Watching "The Predator" "He's growing an exoskeleton*under* his skin!" Wouldn't that be an endoskeleton?

41 blood donations over the course of 22 years. If I'm lucky (and not sick) I may be able to hit 100 by my 60th Today may be the anniversary of my first donation, but the service's records only go back 5 years

Nintendo: We won't make another F-Zero game because we can't think of anything new to do Also Nintendo: Here's our 5th remake of Star Fox from the SNES

Making my modular Dungeons and Dragons LEGO minifig display case: aradiel.co.uk/post/2026-05...

Thank Goodness You're Here is a fantastic little game Quintessentially British in its jokes, innuendo and surrealism. Like a combination of Monty Python and the Carry On films.

Spiderman 2 (the insomniac one) is a fantastic game It feels really long, though. However, the story flows so well it also feels like there is no other way to have told it Thanks to spider verse and these games, I'm pretty sure I prefer Miles to Peter, too

I get such joy from hearing Keith David as Dr Tenma in Pluto

Happy Steel Ball Run day to all who celebrate

"My knowledge of the theory of mind only extends as far as Descartes, conveniently ignoring *checks notes* roughly 400 years of counter arguments" (I'm mocking the article, not the Dr. The Dr is good)

When I go to get a cup of tea at work but find the milk pot is empty

I'm coming to the conclusion that the winter Olympics are much better than the summer ones, but the glamour is the wrong way around. In the summer Olympics you don't get "they've just come back after breaking their neck but they're going to try anyway"

I've been occasionally returning to Quantum Leap, and was of the opinion that every episode in season 2 was an absolute banger. I've just finished episode 10 and... That's definitely a low point so far

J. F. C

I've just finished Cocoon That was incredible. Some of the puzzles at the end made me feel like my brain was melting I have no idea what was going on

Despite being an introverted misanthrope, Plur1bus is making me appreciate existing in a society filled with people regardless of whether I dislike them or not As someone with a penchant for Buddhist phenomenology, I feel conflicted.

Me waiting for Santa

I'm knitting 🧶 a #legacyofkain themed Christmas jumper to raise money for @cancerresearchuk.org I'll try to do regular updates to this post. Please donate if you can: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/josephs...

I could swear in #GameOfWool that when Holger demonstrated his trunks that there was an instrumental of "Starbucks" by A playing in the background What a strange intersection of my particular niche interests

Watching the Naked Gun It's funny, but having characters look at each other to say "what the hell?" kind of goes against what makes the originals so hilarious - the illusion that everyone is taking the absurdity seriously

My brief, no spoilery thoughts about "The Dead Shall Rise" - the #LegacyOfKain prequel graphic novel: aradiel.co.uk/post/2025-11...

My wrist is currently buggered, so I'm getting my yarn craft fix by watching this new knitting reality show. It's pretty good. I'm learnding

Brilliant

Halloween is over, so I've started watching Warrior Nun, for some reason. I remember seeing the comic covers in the 90s, but I was reading Crimson and couldn't afford both. Hope it's good.

Pertwee #DoctorWho episodes are a strange tonal balance. The Master seems vicious, but he killed one of his victims with an inflatable chair, so it's also hilarious

Oh stop it LinkedIn, you'll make me blush (If anything this would be an indictment of CEOs)

Telling is not teaching, and listening is not learning. Same now as ever.

Go live is tomorrow

Can't believe there hasn't been a point in any of the Mission Impossible films where a character hasn't had to clarify that they in fact aren't an accountant

My son insisted that I had to make something with his air dry clay, so the only thing that came to mind was #discworld

Weird that I'm starting to have to block the owners of this platform for my own sanity Mastadon was a bit slow and boring, but that may be the price we have to pay to not deal with idiots all the time

#BluePrince is frustrating. I can open the antechamber for to room 46, but can't get *into* the antechamber itself. RNGesus is not my friend

If Metroid Prime 4 is open world my enthusiasm will drop like a stone

When you use Alexa to construct shopping lists, but are also both English and have dyspraxia

This is giving me tangential flashbacks to House of Leaves. I've got no extra insight other than I wouldn't want to exist in that world

I like the freaky Friday body swap element, because though it's a bit of a trope, it allows the actors to demonstrate range by portraying a different personality in the same show

I watched "One Piece: Red" on Netflix and realised that "The Interstellar Song Contest" #DrWho episode basically rips off the same plot

Some of those shirtless dossers Are the same that paint crosses

Yet another reason to never let my son play

Managed to drag myself away from God of War: Ragnarok for long enough to get some work done on this WIP I'm also working on backgrounds, but for now they're in the elemental plane of fibre board #Lego #DungeonsAndDragons #DND

Yesterday I went to see the #BookOfMormon at the #theatre This piece of carpet looked like a facehugger

The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

every genAI sales pitch basically comes down to 'you don't have to experience anything at all! life can feel like death!' and I'd say for some reason it works but it isn't working. they WISH it was working and they're begging billions in subsidies to make fetch happen

we can't write haiku we try, but we always have one extra syllab

Watching an amateur performance of the lion king, including a lovely rendition of "I can't wait until my dad's dead" Though the lack of goose stepping hyenas is an issue

I can't get over how much I love the tonal whiplash in #Thunderbolt-Fantasy Bbeg explaining that he ripped part of his soul out and spent centuries rebuilding demon society because he could see their downfall. Where did it end up? "Probably in a dog or monkey or something"

I'm struggling to decide what the bigger earworm is: The opening to DanDaDan season 1 Or The ending of DanDaDan season 2

I'm not sure I like the #runningman trailer Yes, I like the original film Yes, I like the book it was based on But this weird combination, this "horrible dystopia, but fun" doesn't feel tonally correct to me Maybe it'll be good, but my expectations are lowered

Just managed to finish integrating React into the workflow for my site using Vite. It's been a pain, but will still make things easier in the long run www.aradiel.co.uk/post/2025-07...

You can blatantly tell how Squid Game "season 3" is actually "the last half of season 2 but we wanted more money" by how it quickly kills off likable characters By splitting the season it has actually made those deaths *less* emotional then they otherwise would be

If every episode is half an hour, don't make the finale an hour - just make it two episodes. Especially if you're having to pad it out!