Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

Quote with your most detailed art!

[Raises glass] To everyone who chose not to post everything that came into their dang heads today

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

Nobody who said "nice" every time they saw the number sixty-nine gets to complain about kids saying six seven

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

Nice gyre. Widening?

A stranger just swooped in to explain my own joke to me online. But I'm not a woman! I don't know what the protocol is for this kind of gender emergency

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

So that Divinity trailer. It's not the wildly overdone depravity, it's that they put a little girl on a woman's shoulders to watch it. Is this a riff on Horses? Is Larian thumbing their nose at Santa Ragione? Look what we can get away with and you can't?

My first pass at this one, I tried a flat-graphic poster style with bold color slashes like I was trying to be Tom Whalen. Epic came back with "If we want Tom Whalen, we just hire Tom Whalen" Anyway guess who came back for the Ninjago launch fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id...

Me: (body dying of too much carpentry) Manda: Do you need some yoga for Christmas? Me: I'll just wait until the fancy corporate gold ticket healthcare kicks in, get that physical therapy

It's possible I'm biased, but the new Ninjago island for LEGO Fortnite is pretty epic

its crazy to see ur name in fortnite

I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.

Do you guys have any idea how hard it's been to keep my mouth shut about this for the past year. ANY idea youtu.be/UYzJvHNmC6A?...

my comics advice that's somewhat related to "show feet" is that imo learning to draw distant things via less detail is more useful than scaling down your brush. a lot of newbies want to draw distant/small figures by just drawing smaller, but it turns mushy! and it takes forever!!

The 7yo has become extremely MJ curious over the past week, which is a really complicated subject to try to explain And by MJ I mean Michael Jackson

When I start this new job I'm going to subscribe to so many worker-owned reader-supported news sites

7yo has been avidly Duolingoing Danish as well; tonight as I was putting him to bed we had our first unprompted mini Danish exchange: "Godnat far! Jeg elsker dig!" "Godnat, søn! Jeg elsker også dig!" A milestone! He's very excited that Mom has no idea what we're saying

I wonder if our beef CSA is using AI

Surprised I'm not seeing anyone show up with the This Is Good, Actually take 👍 Meta hemorrhaged a bunch of its capital back into the economy without it adding any value to Meta 👍 They did it in a way that didn't create a tsunami glut of indie games into an already oversaturated market

Filling out a background check, they asked for my residence addresses of the past seven years. And I only had one to list! This is the first time I've stayed somewhere longer than a year or two since the eighties. Our seven year old has never known what it's like to move!

How is this not already a gaming supplement? The heroes walk into the room and face - [unfold paper with wet ink] - THIS!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

me: omg goth diamonds santa: that’s charcoal

Nobody: Me: LORD OF THE RINGS IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE THERE ARE ELVES.

There are brilliant people who aren't curious and dull knives who thirst for knowledge about the world. I'd much rather talk with a dullard who genuinely wants to know stuff than a genius who can't accept that they might be wrong.

So Fortnite just crashed the Battle Bus and killed the bus driver? Round up the junimos, time to bring in a specialist

A Unikitty Dreadnought massacres Space Canadians with its autogun

The Artemis shoots down a 45th Union gunship

Banana Man performs a Banana Split on a zombie

Backpack Guy burns a zombie

Sir Dracus uses the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to blow up two archaeologists

Happy Thanksgiving but more importantly, Soundwave superior

Running back and forth between the two kitchens trying to get Thanksgiving cooked, continually forgetting that I just tore out the floor in one of the rooms between. Repeatedly pranking myself right into the crawlspace

I'm at the Satisfactory fandom I'm at the dice fetish I'm at the combination Satisfactory fandom dice fetish lizarddoggo.com/products/sat...

A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns ⬇️ #MiniatureWargaming #TabletopGames #WargamingCommunity www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...

"You'll be visited by three spirits" the three spirits:

Wake in a cold sweat, quickly check the internet to make sure the Japanese translation for "Gandalf" isn't just "Ganondorf"

There is almost no feedback I'll automatically ignore as a game designer - sometimes to the teeth-gnashing anguish of the rest of the Discord channel - but there's a whole bunch that inspires me to gleefully double down

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

I wrote a piece on it a while back, with a bit from the developer who was chuffed to bits someone remembered and recognised what he was trying to do.

I found an abandoned road being reclaimed by moss... and I know what makes this website cheer #Photography #MossForTheMossThrone (Nikon Z6iii)

My favorite piece of content today.

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

Note the subtle gradations between "cannon broadsided to smithereens (bad, disaster)" and "cannon broadsided to smithereens (awesome, on fire)"

I feel like I've been hearing nothing but GTA6 GTA6 GTA6 in the gaming press for the last year, but IRL it's been crickets. I don't know a single person who's excited to buy or play another rehash of this. Am I out of the loop? Or is this a product that everyone just thinks everyone else wants?