no truth and reconciliation, just empire for ever and ever

Matt B is retiring today (is it still going to be called Matt B's? There's a question) End of an era for west KY, hope he enjoys it!

In rebuttals to Web 2.0 or whatever it is now (yeah, it's turned to shit), I understand people's desire to revert and personal interation/satisfaction out of older platforms etc. But if you don't have an audience, how are you going to gain one now? And is a page view different than a like?

maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most

just came across these Copra prints I made for Heroes Con back in June. Remaining copies are in the webstore: bensears.bigcartel.com/product/copra

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found some street fighter prints I made over the summer 14x11, archival quality, etc available here: bensears.bigcartel.com/product/stre...

I wrote a new article: it’s on the Fallout franchise, & it’s just been published in Games&Culture I’m currently trying to wrap my head around a bigger project on historical video game promotion and branding & this article is a slice (in progress) of that + it’s open access! doi.org/10.1177/1555...

Funny thing about academic essay writing in the traditional mold is how it's required to address a sort of faux-objectivity through emotionless impartiality. Was reminded of the critique I got on my first senior seminar draft - "Your writing is too epic." (non-complimentary, non-colloq, non-slang).

Seeing a Death ugly Christmas sweater sure is the ultimate reminder that the Schuldiner estate is either eating well or quite poorly.

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"I used The Smythes and a few other older comics to trick myself into believing that I live in a world where mainstream American adults are interested in reading comics." - R. Kikuo Johnson

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

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Laughing thinking on entering that comics criticism thing. Would need to write another piece, unless I could just submit the one I did. Funnily enough I have a bunch of writing banked from this year, but all part of the project that's lurching forward where it'll all go up at conclusion.

Be the kind of person who will make another remark upon you that you giveth good familiars, or something along those lines. I'd like to be described that way, I think.

NOROI (2005, dir. Kōji Shiraishi) One of my all time favorite horror movies of mine - and now one of my favorite 2025 drawings, too!

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Hoping Rivers' comeback activates Touchdown Tom's lizard brain if only to get him out of the commentary booth, please ffs.

Would love to have one of those Shinkawa character prints/portraits, so cool.

I just saw J. Michael Straczynski hyping the 'Spider-Man: Torn' one-shot, in stores next Wednesday, and, well... I'm a '90s music kid, what can I say?

Chris Weston

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Wrote about form and function in Kayla E's Precious Rubbish over at my junkyard site albatrossjunkyard.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/p...

Wrote about form and function in Kayla E's Precious Rubbish over at my junkyard site albatrossjunkyard.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/p...

Sacrebleu!

Been using some wired 3/$1 headphones I got a while back for podcasts only, and absence has led to the *thunk* sound on inserting the jack to the phone to be quite soothing.

no idea

Saw this with the Pichelli thing going around, there are people who absolutely need to have an ass beating.

So excited this is back! Incredible series mixing breadth and depth, first one was like it was made in a lab for something I want.

Dredd is satire but it’s also kayfabe, if you were to pick up a random Prog it is not necessarily the case you would come away thinking “aha a satire on fascism”, you do not have to be a big 2000AD fan to realise there are a lot of people who just really like seeing Dredd do his thing

Limited Edition toothbrush...YES!

Frog Fallaway Slam (saw someone say this was a German, needed to issue a correction)

Look at any US news article about cyclists killed by cars. Unless it's on a cycling forum you'll invariably find many, if not most, comments are disparaging those who were killed or cyclists in general. It's culturally acceptable to wish for the deaths of people who cause traffic inconvenience.

Imo this is one of the most interesting areas of consideration for many action-adventure artists. The aesthetic ideology of *how* “woman” means “sexual object,” subject to subject

no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop

Dang, I use the site some but hadn't seen this...one of those gutpunch reminders, no idea how long this was in the works etc, but still. Mike forever!

sometimes, which what i’ve learned from, of when’s all comes down to yourself — indeed, i might add — has always been them into some

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Well not surprised but that new iO Bond game looks about what I grudgingly assumed it'd be. I'm sure I'll play it years and years from now but all their strengths and character are subsumed under the license crap. (Hitman forever, come on, just churn it out, I'll guzzle it up)

Even if you don't have kids, as long as you're not totally dead inside, this shit makes your blood boil. Imagine how both the child and the parent must feel. There's no hope for this country unless the people responsible for all this abuse and torture are punished as a warning to future fascists.

Keith Parkinson #gammaworld

Quite a run of ads, what I get for watching MTG stuff (I was taking a break from car work!). Racist battery commercial, "women are kinda crazy bitches, but if you stalk 'em you can get a little breathing room" ad for Zucky's hot or not, gambling app, finished with faith-based media network.