boost for a personal project of mine? I'm seeking the most obscure games I ever covered, and so I put into a Google Form the titles of all the games I ever covered on my blog. I need a lot of responses, and I plan to write fun articles about the results!

Reminder about my Google Form project - I am now at 13 responses, which is already beyond the original goal of 10. Now, I'm aiming for 25!

I am now at 11 responses! I did it, I've reached the base goal of 10! Now let's see if I can make it to 25. That still sounds pretty reasonable, right?

ATTENTION EVERYONE! You want to help me for a future article? You want to contribute to a data collection idea I had? Well then, take some time to fill out this form! My idea is a Top 12 I'll write in December about the 12 most obscure games I ever covered, and this Form can help! 1/?

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One more piece of art received from the commissions I purchased at @cozycononline.com! This one is from @vetrinanicoleart.bsky.social, I received it tonight! Huge thanks to Vetrina for the piece!

As I said, no review tomorrow! The break is well-deserved after the two months of quick reviews I've just had. Besides, I can use that time to make progress in games, and get other stuff done. I definitely will have a review of Ubisoft's ZOMBI for October 31st!

What is done is done. Let Cuomo NEVER forget he got this made at all. (No, I'm no New Yorker; but I will forever condemn generative AI used for such fucked-up political low blows. Also see Trump's AI video from this weekend, which I will NOT describe. You probably already know.)

I'm going back to work today (I had 3 days off). During my time off, I made decent progress in two games: ZOMBI, on PC, and Resident Evil 4, on Wii. Sensing a theme here! I do hope tyo properly cover both before the year ends. ZOMBI, easy; I'll try to post about it on Halloween.

More art from @cozycononline.com ! This one was commissioned to @silhou.bsky.social , and the result is great! Like my lion's reporter background, Marjorie is rarely shown doing experiments and science and stuff, so I do like getting a chance to show it!

Hey, McDonald's? It would be really nice if your app had an option to go back to the "Play or Order" menu so someone who has Monopoly board pieces can enter them instead of being stuck with the receipt for their latest purchase!

Last year, for my "Year Plans: What I've missed" article, I had to play the first hour of 17 games to report on first impressions. It's something I began doing in 2023, using all the games I was hoping to cover that year, that I didn't due to running out of time. It's a fun concept!

In this visual novel inspired by the Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop RPGs, you are a fresh new vampire that reluctantly joins the secret society of nightly bloodsuckers of New York, with all the rules and problems that come with it. Oh hey, I'm on theme for October!

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Tonight, I'm adding images to my final Quick Review for the year. Damn, I know it wasn't *that* long, but it feels like it took forever to get through this year. I was planning to finish this at the very end of September, so I'm basically 2.5 weeks late on the schedule I had wanted to follow.

They all look like entitled white kids with shit-eating grins who haven't had to care about consequences, much less other human beings, their entire lives. Shame them into oblivion. May they never walk somewhere and not be addressed with anything other than spite, disgust, and hostility.

Repost for a timeline cleansing. For the fun of the mention, I think my bird girl Marjorie's favorite album isn't DSOTM, it's just the easiest Pink Floyd album to find shirts for. Plus, being scientifically-minded, she does like the prism.

When you make protests look fun and whimsical, it not only encourages people to join in, it makes the people insisting they're violent terrorists look like absolute jokes and it's more difficult for media collaborators to push their narrative

As I said in the comments to this, remember that Pittsburgh shuts down a major road every year so that the public can hang out with weirdos in animal costumes because they adore us that much, and every year it makes all the haters look like joyless obsessive losers to the general public

In Supergiant Games' Transistor, you play as Red, a singer in a city that can change completely to people's whims. But... the city is falling apart, being Processed into data by an army of robots. And her only weapon contains the soul of her lover... Weird concept, but great gameplay.

One thing I kinda like about the 2015 Goosebumps movie is that it does kinda feel like it was written like a classic Goosebumps book. By which I mean, "chapter" cliffhangers resolved one sentence later. Grabbed by something? Oh, it's just a branch. "Dad, petrified, in the graveyard?" Oh, it's not.

Drew Blanc is a struggling animator who lands in the toony world of his own creations and has to find a way home. Yes, that's Chsitopher Lloyd in live-action. This game is a cult classic, so I was really looking forward to trying it! What did I think of it?

Received a commission today from @zigzagzazz.iheartpocket.monster, commissioned during @cozycononline.com . Art of my characters Nicolas and Marjorie being prog rock/metal dorks. Super cute picture, I love it so much.

A game about three heroes coming out of retirement to deal with bandits, a sea monster, and an attack on a city. Would be nice... if the game worked right!!!

Time for the yearly RPG Maker game review! A gripping story of revolution against an unfair monarchy, a tale of losses and long-term victories. Cool, cool! Why are the two women of the team wearing clothes that are so damn revealing, then?

www.twitch.tv/iamabrawler (Bilingual stream) I’m taking a break from gaming for the blog to play some Yu-Gi-Oh! (yep, again!) But this time, I’m going deep into nostalgia, thanks to the Early Days Collection!

Current game I'm trying to cover for next Monday has crashed on me every single time I played it, leaving me stuck on a single screenshot superimposed over anything else on the computer, forcing me to log off and log back on, each goddamn time. This one's getting a goddamn paddlin'.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the second Simpsons movie was not the end, and there were hopes for a third afterwards. Hopefully they don't wait 20 more years for that one. I hope the second movie's tons is along the lines of the first (closer to the early seasons humor) than of the newer seasons.